The Bossier banner., 1892-09-15


the battles they have fought, the bur-
dens they carried, the misrepresenta-
tions they suffered, and because
they are delivered from all tn ese they
stand before God waving their palms.
They come to the feet of Christ and
they look up into Fl is face, and they re.
member His pain, and they remember
His groans, and they say: ;'Why, I was
saved by that Christ. He pardoned my
sins, He soothed my sorrows" and
standing there they shall be exultant,
waving their palms
OThat hand once held the implement
of toll or welded the sword of war;
but now it plucks down branches from
the tree of life as they stand before the
throne waving their palms: Once he
was pilgrim on earth; he crunched the
hard 'crusts-he walked the weary way;
but it is all gone now, the sin gone, the
WEAKNESS gone, the sickness gone, the
sorrow gone. AS Christ stands up be-
fore the great army of the saved and re-
counts His victories, it will be like the
rocking and tossing of a forest in Il
tempest, as all the redeemed rise up,
host beyond host, rank beyond rank,
waving, waving their palms.
Ny subject makes another advance
vancement and speaks of the song they
sing:
DIR. Dick, in a very learned work,
says that among other things in
Heaven they will give great deal of
time to the study OF. arithmetic and the
higher branches of mathematics. I do
not believe it. 1t would upset my idea
of Heaven if I thought So l never
liked mathematics, and I would
rather take the representation
of my text, which describes the
occupation of Heaven as being joy
full psalmody. "They cried with loud
voice, saying: Salvation unto our God.''
In this world we have secular songs,
nursery songs, boatmen's songs, harvest
songs, sentimental songs; but in Heaven
we will have taste for only one song,
and that will be song of salvation
from an eternal death to an eternal
Heaven, through the blood of the Lamb
that was slain.
l see soul coming up to join the re-
deemed in Heaven. AS it goes through
the gates the old friends of that spirit
come around it and say: "What shall
we sing?" and the newly-arrived soul
says: "Sing salvation;" and after awhile.
an earthly despotism falls, and a seep-
ter of iniquity is snapped, and churches
are built where once there were.
mosques, and angel
cries to angel: "Let us sing" and.
the answer is: "What shall we
sing?" and another voice says: 'sLet,
us sing salvation" And after awhile.
all the churches on earth will rush into
the outspread arms of the church of
Heaven, and while the righteous are.
ascending, and the world is burning,
and all things are being wound up, the
question will be asked: "What shall
we sing?" and there will be voice
like the voice of many waters, like
the voice of mighty thunderings," that,
will respond: ''Sing salvation"
In this world we have plaintive songs.
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs.
dirgefuI for the dead; but in Heaven
there will be no signing of winds, no.
of anguish, no weeping sym
phony. The tamest song will be halle.
luJah-the dullest tune a trlumDhal
march. Joy among the cherubim! Joy
among the seraphim! Joy among the.
Joy forever!
On earth the music in churches is
often poor, because there is no interest,
in it, or because there is no harmony.
Some would not sing; some could not,
sing; some sang too high; some sang
too low; some sang by fits and starts;
but in the great audience of the re-
deemed on high all voices will be ac-.
and the man who on earth
could not tell plantation melody from
the Dead March in Saul" will lift an an
them that the Mendelssohns and Beetho-,
vens and the Schumanns of earth never
you may stand through all
eternity and listen, and there will not
be one discord in that great anthem
hat forever rolls up against the great
heart of God. Tt will not be a solo; it
will not be a duet; it will not be a quin- |
tette; but an innumerable host before
the throne, crying: Salvation unto
our God and unto the Lamb They
crowd all the temples; they bend over
the battlements; they fill all the heights
and depths and lengths and breadths of |.
Heaven with their hosannas.
They sing star song, saying: "Who
is He that guided us through the thick
night, and when all other lights went \
out arose in the sky the morning star.
pouring light on the souls darkness?'"
And the chorus will come in: s'Christ.
the morning star, shining on the souls
darkness. They will sing u flower
song, saying: ''Who is He that 1
all our way, and
breathed sweetness upon our soul,
and bloomed through frost and tenn
pes t? And the chorus will come in 1
Christ, the lily of the valley, bloom
ing through frost and tempest. They |
sing water song, saying: ''Who is 4
He that CLEANED to us from the frown- i
ng crag, and lightened the darkest 4
ravine of trouble, and brought cooling \
20 the temples and refreshment to the /
ip, and was fountain in the midst of i
the wilderness" And then the chorus 4
will come in: Christ, the fountain in
,he midst of the Wilderness
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