Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-11

and another voice says, Let rs sing sal
vation;" and after awhile all the church
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 singh" and there will be voice
like the voice of many waters, like the
voice of mighty thunderings," that will re-
spond, "Sing salvation"
In this world we have plaintive songs
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs dirge-
full for the dead but in heaven there will
be no signing Of winds, no wailing of an
guish, no weeping symphony. The tamest
song will be halleluiah-the dullest tune
triumphal march, Joy among the cheru-
biml Joy among the seraphiml Joy
among the ransomedl Joy foreveri
THE ETERNAL SONG.
On earth the music in churches is often
poor, because there Is no interest in it o:
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 redeemed on high all voices will be
accordant, and the man who on earth
could not tell plantation melody from
the Dead March in Saul" will lift an
anthem that the Memberships and Bee
thovens and the Schumanns OF earth never
imagined, and you may stand through all
eternity ana listen, and there will not be
one discord in that great anthem that for
ever rolls up against the great heart OF
God. 1t will not be solo, 1t will not be
duet, it will not be a quintet, but an in
Vulnerable 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.
When people We're taken into the Temple
of Diana it was such brilliant room that
they were always put on their guard.
Some people had lost their sight by just
looking on the brilliancy of that room and
so the janitor, when he brought stranger
to the door and let him in, would always
charge him, Take heed Of your eyes"
Oh, when think of the song that goes
up around the throne of God, so jubilant,
many voiced, multitudinous, l feel like
saying, "Take heed of your ears" 1t is so
| loud song. 1t is SO blessed an anthem.
They sing rock song, saying, WHO Is ne
that sheltered us in the wilderness and
| SntluOWPu US III IL weary ldHu' Anu ohe
chorus comes in, "Christ, the shadow Of
rock in n weary land"
| They sing a 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, Christ, the morning star,
shining on the souls darkness" They will
sing II flower song, saying, "Who is he that
frightened all our way, and breathed
sweetness upon our soul, and bloomed
| through frost and tempest~ and the cho-
rus will come in, Christ, the lily Of the
valley, blooming through frost and tenn
| pest" They sing water song, saying,
"Who is he that cleaned to us from the
| frownng crag, and lightened the darkest
ravine of trouble, and brought cooling to
| the temples, and refreshment to the lip,
and was a fountain in the midst of the will
dernessP" and then the chorus will come
| in, Christ, the fountain in the midst Of
the wilderness"
My friends, will you join that anthem'
Shall we make rehearsal this morningP II
we cannot sing that song on earth we will
| not be able to sing it in heaven. Can 1t be
that our good friends in that land will
walk all through that great throng OF
which speak, looking for us and not find
ing us? Will they come down to the gate
and ask if we have passed through, and
not find us reported as having Gomez Will
they look through the folios of eternal
| light and find our names unrecordedf Is
all this representation of land we shall
never see-of song we shall never singP