The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-13
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have passed, the battles they have
fought, the burdens they carried, the
misrepresentation they suffered, ana
because they are delivered from all
these, they stand before God waving
their palms. They come to the feet OF
Christ and they look up into His face,
and they remember His sorrows, and
they remember His pain; and they re-
member His groans, and they say:
why, was saved by that Christ. lie
pardoned my sins, He soothed my sor-
rows" and standing there they shall be
exultant waving their palms.
That hand once held the implement
of toll or welded the sword of war; but
now it plucls 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 weariness gone, the sickness
gone, the sorrow gone. As Christ
stands up before the great array of the
saved and recounts His victories, it will
be like the rocking and tossing OF
forest in tempest, as all the redeemed
rise up, host beyond host, rank beyond
sank, waving, waving their palms.
My subject makes another advance
ment, and speaks Of the song they sing
Doctor Dick, in very learned work,
says that among other things in Heaven
he thinks they will give great deal OF
time to the study of arithmetic and the
higher branches of mathematics. do
not believe it. 1t would upset my
idea of Heaven if l thought so; / never
liked mathematics and would rather
take the representation Of my text,
which describes the occupation OF
Heaven as being joyful psalmody: They
cried with loud voice, saying, Saliva
tion to 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 the
song Of salvation from an eternal death
to an eternal Heaven, through the blood
of the Lamb that was slain.
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
while an earthly despotism falls, and
a scepter of iniquity is snapped, and
churches are built where once there
was superstitious mosques, and angel
cries to angel: Let us sing;" and the
answer Isl what shall we singP" and
another voice says: LET us sing saliva
ton" 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 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
dirgeful for the dead; but In Heaven
there will no signing OF winds, no wall
ing of anguish, no weeping symphony
The tamest song will be halleit tjah-the
dullest tune triumphal march. JOY
among the chcrubiml Joy among the
seraphim! Joy among the ransomed!
Joy forever!
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 redeemed on
high all voices will be accordant, and
the man who on earth could not tell a
plantation melody from the dead
March in Saul" will lift an anthem that
the Mcndelssohns and Beethovens and
the Schumanns OF earth never i'm
agined; and you may stand, through all
eternity and listen, and there will be
not one discord in that great anthom
that forever rolls up against the great
heart Of God. II will not be solo; II
will not be duet; il will not be 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 bat
Elements; they fill all the heights, and
depths, and lengths, and brcadths OF
Heaven with hosannas
When people were 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 bril-
liancy OF that room, and so the janitor
when he brought a 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 arould the throne OF God, SC
iubilant, many-voiced, multitudinous,
feel like saying, Take heed of your
ears" 1t is so loud song. Ii Is SC
song, saying, "Who is He that sheltered
us in the wilderness, and shadowed us
in the weary land?' And the chorus
comes in: Christ the shadow Of q rock
in weary land"
They sing u star song, saying: "Whc
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 darlSness?'
| And the chorus will come in: Christ
the mornnig-star shining on the souls
darkness" They will sing a flower
song, saying: "Who is He that bright
ened all our way, and breathed sweet
ness upon our soul, and bloomet
through frost and tempest2" and the
chorus will come in: Christ, the lily
of the valley, blooming through frost
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