Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-06-02

me to speak to you, mo weapon formed
against you shall prosper" Don't throw
away your tambourine. You viii want 1t as
sure as YOU sit there and stand here, and
the tune you will yet play on It, whether
standing on beach OF time or beach OF etern-
fly. will be the tune that Miriam p.aycl when
she cried "Sing We to the Lori, for He hath
triumphed gloriOusly the horse and his rider
hath He thrown into the sea.
expect to have a good laugh with you in
heaven. for the Bible says in Luke, sixth
chapter, twenty-hrst verse, "Bessed are We
that weep now, for ye shall laugh" We
shall not spend all eternity psalm singing,
but sometimes In review OF the past, as
Christ says. we shall laugh. There is
nothing wrong In laughter. 1t all depends
on what you laugh at and when you laugh.
| Nothing, il seems, will more thoroughly
kindle our heavenly hilaritles after we nave
got inside the pearly gate than to see how in
this world we got scared at things which
ought not TO have frightened us at all.
How often we work ourselves up into O
great stew about nothing The Red sea be-
fore may be deep, and the Egyptian cavalry
behind US may be we'll mounted but II we
trust the Lord we will go through no more
hurt by the water than when in bOyhood we
| rolled our garments to the knee and bare
foot crossed the meadow brook on the old
! homestead. The odds may seem to be all
against you, but 1 guess 1t will be all right
with you II you have God on your side and
all the angelic, cherubic, seraphic and arch
angelic kingdoms. III God be for you, who
/ can he against your"
But let me criticise Miriam n little for the
instrument OF music she employed in the di-
vine service on the sendy beach. Why not
| take some other instrument? The harp ';as
o sacred instrument. Why did she not take
| that? The cymbal was a sacred instrument.
/ Why did she not take that? The trumpet
was sacred instrument. Why did she not
take that2 Amid that great host there must
| have been musical instruments more used In
religious service. No. She took that which
she liked the best and on which she could
best express her graduation over a nations
rescue, first through the retreat OF the waves
OF the Red sea, and then through the clap
ping Of the hands Of their destruction. SO |
withdraw my criticism Of Miriam. Let every
one take her or his best mode OF divine wor-
ship and celebration. My idea OF heaven Is
that it Is a place where we can do as we
please and have everything we want. OF
course we will do nothing wrong ana want
nothing harmful.
How much OF tho material and physical
will finally make up the heavenly world
know not. but think Gabriel will have his
trumpet. and David his harp, and Handel his
organ, and Thalberg his piano and the great
Norwegian performer his violin, and Miriam
her timbrel, and as l cannot make music on
any Of them l think l Will move around
among all OF them and listen. But there are
our friends OF the Scotch Covenanter church
who do not like musical instruments at all in
divine worship, and they need not have
them.
What day it will be when we stand on
the beach Of heaven and look back on the
Red sea OF this worlds sin and trouble and
celebrate the fact that we have got through
and got over and got up, our sins and our
troubles attempting to follow gone clear down
under the waves
Oh, crimson floods roll over them and
drown them. and drown them forever In
this world we have 30 little timo for that,
am looking forward to eternal socialities.
To be with God and never sin against Him.
To be with Christ and forever feel His love- To
walk together in robes Of white with those with
whom on earth We walked together in black
raiment Of mourning. To gather up the
members Of our scattered families and en-
brace them with no embarrassment, though
all heaven be looking on.
A mine in Scotland cayed in and caught
amid the rocks young man who in few
DAYS was TO have been united in holy mar
rage. No one could get heart to tell his
afflanced OF tho death Of her beloved, but
some one made her believe that he had
changed his mind about the marriage and
wilfully disappeared. Fiftyyears passed on,
when one day the miners deying IN the
earth suddenly came on the body Of that
young man. which had all those years been
kept from the air and looked just as 1t was
the day OF the calamity. Strong. manly,
noble youth. he sat there looking as on the
day ne died. But no one recognized the
silent form.
After awhile they called tho oldest inhab-
itants to come and see II any one could rec
o9nize him. woman with bent form and
her hair snowy white with years came last.
and looking upon the silent form that had
been so completely preserved gave bitter
cry and fell into n long swOOn. II was the
ono TO whom half a century before she was
to have been welded. looking then just as
when in the DAYS Of their youth their aiIec-
tions had comminged. But the emotion oi
her soul was too great for mortal endurance
and two days after those who fifty years ne
fore were to have joined hands in wedloeS
were at last married in tho tomb, and SIDE ny
side they wait for the resurrection.
Nv friends. we shall come at last upon
those OF our loved ones who long ago hated
IN the journey OF life. They will be ~ ialr
and beautiful-yea fairer and mora be1uti-
full than when we parted from them.
see them now-the glorihed- assembled
for celebration mightier and more jubiant
than that on the banks Of the Red sea. and
from all lands and ages, on beach Of light
above beach Of light, gallery above gallery
and thrones above thrones. in circhng sweep
OF 10 900 miles Of surrounding and upheaYed
splendor. while standing before them on sea
Of glass mingled with fire Michael, the arch
angel. with swinging scepter beats time LOT
the multitudinous chorus, crying sing
Sing! Sing We to the Lord, for He hath
triumphed glorlously the horse and his rider
hath lie thrown into the sea.