Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-03
got inside the pesriy gate than to see how n
this world we got scared at things which


this world we got scared at things which
ought not to have frightened us at all.
How often we work ourselves up into d
great stew about nothing! The Red sea be-
fore may be deep, and the Egyptian cavalry
behind US may be well mounted, but If 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 guess 1t will be all right
with you If you have God on your side and
all the angelic, cherubic, seraphic and arch
angelic kingdoms. III God be for you, who
can be against your"
But lei me criticise Miriam little for the
Instrument Of music she employed in the d.
vine service on the sandy beach. Why not
take some other Instrument? The harp was
sacred instrument. Why did she not take
that2 The cynbal was a sacred instrument.
Why did she not take that? The trumpet
was a 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 fake 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 and want
nothing harmful.
How mu.n of the material AMI 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 I cannot make music on
any Of them 1 think / 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 il VIII 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, or sins and ou
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 so little time for that, I
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
raimeht 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 q few
days was to have been united in holy mar
rage. No ono could get heart to tell his
affianced OF the death OF her beloved, but
some one made her bellows that he had
changed his mind about the marriage and
Tillfully disappeared. Fiftyyears passed on,
= In. r,,ir,a I.aIx in ha
earth suddenly came on the body of that
young man, which had all those years been
kept from the air and looked Just as it was
the day OF the calamity. Strong, manly,
noble youth, he sat there looking as on the
day he died. But no one recognized the
silent form.
After awhile they called tho oldest inhab-
itants to come and see il any one could rec
ognize him. A 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 long swoon. 1t was the
one to whom half a century befors she was
to have been welded, looking then just es
when in the days OF their youth their afTec-
tions had commingled. But tho emotion OF
her soul was too great for mortal endurance,
and two days after those who fifty years be-
fore were to have joined hands in wedloeS
were at last married III the tomb, and side by
side they wait for the resurrection.
My friends, we shall come at last upon
those Of our loved ones who long ago halted
in the journey Of life. They will be as fair
and beautiful-yea, fairer and more beauti-
full than when we parted from them.
see them now-the glorifed-assembled
for celebration mightier and more iubilaht
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 circling sweep
of 10. 900 miles of surrounding and upheaved
splendor. while standing before them on sea
Of glass mingled with fire. Michael, the arch
angel, with swinging scepter beats time fol-
the multitudinous chorus, crying Sing
Sing Sing ye to the Lord, for He hath
triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider
hath Ne thrown into the sea-"