Connecticut western news., 1895-03-14
all nations taste of this angels food, Celestial Music.

Now, in the emerald palace of heav- en let the cupbearers and servants of the king remove this course from tho banquet and bring on anothor course of angels food, which is celestial music. You and l have seen at some concert or oratorio whole assemblago to whom the music was foast Never anything that they took in nt tho lips of tho mouth was so delightful to their taste as that which they took in at tine lips of the ear. l have seen and you have seen people actually intoxicated with sweet sounds Oratorios which are always too protracted fur those of us who lave not had our faculties cultivated in that di rection were never long enough for them. As at Il o'clock at night the leader of the orchestra gave the three taps of his baton to again start The mu- SIC they were as fresh and alert as when three hours before and at 8 o'clock the curtain first lifted. Music to them is food for body, food for mind and food for soul. From what read in my Bible 1 think celestialiZed music will make np large part of angels food. Why do ] say 'Gelestiali2ed musiC?' Because though music may have been bern in heaven it had not all its charms until it came to earth and took a bap- tism of tears. Since then it has had pathos and a tenderness that 1t could not otherwise have possessed. It had to pass under the shadows and over stormy seas and weep at sepulchers aud to be hummed as lullaby over the Nadle of sick children before it could mount to its present attitudes of heavenly power. No organ on earth would be complete without the stop ''tremolo" and the stop "yox humana. And no music of heaven would be complete without the "tremolo" of earthly sorrow oomforted and the "vox hunana" of earthly sym- pathies gloritied. Just take up the New Testament and find it notebook of ce- lestialized music
 It says Jesus sang hymn before he went tc the Mount of Olives and if he could sing on earth with Bethlehem hu- initiation close behind him, and sworn enemies close on both sides of him, and the torments of Golgotha just before him, do you Eot suppose he sings in heaven? Paul and Sllas sang in mid night dungeon. and do you pct suppose that now they sing on the delectable surnmits? What do harps and trumpets and choirs of revelation suggest if not music? What would tho millions of good singers and players upon instru- ments who took part in earthly worship do in heaven without music? Why, the mansions ring with 1t. The great halls of eternity echo with 1t. Tie worship of unnumbered hosts is inwrappcd with it. It will be the only art of earth that will have enough elasticity and strength to leap tho grave and take possession of heaven.
 Tho Highest Art.
 Sculpture will bait this siGe the grave because it chiefly commentaries tbe forms of those who in heaven will be reconstructed, and what wonld wo want of the scnlptured imitation when we strand in the presence of the resITrected original? Painting will halt this side the grave because the culors of earth MtyIld Dc too tame for heaven, and what use to have pictured on canvas the scenes which shall be described to us by tEoso who were the participants? One of the disciples will tell us about the Last Supper better than Titan with mighty touch set up in art gallery. 1i,e p.ainest saint by tongue will de- scribe the Hast Judgment" better than Michael Angelo with his pencil put it upon the ceiling of the Vatican. Architecture will halt this side tho grave, for what use would there be for architects compass and design i'll that city which is already built and garnish- ed until pothipg can be added? All the Taileries and Windsor castles and St Clouds of the earth piled up not eqnal ing its humblest residences; all the St. Pauls and St. P.ters and St. lZaaks and St. Sophias of the earth built into one cathedral not equaling the heavenly temple.
 But music will pass right on, right up ard right in, and millions in heaven will acknowledge that, under God, she was the chief cause of their salvation. Oh, would like to be present when all the great Christian singers and the great Christian players of all the ages shall congregate in heaven. Of course they must, like all the rest of us, be cleansed and ransomed by the blood of the slain Lamb. Alas, that some of the great art ists of sweet sound have been as distin- guished for profiigacy as for the way they warhled or sang or fingered the keyboard or trod the organ pedal. Some who have been distinguished bassos and sopranos and prima donnas on earth, feel, will never sing the song of Moses End the Lamb, or put the lip to the trumpet with sounds of victory before the throne. But many of the masters
 who charmed us on earth will more
 nightly charm us in heaven. Great
 music hall of eternity! May you and I
 be there some day to acclaim when the
 "Halleluiah Chorus is wakened. As
 on earth there have been harmonies
 made up of other harmonies. a strain of
 music from this cantata, and strain
 of music from that overture and bar
 from this and a bar from that, but one
 great tune or theme, into which all the
 others were poured as rivers into a sea,
 so it may be given to the nightiest soul
 in the heavenly world to gather some- thing from all the sacred songs we have sung on earth, or which have been sung in all the ages, and roll them on in eter
 nal symphony, but the one great theme and the one overmastering tone that
 shall carry all before it and uplift all
 heaven from central throne to farthest gate of pearl and to highest capstone of
 amethyst will be, Unto him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God and the Lamb, to him 1 be gloryw That will be mama enough | for all heaven to feed on. That will be | banquet for immortals That will be ! angels food.
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 Now, in the emerald palace of henv- | en, let the cupbearers and servants of the king remove this course from the banquet and bring on another course of angels food, which is laying out of mighty enterprise. The Bible lets us