The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-03-13


TO their gladness; adds several morn
ings of radiance to their foreheads
gives vaster circle to the sweep of theil
wings ON mission-inter-conste
Some of the crumbs of that angels
food fall all around our wilderness
camp to-day, and we feel like crying
with Paul: 20, the depth of the riches,
both of the wisdom and knowledge OF
God!' or with expiring Stephen: Lord
Jesus, receive my spiritl" or with many
an enraptured soul: ''None but Christ
None but Christi" Pass around this
angels food, Carry it through these
aisles Climb with it through all these
galleries. Take it among all the
novels, as well as among all the palaces
OF the great town. Give all nations a
taste of this angels food.
Now, in the emerald palace of Heav-
en-, let the cup-bearers and servants OF
the king remove this course from the
banquet and bring on another course
OF angels food, which is celestialized
music. You and have seen at some
concert or oratorio whole assemblage
to whom the music was feast Never
anything that they took in at the lips
OF the mouth was so delightful 30 their
taste as that which they took in at the
lips Of the ear. | have seen, and you
have seen people actually intoxicated
with sweet sounds Oratorios which
are always too protracted for those of
us who have not had our faculties cul-
tivated IN that direction, were never
long enough for them. AS at II o'clock
at night the leader of the orchestra
gave the three taps OF his baton to
again start the music, they were as
fresh and alert as when three hours
before, and at O'clock the curtain
first lifted Music to them is food for
body, food for mind, and food
for soul. From what l read
in my Bible, think celes-
tializad music will make up a large
part OF angels food. Why do say
''celestialized music?' Because though
music may have been born in Heaven,
it had not all it's charms until it came
to earth and took baptism of tears.
Since then it has had a pathos and a
tenderness that it could not otherwise
have possessed. 1t had to pass under
the shadows and over stormy seas, and
weep at sepulchres, and to be hummed
as lullaby over the cradle of sick chill
dren before it could mount to its pres
ent attitudes of heavenly power. No
organ on earth would be complete
without the stop, ''Tremolo," and the
stop, "Vox Humana." And no music
of heaven would be complete without
the "Tremolo" of earthly sorrow COM
forted. and the "Vox Humana" of
earthly sympathies glorifed.
just take up the New Testament and
find in it notebook of celestialized
music. 1t says Jesus sang hymn be-
fore He went to the Mount of Olives,
and if He could sing on earth with
Bethlehem humiliation close behind
Him, and sworn enemies close on both
sides of Him, and the torments of
Golgotha just before Him, do you not
suppose He sings in Heaven? Paul and
Silas sang in midnight dungeon, and
do you not suppose that now they sing
on the delectable SUBMITS? What do
the harps, and trumpets, and choirs of
Revelations suggest, if not music?
What would the millions of good sing
ers and players upon instruments who
took part in earthly worship do in
Heaven without music? Why, the
mansions ring with it. The great halls
of eternity echo with it. The worship
of unnumbered hosts is enwrapped
with it. 1t will be the only art of
earth that will have enough elasticity
and strength to leap the grave and
take possession of Heaven.
Sculpture will halt this side of the
grave, because it chiefly commentaries
the forms of those who in Heaven will
be reconstructed, and what would we
want of the sculptured imitation, when
we stand in the presence of the resur-
rected original? Painting will halt
this side of the grave, because the col
ors of earth would be too tame for
Heaven, and what use to have pictured
on canvas the scenes which shall be
described to us by those who were the
participants? One of the disciples will
tell us about the 'last supper" better
than Titan. with mighty touch, set it
up in art gallery. The plainest saint
by tongue will describe the last judg-
ment better than Michael Angelo, with
his pencil, put it upon the ceiling of
the Vatican. Architecture will halt
this side of the grave, for what use
would there be for architects compass
and design in that city which is al
ready built and garnished until moth
ing can be added; all the Tuileries,
and Windsor castles, and st. Clouds
of the earth piled up not equal
ing it's humblest residences; all
the st. Pauls, and st. Peters, and
st. Izaaks, and st. Sopnias of the earth
built into one cathedral not equaling
the heavenly temple. But music will
pass right on, right up, and right in,
and millions in Heaven will acknowl-
edge that, under God, she was the chief
cause of their salvation. o. would
like to be present when all the great
Christian singers and the great Chris
tian players of all the ages shall con-
gregate 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
artists of sweet sound have been as dis
for prohigacy as for the way
they warbled the song, or fingered the
keyboard, or trod the organ pedal.