Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-03-11

sPast finding outp' And another says,
"AlIelui!" And then they all fill their
cups of gold with the ''new wine of the
kingdom - Unlike the breakers of
earth, which poison, these glow with
immortal health, the wine pressed from
the grapes Of the heavenly Eshcoi, and
they all drink to the memory OF manager
and cross, shattered sepuIcher and Oil
veto ascension. Oh, that rapturous, in
spring, transporting theme of the
s'orld's ransom! That makes angels
bod The taking Of that food gives
stronger pulse to their gladness, adds
several mornings Of radiance to their
foreheads, gives vaster circle to the
sweep of their wings Oh mission inter
constellation. Some Of the crumbs Of
that angels food fall all around our
wilderness camp today, and we feel like
crying with Paul, ooh, the depth Of
the riches, both ofEsthe wisdom and
knowledge of God - or with expiring
! Stephen, Lord Jesus, receive my spir-
it!'' or with many an enraptured soul:
"None but Christ! None but Christie
| Pass around this angels food. Ca.ry it
! through all 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.
Celestial Music.
Now, in the emerald palace of heav-
Ell let the cupbearers and servants Of
the king remove this course from the
banquet and bring on another course OF
angels food, which is celestial music
You and I have seen at some concert
Or oratorio a whole assemblage to whom
the music was feast. Never anything
that they took in at the lips of the
mouth was so delightful to their taste
as that which they took in at the lips Of
the ear. l 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 cultivated in that di-
rection were never long enough for
them. AS at L 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 s 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 | think celestialized music will
make up 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 bap-
tism of tears. Since then it has had a
pathos and tenderness that it could
not otherwise have possessed. 1t had to
pass under the shadows and over stormy
seas and weep at sepulchers and to be
hummed as lullaby over the cradle 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 ''vox humana. And no music of
heaven would be complete without the
"tremolo'' of earthly sorrow comforted
and the ''vox humana" of earthly SYM
pathies gIorified. Just take up the New
Testament and find it notebook of &C.
lestialized music.
1t says Jesus sang a 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
heaven? Paul and Silas sang in mid
night dungeon, and do you not suppose
that now they sing on the delectable
SUBMITS? What do harps and trumpets
and choirs of revelation suggest if not
music? What would the 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 it. The great halls
of eternity echo with it. The worship
of unnumbered hosts is inwrapped 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.
The Highest Art.
Sculpture will halt this side 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 resurrected
original? Painting will halt this side
the grave because the colors 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 up in art gallery.
The plainest saint by tongue will de-
scribe the 'tLast Judgment" better
than Michael Angelo with his pencil
put it upon the ceiling of the Vatican.
Architecture will halt this side the
grave, for what use would there be for
architects compass and design in that
city which is already built and garnish-
ed until othing can be added? All the
Tuileries and Windsor castles and st.
Clouds of the earth piled up not equal