The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-15

duOuS the nONclS, dS wei as duOuB oil
the palaces, of the great town. Give
all nations taste of this angels food.
Now, in the emerald palace OF
Heaven, let the cup-bearers and serv.
ants of the King remove this course
from the banquet and bring on an
other course of angels food, which is
celestial music. You and 1 have seen
at some concert or oratorio whole as
semblage to whom the music was a
feast Never anything that they took
in at the lips and mouth was so de-
lightful to their taste as that which
they took in at the lips of the ear.
From what 1 read in my Bible,
think celestialized music will make up
a large part of angels food. Why do
l say 'celestialized music?" Because,
though music may have been born in
Heaven, it had not all its charms un-
til it came to earth and took a baptism
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 COM
plete without the ''tremolo" of earthly
sorrow comforted, and the ''vox hui
mana" of earthly sympathies glorified.
Just take up the New Testament and
find it a note book 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 Col
gotha just before Him, do you not sup
pose He sings in Heaven? Paul
and Silas sang in midnight dungeon,
and do you not suppose that now
they sing on the Detachable SUBMITS?
What do the 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 early worship
do in Heaven without music? Why,
the mansions ring with it. The wor-
ship of unnumbered hosts is enwrapped
with it. twill 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 recon-
structed, and what would we want of
the sculptured imitation, when we
stand in the presence of the resurrect-
ed original Painting will halt this
side of the grave, because the colors of
earth would be too tame for Heaven,
and what use to have pictured on can
vass the scenes which shall be de-
scribed 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 de-
scribe the last Judgment better than
Michael Angelo, with his pencil, put it
upon the ceiling of the Vatican. Archi-
lecture will halt this side of the
grave, for what use would there be for
architects compass and design in that
city which is already built and gar
nished until nothing can be added; all
the Tuileries, and Windsor castles and
St Clouds of the earth piled up not
its humblest residence; all
the st. Pauls, and st. Peters, and st.
Izaaks, and st. Sophias of the earth
built into one cathedral not equalling
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. Oh, l
would like to be present when all the
great Christian singers and the great
Christian players of all ages shall con-
gregate in Heaven. OF course they
must, like all the rest of us, be C leansed
and ransomed by the blood of the slain
Lamb. Alas! that some of the great
artists of sweet sound have been as dis
for profigacy as for the
way they warbled, or sang, or fingered
the keyboard, or trod the organ pedal.
Some who have been distinguished
bassos, and sopranos, and prima dom
mas on earth, fear will never sing the
song of Moses and the Lamb, or put the
lips to the trumpet with sounds of vic
tory 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 be there some day to acclaim
when the "Halleluiah Chorus is
Weakened. AS on earth there have been
made up of other harmonies,
a strain of music from the cantata,
and strain of music from that over
ture, and bar from this. and bar
from that, but one great tune or
theme, into which all the others were
poured as rivers into sea, so it may be
given to the mightiest soul in the
heavenly world to gather something
from all the sacred songs we have sung
on earth, or which have been sung in
all the ages, and roll them on in
eternal 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 furtherest gale 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 be glory" That
will be mamma enough for all Heaven
immortals. That will be angels food.
Now, in the emeral palace of
Heaven let the cup-bearers and servants
of the King remove this course from
the banquet, and bring on another