The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-03-22

turous. inspiring, transporting theme
OF the worlds ransolnI That makes
angels food. 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 on mission in
tercOnstellatiOn. Some of the crumbs
of that angels food fall all around our
wilderness camp to-day, and we feel
like crying with Paul: "Oh, the depth
of the riches, both of the wisdom and
knowledge of Godl' or with expiring
Stephen: Lord Jesus, receive my
spiritr' or with many an enraptured
soul: None but Christi None but
Christi Pass around this angels
food. Carry it through all these aisles.
Climb with it through all these gal
lcries. 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
| 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
celeStialiZed music. You and l 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. 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 fl culties cultivated in that
direction, were never long enough for
them. As at eleven 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 aud as alert
as when three hours before, at eight
o'clock, the curtain first lifted. Music
to them is food for body, food for mind
and food for soul. From what 1 read
in my Bible, / think celestialized 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 n baptism of tears. Since
then it has had pathos and a tender
ness 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 a 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 HUI
mana" And no music of Heaven would
be complete without the '"Tremolo" of
earthly sorrow comforted and the ''Vox
Humana" of earthly sympathies glori
| fed. Just take up the New Testament
and find it a note book of celestialized
music. 1t says Jesus sang a 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
revelation 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 only art of earth
that will have enough elasticity and
4 al
session of Heaven. Sculpture will halt
this side of the grave, because it chief
| ly commentaries the forms of those
who in heaven will be reconstructed,
and what would we want of the sculp-
tured 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 it up in the art gal
lery. The plainest saint by tongue
will describe the Last Judgment better
than Michael Angelo, with his pencil,
put il upon the. ceiling of the Vatican.
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 in an
other course of angels food, which is,
Laying Out of Mighty Enterprise. The
Bible lets us know positively that the
angels have our worlds affairs on
their heart They afford the rapid
transit from world to world Minis
| tering spirits, escnrting spirits, de-
| Tending spirits, guardian spirits. Yea,
| they have all worlds on their thought.
We are told they sang together at the
Creation, and that implied not only
the creation of our world, but of
other worlds. Shall they plan only
for our little planet, and be uncon-
cerned for a planet three hundred
| times larger? No. They have all the gal
axies under their observation; mighty
schemes of helpfulness to be laid out
and executed; shipwrecl1ed worlds to be
towed in; planetary fires to be put out;
| demoniac hosts riding up to be hurled
| back and down. These angels of light
unhorse an Apollyon with one stroke
of battle ak celestial. They talk these
matters all over. They bend toward
each other in sublimest colloQuy
They have cabinet meetings of winged
| immortals- They assemble the mighti-
est of them in holy consultation. They
/ plan out stellar. lunar, solar, constel-
lated achievement. They vie with
each other as to who shall do the