The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-19
"Mount Pisgah" and "old Hnn,

| out of music, Thomas Hastings an,
Lowell Mason aud Bradbury woul,
| start up a hundred old magnificen
| chorals. But what with the new SOM
that John mentions, and the variou
doxologics alluded to. and the impor
tation Of sub-luna harmonies. a Chris
tian fond Of music, dying, will have al
abundance of regalement. VIVA
though the voice be gone in death
what though the ear be fallen in dis
solution, are you therefore to con
clude that the spirit will have no
power to make or catch swee'
sounds? Can not the soul sing
How often we compliment some ex'
quisite singing by saying: "There wa.
SO much soul in her music" In
Heaven it will be all soul until the
body after awhile comes up in the
resurrection, and then there will be an
additional Heaven. Can not the SOU
hear? IL it can hear, then can hear
music. Do not, therefore, let it be in
your household when some member
leaves for Heaven, as it Is in some
households, that you close the piano
and unstring the harp for two years
because the fingers that used to play
them are still. You must remember
that they have better instrum ents OF
music where they arc. You ask me:
do they have real harps and
real trumpets and real organs"
l do not know. Some wiseacres
say positively there are no
such things in Heaven. do not
know, but l should not be surprised If
the God who made all the mountains,
and all the hills, and all the forests,
and all the growths of the universe,
should not be surprised if He could, If
He had mind to, make few harps
and trumpets and organs. Grand old
Haydn, sick and worn out, was car
ried for the last time into the music
hall; there he heard the oratorio of
the Creation" History says that as
the orchestra came to that famous
passage, Let there be light!' the
whole audience rose and cheered, and
Haydn waved his hand toward Heaven
and said: ut comes from there!" Over
whelmcd with his own music, he was
carried out in his chair, and as he
came to the door he spread his
hand toward the orchestra as in
benediction. Haydn was right when
he waved his hand toward Heaven and
said: 1T comes from there Music
was born in Heaven, and it will ever
have its highest throne in Heaven,
and l want you to understand that our
departed friends who were passion
ately fond of music here are now at
the headquarters of harmony. thin k
that the grand old church tunes that
died when grandfathers died have
those tunes died they did not stay
on earth, and they could not have
been banished to perdition, aud SO
think they must be in the corridors of
alabaster and Lebanon cedar.
Again, remark that those of our de-
parted Christian friends who in this
world had very strong military spirit
are now in armies celestial and out in
bloodless battle. There are hundreds
of people born soldiers. They can not
help it. They belong to regiments in
time of peace. They can not hear
drum or fife without trying to keep
step to the music. They are Christians.
and when they fight they fight on the
right side. Now, when these, our
Christian friends, who had natural and
powerful spirit, entered Heaven, they
entered the celestial army. The door
of Heaven scarcely opens but you
hear II military demonstration.
David cried out: "The chariots of
God are 10000 Elisha saw the
filled with celestial cav.
airy. st. John said: THE armies
which are in Heaven followed Him on
white horses" Now. when those who
had the military spirit on earth sancti-
fed entered glory, l suppose they
right away enlisted in some heavenly
campaign; they volunteered right
away. There must needs be in Heaven
soldiers with soldierly spirit. There
are grand parade days when the King
reviews the troops. There must be
armed escort sent out to bring up
from earth to Heaven those who were
more than conquerors. There must he
crusaders ever fitted out for some part
of Gods dominion-battle, bloodless,
groanless, painless. Angels of evil to
be fought down and fought out 9th
err rebellious worlds to be conquered.
Worlds to be put to the torch. Worlds
to be saved. Worlds to be demolished.
Worlds to be sunk. Worlds to be
hoisted. Beside that in our own world
there are battles for the right and
against the wrong where we must have
the heavenly military. That is what
keeps Christian reformers so buoyant
But what are our mathematical
friends to do in the next world? They
found their JOY and delight in
mathematics. There was more poetry
to them in Euclid than in John Milton.
They we're as passionately fond of
mathematics as Plato, who wrote over
his door: Let no one enter here who is
not acquainted with geometry" What
are they doing now? They are busy
with figures yet. No place in all the
universe like Heaven for figures. Num-
bers infinite, distances infinite, cal
culations infinite. II they want them,
arithmetics, and algebras, and geome-
tries, and trigonometries, Tor all eter-
nityl What T-IEitudes to measure,
what dia me- ora vyhat ri ron m 70 ra MOO.