The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-18

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Aven had no songs Of it
.mber Of those on cart
oeen takenup by the earth
pts. Surely the Christian a
4oes not lose his memory
there must be million
.ouls in Heaven who know
,ronation" and Antioch" ant
Mount Pisgah" and "Old Hun
dred." The leader Of the eterna
lorchestra need only once tap his batoI
and all Heaven will be ready for thu
hallelujah. If Heaven should ever ge
out of music, Thomas Hastings and
4 Lowell Mason and Bradbury would
h start up a hundred old magnificent
chorals. But what with the new song
! that John mentions, and the various
! doxologies alluded to, and the impor
! tation of sub-luna harmonies. q Chris.
tian fond of music, dying, will have an
abundance of regalement What
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 sweet
sounds? Can not the soul sing?
How often we compliment some ex-
quisite singing by saying: "There was
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 soul
hear? If 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 Instruments of
music where they arc.
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 a
drum or nfe 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 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
mad the military spirit on earth sancti-
Fed entered glory, l suppose they
tight away enlisted in some heavenly |
they volunteered right
away. There must needs be in Heaven
soldiers with a soldierly spirit. There
ire 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 |
ever fitted out for some part |
IF Gods dominion-battle, bloodless,
yroanless, painless. Angels Of evil to
be fought down and fought out. 9th
,r rebellious worlds to be conquered.
Worlds to be put to the torch. Worlds |
10 be saved. Worlds to be demolished. |
Worlds to be sunk. Worlds to be |
1oisted. Beside that in our own world |
here are battles for the right and
against the wrong where we must have
,he heavenly military. That is what
Keeps Christian reformers so buoyant.
But what are our mathematical
friends to do in the next world? They |
'ound their Joy and delight in |
There was more poetry |
% them in Euclid than in John Milton.
They were as passlonately fond of
as Plato, who wrote over |
lis door: LET no one enter here who is |
aot acquainted with geometry" What
ire they doing now? They are busy |
with figures yet. No place in all the |
universe like Heaven for figures. Num-
oers infinite, distances infinite, cal
infinite. If they want them,
and a1gebras, and geome-
,ries. and trigonometries, for all eter-
aityl What magnitudes to measure,
what diameters, what circumferences,
what triangles, what quaternions,
what parallelograms,
What are our departed Christian |
friends who are explorers doing now?
yet, but with lightning To-
with vision microscopic and
at the same time. A conti-