St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-09

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real trumpsts and real organsr
do not know. Some wiseeerss
say posttively there are %
sach things In Heaven. I do not
know. but I should not b surprised Il
the God who made al the mountains,
and al the hills, and Ill the forests,
and Ill the erowths Of the universe.
should not Be- surprised II He could, II
He had . mind 70. make few harpa
and trumpets and organs Grand old
Haydn, sick and worn out, was car
ried for the last time into tho music
hall; there he heard the oratorio Of
the Creation" History says that -
the orchestra came to that famous
passage. "Let there b lightl' the
whole audience rose and choersd. and
Haydn waved his hand toward Heaven
and said: 1T comes from therer Over.
whelmed with his own music, he was
carried out In his chair, and - he
came 70 the door he spread his
hand toward the orchestra - In
benediction. Haydn was right when
he waved his hand toward Heaven and
said: 1T comes from there" Music
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have its highest throne in Heaven,
and l want you to understand that our
departed friends who were passion.
stely fond Of music here arc now ut
the headquarters Of harmony. thiak
that the grand old church tunes that
died when grandfathers died have
gone with them to Heaven. When
those tunes died they did not stay
on earth, and they could not have
been banished to perdition, and 30 l
think they must be in the corridors Of
alabaster and Lebanon cedar.
Again, l remark that those Of our de-
parted Christian friends who in this
world had very strong military spirit
arc now in armies celestial and out in
bloodless battle. There are hundreds
Of people born soldiers. They can not
helpit They belong 70 regiments In
time of peace. They can not hear .
drum or q fife without trying to keep
step to the music. They are Christians.
and when they fight they fight on the
hight side. Now. whom 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: 1.-THE chariots OF
God arc 10000 Elisha saw the
mountains filled with celestial cav
airy. St. John said: 1.-The armies
which are in Heaven followed Him on
white horses" Now, when those who
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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 ont to bring MP
from earth to Heaven those who were
more than conQuerorA 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
er rebellious worlds to BE- conquered.
Worlds to b 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 IL what
keeps Christian reformers % buoyant
But what. arc 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 were rs passicnstely fond of
mathematics - Plato, who wrote over
his door: ''Let no opelnter here who 10
not acquainted with S56netsys" What
are they doing now1 They arc busy
with figures yet. No place in Ill the
universe like Heaven for figures. Num-
bers infinite, distances infinite, cal
culations infinite. lfAhey want them.
arithmetics, and algehFas. and geome-
tries. and trigonometries, for all etsr-
nifty! What lnagnitIdes to measure,
what diameters, what circumference,
what triangles, what quaternions,
epicycloids. what raralleloRrams.
what comic sections! The didactic DR..
Dick said he really. Thought that the
redeemed In Heaven spent some Of
their time with the higher branches
of mathmstics. So of our trans
ferred and transported metaphysi-
clans. What are they doing now7
Studying the human mind, only uu-
der better circum stances than they
used to study il. They used 70 study
the mind sheathe6 in the dull human
body. Now the spirit unsheathed-
now they are studying the sword out
side the scabbard. Have you any doubt
about what Sir William Hamilton il
doing in Heaven, or what Jonathan
Edwards is doing in Heaven. or the
multitudes on earth who had passion
for metaphysics sancti6ed by the grace
Of Cod? No difficulty in guessing.
Metaphysics, glorious metaphysics,
everlasting metaphysics
What are our departed Christian
friends who are explorers doing now?
Exploring yet, but with lightning To-
comotion, with vision microscopic and
telescope 1t the same time. A conti-
nent It glance. A world in : second.
A planetary system In . day. Chris
tian John Franklin no more In disa bled
Erebus pushing toward the north
pole; Christian De Long no more try
ing to free blockaded Jeanette from
the ice; Christian Livingstone NO moro.
amid African malarias, trying to make
revelations Of dark continent, but AL
of them in the twinklinG Of IN eye
taking in that which was once unap-
proachable. Mont Blanc scaled with
ont alpenstock. The coral'depths Of
the ocean explored without . diving
bell. The mountains unbarred and
opened without Sir Humphrey Days
safety lamp
What are our departed friends who
found their chief joy in study doing
nowS Studying yet. but instead Of .
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