Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-12-21

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eelestials will be outdohe and
down their trumpets to listen aE-SS
oe in heaven when those who haveS on
luered sin and sorrow shall enter as IL
would be In a small singing school on earth
tThalberg and Gottschalk and Wagner and
beethoven and Rheinberger and Schumann
hould all at once enter. The immortals
nat have been chanting 10, ,00U years before
le throne will say, as they close their
,rettos, "Oh, II we could only sing like
iat!" But God will say to those who have
.ever fallen and consequently have not
teen redeemed. "You must be silent now;
yiu have not the qualification for this an
IL .n.' So they sit with closed lips and
folded hands, and sinners saved by grace
~ Se up the harmony, for the Bible says
man could learn that song but the hun
I and forty aud four thousand which
T. - redeemed from the earth"
great prima donna, who can now do
anything with her voice, told me that when
she first started In music her teacher in
Berlin told her she could be good singer.
but certain note she could never reach.
"And then" she said, " went to work and
studied and practiced for years until did
reach it." But the song of the singer re-
deemed the Bible says, the exalted har-
monists who have never slnned could not
reach and never will reach. Would you
like to hear me in very poor way play
snatch of that tune? / can give you
only one bar of the music on this gospel
harp, Unto Him that hath loved us
and washed US from our sins in His own
blood and hath made us kings and priests
unto God and the Lamb, to Him be glory
and dominion forever and ever, amen"
But before leaving this interrogatory, why
God let sin come into the world, let me say
that great battles seem to be nothing but
suffering and outrage at the time of their
occurrence, yet after they have been long
while past we can see that ii was better for
them to have been fought, namely, Sal
amis, Inkerman, Toulouse, Arbela, Agin-
court, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington,
Sedan.
But here must slow up lest in trying to
solve mysteries l add to the mystery that
we, have already wondered at-namely,
why preachers should keep on after all the
hearers are tired. So l gatherup into one
great armful all the why's aud hOws and
wherefores of your life and mine, which
we have not had time or the ability to an
swer and write on them the words. Nd
journed to eternity" | rejoice that we do not
understand all things now. for If we did
what would we learn in heavenr If we
knew Ii all down here In the freshman anu
sophomore class, what would be the use of
our going up to stand amid the junfors and
the seniors? If we could put down one leg
of the compass and with the other sweep
circle clear around all the fnscrrtabies, II
we could lift our little steeyards and
weigh the throne of the Omnipotent, If we
could with our seven-day clock measure
eternity what would be left for heavenly
revelation? So l move that we cheer
fully adjourn what IL now beyond our
comprehension, and as, according'to Rol-
lin, the historian, Alexander the Great,
having obtained the gold casset In which
Darius had kept his rare perfume, used
that aromatic casket thereafter to keep his
favorite copy of Homer in and called the
book, therefore. the edition ofthe casket,'
and Mt night put the casket and his sword
under his pillow. so / put this day into the
perfumed casket OF your richest affections
and hopes, this promise worth more than
Homer ever wrote or sword ever cou-
uuered, ''What / do thou knowest not
now, but thou shalt know hereafter" and
that call the ''edition celestial