The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-04-11

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There is nothing more be9itehins to
on's ear than the song Of sailors far out
at sea. whether il day or night, as they
pull away at the ropes-not much sense
often in the words they utter, but tn"
music is thrilling. So the song In heaV-
en- will be sailors song. They were
voyagers once and thought they could
never get to shore, and before they
could get things snug and trim the
cyclone struck them. But now they
are safe Once choy wentwith damaged
| rigging, guos Of distress booming
through the storm, but the pilot came
aboard, aud he brought them into the
habor Nov they sing Of the breakers
psst. tie lighthouses that allowed them
where to SSH, the pilot thst took then
through tie straits, the etsroa! shore on
which they landed.
Aya, it will be the ehildrel's song.
You know very veil that the vast ma.
jority of our race die in infancy. and it
is estimated ,hat sixteen thousand mil
lions of the little ines are standing be
fore CD When they shall rise up
about the throne to sing, the millions
and the millions Of the little ones-ah,
! that will be music for you! These
played in the streets Of Babylon and
'Thebes; these plucked lilies from the
foot of Oiivet while Christ was preach
ing about them; these wsded in Sloan;
these were victims Of Rerod massacre;
these were thrown to crocooiles or into
the FIRE; these came up FROM Christian
homes, apd these were foundliugs oa
the city comnons-childrcn ever. where
| in all that land. children in the towers,
children on the seas Of glass, children
on the bsttlenents. All, if you DO not
like children, do not go there! They
are in vast majority. And whsts song
when they lift it around about the
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The Christian singers and composers
of sll ages will be there to join in that
song. Thomas Hastings will be there.
Lowell Mason will be there. Beethoven
and Mozart will be there. They who
sounded the cymbals aud the trumpets
in the ancient temples will be there.
The 40 600 harpers that stood at the
ancient dedication will be there. The
200 singers that assisted on that day
will be there. Pstriarchs who lived
amid thrashiug floors, shepherds who
watched amid Chsldean hills, prophets
who walked, with loog boards and
coarse apparel, pronouncing woe against
anciept abominations, will meet the
more recent martyrs who went up with
! iesping cohorts Of FIRE; and some will
speak Of the Jesus of whom they pro,
phesied, and others Of the Jesus for
whom they died. Oh, what soug! 1t
came to john upon Pstuos. it came to
Calvin in the prison, it dropped to Rid
ley in the FIRE, and sometimes that song
has come to your ear, perhaps, for l
really do think it sometimes breaks over
the battlements of heaven.
4 Christian woman, the wife OF a
minister of the gospel, was dying in the
parsonage near the old church, where
on Saturday night the choir used to
assemble and rehearse for the following
Sabbath, and she said: How strange
" sweet the choir rehesrses tonight.
Theg hsve been rehearsing there for an
hour" NO" said some one about
her. ''the choir is not rehesrsing to-
night" Yes" she said, Il know
they are. l hear them singing. How
very sweetly they siny!' Now. it was
not choir of earth that she heard, but
the choir Of heaven | thiuk that Jesus
sometimes sets ejsr the door Of heaven,
sud passage of that rapture greets our
ears The ministrels Of heaveu strike
such tremendous strsio the walls Of
jasper canuoc hold it
| wonderland this is a question l
have been asklog myself all the service
will you sing that sopg? Will |
sing it? Not unless our sius are par
doned aud We learn now to sing the
praise Of Christ will We ever sing it
there. The first great concert that |
ever attended WAS in New York when
Julien in the Crystal palace stood be
fore hurdleds Of singers aud huucreds
of player- upon instruments. S"me OF
you may remeu. Der that occasion 1t
was srrt one Of the kiui at which | ga
present, and | shall never forget it |
saw that one man stsudlry aud with the
baod and foo, wei! that great harmsoy,
beating the time. 1t was to ue over,
whelmlpg. But, oh, the grander scene
when thev shsli come from the east aud
from the west and from the north and
from the south, "a great uultituds that
NO man can number, into the temple
Of the skies, host beyond host, rank
beyond rank, gallery above gallery, aud
| Jesus will stand before that great host
to conduct the harmony with his
wounded hands and wounded feet! Like
the voice Of many waters, like the voice
Of mighty tbunderings, they shall cry,
WORTHY is the Lamb that was slain
to receive blessing and riches and
honor and glory and power, world with
| out end Amen and amem!' Oh, If
my ear shall hear no other sN eet sounds
| may Ihesr thatl If join no other
glad assemblsse, may join in that.
was reading Of the battle of Agin-
court, in which Henry V figured, and
1t is said after the battle was won glori
ously won, the king wanted to acknow-
ledge the divine interposi'ion, and he
ordered the chaplain to read the Psalm
of David, and when he came to tie
words mot unto US o Lord, but to
thy name be the praise" the king dis
mounted, and all the cavalry dismount-
ed, and all the great host, officers and
men, threw themselves on their faces
Oh, st the story of the Saviours love
and the Saviour's deliveranee shall We
not PROSTATE ourselves before him to-
day, hosts of earth and hosts Of heaven,
falling upon our faces aud crying, Not
unto US, not unto US, but unto thy
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