Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-04-06
A Grand Chorus.

The Christian singers and composers
or all 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 and the trumpets
In the ancient temples will be there.
The 10000 harpers that stood ut the
ancient dedication will be there. The
2oo singers that assisted on that day
VIII be there. Patriarchs who lived
amid thrashing floors, shepherds who
watched amid Chaldean hills, proph-
cts who walked, with long boards and
coarse apparel, pronounclng woe
against ancient denominations. will
meet the more recent martyrs who
went up with leaplng cohorts OF fire.
and some will speak OF the Jesus of
whom they prophesied and others of
the Jesus for whom they died. Oh.
what a song! 1t came to John upon
Patmos. Ii came to Calvin In the prIs-
on, IL dropped to Ridley in the fire, and
sometimes that song has come TO your
ear perhaps, for really do think IL
sometimes breaks over the battlements
OF heaven.
A 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
strangely sweet the choir rehearses to-
night. They have been rehearsing
there for an hour" "No," said some
one about her. ''the choir Is not re-
hearsing tonight" YES" she said. 81
know they are. hear them sing.
How very sweetly they sing" Now, 1t
was not choir of earth that she
heard. but the choir OF heaven. /
think that Jesus sometimes sets ajar
the door OF heaven. and n passage of
that rapture greets our ears. The
minstrels OF heaven strike such n ire
mendous strain the walls of iasper
cannot hold Ii.
l wonderland this Is a question I
have been asking myself all the serv-
ice-wiii you sing that song? VIII |
sing 1t? Not unless our sins are par-
doned and we learn now TO sing the
praise of Christ will we ever sing IL
there. The first great concert that /
ever attended was In New York. when |
Julien in the Crystal palace stood be-
fore hundreds OF singers and hun
dreds or players upon Instruments.
Some or you may remember that occa-
sion. IL was the first one OF the kind |
at which l was present, aud | shall
never forget 1t. saw that one man
standing and with the hand and foot |
WELD that great harmony, beating the |
ume. IL was TO me overwhelming.
BUT, Oh, the grander scene when they. |
shall come from the east and from the |
west and from the north and from |
the south. "a great multitude that no |
man can number" into the temple of |
the skies. host beyond host. rank be-
yond rank. gallery above gallery, and |
Jesus Will stand before that great host |
10 conduct the harmony with his |
wounded hands and his wounded feet! |
Like the voice of many waters. like
the voice OF mighty thunderings. they
shall cry: Worthy is the Lamb thar
was slain to receive blessing and rich
es ana honor and glory and power.
world without end. Amen and amenp'
On III my ear shall hear no other sweet
sounds may ! hear that If Join no
other glad assemblage. may ioin
that. ~
was reading of the battle of Agin-
court IN which Henry figured, and
It is said after the battle was won.
won. the king wanted TO nc
knowledge the divine interposition. and
ne ordered the chaplain to read the
isalm or David, and when he came 10
The words. ''Not unto us, o Lord, but
10 thy name be the praise" the king
hismounted. and all the cavalry dis.
mounted. and all the great host. OH
GERS and men. threw themselves ON