The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-06-02

I'D Christian singers ana composers Of
ii ages will be there to join In that song.
Thomas Hastings will be there. Lowell
Mason will be there. Beethoven and Mo-
Fart will be there. They who sounded the
cymbals and the trumpets IN the ancient
temples will be there. The 10000 harpers
that stood ar the ancient dedication will
be there. The 200 singers that assisted on
that day will be there.
Patriarchs who lived amid thrashing
floors, shepherds who watched amid Chal-
dean hills, prophets who walked, with long
boards and coarse apparel. pronouncing
woe against ancient denominations, will
meet the more recent martyrs who went
up with leaping 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 songi 1t came to John upon
Patmos, 1t came to Calvin In the prison, 1t
dropped to Ridley In the fire, and some-
times that song has come to your ear per-
haps. for. I really do think it sometimes
breaks over the battlements of heaven.
A Christian woman, the wife Of a minis
ter OF the Gospel. was dying In the parson-
age near the old church, where on Satur-
day night the choir used to assemble and
rehearse for the following Sabbath, and
she said: How strangely sweet the choir
rehearses tonight. They have been re-
hearsinR there for an hoar." NO." said
some one about her, "the choir Is not re-
hearsing tonight" "Yes," she said, az
know they are. II hear them sing. How
verysweetIy they sing"
Now, 1t was not choir OF earth that she
heard, but the choir OF heaven. Think
that Jesus sometimes sets al ar the door of
heaven, and passage of that rapture
ereets our ears. The Ministries of heaven
strike such tremendous strain the walls
OF Jasper cannot hold 1t.
/ wonderland this Is question have
been asking myself all the service-will
you sing that song7 VIII I sing 1t? Not
unless our sins are pardoDed and We learn
now to sing the praise OF Christ will We
ever sing It there.
The first great concert that I ever at
tended was In New York, when Julien. in
the Crystal palace stood before hundreds
of singers and hundreds of players upon
Instruments. Some OF you may remember
that occasion. It was the first one OF the
kind at which ] was present, and / shall
never forget 1t. / saw that one man stand
ing and with tho band and foot WELD that
great harmony, beating the time. 1t 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 beyond rank, gallery
above gallery. and Jesus will stand before
that great host to conduct the harmony
with His wounded hands and His wounded
feeti Like the voice of many waters, like
the voice os mighty thunderings, they
shall cry: "Worrhy is the Lamb that was
slain to receive blessing and riches and
honor and glory and power, world without
end. Amen and amenl'
Oh, IL my ear shall hear no other sweet
sounds may hear thati II join no other
glad assemblage, may join that.
was reading OF the battle OF Agincourt
In which Henry V. figured, aud 1t is said
after the battle was won, gloriously won.
the king wanted to acknowledge the divine
interposition, and he ordered the chaplain
to read the Psalm OF David, and when he
Came to the words, mot unto us, O Lord.
but to Thy pane be the praise" the king
dismouDted, and all the cavalry dis
mounted, and NIL the great host, officers
and men, threw themselves on their faces.
Oh, at the story OF the Saviour's love and
this Saviour's deliverapce shall we not
PROSTATE ourselves before Him to-day.
hosts OF earth and hosts OF heaven, falling
upon our faces and crying, "Not unto ms.
not unto US. Tut unto Thy name be the
,,iorv!"