Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-12-05

The Only auflCe Cdh oHeE Is TO recon-
mend YOU not to sing a note for three
months. At the end of that time come
IN me and | will see what | can do for
vou." That was good advice for Man
uel Garcia TO give TO Jenny Lind. but
II is not good advice for a Christian
teacher to give you in reference to your
lea rning how to sing the new song of
Christ. What you need is not rest. not
retirement. not seclusiOn: you need 10
nrsctice your gospel throat. You need
m learn how to sing the new song by
delving deep in the promises of God,
and then by singing Gods promises to
vo,r own life and to the lives of all
around you. Sing. Sing. Keep on
singing. Sing forth the promises of
God, Sing what he has done for
others. Sing about what he has done
and will continue to do for YOU.
A Triumphant Song.
But lastly | assert that our new song
for the coming holidays should lie a tri-
umphant song. In it we should hear
the ring of the coming conquest of the
world for Christ; in it we should know
not ONLY that man as an Individual viii
he saved. but that there shall come Il
time when nations and peoples Of all
climps shall worship our Christ rs their
master and king. When the Sioux IN
dams. many years ago, were about to
rise in revolt and massacre the white
settlers of the far west the Indian com
missioners to prevent hat uprising Sc
lpcted some Of the Indian chiefs and
sent them to Washington as a delega-
ton to present their grievances before
the Great White Father the presi-
dent of the United States. They sent
them east not to have the president
change the policy of the government,
but that these Indian chiefs might
know the immensities of the resources
of the white men and how useless it
was to rise up against them. Those
Indians might slay a few settlers, but
| after they had seen the millions upon
millions of white inhabitants beyond
the Mississippi they would know that
ultimately the white man must con-
quer. Thus in our new song we want
10 CdICu Il SIlIlIDSe VI tuc pON cE VI COO.
Here and there temporarily one of
Gods disciples may seem to be driven
back; but, after all, the great march of
the Christian army is forward. We
are all marching on to d millennial
day when Christ as the leader of the
great army of victory shall have his
standards above every land. waving
over every nation and owe every sea.
Our new song should be a triumphant
song.
Would today | might convince you
of the sureness of Christ's conquest
Over all the nations of the world as
wildly as that great dramatic preach
er William Dawson brought it before
his London hearers nearly a century
ago. He was a man of most remarkable
personality. He had an imagination all
aglow and OF fire. With the power of
q mighty word painter he was describ-
ing the conquest of the world. He por-
trayed a grand procession marching be
fore Christ. the Prophet, Priest and
King. in Il coronation pageant. First
came the prophets. the priests and the
apostles: then the martyrs, row after
row.. line. after line. army after army.
Then, after all the redeemed dead had
marched past. there came the living.
First came the earthly princes and
princesses and mobiles. Then there
marched forth millions upon millions
of the human race. Then, after he had
wheeled into line all generations Of all
times and all p~rincipalities and pow
ers. the great Methodist preacher sud
denly stopped. Then in stentorian
tones he commenced to sing that grand
old hymn of Edward Perronet:
All hail the power of Jesus name,
Let angels PROSTATE fall,
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown him Lord of all.
So powerful was the effect, so over
whelming was the impression of the
coming conquest of Christ over the
world. that the great audience sprang
to its feet and took up the refrain and
sang it louder and louder and louder
until the very heavens seemed to
shake. Oh. my friends, cannOt you
feel that u new song for the coming
Christmas holidays should be d tri-
umphant one? Shall it not have the
same triumphant ring in 1t as had
Martin Luther's mighty hymn when
the soldiers of Gustavus Adolphue
sans it before the battle of Leipsic
and also sang it again before the bat
tie of LutZen. where their noble leader
laid down his life? All, yes, man may
live and may die, but Gods workers
always fill in the break and the work
goes on. Our new song must be a song
of triumph. God can and will conquer
this world and rule the nations of the
earth as his own.
When the musical leader in the old
village choir loft. before the organ and
the piano had forced their way into
the church edifices. wanted to start
the hymn. be would strike his tuning
fork and lift it to his ear. For the new