Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-09

l cntu 1ucn III was S0OncSS anu
gloom TO him. He seems TO see the
Jews huddled together In captivity.
There he seems TO gather them togeth-
CT. as the Jews today are gathered at
the foot OF Mount Moriah. ut the wall
ing place" under the walls OF the old
temple Their captcrs come TO them
and cry: "Sing. singl Sing as you used
TO sing I'm Jerusalem" But they an
swer. "How shall we sing the Lords
song i'm n strange landT" Then you say
To me: This coming Christmas VIII
find me I'm n strange land. Why" you
| shy, everything in my life Is SO differ
| ent from what II used 10 be. So many.
| of my loved ores are gone. Ny Iaugh-
| ter was here last Christmas: she Is
| gone now forever. Is il Il mothers va
cant chair. or a fathers or wifcs or
n husband'sf Yes, l have been good
| giver to the grave. and that grave has
| taken the best have. Ii Is not the
| time for me To sing: IL is the time for
/ Sobs. Then cannot give financially as
l used TO give. | have had many snan-
cial rcveises during the past few
months. Then cannot do as used TO
do for others. My own health Is grad
ually breaking. How can | sing n new
/ song? l am like Rubini and Borloni
and Cuzzoni and Pasta and Malibran
After their voices once went they were
| gone forever" All, my friends, you can
sing the new song of hope and saliva
ton il you viii. The great trouble Of
| your life Is not that you have had
great troubles. but that you have not
waded way down knee deep, hip deep,
shoulder deep, lip deep, into Gods
promises and comforts TO get n suita-
BILE inspiration for your new song.
The great trouble with you Is that
when trouble comes, instead of throw
ing yourselves more and more upon the
divine strength, you have let go of
Gods strong hand and only depended
on your own strength. After Jenny
LIMBS name had become famous as a
singer her voice began to fall. "Oh,"
said she to herself, IF could only 20
and see Garcia, know he would help
me-" Manuel Garcia was at that time
the greatest musical developer OF
prima donnas. She left Stockholm and
went TO Paris. AS soon as she entered
his studio and sang Garcia said, MY
good girl, you have no voice. or, rather
1 should say you had voice. but YOU
are now on the verge of losing IL
YoHr organ Is strained and worn out
The only advice can offer is to recon.
mend you not to sing n note for three
months. At the end of that time come
to me and I will see what l can do for
you" That was good advice for Man
uel Garcia to give to Jenny Lind, but
1t Is not good advice for n Christian
teacher to give you in reference to your
learning how to sing the new song of
Christ. What you need is not rest, not
retirement, not seclusion; you need to
practice your gospel throat. You need
TO learn how to sing the new song by
delving deep in the promises OF God,
and then 10y singing Gods promises to
your own life and to the lives Of all
around you. Singi Sing! Keep on
singing! Sing forth the promises Of
Godi Sing what he has done for
others. Sing about what he has done
and Will continue to do for you,
Triumphant Song.
But lastly assert that our new song
for the coming holidays should he tri-
unphant song. In it we should hear
the ring OF the coming conquest OF the
world for Christ: I'm II we should know
not only that man as an individual will
be saved, but that there shah come a
time when nations and peoples OF all
chimes shall worship our Christ as 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
missioncrs 10 prevent that uprising Sc
lected some OF the Indian chiefs and
sent them TO Washington as n dclegn-
ton TO present their grievances before
the Great White Father the presl-
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 Il
was TO rise up against them. Those
Indians might STAY 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
TO catch glimpse OF the power OF Cod.
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 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 over every sea-
Our new song should be triumphant
song.
Would today i might convince you
OF the sureness OF Christs conquest
over all the ngtions OF the world as
vivtdly as that great dramatic preach.
er William Dawson brought It before
his London hearers nearly a century
ago. He was n man OF most remarkable
personality. lie had an Imagination all
aglow and on fire. With the power OF
q inighty word painter lie was tiescrib-
Ing the conquest OF the world. He Dor
trayed grand procession marching be-
fore Christ. the Prophet, Priest and
King, In n 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 Eee. Then, after he had
wheeled into line oil generations of all
times and ail priDoipaiities and pow
ers, the srcat Methodist preacher sud-
denly stopped. Then in stentorian
tones he commenced TO sing that grand
old hymn OF Edward Perroret:
An hail the power of Jesus name.
Let angels PROSTATE fall,
Bring forth the royal diadem
l. And cr0wn him Lord OF all
SO powerful was the eject, 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 Ii louder aud iouder and londor