A NEW SONG | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1865

A NEW SONG.

“And they sing a new song.” What is meant by that new song? It is this—the highest music never palls, the masterpieces of painting you can look at over and over again, and never weary looking at them. God’s great masterpieces in the garden, the flower, the blossom, one could look upon all the year. Man’s creation is very different. If one looks at the most exquisite lace made in Brussels or Valenciennes, worth much, through a microscope it appears the most clumsy, coarse structure it is possible to imagine. But if you look at a bee’s wing through a microscope, the highest microscopic power you can bring to bear upon it, only reveals its greater beauty. So things that have the highest excellency never pall with years, or disappoint on inspection. The new song that will be sung in Heaven means, that the themes will be so rich, the love that inspires it will be so glowing, the triumphs it commemorates will be so grand, the Saviour, as its key note, will be so glorious, that the song sung thousands of years ago, though heard every day, will retain all the freshness with which it would be heard if it had never been sung before. Such is the new song, among the new things that will be in Heaven.