Beautiful Extract

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 1, 1873

Beautiful Extract.

A SABBATH-SCHOOL superintendent, wishing to have a great commemoration of the happy Christmas time, built up tier after tier in the spacious cathedral, and arranged trees between them, hanging cages of canaries among the fragrant branches. Over the cages, he suspended blankets. When the time arrived, and the children filled aisles and transepts, and the charmed spectators crowded the galleries, all at once the blankets were lifted, and the sunlight, the warmth, the fragrant trees, woke up the slumbering birds, who broke forth in tuneful song, filling the whole space with delicious music. To complete the charm, the children raised their harmonious voices, and gallery on gallery swelled the great volume of melody as it ascended in that grand song, “All hail the power of Jesus’ name!”

Christ is building tier on tier in the temple of the heavens, where he is suspending the caged birds of melodious voices among the invisible groves of the tree of life. Soon will the high day arrive, the angel’s trump sound, and the blankets of the grave be raised, and the warmth and light and beauty of Heaven will waken every tuneful power, and the assembled angels and archangels will sing with the redeemed and astounded saints, “All hail the power of Jesus’ name!” filling the whole Heaven with one volume of unequaled song, great as the voice of many waters and of mighty thunder, harmonious as the concert of ten thousand harps.—Bishop Thomson’s “Evidences of Revelation.”