p. 106 | Singing All Together by Rev. Dr. Talmage

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 17, 1874

Singing All Together.

By Rev. Dr. Talmage

MANY contend that the singing of the church should be done by delegation. Now imagine a few of Heaven’s choice spirits deputed to do the singing for the upper temple. There they are gathered in one place! One! two! three! four! Yes, just a heavenly quartette! With subdued and almost inaudible sweetness it will begin. Hark! they have begun! No! they have not! Yes, they have! Thrones and principalities be silent! Hush, David! though thou art the sweet singer of Israel! St. Paul, be still, although thou hast received the crown of rejoicing. Richard Baxter, hold! this is the saints’ everlasting rest. Capital music! But such propriety cannot long be kept. “Hallelujah!” cries a soul from under the altar. “Praise the Lord,” sings a martyr from among the trees of life. “Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory!” cry a thousand redeemed voices. A myriad spirits catch up the song of Moses and the Lamb, and the hundred and forty and four thousand break forth into rejoicing. See how the palms wave. Look how the thrones quake.

“Stop that loud singing. All out of taste. Stop.”

But they will not cease. You might as well attempt to drown the thunder of the skies, or beat back the roar of the seas; for verily I believe that every saint in Heaven has resolved to do his own singing.—Rev. Dr. Talmage.