The last hymn, “Yet There Is Room,” was being sung by Mr. Sankey alone. He had reached the last stanza: “Ere night that gate may close, and seal thy doom, Then the last long cry, No room, no room! No room, no room! Oh, woeful cry, No room!”

These last words of Dr. Bonar’s hymn fell upon the ears of the young woman like a sudden thunder clap she left the meeting, but the words went with her. “No room, no room!” still rang in her ears.

Conscience awoke at the sound of this warning bell. Nor could she rest until as she trusts, she found rest in the great Redeemer – Have you?

“Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,” (2 Timothy 1:8-9 KJV)

From the steeple of St. Mary’s Church in Cracow, Poland, a bugle has been sounded every day for the last seven hundred years. The last note on the bugle is always muted and broken, as if some disaster had befallen the bugler. This seven-hundred-year commemoration is in memory of a heroic trumpeter who one night sounded a blast on his trumpet and summoned the people to defend their city against the hordes of the invading Tartars. As he was sounding the last blast on his trumpet, an arrow from one of the Tartars struck him and killed him. Hence the muffled note at the end.

No muted note shall muffle the sounding forth of the gospel. Christ has been given all power over every enemy. No satanic arrow can reach or harm Him. He will continue to sound forth the trumpet call of salvation loud and clear until the very end of the age. Then, with an omnipotent blast from the last trump, Christ will raise the dead and bring all men into judgment before His throne. No, we need not commemorate a dead Hero, whose final trumpet call was muted by an enemy. We can celebrate the fact of a living Savior, and the mighty crescendo of His final trumpet call will rock the entire universe and usher in His eternal kingdom!