The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-02-14
PICTURLNG HEA YEN.
THE HOSTS, THE A rPAREL, AND
THE SONGS TALMAGE EX-
PEOTS TO FIND THERE.

PEOTS TO FIND THERE.
New York SUM-
"Much of my mental life,' said
Dr. Talmage yesterday morning,
"is dated from the hour in which l
first saw one of the great pictures
of the old masters in Edinburgh,
Scotland. To this moment / feel
the thrill of Jenny Lind's song in
Castle Garden in the days OF my
boyhood. To-day let us look on
the landscape which John describes.
As the great ancient orators used to
rouse the people to enthusiasm by
the one word Mar athon, so would
to-day stir your deepest and high
est emotions with that imperial
word Heaven My text seems to
describe q holiday celebration in
heaven. John says, after this /
beheld, and 10, a great multitude,
which no man could number, of all
nations, and kindreds, and people,
and tongues, stood before the throne
and before the Lamb; clothed with
white robes, and with palms in their
hands, and cried with loud voice,
saying, Salvation to our God which
sitteth on the throne, and unto the
Lamb
"H any man who saw New York
when Kossuth arrived had come to
the conclusion that that day, with
it's triumphal arches, its fiowegs, its
booming guns, showed the ordinary
condition of the city, he would have
been very foolish. 1 have no idea
that the chief population of heaven
comes from this world. An ingeni-
GUS writer has estimated that there
will be twenty-seven trillions of
souls there. / have no faith in the
estimate, and would rather take the
plain statement of my text, "a g eat
multitude which no man could
number Take all the cohorts of
Senacherib, of Caesar, of Alexander,
and Napoleon; mount a swift steed
and ride along the line and review
tho troops of the great host, and
they will seem like a half formed
regiment compared with the armies
of redemption. All nationalities
will be there These gathered the
tamarind. These crossed the desert
on camels. These shot through the
snow, drawn by Siberian dogs.
These fought with wild beasts in
the amphitheatre.
"What shall be the dress of the
glorified ? Surely that God who
dressed the clouds with ribbons of
blue, who hung the trees with dia-
mond dewdrops, who flung the Grim
son mantle over the shoulders of
nature, and slippered with fields of
green grass the feet of the spring
morning does not despise ornate
apparel My text says they shall
be clad in white. No use there for
work-day apparel. No Abraham
mourning for Sarah. No Isaac
mourning for Jacob. No David
mourning for Absalom. No Mary
mourning for Lazarus
"What symbols shall they carry =?
Not cypress, for that would denote
sorrow; not myrtle, for that might
mean sin not weeping willow, for
that would mean mourning; but
palms. The text says with palms
i'm their hands" In old times, when
conquerors returned home, the peo-
pie built triumphal arches for them
and went forth to meet them with
branches of the palm tree, which
they waved as the symbol of fvictory.
'fDr. Dick declared that the in
habitants of heaven will spend
some time in the study of arithmetic
and high branches of mathematics.
But there is no charm in such a
thought to me. / prefer the text
which says it shall be an eternal
psalmody, crying with loud voice,
Salvation unto the Lord God and
unto the Lamb Take heed for
your ears, for it will be song loud
and stupendous. They will sing a
star song, and the chorus shall be of
the coming of Christ, the morning
star of the world darkness. They
will sing a flower song, and the
chorus shall be of Christ, the lily of
the valley, blooming through frost
and sempest. They shall sing a
water song, ,-and the chorus shall be
Christ, the fountain in the midst of
the wilderness There will be joy
in the sky, and are we to-day re-
hearsing for IL? five lose heaven
it will be i'm the same way that
Louis Philippe lost his kingdom.
The palace was besieged, and the
General said to Louis Philippe:
Shall fire I? No; not yet, was
the reply. But when the soldiers
began TO fraternize with the citizens
and il was found that the palace
was about to be surrendered, Louis
Philippe SAID Firel' but the
General said No; it il too late