The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
When the Son Of Man Shall Come in His
Glory and All the Holy Angels
With Him.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Paints a Vivid Pict-
ure Of the Last Great Assize,
And Points His Hearers to the Only Means
Whereby They May Escape the Ven-
geance Of Outraged Law.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.


day In spite of the rain people focked from
the adjacent country to hear him. Shortly after
the close of the service DR.. Tamage left on the
Cunard steamer Aurauia for New York
The hymn, 'Jesus. lover of my soul" was
sung, after which DR.. Talmage read as the
Scripture lesson the twenty first chapter of the
book of Revelation. The text was the thirty
first and thirty-second verses of the twenty-ifth
chapter of the gospel according to St. Matthew:
When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and
all the holy angels with Him, than shall be sit upon
the throne of His glory and before Him shall be gath
cred all nations and He shall separate them from
another, as shepherd dvideth his sheep from the
goats
THE SERMON.
DR.. Talmage said:
Half way between Chamouni, Switzerland, and
Martisny reined in the horse on which l was
riding, and looking off upon the most wonderful
natural anphitheater of valley, ard mountain,
and rock, and l said to my companion. What
an appropriate place this would be for the last
judgment; yonder over-hancing rock the place
for the judgment seat; these galleries of sur
rounding hills occupied by attendant angels: this
vast valley, sweeping miles this way and miles
that, the audience room for all nations" But
sacred geography does not point out the place.
Yet we know that somewhere, sometime, some
how, an audience will be gathered together, stu
pendous beyond all statistics, and just as cer-
tainly as you and make up q part of this az
dience to-day, we will make up a part of that
audience on that day.
A common sense of justice in every mans
heart demands that there shall be some grea.
winding up day, in which that which is low in
explicable shall be explained Why did that good
man suffer, and that bad man prosper! You say.
II don't know" Bat must know Why is that
good Christian woman dying of what is called
spider cancer, while that daughter of folly sits
wrapped in luxuriance. ease and health9 You
say, II don't know But must know. There
are many wrongs to be righted that if there
were not some great righting-up day in the pres
ence of all ages, there would be outcry against
! God from which His glory would never recover.
If God did not at last try the nations the nations
would try Him. We are, therefore, ready for
the announcement of the text.
The world never saw Christ except in disguise.
If when He. was on earth He had let out
His glory instead of the blind eyes being healed
all visions would have been extinguished. No
human eye could have endured it. And instead
of bringing the dead to life, all around about
Him would have been slain under that over
powering effulgence. Disguise of human flesh.
Disguise oftseamless robe. Disguise of sandal
Disguise of voice From Bethlehem caravansary
to mausoleum in the rock. complete disguise.
But the day of which I speak the Son Of
Man will come in His glory. No hiding of lus-
ter. No sheathing of strength. No suppression
of grandeur. No wrapping ont of sight of the
GoIh of 4lny Lv,l
sets that you ever saw on Land or sea would be
dim as compared with the cerulean appearance
on that day when Christ rolls through and rols
on and rolls down in his glory. The air will be
all abloom with his presence and everything
from horizon to horizon afame with His splen-
dor.
Elijah rode up the sky steep in chariot, the
wheels of whir,ng fire and the horses of gaop-
ing fire, and the charioteer drawing reins of fire
on bits of fire. But Christ will need no suck
equpage, for the law of gravitation will be laid
aside and Christ will descend swiftly enough to
make speedy arrival, but slowly enough to allow
the gaze of millions of spectators In his glory!
Glory of form, glory of omnipotence glory of
holiness, glory of justice, glory of love- In His
glory! An unveiled, an uncovered God de-
view which will be prolonged only for q few
hours, and yet which shall settle all tho past, anc
all the present. and all the future, and be closed
before the end of that day, which will close, not
with setting sun, but with the destruction Of
the planet as snuffers take off the top of a
burned wick
BEFORE THE JUDGMENT THRONE.
1t is solemn time in courtroom when there
is an important on hand, and the judge of
the Supreme Court enters, and he sits down,
and with gavel strikes the desk, commanding
bar, and jury, and witnesses. and audience into
silence. All voices are hushed, all heads are
uncovered But how much more impressive
when Christ shall take the judgment seat On the
last day of the last week of the last month of
the last year of the worlds existence. and with
eayel of thunderbot shall smite the mountains,
commanding all the land and all the sea into
silence.
Can you have any doubt about who It is on the
seat on the judgment dayl Better make invest;-
CATION to see whether there are any scars about
Him that reveal His person. Apparel may
change You cannot always tell by apparel
But scars will tell the story after all else fails.
find under His left arm a scar and on His
right hand scar, and on His left hand a scar,
and on His right foot scar, and on His left foot
a scar. Oh, yes He is the Son of Man in His
glory. Every mark Of wound now badge of
victory, every ridge showing the fearful cash
now telling the story of pain and sacrifice which
He suffered in behalf of the human race.
But what is all that connection and futter
and surgng to and fro above Him and on either
side of Himl 1t is a detailed regiment of heaven
constabulary angelic, sent forth to take part