St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-12
BEECHER AND TALMAGE
Henry Ward Beecher Offers a Touching
Tribute to the Memory of the Late
Cardinal McCloskey.
What Heaven Will Be Like and the Part
Imagination Plays in Pioturing the
Unknown Future.
DR.. Talmage Discourses in 1i
teresting Manner Upon inc
Lords Razor.
Eeecner.s Sermon.

Special to the Globe
NEW YORK. Oct. lin his opening
PRAYER this evening Rev. henry Ward
Beecber referred with deep feeling to the
death of the cardinal and besought tnat as
simnle and right-minded a nature might be
raised ND to succeed bim. In the course OF
the sermon a touching tribute OF ahectioh
for the deceased prelate was also ohefed.
N[r. Beecher's text was comprised OF tle
first four verses Of the tWenty-tlrSt chapter
OF Revelations:
And saw a new heaven and new earth,
for the first heaven and the first earth were
passed away; and there was no more sea
"And l. John. saw the holy clUy, inc new
Jerusalem. coming down from God out OF
heaven. prepared as bride adorned lof her
husband. ,
.'And l heard a great voice out OF heaFen
saving: Behold the tabernacle Oh Uod Is WIN u
men. and He will dwell with them, ana they
shall be His people, and Goa hllllseli en''ii O0
with them, and be their Hou' :, .--- e.,.,
.And God shall vape away all tears from
their eyes: and there shall he no more DEATH
neither sorrow, nor crying, neltier snail lnoIo .
bs anv more paiu; for the former things are
passed away.
Mr.. Beecher said: y thoughtful and un-
biased contrast of the Old Testament with
the New will show that the Old testament
dealt with elements OF duty and IL their relI-
tion to this life 1t is a book OF maXlhlS, eApe-
uences. and commands OF various kllie'S le-
ferring to conduct i'll this lie. Inc heiOeo
of early DAYS, Abraham, and, significantly
Moses have left not trace OF teachlng us
TO a future life. If there be some llaSheS
of recognition later on IN the Old IeStaliiellI
there were more in the beginning, anu any
dealing with the text that ShaI seem "
make the earlier heroes OF Inc Olu A99'"
ment dispensatiOn believers III 1utule eA-
lstance. IS an unjust and dishonest dealing
with the text Only when poetry p0S'ii
10 sneak are there glimpses Of any knoWl-
ed@a of :, nossibIe existence after death.
There are lyrical snatches, poetry OF tne
prophets. that give apparently poets
thought of a possible future. But II you
turn TO the New Testament for the CON
trast Won will find that the future lie Is the
real
GENIUS OF THE WHOLE BOOK,
as the life that now is was the genius OF
The Old Testament, and finally the New
Testament closes with wonderful pan"-
rama made up Of gorgeous symbols ana
dramatic spectacIes set before us, me con-
hict through time between good ana evil
and then it marches before us chanting the
blessedness of heaven as the outcome OF
time and the world. Now, IS 1T not re-
markable that after all the testament I
develops so little OF the hereafter ,
What our personality shall be, what
The methods of our life are to be. On theSe
rye have not a line The reality is taught
Df n future existence, and that. too, upon
absolute authority. But the makeup OF
that life is left to imagination. The EN-
blems employed by the apostles are adj
dressed to the imagination, and the con1u-
sion among commentators has come from
ATTEMPT to reduce to intellectual forms That
which was addressed to the imagination
The effect uDon the soul or the other hIe
was the point and genius of revelation. Ii
does not undertake to tell from what sources
YOUR happiness will come, but II assures
you of happiness. 1t perpleXeS US why
Christ did not throw some further hghC on
the results OF the resurrection. lie de-
clared to his disciples. where am
there We shall be also" That was blessed,
but when you
COME TO DETAILS,
where the true old man is to be and Wha1
are the modes of his life, how are we to be
with him? There is no answer The fu'
ture must be left to the imagination OF a.!
Christians. with this limitation that thf
picture that our imagination shall lnVen
must be confined to highest affection, the
noblest occupation known to good men, anC
so YOU may frame your picture as often ale
iiverselv as You please. You have The
spiritual artists right to your own palette
and YOUR own brush and your own picture
1t will be i'll strict accord with the genius
of the New Testament Such concepuoI
of heaven, using only the higher and Spir-
itual elements therein, Such cohceptlol
as VIII bring the most happiness TO you
We 90 Immediately into spiritual life, bu
l., 41.,ra nld
gone mp from amidst those Wn'
have loved him and nourishe(
him. Cardinal NcCloskey. 1t wa
all we'll enough that there should be th'
cardinals throne, and the enShrining cathe
dral. and the altar, and the incense, an(
the alcolytes and orders of priesthood, al
very well that there should have been sym
bols of spiritual authority. but the momen
that he emergeS. no velvet, no purple N
tiara, no symbol will be with him. Lik
you and me and all OF
GODS DEAR CHILDREN,
he will stand in his spiritual conscious en-
tiretv and individuality and will have N
occasion any more for organ or for choir
nor for congregation nor for temple. Their
is no temple there The Lord God is tn
temple. Here we are the children OF mat
ter. but there we are not the children
matter, but very much hlgner SuoStailc
and element To-day he lifts his venerable
head No, he is young. Year
shall never hurt him again. N
rude experience shall turn his hal
grey, nor furrow his face. lie is young a
God He shall remain in an eternal youth
with all those whom he loved on earth ant
with all those to whom he administered
and with all that great flock of those whom
he feared were doomed to eternal destruc
ton; he shall find them there in that lan
without controversy. without theology
without division. and they will be as dea
to him as if they had come out from tn
chrism of his own hands. rejoice in hi
emancipation as do in the innumerabl
saints that great sect has sent to heaven i
days gone by, and in the legacies of hol
books and holy truths that it has tran:
mitted and that has been the bread of life
hungry souls from age to age and will
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