St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-28
IAN ISLAND VISION. -
DR.. Talmage and Many Of His 0ongrega-
tion Make Visit to the Thou
sand Isles,
Where the Eloquent Divine breaches a
Great Sermon to Multitude
of People.
He Makes can Island V1s1on'' His
Subject, and Takes His Text
From Revelations.
Reference to the Islands of ST. Helena i,
Guernsey, Cyprus. Melita. Borneo
and Patmos.
Dr. Talnage,s Sermon.

and PatmOS.
Dr. TalElage's Sermon.
Special to the Globe.
ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y, June 27.-
The congregation of the Brooklyn taber-
nacle this year have made pilgrimage to
this place, accompanied by Rev. Il. Dewitt
Talmage D. D., their pastor. Many hum
dreds of them left Brooklyn on Saturday.
June 26, arriving here on the evening of
the same day, and will remain until Tuesday.
Special trains Of cars were provided for them.
A multitude from the surrounding villages
oined them to-day, and DR.. Talmadge
preached the following sermon. His sub
ject was: ''An Island Vision," and his
texts, Revelation i: g: II, John. was in the
isle that is called PatmOs;;" and Revela-
ton xxi; 81: land the twelve gates were
twelve pearls" The preacher said:
the Thousand Isles of the st.
Lawrence. Amid the enchantment
of the scenery some of us are like Paul
out of the body cannot tell" Not having
read the biologists account of how this
region was formed, I may surmise that after
the St. Lawrence began its majestic roll
these islands were dropped into it out of
the heavenly landscape. Islands above us,
islands below us, islands all around
us, am reminded how much the
islands Of the world have had to do with
sacred and profane history. Elba. from
which Napoleon started for his last struggle;
and St. Helena, where he ended it; Island
of Guernsey, where the great soul of Victor
Hugo chafed in exile until Republicanism
i'll France drove back deSp0tism; Isle of
Borneo, where Adonram Judson stood,
A FLAMING EvANGEL;
the island of Caprera. where Galribaldi
rested after the emancipation of Italy;
island Of Cyprus. where Barnabas preached;
island of Melita, on which Paul was ship
wrecked; and last of all, but mightier than
all, but more impressive than all, the island
of Patmos, of which my text speaks,
and from which st. John, the ex-
lied Ephesian gospelizer, saw the twelve
pearline gates. If God will help us, we
can from these Thousand Isles, on this
Sabbath morning, see the same glittering
portals. Our subject speaks of a great
metropolis, the existence of which many
have doubted. Standing on the wharf and
looking off upon the harber, and seeing the
merchantmen coming up the bay, the
flags of foreign nations streaming
from the top gallants, you imme-
dlately make up your mind that those
vessels came from foreign ports, and you
say: THAT is from Hamburg, and that is
from MarseilleS, and that is from South
ampton, and that is from Havana" and
your suppOsition is accurate. But from the
city Of which 1 am now speaking no
weather-beaten merchantmen or frigates
with SCARED bulkhead, have ever
come. There has been a vast emf
grafton into the city but no emigration from
it-so far as our natural vision can descry.
There is no such city," says the undevout
astronomer. Il have stood in high towers
with a mighty telescope and have swept
the heavens, and [ have seen spots on the
sun and caverns in the moon; but no tow
ers have ever risen on my vision, no pal
aces, no temples,
NO SHINING STREETS,
no massive wall. There is no such city,"
Even very good people tell me that heaven
is not material organism, but grand
spiritual fact, and that the Bible descripz,
tions Of it are in all cases to be taken figur-
atively. bring in reply to this what
Christ said, and He ought to know: Il go
to prepare"-not a theory, not principle,
not sentiment-but II go to prepare
rected body implies this. If my foot is to
be reformed from the dust it must have
something to tread ON. If my hand is to be
reconstructed, it must have something to
handle. If my eye. having gone out in
death, is to be rekindled, must have
something to gaze on. Your adverse
theory seems to imply that the resur-
rected body Is to be hung ON moth
ing, OF to walk in air, or to float amid the
intangibles. You may say: If there be
material organisms then soul in heaven
will be cramped and hindered in it's enjoy
ment; but answer: Did not Adam and
Eve have plenty of room in the garden of
Eden? Although only few miles
would have described the circum-
ference of that place, they mad
ample room. And do you not suppose that
God in the immensities can build place
large enough to give the whole race room,
even though there be material organisms?
While speak an ever-increasng throng is
passing
THROUGH THE GATES.
They are going up from Senegambia,
from Patagonia from Madras, from Hong
Kong. ''What!" you say, "do you intro
duce all the heather into glory?" I tell
you the fact is that the majority of the
people in those climes die in infancy and
the infants all go straight into eternal life,
and SO the vast majority of those
who die IN China and India. the vast ma
iority of those who die in Africa go straight
into the skies-they die in infancy. One
hundred and sixty generations have been
born since the world was created, and so l
estimate that there must be fifteen thousand
million children in glorp. If at concert
oh OH cf.Y,l ic
within you. 0, the transport, when fifteen
thousand million little ones stand up in
white before the throne of God. their chant
ing drawing out all the stupendous harmon
les of Dusseldorf and Leipsic and Boston,!
Pour in through the twelve gates, oh, We
redeemed. banner lifted, rank after rank,
saved battalion after saved battalion, until
all the city of God shall hear the tramp,
tramp. Crowd all the twelve gates
Room yet. Room on the thrones.
Room in the mansions. Room on the river
bank. Let the trumpet OF invitation be
sounded until all earth's mountains hear
the shrill blast and the glens echo it, Let
missionaries tell it in Pagoda and colpor-
teurs sound it across the Western prairies.
Shout it to the Laplander on his swift sled
halleo it to the Bedouin careering across the
desert. News! newsi
A GLORIOUS HEAVEN
and twelve gates to get into it! Hear it, o
you thin-blooded nations of eternal witer
on the north three gates. Hear it, 0 you
bronzed inhabitants painting under equa-
torial heat! On the south three gates But
I notice when Sohn saw these gates they
were open-wlde open. They will not al
ways be so. After while heaven will
have gathered up all its integded
population and the children of God
will have come home. Every crown taken.
Everp harp struck. Every thlone mounted.
All the glories of the universe harvested in
the great garner. And heaven being made
up, of course the gates will be shut. Aus
tria in, and the first gate shut Bussia in,
and the second gate shut. Italy in, and the
third gate shut. Egypt in, and the fourth
gate shut. Spain in, and the fifth
gate shut. France in, and the sixth gate
shut. England in, and the seventh gate
shut. Norway in, and the eighth gate shut.
Switzerland in. and the ninth gate shut