Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-28
A Beautiful Sermon Preached Way Up
Amid the Thousand Isles Of the
ST. Lawrence.
Many Of the Churches Of To-Day Doc
trined to Death Millions OF Souls
HungerIng for the Truth.
Heaven Not q monopoly-Oates on Az
Sides for Every Nation Wide Open
The Necessary Password,
special 70 the Gazette,

CONGREGATION Oh lut DEOohiyh lAO'Ah1SA
this year have made pilgrimage 70 thi
place, accompanied by the Rev. I. DE
Witt Talmage D. D., their pastor. Nan.
hundreds Of them left Brooklyn on Satur
day, June 20, arriving here the evening 0
the same day, and Will remain until Tues
day. Special trans Of cars were pro
vided for them. multitude from th'
surrounding villages Joined them to-day
and Or. Talmage preached the following
sermon; His subject was, "An Island
Vision" and his texts, Revelation l., 9:
al, John, was IN the isle that Is called
Patmos;p and Revelation XXI, q "And
the twelve gates were twelve pearls
The preacher said
Sabbath morning finds us amid the
Thousand Isles OF the ~. Lawrence.
Amid the enchantment Of the scenery
some OF Us are Ike Paul when he said !:
"Whether In the body or out OF the
body ! cannot tell.n Not having
read the geCl0giets' account Of
how this region was formed, | may sur
mise that after the 81. Lawrence began
It's majestic roll these islands were
dropped into II ont Of the heavenly land
scape. Islands above as, islands below
Nnt tNiaINo MI hibNhh us biA ltHAiUutu
how mucn the ISLANDS Of the world have
had TO DO with sacred and profane his
tory. Slba, 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 Ia exile until republication
in France drove back despotism; Isle Of
Borneo, where Adonram Judson stood,
flaming eyangel; the Mediterranean
island, where Garibaldi rested after the
emancipation OF Italy; Island Of Cyprus |
where Barnabas preachedi Island OF |
Meilta, on which Paul was shipWrecked; |
and, last OF oil, but mightier than all and |
more impressive than all, the Island |
OF PatmOs, Of which my text |
speaks and from which ST. |
John, the exiled Ephesian gospelizer, saw
the twelve pearllne gates II God viii
help us, we can from these Thousand
Isles, on this Sabbath morning, see the
same glittering portals.
Our subject speaks OF great metropO-
us the existence of which many have
doubted. Standing on the wharf and
looking Of upon the har0or, and seeing
me merchantmen coming up the bay, the
Tags OF foreign nations streaming from
he top gallants, you Immediately make
up your mind that those vessels came
rom foreign ports, and you say. "That
. from Hamburg, and that Is from Mar
ieilles, that is from Southampton, and
nat ~ from Hayana,n and your
Imposition Is accurate. But from the
'ity OF which | am now speaking no ,
merchantmen OF frlaates I
with Scared bulkhead have ever come
Ihere has been a vast emigration into
nat city, but no emigration from it. so
ar as our natural vision can descry.
There Is no such city, SAYS tho unde-
out astronomer. 81 have stood IN high {
overs with mighty telescope and have 1
wept the heavens, and have seen spots /
m the sun and c0verns in the moon, but ,
10 towers have ever risen on nv vision. l
10 palaces, no temples, no shining streets !
10 massive wall. There Is no such clty.j {
lyon very good people tell me that hea /
en- Is not a material organism, but a 4
rand spiritual fact, aud that the bible a
OF II are In oil cases TO be /
AIKEN ilguratively. bring In reply TO I
his what Christ said, and he ought 10 I
now; 81 so to prepsren--not n theory, \
ot principle, IoC Il sentiment but al \
o TO prepare a place for you.r The res
ERECTED body implies this II my foot +
; to be reformed from tho dust Ii must 4
ave
SOMETHING 10 TREAD OK.
my hand Is 10 be reconstructed IL r
inst have something TO handle. III
W eye, having zone out In !
cath, II TO be reklualed, | must have !
to gaze on. Your adverse the. a
ny seems to Imply that the resurrectcd
ody Is to be hung on nothing, or to walk I
Il air, or TO noat amid the intanglbles,
'ou may say, II there be material organ. =
SINS, then soul IN heaven will be !
and hindered In It's enioyments; I
nv answer Did not Adam and Eve /
ave plenty OF room In the garden of /
.deng Although only n lew miles would /
ave described the circumference OF that !
lace, they had ample room And do YOU | i
ot suppose that God In the lmmensities /
an build place large enough Co give the !
ghole race room, even though there be !
Material organlsmsg
Herschel looked into the heavens. AS 4
Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock be.
ween the glaciers and crosses over from z
rag TO crag, so llersohel planted his tele. I
cope between the worlds and gllded !
'om star TO star, until he could Ii
TO us that wa live !,
! part OF the universe but
parsely strewn with worlds; and he 4
GERS out into immensely until he finds a h
lgiou no larger than our solar system In 4
hich there are fifty thousands worlds n
owing, And Prof, Lang says that by H
reasoning, taere must be I,
lmewhere world where there Is no y
lrkness, bat everlasting sunshine, 50 Il
lat do not know but that IL IL simply II
aoause we have no telescope powerful n
longh that we cannot see into the land a
here there Is no darkness at all and n
Itch a glimpse OF the Furnished pinnaoles. 4,
: oonquering army, marching on TO q
Ike city, comea at ulghtfall 10 the ~
est OF mountain from which Ia the n
idst Of the landscape they SEQ the cas- q
es they are to capture and rein In their n
az chargers, and halt and take good =
ok before y
THEY rirou THEIR rxNrs a,
y the night, 20 now, com q,
4 as we do on this noun \,
10 top OF prospect, ! command this n
giment OF God 70 rein IN their thoughts \,
ID halt, aud before they pitch their IA
hts for the night take one 0ond lon, -,