The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-01-26
WHAT WILL WEDOUP THERE 2


WIN all tDe talk OF heaven III mOQeIn
pulpits it is seldom that the interpreters
of the Gospel can be pinned down to a
very definite and detailed account of it,
as seen by the eye of faith.
The readers of the Herald will be
interested, therefore, in the interview
with DR.. Talmage.
"What will we do in heaven2'
That's the way put the question to
the Rev. DR.. Dewitt Talmage yester-
day, whom l found in his cosy study.
The pastor of the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle looked at me tor moment, and
then went on In his usual rapid way =
81 imagine that we shall do in heaven
what we do On earth in our most ele-
waited moods. The constitution of our
tastes that are dominant now will be
dominant then. One of the great sat
isfactions of heaven is in fact that a
man can follow his own tastes there
that he has possessed here. A great
many persons cannot follow the tastes
they naturally possess in this world be-
cause they haye to encounter difficulties
in getting livelihood. A man may be
fond of music, yet here he is obliged to
heave coal. Another has hne taste
for paintings, but on earth he can af-
ford nothing better than chrome. A
woman may have an exquisite taste for
beautiful flowers and can appreciate
fine scenery. but she hardly ever sees
anything outside of the city in which
she lives or the dull routine of her
home, where all her tastes are sup
pressed. In heaven her tastes will be
gratlfed. A Christian astronomer when
he dies will enter upon an enlarged
sphere. He will have better observa>
tory at his disposal, further reach OF
exploration"
"That suggests the unlimited scope
OF the universe" said l, as DR.. Talmage
paused for moment, "for you speak
as if there were other systems to be dis
covered, of which we have no concep-
ton"
Precisely In heaven the astrono-
mer will see all that God has created
In other words, he is going to be fur
nished with celestial rapid transit. He
will be able to visit Jupiter before break
fast and after tea to go to Mercury,
having spent the day with few friends
in Mars. The bodily limitations that
confine US will all be gone. The soul
will be released and enjoy freedom that
will be delightful and expanding. On
earth we have no real or adequate con-
ception OF the soul, no more than we
can of the aspirations of the bird we
see confined in its cage. The soul is
cablned up and has only couple of
windows an inch or two square to look
through. In heaven its vision will be
limitless, its movement swifter than
thought.
DEATH A MAGNIFYING GLASS.
"The man or woman who is ignorant
or undeveloped here on earth will bios
som forth in heaven and become per-
feet saint. The scholar will, on reach
ing heaven know more in second of
time than Herschel or Faraday or New
ton learned on earth in all their lives.
think we waste great deal of time in
guessing about heaven, and l believe
that we are going to learn more in five
minutes in heaven than we could if we
lived on earth for a couple of centuries.
"Heaven is all the time improving.
1t is altogether different from what it
was thousand or hundred years ago.
That is, to YOU or me. To US heaven
IS place to which all our friends, our
loved ones, our dearest and best, have
gone within the past thirty or forty
years. Do you catch my idea2 We
love many in this life-our parents, our
children, our kindred and our associates.
One by one they pass away, and when
we go we find them all waiting for US in
heaven. Though it has existed from
the beginning heaven has become peo
pied with our ones only during our own
lives. And there will be an endless
chain of these delightful friendships, for
different generations will be linked to-
gether by bond of sympathy and di-
vine love.
"The Bible says that in heaven there
are many mansions, which l take as
meaning rooms. There will be the re-
ception room, the music room, the
family room, the throne room. l sup
pose that after the musician has found
his own loved ones who has gone be-
fore him he will see Beethoven and
Mozart and Handel and Mendelssohn