The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-30
REV. DR.. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DrvlNE's SUN.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Wide Open Door"

TEXT: "And, behold q door 1as opened
IN heaven. Rev. w.. /.
John had been the pastor Of a church in
Ephesua He had been driven from his
position in that city by an indignant pop
uiace. Thu preaching of a pure and earnest
gospel had made an excitement danger.
GUS to every form of iniquity. This will
often be the result of pointed preach
ing. Men will finch under the sword
strokes of truth. You ought not to be
surprised that the blind man makes an
cutlery Of pain when the surgeon removes
the cataract from his eye. It is a good sign
when you see men uneasy in the church pew,
and exhibiting impatience at some plain Mt
terance Of truth which smites q pet sin that
they are hugging TO their hearts. After the
patient has been SO low that for weeks he
said nothing and noticed nothing, it is
thought to be a good sign when he begins to
be o little cross. And SO / notice that spir-
itual invalids are in a fair way for recovery
when they become somewhat irascible and
choleric under the treatment Of the truth.
But John had 50 nightly inculpated public
iniqulty that he had been banished from his
church and sent to Potmas a desolate island,
only a mile in breadth, against whose rocky
coasts the sea rose n mingled its voice with
the prayers and hymnings of the heroic exile.
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Jacob had many a time seen the sun break
ing through the mists. and kindling them
into shafts and pillars OF fiery splendor that
might well have been a ladder for the angels
10 tread on. but the famous ladder which he
saw scared through a gloomy night over the
ton il the scene oil the grandest heavenly
revelations. From the barren, sur beaten
rock OF Patmos John looked up and saw that
q door was opened in heaven.
AGAIN. the announcement of such an
oneped entrance suggests the truth that God
BLOCKING down upon the earth and observ-
ant Of ali occurrences. IL we would gain a
mnsnSein. The higher up we are the broad
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comprehensive view is limited to only q few
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wonder q mountain peak. But what musi
must be the glory OF the earth in the eye OF
Him who from the door of beaven beholds al
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RES and oceans, lands bespangled with trop-
zeal gorgeousness and Arctic regions white
with everlasting SHOWS Lebanon majestic
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unbroken forests of pine, African deserts Of
g~listening and and wildernesses Of water
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