Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-09
ALL TROUBLES PAST.
VISIONS TYPICAL or THE HEAVENLY
GLORY THAT IS TO BE.

JohB- The sfost beautiful Things Of
Earth Arc but Faint Types.
EROORLYN, June 3. -This Is saeramertal
and baptsHal day with the Tabernacle
congregation, mn occasion Of especial Inn
prcsslycuess. The children were baptized
before tho sermon, and the sacrament adj
tnlniaered nfter sermon The subject Of
DIR. 1almaRe's discourse WINS, "All troubles
past" and the text Revelation iV, s:
There wa rninbOw round about the
throne" Following is the sermon;
As, after night Of fearful tempest OF
sea, one ship, more stanch than another,
rides on unchanged among the fragments
OF spars aud hulks that float about, so old
Noaha ark 10 the close Of the deluge,
floats on over the wreck Of dead world.
Looking out Of the window Of the ark, you
SEQ the planks of houses, and the sheaves
Of wheat, and 80 carcasses Of cattle and
the corpses u men. No tower is left to
toll the burial; no mourners 70 form In line
ofpr0ccaslon; no ground In which 10 bury
the dead. Sinking line twenty-seven feet
long, you just touch the tops Of the
monntains Gbastlincss and horrori The
ark, instead Of walking the sea, like a
modern ship, In majesty and beauty, losses
hsiplessly; no helm to guide; no sail to
set; no shore 70 steer for. Why protract
the agony u tie good people in such
craft, when they might in one dash Of the
wave have been put out Of their miseryf
Hls BOW IN THE CLOUD.
But NJ yondcr spot IN the horizon we see
colors gathering IN the sky. At just the
opposite point In the horizon other colors
aro gathering. find that they are the two
buttrcases ~ nm arched bridge. the yell
low, tho rod, the orange, the blue, the in
diao, the violet, are mingled, and by invisi-
BILE hands che whole structure Is hung into
the sky, and the ark has n triumphal arch
20 sail under An Angel Of Light swings
his hand across the sky, and in the seven
prismntic colors he paints with pencil OF
SUNBEAM the everlasting covenant between
God and every living creature. God lifted
mp that grcnt arched bridge and set it over
his own head Ia the heaven. John saw it,
for be says, There was rainbow round
about the throne"
notice that none but the people who
were In the ark saw the rainbow. 1t cast
its shadow clear down into the winter
where the people were buried, and lighted
up the dead fncrs with n strange radiance,
but they could not SEQ t. SO only those
who are NJ last found in Christ, the Ark,
will ses tho oycrspnnning Rlories Of the
throne. Hence you had better get into the
aFkl Az sou call your family out at the
close Of the shower 10 show them the sign
Ia heaven, 80 I want you n.l mt last to see
tbs gruudor rainbow round about the
throne. "Iook tboreW says Noah to his
wife, "at chat bow In the clouds; and,
Shom and Japhct, lookl lookl-the green,
this yellow, the rcd md the ora1gel" ]
should not wonder II some of your own
children In the good land should after a
while cry out 30 you, Look, fntherl look,
nlothcrl there " rainbow round about the
thnontW You had better got into the ark,
with all your families, II you want TO see IL.
I notice also that the chief glory of God
cor. es after the rain. No shower, no rain
bow; no trouble, no brightness of Chris
fian conaolation. Viewers are sometimes,
By reason Of their work, dusty and rough
in their apparci and 80 1t Is the coarse clad
tempest, whose hand and foot swing the
shuttle that wenvos tho rainbow. Many
Christians are dull, and stupid, and useless
because they have not had disaster enough
20 wEko them up. The brightest scarf that
heaven makes Ia thrown over the shoulders
OF the storm. You cannot make n thorough
Christian life out u sunshine alone. Thera
are Hotne very dark hues IN the ribbon Of
this rainbow, you must have In life the
blue ~ we'll as the CTaHg8. Mingling all
the culors of tho former makes o white
light; and it takes all the shades, and sad
neSScs. and yicissitules Of life to make the
white luster ~ pure Christian character.
GLOnIFfEp TEAUs oF soRnow.
Your child psks YOU, "Father, what
makes the rainbow" and you say, 1T Is
the sunlight striking through the rain
drops" Therefore ! wondered how there
could he rainbow in heaven, since there
are 40 storms there, but then / conclude
that that rainbow must be formed by the
striking u heavens sunlight through the
falling tcnrs % earthly sorrow. When wS
$50 a men overwhelmed with trouble, and
bis health goes, and his property goes, and
his friends go, say, "Now we shall see the
glory Of God In this good mans deliver
ance" IA ne Niagara Falls ! saw, one
day, ten raiubows spanning the awful
plunge % ths cataract, so over the abyss of
the Christians trial hover the rich hpcd
wings II an the promises.
1 notice that the most beautiful things Of
this world are On be preserved i'm heaven.
when you sec the last color fade out from
the rainbow Of earth you need not feel sad,
for You wiz sec the rainbow round about
abe throne That story about tho world
burning hp has given me many n pang.
Whcn ! read that Paris was besieged,
said. Now the pictures and statues in the
Louvro aud Luxembourgw be dies troyed;
Al, those faces of Rembrandt and those
ROLL q .shts * Ruhous, and these enchant-
p,ents Of aaphncl on canvas, anS these stat
uea 81 Cauov,l" But Is IL not u more mel
aneholy Thought that ruin is to como upon
this great glory % che earth, In which the
mountains ara the c.lseled sculptures, and
upon the SKI. IN which the ''transfgura-
tionp Of sunrise and sunset Is huEg with
hoops and tAs'asl- % fire.
4 was relieved when found that the pic
tursag hal been removed FROM the louvre
and she luxembourg, and am relieved
nos when / think that the best parts OF
thia earth are either 20 DO removed ~ pic
tnred la the slol land. Tho trees must
twist tn the Inst hFc-the oaks, and the
erzlars and she naples. but Ia heaven there
sal 10 che tru,s % life on tna bank OF, the
rtssr- ant The palm trees from whic the
s,,u.ss.sr1r. .haIi pluck their branches. The
lfafssa. and tha -. Lawrence. and the
Ohas shau l-lu iu the last dame, but we
shaH have u1ro chan their beauty In tbs
river % Tie frozen uuJbcr the throne, The
siztsisa ans che poftulaei,s, and the roses
81 earth will wither Ia the hoe sirocco Of
sac taArus5s tgt John tells Of tbs gar
I.nsks Which chr gloria ,s@aa al wear; aud
49, mast Ee ruwyr,, 90 there could be no
saarlauiit
The rslrbsw on ear SKY. which u only
AZ etu1w az tha DYING storm, must be re
rs.sea.s. eai ben. glory be- 90 Godl there
tars.arsfa r-4u1 about the throne"
- 80 e. ia ur On ths radiant arch