Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-06-12
ALL TROUBLES PAST.
VISIONS TYPICAL OF THE HEAVENLY
GLORY THAT IS TO BE.

DIR. Talmage's Views Upon the Rainboy
and the New Jerusalem as Seen by ST
John-The Most Beautiful Things o
Earth Are but Faint Types.
BROOKLYN, June s-This is sacramento
and baptismsl day with the Tabernacl,
| congregation. an occasion of especial inn
pressiyeness The children were baptized
before the sermon, and the sacrament ad
ministered after sermon. The subject o.
Dr. Talmage's discourse was, "All trouble:
past" and the text Revelation iv, 3
"There was a rainbow round about the
throne" Following is the sermon:
As, after night of fearful tempest al
sea, one ship, more stanch than another
rides on unchanged among the fragments
of spars and hulks that float about, SO old
Noah's ark, at the close OF the deluge,
floats on over the wreck of a dead world.
Looking out of the window of the ark, you
see the planks of houses. and the sheaves
Of wheat, and the carcasses Of cattle and
the corpses of men. No tower is left to
toll the burial; no mourners to form in line
ofprocession: no ground in which 10 bury
the de.sd. Sinking line twenty-seven feet
long, you just touch the tops OF the
mountains Ghastliness and horrori The
ark. instead Of walking the sea, like a
modern ship, in majesty and beauty, losses
helplessly: no helm TO guide; no sail to
set: no shore 10 steer for. Why protract
the agony Of the good people in such a
craft. when they might in one dash of the
wave have been put out of their misery
HIS BOW IN THE CLOUD.
But at yonder spot in the horizon we see
eolors gathering in the sky. At just the
opposite point in the horizon other colors
are gathering. find that they are the two
buttrcsses OF an arched bridge. The yell
low. the red, the orange, the blue, the in
digo. the violet, are mingled, and by invisi-
bic hands the whole structure is hung into
the sky. and the ark has "a triumphal arch
TO sail under An Angel of Light swings
his hand across the sky, and in the seven
prismatic colors he paints with pencil of
sunbeam the everlasting covenant between
God and every living creature. God lifted
up that great arched bridge and set il over
his own head in the heaven. John saw il,
for be says, There was a rainbow round
about the throne
notice that none but the people who
were in the ark saw the rainbow. Il cast
its shadow clear down into the water
where the people were buried, and lighted
mp the de'id faces with strange radiance,
but they could not see H. SO only those
who are at last found in Christ, the Ark,
will see the overspsnning glories Of the
throne Hence you bad better get into the
arkl As you call your family out at the
close Of the shower TO show them the sign
in heaven, 50 want you all at last to see
the grinder rainbow round about the
throne Look thereg' says Noah TO his
wife. 'at that bow in the clouds; and,
Shem and Japhet. look look green,
the yellow. the red, and the orangen |
should not wonder If some OF your own
children in the good land should after a
while cry out 10 you. Look, fatherl look
motherl there is a rainbow round about the
throutw You had better get into the ark,
with all your families, II you want 10 see il.
notice also that the chief glory Of God
comes after the rain. No shower, no rain
bow; no trouble. no brightness Of Chris
ian consolation. Viewers are sometimes,
BY reason Of their work, dusty and rough
n their apparel; and so il is the coarse clad
empest, whose hand and foot swing the
shuttle. that weaves the rainbow. Many
christians are dull. and stupid, and useless
because they have not had disaster enough
o wake Giem up The brightest scarf that
ieayen makes is thrown over the shoulders
II the storm. You cannot make a thorough
life ont Of sunshine alone There
ire some very dark hucs in the ribbon OF |
he rainbow. you must have In life the I
due as well as the orange Mingling all /
he colors Of the former makes a white /
light; and Il takes all the shades. and sad /
lesses aud vicissitudes OF life TO make the 4
White lusier Of a pure Christian character
GlOgIFIED TEARs or SORROW
Your child asks you, Father, what I
makes the rainhowg and you say, 1T is
he sunlight striking through the rain 4
rops Therefore | wondered how there /
oull be rainbow In heaven, since there
re no storms there, but then conclude
hat that rainbow must be formed by the
triking Of heavens sunlight through the
alling tears OF earthly sorrow When we
&c a man overwhelmed with trouble, and
is health goes. and his property goes. and
is friends 20, ! say, Now we shall see tie
Tory of God in this good mans deliver
nee. As at Niagara Falls | saw, one
ny, ten rainbows spanning the awful
lunge Of the cataract, so over the abyss of
he Christians trial hover the rich hued
rings Of all the promises
notice that the most beautiful things of
bis world are to be preserved in heaven.
When you see the last color fade out from
be rainbow of earth, you need not feel sad,
or you will see the rainbow round about
be throne. That story about the world
urniug up has given me many pang.
When | read that Paris was besieged,
aid. Now the pictures and statues in the
.ouvre and Luxembourg viii be destroyed;
II those faces of Rembrandt. and those
old dashes of Rubens, and those enchant-
rents of Raphael on canvas. and those stat
es Of Canova." But i il not more mel
nchoiy thought that ruin is to come upon
bis great glory Of the earth, in which the
are the chiseled sculptures. aud
pom the sky, in which the ''transigura-
on of sunrise and sunset is hung with
pops and tassels of tirel
| was relieved when found that the pic
ares had been removed from the Louvre
nd the Luxembourg, and | am relieved
ow when ! think that the best parts of
his earth are either to be removed or pic
lred in the good land. The trees mast