The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-06-13
ALL TROUBLES PAST.
DIR. Talmage Discourses on the
Promises of the Rainbow.
The Brightest Time After the Storm
GIories OF the Future worid-A Brilliant
Redemption After the DeIuge
OF Sin.

OF Sin.
The subject of a recent sermon
at Brooklyn was: "All Troubles Past"
vas a rainbow round about the throne"
Following is the sermon:
AS after night of fearful tempest at
sea one ship, more staunch than an
other, rides on unchanged among the
fragments OF spars and hull1s 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 win
dow 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 the line of
procession; no ground on which TO bury
the dead Sinking line twenty-seven
feet long, you Just touch the tops of the
mountains. Ghastliness and horror!
The ark, instead of walking the sea,
like n modern ship in majesty and
beauty losses helpless'y; no helm to
guide; no sail to set; no shore to steer
for. Why protract the agony of the
good people in such craft, when they
might in one dash of the wave have
been put out Of their misery?
But at yonder spot in the horizon we
see colors gathering in the sky; at Just
the opposite point in the horizon other
colors are gathering. / find that they
are the two buttresses of an arched
bridge. The yellow, the red, the orange,
the blue, the indigo. the violet are
m ngled, and by invisible hands the
whole structure is hung into the sky,
and the ark has 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 be-
tween God and every living creature.
God lifted up that great arched bridge,
and set 1t over His own head in Heaven.
John saw it, tor he says: There was a
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
water where the people were buried and
lighted up the dead faces with a strange
radiance, but they could not see it! So
only those who are at last found in
Christ, the Ark, will see the overspan-
ming glory OF the throne. Hence you
had better get into the arkl As you call
your family out at the close of the
shower to show them the sign in
Heaven, so want you all at last to see
the grander rainbow round about the
throne Look therel" says Noah to
his wife, ''at that bow in the clouds
and, Shem and Japhet, look! look!-the
green, the yellow, the red and the
orangew l should not wonder If some
of your own children in the Good Land
should after awhile cry out to you
Look, fatherl look, mother! there is a
rainbow round about the throne!" You
had better get into the ark, with al
your families, If you want to see it
/ notice also that the chief glory OF
God comes after the rain. No shower
no rainbow; no trouble, no brightness o.
Christian consolation. Weavers are
sometimes, by reason of their work
dusty and rough in their apparel; and Sc
it is the coarse-clad tempest, whose hand
and foot swing the shuttle, that weavel
the rainbow. Many Christians are dull
and stupid, and useless because they
have not had disaster enough to wake
them up. The brightest scarf tina
Heaven makes is thrown over the
shoulders of the storm. You can mo-
make a thorough Christian life out oil
sunshine alone. There are some very
dark hues in tho ribbon of the rainbow
you must have in life the blue as we'll
as the orange. Mingling all the colorl
OF the former makes white light; anC
Il takes all tho shades, and sadness, ant
vicissitudes of life to make the whit,
luster of pure Christian character.
Your child asks you: Father, wha
makes the rainbow" and you say, II
is the sunlight striking through tn
raindrops." Therefore, wondered no,
there could be rainbow in Heaven
since there are no storms there; bu
then conclude that that rainbow mus
be formed by the striking of Heaven
sunlight through the falling tears O
earthly sorrow. When we see ma
overwhelmed with trouble, and hi
health goes, and his property goes, an
his friends go, l say: Now we shal
see the glory of God in this goo
mans deliverance." AS at Niagara Fall
] saw one day ten rainbows spanning
the awful plunge OF the cataract s
over the abyss of the Christians tria
hover the rich hued wings of all tn
promises.
l notice that the most beautiful thing
OF this world arc to be preserved
Heaven. When you see the last colo
fade out from the rainbow OF earth yo
need not feel sad, for you will see tn
rainbow round about the throne. Ths
story about the world burning up ha
given me many pang. When 1 rea
that Paris was besieged. / said: "No'
the pictures and statues in the Louvr
and Luxembourg will be destroyed; al
those faces of Rembrandt, and thos
bold dashes of Rubens, and those CT
chantments of Raphael on canvas, an
those statues of Canova." But is it not
more melancholy thought that ruin /
70 come upon this great glory of tn
earth in which the mountains are tn
chiseled sculptures and upon the sky
in which the TRANSPORTATION" of sunris
and sunset is hung with loops and taS
sells a. fire? l was relieved when foun
that the pictures had been remove
from the Louvre and the Luxembourg
and / am relieved now when l thin
that the best parts of this earth ar
either to be removed or pictured in tn
good land. The trees must twist in tn
last fire-the oaks and the cedars an
the naples; but in Heaven there shall
be the trees of life on the bank OF tn
river, and the palm trees from whic
the conquerors shall pluck thei
branches
The Hudson and the st. Lawrenc
and tho Ohio shall boil in the las
flame, but we shall have more tina
their beauty in the liver of Life iron
under the throne. The daisies and tn
portalacas and the roses of earth vii
wither in the hot sirocco of the judg
menL but John tells of the garland