Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-09
DOUBLES PAST.
Discourse Of Rev. DR.. Talmage in
the City, of Brooklyn.
Sacramento and Baptislnal Day With
the Tabernacle Congregational
Impressive Occasion.
There Was Rainbow Round About the
Throne. '-"EIcept Man b Born Again
He Cannot See the Kingdom Of Cod"
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BROOKLYN, June 8.-This is sacrament
tai aud baptismal day with the Taber-
nacle congregation, an occasion of es-
pecial mpressiveness. The children
were baptized before the sermon and the
sacrament administered after sermon.
The subject of DR.. Talmage's discourse
was, ""AH troubles past;'' and the text,
Revelation VI: 3, "There was rainbow
round about the throne. - Following is
the sermon:
AS, after night OF fearful tempest at
sea ,one ship more staunch than another,
rides on unchanged among the frag-
ments of spars and hulks that float about,
so old Noah IS 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 SEES tho 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 of pro-
oession; no ground i'll 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
q modern ship, in majesty and beauty,
losses helpiessly; 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 mi cry?
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 min
gled, 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, aud 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 1t over
His own head in the heaven John saw
it, for he says, "There was q rainbow
round about the throne.
/ notice that none. but the people who
were in the ark Saw the rainbow. It
cast its shadow clear down into the
water where the people were buried, and
lighted up the dead faces with q strange
radiance, but they could not see it. So
only those who are at last found in
Christ, the ark, will see the overspaG-
nlng glories of the throne. Hence you
had better get into the ark.
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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 sun. "'Look
there,' says Noah to his wife, cat that
bow ID the clouds; and. Shem and Jap
het, look, look-the green, the yellow,
the red and the orange" 1 should not
wonder IL some of your own children in
the good land should after while cry
out to you: "Look, father! look,
motherl there is o rainbow round about
the throne!' You had better get into
the ark, with all your families, if you
want TO see it.
I notice also that the chief glory
of God comes after the rain. No
shower, no rainbow; no trouble, no
brightness of Christian consolation.
Weavers are sometimes, by reason of
their work, dusty and rough in their ap-
parel; and so 1t is the coarse-c clad tenn
pest, iShose hand and foot swung the
shuttle, that weaves the rainbow. Many
Christians are dun, and stupid, and
useless, because they have not had dis
Rster enough TO wake them up.
THE BRIGHTEST SCARF THAT HEAVEN
MAKES
is thrown over the. shoulders of the
storm. You cannot make O thorough
Christian life out of sunshine alone.
There are some very. dark lines in the
ribbon of the rainbow; you must have in
life the blue rs well as the orange.
all the colors of the former
makes white light; and it takes all the
shades and sBdnssses and vioissitudss of
life to make the. white luster of q pure
Christian character.
Your child asks you: fFather, what
makes the rainbow?' and you say % It
is the sunlight striking through the rain
drops Therefore ! wondered how there
could be g rainbow in heaven, since there
are no storms there; hit then conclude
the striking of heavens sun,
light through the falling tears of
earthly sorrow. When we see
man overwhelmed with trouble, and his
health goes, and his property goes, and
his friends go, / say, "now we shall
see the glory OF God in this good man 8
deliverance. - As at Niagara Falls
saw, one day, ten rainbows spanning the
awful plunge of the cataract, so over
the abyss of the Christian s trial hover
the rich hued wings of all the promises.
! notice that the most beautiful things
Of this world are to be preserved in
heaven. when you see the last color
fnde out from the rainbow of earth, you
need not feel sad, for you will see the
rainbow about the throne. That story
about the world burning up has given me |
many IA panE. When l read that |
Paris was bes.eged, l said, Now |
the Pic;ures and statues in the |
Louvre ana Luxembourg will be |
destroyed: uil those faces of Rem
brandt, and those bold dashes of |
Rubsns, ana those cnchautmeuts of Ra- |
phael on canvass, and those statues Of |
CnnoTa.' But is IL uHi more mean- |
choiy thought that ruin IS TO come upon .
this great glory OF the earth: in which,
the mountains are tha chi .ied sculptures, 1
ana upon the sky. in which the trans
hgarat:on OF sunrise aud sunset is hung |
WITH LOOPS AND TAssELs OF FIRE?
was relieved when found that the