Connecticut western news., 1890-06-11
THE HETABERNACLEPULPIT
SUBLIME VIEWS OF THE GLORlES OF
 HEAVEN.

Sacramental and Baptismal Day Sermon
 of Dr. Talmage-The Rainbow Seen
 Around the Throne in the Apocalypse.
 No Sorrow Signing There.
 i BROOKLYN, June 8.-This is sacra- mental and baptismal day with the Tabernacle congregation, an occasion of especial impressiveness. The chi1- dren were baptized before the sermon and the sacrament administered after sermon. The subject of Dr. Talmage's discourse was: "All Troubles Past;" and the text Rev. iv, 3: '"There was @ rainbow round about the throne" Fol lowing is the sermon: -r .
 As, after night of fearful tempest at sea, one ship, more stanch than an- other, rides on undamaged 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 dead world Looking out of the window of the ark, you see the blanks 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 mourn CTS to form in line of procession; no ground in which to bury the dead. Sinking line twenty-seven feet long, you just touch the tops of the noun tains. Ghastliness and horror! 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 to steer for Why plotract 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 misery9
 But at wonder spot in the horizon we see colors gathering in the sky; at just the opposite point in the horizon other colors are gathering. I find that they are the two buttresses of an arched bridge. The yellow, the red, the or ange, the blue, the indigo, the violet are mingled, and by invisible hands the whole structure is hung into the sky, and the ark has 8 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 cov- enant between God and every living creature. God lifted up that great arched bridge and set it over his own head in the heaven. John saw it, for he says: "There was rainbow round about the throne"
 THE COVENANT OF MERCY.
 notice that none but the people who were in the ark saw the rainbow It cast it's 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 sec the over spanning glories of the throne. Hence you had better get into the ark! As you call your family out at the close of the shower to show them the sign in heaven, so I want you all at last to see the grander rainbow round about the throne. Look there!" says Noah to his wife, "at that bow in the clouds and, Shem and Japhet, look! look l. the green, the yellow, the red, and the orangep l should not wonder if some of your own children in the good land should after while cry out to you, Look, father! look, mother! there is rainbow round about the throne P You had better get into the ark, with all your families, if you want to see it.
 notice also that the chief glory of God comes after the rain No shower, of Christian consolation. Weavers are sometimes, by reason of their work, dusty and rough in their apparel; and so it is the coarse clad tempest, whose hand and foot swing the shuttle, that weaves the rainbow. Many Christians are dull, and stupid, and useless be- cause they have not had disaster enough to wake them up. The brightest scarf that heaven makes is thrown over the shoulders of the storm. You cannot make thorough Christian life out ot sunshine alone. There are some very dark hues in the ribbon of the rain bow; you must have in life the blue as well as the orange. Mingling all the colors of the former makes a white light; and it takes all the shades and sadnesses and vicissitudes of life to make the white luster of a pure Chris tian character.
 Your child asks you, Father, what makes the rainbowa'' and you say, Tt is the sunlight striking through the rain drops" Therefore I wondered how there could be a rainbow in heaven, since there are no storms there but then conclude that that rainbow must be formed by the striking of heavens sunlight through the falling tears of earthly sorrow. When we see 8 man overwhelmed with trouble, and his health goes, and his property goes, and his friends go, I say, "Now we shall see the glory of God in this good mans deliverance." As at Niagara Falls saw, one day, ten rainbows spanning the awful plunge of the cata- ract, so over the abyss of the Christians trial hover the rich hued wings of all the promises.
 EARTHs BEAUTIES TO BE GLORIFIED. I notice that the most beautiful things of this world are to be preserved in heaven. When you see the last color fade out from the rainbow of earth, you need not feel sad, for you will see the rainbow round about the throne. That story about the world burning uI has given me many pang. When read that Paris was besieged, said, "Now the pictures and statues in the Louvre and Luxembourg will be de. 1 stroyed; all those faces of Rembrandt, I and those bold dashes of Rubens, and those entertainments of Raphael on can