News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-12
THETABERNACLEPULPIT
SUBLIME VIEWS OF THE GLORIES OF
HEAVEN.

of DIR. Talmage-The Rainbow Seen
Around the Throne in the Apocalypse.
No Sorrow or Signing There.
BROOKLYN, June S.-This Ii sacra-
mental and baptismal day with the
Tabernacle congregation, an occasion
of especial impressiveness. The chill
Clren were baptized before the sermon
and the sacrament administered after
sermon. The subject of DIR. Talmage's |
discourse was: "All Troubles Past;"
and the text Rev. iv, 8: '"There was a
rainbow round about the throne" Fol
lowing is the sermon:
AS, after night of fearful tempest
ut sea, one ship, more stanch than an
other. 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 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
ers to form in line of procession; no
ground in which to bury the dead.
Sinking a line twentyseven feet long,
you just touch the tops of the noun
tains. GhastlinesS and horror! The
ark, instead of walking the sea, like
modern ship, in majesty and beauty,
losses helplessly; no helm to guide; no
sail to set; no shore to steer for. Why
pr otract the agony of the good people
in such craft, when they might in one
dash of the wave have been put out of
their miseryi
But ut yonder spot in the horizon we
see colors gathering in the sky; at just
the opposite point in the horizon other
eoIors are gathering. | 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 a triumphal arch to
;;.il under. An Angel of Light swings
his hand across the sky, and In the
seven prislnatic co4ors he paints with
pencil of sunbeess the everlasting coz
enant between God and every Rv$ng
creature. God lifted up that greet
arched bridge and set it over his own
head in the Heaven. John saw II, for
he says: There was a rainbow resand
about the throne"
THE COVENANT OF MERCY.
| 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
strange radiance, but they could not see
it. SO only those who are at last found
in Christ, the ark, will see 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 want you all at last to see
the grander rainbow round about the
throne. Look therel" says Noah to
his wife. lat that bow in the clouds;
and. ShcIn and Japhet, look look!-
the green, the yellow, the red, and the
orange" | 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
a rainbow round about the throne!"
You had better get into the ark, with
all your families, if you want to see 1t.
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 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 a thorough Christian life out OF
sunshine alone. There are some very
| dark hues in the ribbon of tire rain
| bow; you must have in life the blue as
well as the orange. Mingling all the
| coIors 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
tan character.
Your child asks you, Father, what
makes the rainbow" and you say, III
is the sunlight striking through the
rain drops" Therefore | wondered
how there could be rainbow il
heaven, since there are no storms there
but then conclude that that rainbow
must be formed by the striking o
heavens sunlight through the falling
tears of earthly sorrow When we Sc,
a man overwhelmed with trouble, anC
his health goes, and his property goes
and his friends go, l say, Now w
shall see the glory of God in this goot
mans deliverance." AS at Magyar;
Falls | saw, one day, ten rainbow
spanning the awful plunge of the cata
. ract, so over the abyss of the Christian
trial hover the rich hued wings of al
the promises.
EARTHs BEAUTIES TO BE GLORIFIED
,, things of this world are to be preserves
in heaven. When you see the last colo
fade out from the rainbow of earth
you need not feel sad, for you will Sc
the rainbow round about the throne
That story about the world burning u
has given me many pang. When
read that Paris was besieged, | said
Now the pictures and statues in tn
Louvre and Luxembourg will be de
stroyed; all those faces of Rembrandt
and those bold dashes of Rubens, ant
those entertainments o. Raphael on can
vas, and those statues of Canova." Blu
! is it not a more melancholy though
j that ruin is to come upon this grea
; glory of the earth, in which the mount
aims are the chiseled sculptures, an
upon the sky, in which the ''transfigu
ration" of sunrise and sunset is hun
! with loops and tassels of fire2
J | was relieved when found that tn
pictures had been removed from tn
Louvre and the Luxembourg, and / an
relieved now when think that the bes
, parts of this earth are either to be re
' moved or pictured in the Good Land
The trees must twist in the last fire
2 the oaks, and the cedars, and tn
| naples; but in heaven there shall b
, the trees of life ON the bank of til
river, and the palm trees from whic
the conquerors shall pluck their brancl