The Forrest City times., 1890-06-14
THE RAINBOW'S PROMISES.
Dr. Talmage Delivers Stirring Dis
 course on Hsavsn's Beauties.

Vh Ialmage DelVsrs Stirring Dis
 course on Hsavan's Beauties.
 All People Advised to Enter the Ark of sal-
 vation at 0ncs -Ths Brightsst Time After
 the Storm-Glories of ths Future World
 Depicted.
 Rev. T. Dc Witt Talmage last Sunday preached in tho Brooklyn Academy of Music, on tho subject "All Troubles Past" and tho text Revelations iv. 8: 'There was rainbow round about the throne" Following is tho sermon
 As after a right of fearful tempest at iea ono ship, moro staunch than another, ,.des on un1mnaged among tho fragments ,f spars and hulSs that float about, so old Noahs ark at tho close of the deluge floats n over the wreck of dead world. Look. ng out of the window of the ark, you see he blanks of houses, and tho sheaves of wheat ard the carcasses of cattle, and the .orpscs of mon. No tower is left to toll he burial; no mourn ITS to form in the line If procession; no ground on which to bury ,ho dead. Sinking limo P feet long, you nst touch the to, 8 Of tho mountains shastlines3 and horrorl Ths ark, instead If walking the sea, like a modern ship, in majesty and beauty, losses helplessly; no ,elm to guide; no sail to set; no shore to neer for Why protract the agony of the yood people in such a craft, when they night in one dash Of tho wave have been put out of their miseryl
 But at wonder spot m tho horizon we sec .olors gathering in tho sky; at just the opposite point in tho horizon other coors re gathering. l find that they arc the two ssat of an hrtfu U-hn ow, tho red tho orange, the blue, the ndigo, the violet arc mingled, and by in tisible hands tho whole structure is hung nto the sky, and the ark has a triumphal rch to sail under, An angel of light swings his hand across the sky, and in the even prismatic co.ors he paints with pen Ill of sunbeam the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature. iod lifted up that great arched bridge, and iet it over His own head in heaven. John law it. for he says: "There was rain. DOW round about tho throne"
 notice that none but the people who were in tho ark saw the rainbow. It clst Is shadow clear down into tho water where he people were buried and lighted up the lead faces with strange radiance but hey could not sec it! So only those who Ire at last found in Christ, the Ark, will sNO ehO oN1i SAVticS VI thC thApnC. Hence you had better get into the arkl As you call your family out ut the close of tho shower 10 show them the sign in heaven, 10 l want you all at last to see tho grander rainbow round about the throne. Look here,n says Noah to his wife, tat that bow Il the clouds, and, Shcm and Japhet look ook!-the green, tho yellow, the red and hc orangel" l should not wonder if some ,f your own children in the good land hould after while cry out to you, Look, .ather look, mother lhere is rainbow round about the thronel' You had better get into the ark. with all your families, f you want to soc it
 notice also that the chief glory of God lomes after the rain. No shower, no rain. DOW no trouble; no brightness of Christian consolation. Weavers are sometimes, by .eason of their work, dusty and rough In their apparel and so it is the coarse clad tempest. whose hand and foot swing tho ihuttle, that weaves tho rainbow. Many shri tiaps are dull, and stupid, and useless because they have not had disaster enough D wake them up. Tho brightest scarf that aeaven makes is thrown over tho shoulders If the storm You can not make thorough Christian life out of sunshine alone. There Ire some very dark hues in tho ribbon of he rainbow; you must have in lifo the blue IS well as the orange. Mingling all the solors of the former makes white light, md 1t takes all the shades, and sadness, md vicissitudes of life to make the white luster of puro Christian character.
 Your child asks you; "Father, what aakes the rainbowi" and you say, "It Is hc sunlight striking through the rain irops.n Therefore l wondered how there .ould be rainbow in heaven, since there Ire no storms there; but then conclude hat that rainbow must be formed by the ,triking of heavens sunlight through the falling tears of earthly sorrow When we zee a man overwhelmed with trouble, and ais health goes, and his property goes, and ais friends go l say, Now we shall sec he glory of God in this good mans deliv- ranee.h As at Niagara Falls l saw one lay ton rainbows spanning the awful plunge of the cataract, so over the abyss Of ,f the christian's trial hover the rich hucd wings of all the promises
 l notice that the most beautiful things of his world are to be preserved in heaven When you sec the last color fade out from he rainbow of earth you need not feel sad, or you will sec the rainbow round about he throne That story about the world burning up has given mo many pang, When l road that Paris was besioged, I ,aid Now the pictures and statues in the Louvre and Luxembourg will be destroyed, Ill those faces of Rembrandt and those bold dashes of Rubens, and those enchant- nents of Raphael on canvass, and those ,tatues of Canova.h But is 1t not moro melancholy thought that ruin is to come up- ,n this great glory of the earth in which Inc mountains ara tho chiseled sculptures md upon the sky, in which the ''transfig- iration' of sunrise and sunset is hung with oops and tassels of firel was relieved when found that tho pictures had been re- moved from the Louvre and the Luxem. oourg, and am relieved now when think that the best parts of this earth arc either o be removed or pictured in the good land TBe troes must twist in the last fire--the ,aAs and the cedars and ths naples; but in heaven there shall be the trees of life ou he bank of the river, and the palm treos from which the eonauerors shall pluck their branches.
 Tho Hudson and tho St Lawrence and he Ohio shall boil in the last flame but, we ,hall have mora than their beauty in tho Riv- rof Life from under tho throne Tho daises md the portalacas and the roses of earth will withcr in the hot sirocco of the judge nent but John tolls of tho garlands which she glori fed shall wear; and there must bo lowers or there could be no sarlands The rainbow on our sky, which is only the pillow of the dying storm, must be TO- moved, but then, glory bo to God there Is n rainbow round ab. ut the throuen have but 10 look up 10 the radiant arch teove the throno Of God 10 assure myself hat the most glorious things of earth arc .o ec preserved ia heaven. Then let the world burn. all that is worth saving will se snatchcd out ofthe fire
 l soc tho same truth sat forth in the twelve found atlons of the wall Of heaven. St John announces the twelve foundations sf this wall to be. tho first of jasper. yellow md red; tue second of sapphire. a deep blue; the third n ohaIcedony, varied beauty the fourth. emerald, a bright sreen color; the fifth sardonyx, a blush white; the sixth, sardlus, red and fiery; sho ssventh, ehrysolite golden hued the hshth, oersl hiuish grecn; tho ninth, .opax, a pale green mixed with yellow. the tenth, chrysoprasus, golden bluish int; the eleventh, iacinth, fiery as the lunset, the twelfth amathyst Bat