Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-06-12

% Or. Tamags-The Rainbow Seen
Around ths Throne In the Apocalypse.
No Sorrow Signing There.
Sunday June 8. was sacramental and
baptismal day with the Tabernacle eongre-
CATION in Brooklyn, N. Y, an occasion OF
especial impressiveness. The children
were baptized before the sermon and the
sacrament administered after sermon. The
subject Of DIR. Talmage's discourse was:
sAll Troubles Past;" and the text Rev. tv.
3: There was rainbow round about the
throne" Following is the sermon:
As, after night Of fearful tempest at sea,
one ship. more stanch than another, rides
on undamaged among the fragments OF
apars and hulks that float about. SO old
Noah's ark. at the close Of the deluge, floats
on over the wreck Of dead world. Look
ing out of the window 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
the burial; no mourners to form in line OF
procession: no ground in which to bury the
dead. Sinking a line twenty-seven feet
long just touch the tops OF the mountains.
Ghastliness and horrori The ark. instead
OF walking the sea, like O modern ship, in
majesty and beauty. tosses helplessly; no
helm to guide; no sail to set; no shore to
steer for. Why protract 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 misery?
But at yonder spot in the horizon we see
colors gathering in the sky; at just the op-
posite point in the horizon other colors are
gathering. l find that they are the two
buttresses of an arched bridge. The yellow,
the red, the orange, 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
sail under. An Angel OF Light swings his
hand across the sky, and in the seven pris-
matte colors he paints with pencil of sun
beam the everlasting covenant 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 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 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 arkl 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
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In the clouds; and, Shem and Japhet, lookl
lookl-the green. the yellow, the red. and
the orangeI' should not wander if some
OF your own childrenin the good land should
after while cry out to you, Look. fatherl
look, motherl there is a rainbow round
about the throner You had better get into
the ark. with all your families, IL you want
to see it.
notice also that the chief glory of God
comes after the rain. No shower, no rain
bow; 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
because 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 of sunshine alone. There
are some very dark hues in the ribbon of
the rainbow; you must have in life the blue
as well as the orange, Mingling all the
oolorS of the former makes q white light;
and it takes all the shades and sadnesses
and vicissitudes of life to make the white
: luster OF pure Christian character.
Your child asks you, Father. what makes
the rainbow" and you say. 1T is the sun
light striking through the rain-drops." :"
Therefore 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 q 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 cataract.
SO over the abyss Of the Christians trial
hover the rich-hued wings of all the
promises.
Inotice 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. The story about the world burning
up has given me many pang. When
read that Paris was besieged said, Now
the pictures and the statues in the Louvre
and Luxembourg will be destroyed, all
those faces of Rembrandt and those bold
dashes OF Rubens, and those enchantments
OF Raphael on canvas and those statues of
Canova.' But is it not more melancholy
thought that ruin is to come upon this great
glory of the earth, in which the mountains
are the chiseled sculptures. and upon the
sky, in which the TRANSPORTATION" of sun
rise and sunset is hung with loops and tas-
sells of fire?
i was renewed Wnen FOUND thaG the pic
lures had been removed from the Louvre
and the Luxembourg, and am relieved
now when think that the best parts of this
earth are either to be moved or pictured
in the Good Land. The trees must twist in
the last fire-the oaks, and the cedars, and
the naples; but in Heaven there shall be
the trees of life on the bank of the river,
and the palm trees from which the con-
querors shall pluck their branches. The
Hudson, and the st. Lawrence. and the
Ohio shall boil in the last flame, but we
shall have more than their beauty in the
River Of Life from under the throne. The
daisies, and the portulacas, and the roses
of earth will wither in the hot sirocco Of
the Judgment. but John tells of the garlands
which the glorified shall wear; and there
must be flowers, or there could be no gar
lands.
The rainbow on our sky, which is only
the pillow OF the dying storm. must be re-
moved; but then, glory be to Godl there is
a arainbow round about the throne" I have
but TO look up to the radiant arch above the
\ throne Of God to assure myself that the
most glorious things of earth are to be pre-
served in Heaven. Then let theworld burn; /;
all that is worth saving will be snatched out
of the fire.
see the same truth set forth in the twelve
foundations Of the wall of Heaven. St..