Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-12
discourse Of Rev. DR.. Taimage in
the City Of Brooklyn.
s,,ramental and Baptismal Day With
,bo tabernacle CongregatiOn-An
Impressive Occasion.
a,..rs was Rainbow Round About the
Throne. Except Man b. Born Again
He cannot See the Kingdom Of God"

LAND bRptsmal day with the IaDer-
..Ie congregation, an occasion of es-
.:,I INCONSISTENCIES. The children
-.rs baptized before the sermon and the
lament administered after sermon.
Tbs subject of DR.. Talmage's discourse
-. .,hu troubles past" and the text,
p.yeIstIon vi, 3, "There was a rainbow
.,rrd about the throne. - Following Is
the sermon:
As after a night of fearful tempest at
80 one ship more -staunch than another,
.atos on undamaged among the frag-
...rts Of srars and hulks that float about,
-, old Noah's ark, at the close of the
,.,,rs floats on over the wreck of dead
--,rI5 Looking out of the window OF
,ho ark YOU see the planks of houses and
.to sbraves of wheat, and the carcasses
% cottIe and the corpses of men. No
,a-rer is left TO toll the burial;
II, n,ournery TO form in line of pIo-
I..,iop. no GROUND in which to bury the
dead. Sinking line twenty-seven 1eet
Iorr Won lust touch the tops of the
fountains. OudblilhCo6 hAAo va
Tho ark. instead of walking the sea, like
a modern ship, in majesty and beauty,
Tosses helplessly; no helm to guide; no
sell 10 set: no shore to steer Tor. why
rrofraot the agony of the good people IN
,ncb craft, when they might in one
dash OF the wave have been put out OF
their misery!
Bu. at yonder spot in the horizon we
see colors gathering in the sky; at just
the onposite point in the horizon other
colors are gathering. ] fiud that they
are the two buttresses OF an Rrched
bridge. The yellow, the red, the orange,
,bs blue. the indigo, the violet are min
rIa5 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, and in the seven prismatic
coIors he paints with pencil of sunbeam
tho 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 rainbow
round about the throne.
notice that none but the people who
were in the ark saw the rainbow. Il
cast its shadow clear down into the
water where the people were buried, and
nrhted I'd the dead faces with strange
radiance, but they cOuld not see 1t. so
orlv those who are at last found in
Christ. the ark, will see the oyerspau-
ming glories of the throne. Hence you
had better get into the ark.
As YOU call your family out
At the close of the shower
10 show them the sign in heaven, so
want YOU all at last TO see the grander
rainbow round about the sun. "Look
there. " saws Noah to his wife, "at that
how in the clouds; and. Shem and Jap
het, look, look-the green, the yellow,
the red and the orange I should not
wonder II some of your own children In
the good land should after while cry
out 10 YOU: ''Look, fatherl look,
mother! there is rainbow round about
the throne!' You had better get into
the ark, with all your families, if you
want 10 see il.
notice also that the chief glory
Of God comes after the rain. No
shower, no rainbow; no trouble, no
brightness Of Christian consolation.
Viewers are sometimes, by reason of
their work, dusty and rough in their ap-
parel: aud SO 1t is the coarse-clad tenn
nest. whose hand and foot swung the
shuttle, that weaves the rainbow. Many
Christians are dull, and stupid, and
useless, because they have not had dis
aster 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 lines in the
ribbon Of the rainbow; you must have in
life the blue as well as the orange.
MnClinC all the colors of the former
makes q white light; and it takes all the
shades and saduesses and vicissitudes OF
life to make the white luster of q pure
Christian character.
Your child asks you: "Father, what
makes the raiubow2n and you say, at
is the sunlight striking through the rain
drops. - Therefore 1 wondered how there
could be q rainbow in heaven, since there
Gre nc storms there; but then 1 conclude
that that rainbow must be formed by
the striking of heavens sun
light through the falling tears OF
earthly sorrow. When we see 6
man overwhelmed with trouble, aud hi:
health goes, and his property goes, anC
bis friends 60. 1 say, "now we shall
see the glory of God in this good man >
dellyersnce. - As at Niagara Falls
saw, one day, ten rainbows spanning tn
awful plunge of the cataract, so owe
The abyss of the Christian 5 trial hove
The riCh-hued wings of all the promises
luotice that the most beautiful thing
OF this world are TO be preserved il
heaven. When you see the last color
fade out from the rainbow OF earth, yol
need not feel sad, for you will see tn
rainbow about the throne. That stor.
About the world burning up has given m
many q pang. When l read tina
Paris was besieged, I said, "Nov
lie PICTURES and statues In tn
Louvre and Luxembourg will b
aestroyed: all those faces of Rem
brandt, and those bold dashes o
hubens, and those entertainments of Ra
p1sel on canvass, aud those statues o
NSnoya. - But is il not a more meisu
ehoiy thought that ruin is to come upol
MS great glory of the earth, in whicl
lie mountains are the chiseled sculptures
and upon the sky, in which the ''trans
Aguration Of sunrise and sunset is hum
WITH LOOPS AND TAssELs or FIRE?
Twas relieved when found that tn