Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-26
TIE RAINBOW'S PROMISES.
Dr. Talmaye Delivers Stirring Dis-
course on Hsavsn's Beauties.

Dr. Talmaye Delivers a Stirring Di,-
course on Heaven's Beauties.
AL People ADVISED to Enter tbs ARK Of sa!-
walton at 0ncs-The Brightest Time After
tho storm-G.o-iss Of tn, Future World
Depicted.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage last Sunday
preached in the Brooklyn Academy OF
Music. on the subject "All Troubles
Pas" and the text Revelations Nv, 81:
''Therc was a rainbow round about the
throne" Following is the sermon:
AS after y Eight OF fearful tempest at
sea one ship, more staun. than another.
rides on undamaged among the fragID ents
OF spars and hulks that float about, SO Old
Noah's ark ut the close of the deluge flo IS
OH over the wre * of dead world. Look
ing olt OF the window OF the ark, you see
the pianks OF houses, and the shsaves OF
wheat, and tho carcusses of cattle. and the
corpscs OF men. No towcr is left to toll
the burial; no mourn RS to form in the line
Of procession; no ground on which to bury
the deal. 4 Sinking line 81 feet long, you
just touch the 10 OF the mount ,ins
Ghastlines' and horror! TIL, ark, instead
OF yalkin, the sou, like a modern ship, in
majesty and beauty, losses helrlessly; no
helm TO guide; no sail to set; no shore to
steer for. Why protr.ct III, agony OF the
good people in such craft, when they
might in one dash OF tho wave have been
put out Of their misery!
But at yonder spot IN tho horizon we see
rolors gathering in tho sky; at just the
opposite point in the horizon other coors
are gath ring. ! tinI that they are The two
Outtrcsses Of an arched brl igc. The vel.
low, the red, the orange, the blue, the
Indigo, the violet ire mingled, and by in
visible hands the whole structure is hung
into the sky, and the ark has IA triumphal
urch to sail Under. An angel Of light
swings his hand across the sky, and in the
sven prism .tic co ofs he paints with pen
ill OF sunbeam the everlasting covenant
betwe IL Go1 and every living creature.
God lit d up that great arched bridge, and
set Il over his own head in heaven John
saw it. FOR he says: "Ihcre was rain.
BOW TO nd about the throne"
l notice that none bu; the people who
were in the ark saw the rainbow. 1t st
its shadow clear down in 0 the water where
the pei PIE were uried and lighted up the
dead ia, cs with strange radiance but
they could not see it! So only those who
;.re at last found in Christ, the Ark. will
see the oversl'anping glories Of the throne.
Hence you had letter get into the ark! AS
you call your family out ! the close Of tn,
shower 10 show them tho sign in heaven,
SO l want YOU all at las; to see the grander
rainbow round about the throne. LOOK
there says Noah to his wife, sat that bow
in the clouds and, Shcm and Japhet look
look the green. the yellow, the red and
the orange.' should not wonder il some
OF your own children in the good land
should after while cry out to you, Look,
father. look, motner there is a rainbow
round about the throne!" You had better
get into the ark. W. Ih all your families,
II you want to see it.
notice also that the chief CORY of God
comes after the rain. No shower, no rain.
bow; no trouble: no brightness of Christian
consolation. " eavers are sometimes, by
reason Of their work, dusty and rough in
their pparel; and SO it is the coars clad
tempest. whose hand and foot swn, the
SHUTTLE, that Weav,s l. 9 rainbow. Many
Chri tians 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 can not make q thorough
Christian life out Of sunshine alone There
are some very dark hues in the ribbon of
the raintow. you must have in life the blue
as we'll as the orange. Minglng all the
tolors OF the former m akes white light;
and it takes all the shades, and sadness,
and vicissitudes of life to make the white
luster OF pure Christian character
Your child asks you: Father, what
makes the rainbowp and yoa say ut is
the sunlight striking through tie rain
drops" Therefore, wondered how there
could be rainbow in heaven, since there
are no storms there; but then conclude
that that rainbow must be formed by the
striking OK heavens sunlight through the
falling tears OF earthly sorrow. When we
zee man overwhelmed with trouble, and
his health goes, and his property goes, unc
his friends go, say, ''Now we shall see
the glory Of God in this good mans deliy-
erance." As at Niagara Fall. saw one
day ten rainbows spanning the awful
plunge OF the catara (, SO over the abyss OF
OF the christians trial hover the rich hucd
wings OF all the promises.
notice that the most beautiful things of
this world are to be preserved In heaven
When you see the last color I de 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 up has given me many a pang.
said: "Now the pictures and statues in the
Louvre and Luxembourg will be de ,troyed,
all those faces Of Rembrandt, and those
bold dashes OF Rubens, and those enchant.
ments OF Raphael on canvass, and those
statues OF CanovA' But is it not q more
melancholy thought that ruin is to come up.
on this great glory Of the earth in which
the mountains ara the chiscled sculptures
and upon the sky, in which the 'transfis-
uratlon' OF sunrise and sunset is hung with
loops and tassels Of freg l was relieved
when found that the pictures had been re.
moved from the Louvre and the Luxem.
bourg, and am relieved now when think
that the best parts Of this earth are. either
to be removed or pictured in the good land.
The trees must twist in the last fire-the
oaks and the cedars and tn, naples; but in
heaven there shall be the trees of life on
the bank OF the river and the palm trees
from which the conauerors shall pluck their
br. nches
The Hudson and the St Lawrence and
the Ohio shall boil in the last flame but. we