Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-07-14
TALMAGE In EUROPE.
HAVING A VERY BUSY SEASON
IN LONDON.
Churches OF England Not Largo Enough
Tor Americas Great Diyine--A Thrill
Ing Sermon on tho Resurrection Of
Mankind.

Mankind.
| LONDON, Eng and, July 10 1897 --pr, Tai.
mage is spending u very busy season in Eng
land, Not only In the London churches, but
| In the PROVINCES enormous crowds have gath
! cred g. hear the eloquent American preacher,
| The great Shoreditch Tabernacle In the East
| OF London, where Rev w. Gun breaches. was
| throngCd almost 10 suffocation, and tho large
| Congregational church IN the Hackney Dis
| triet could not hold half the people who tried
| 10 get into H. though Il was on u Monday
| evening that Or, Talmago preached there
Outside London, the eagerness TO hear him
has been quite Ms intense, In Liverpool Man
| chester, Nottingham Crowc and llanloy, no
| church could he found large enough TO ac-
| commodnte the audiences, and Dr. Tnlmngo
| preached in the halls in which the great polit.
| ical conventions are held and the capacity OF
| these was tested 10 the utmost, Since his ar.
| rival he has preached seven times each week
! The sermon selected for publication this week
/ IL from the text; Rev :9l0 After this 1 be-
| held, and, 10, great multitude which no man
| could number OF NIL nations, and Iindrods, mud
| people and tongues, stood before the throne
| aud before the Lamb, clothed with white robes,
! and palms In their hands; and cried with u
| loud voice, saying, salvation toour God which
stitch upon the throne, and unto the Lamb,
II Is impossible to ccme in contact
with anything grand or beautiful in
art, nature or religion, without being
proiited and elevated. We go into the
art.gallery, and our soul meets the soul
of the painter and we hear the hum of
his forests and the clash of his con-
/ iiicts, and see the cloud blossoming of
the sky and the foam blossoming of
the ocean; and we come out from the
| gallery better men than when we went
in. We go into the concert OF music
and are lifted into cnchantment; for
days after, our soul seems to rock with
n very tumult of joy, MS the sea, after u
long stress OF weather, rolls aud rocks
and snrges n great while before IL
comes bacls TO its ordinary calm.
On the same principle IL is profitable
to think OF heaven, and look OIL upon
that landscape of joy aud light which
St John depicts; the rivers of glad
ness, the trees Of life, the thrones of
power, the comminglings of cverlast-
ing love. ! wish this morning that
! could bring heaven from the list of in
tangibles, and make IL seem To you as
IL really is-the great fact in all his
tory the depot Of nll ages the paror
OF Gods universe,
This account in my text gives pie
turc of heaven as IL Is on holiday.
I Now II u man came To New York for
the first time on the day that Kossuth
arrived from Hungary, and he saw the
arches lifted, and the flowers flung in
the streets, and he heard the guns
/ booming, he would have been very
| foolish to suppose that that was the
ordinary appearance of the city, While
heaven is always grand and always
beautiful, think my text speaks of u
gala day in heaven,
| IL N n time of great celc
! haps of the birth or the resurrection Of
Jesus; perhaps OF the downfall Of some
despotism; perhaps because of the crush
ing in of the millennium. | know not
what; but IL does seem to me In reading
this passage as II IL were holiday in
heaven; after this beheld, and, 10, n
great multitude, which no man could
number, Of all nations, and lsindreds,
and people, and tongues, stood before
the throne, and before the Lamb,
| clothed in white robes, and palms in
their hands, and cried with loud
voice, saying, Salvation to our God
which sitteth upon the throne, and
unto the Lamb"
shall speak to you Of the glorified
In hcavcn--their number, their ante
! ccdcnts, their dress, their symbols, and
! their song But how shall begin by
telling you Of the numbers OF those in
/ heavenp ] have seen u curious esti-
mate by nm ingenious man who calcu-
lates how long the world was going TO
last, and how many people there are
In each generation, and then sums up
the whole matter, and says he thinks
there will be twenty-sevcn trillions of
souls in glory. ] have no faith In his
estimate. ! simply take the plain an
nouncement Of the tcxt--it is "a great
multitude, which no man can NUN
ber."
Every few years, In this country we
take census of the population, and IL
is very easy TO tell how many people
there are in "a city or I'm nation, but
who shall give the census of the great
nation Of the saved? IL is quite easy to
cell how many people there are in
different denominations of Christians
how many Baptists. Methodists, Epis-
copalians and Presbyterians; Of all the
denominations of Christians we could
make an estimate. Suppose they were
gathered in one great audience
room; how overwhelming the spec
tacle! Put IL would give no idea Of
the great audience-room of heaven
the multitudes that bow down and that
lift up their hosannas. Why, they
come from all the chapels, from all the
cathcdrals, from all sects, from all
ages; they who prayed in splendid lit
urgy, and those who in broken SEN
fences uttered the wish of broken
hearts-from Grace church TO Sailors
Bethel, from under the shapeless raft
crs and from under high-sprung arch
"a great multitude, that no man can
number"
upon hillside you see forty thousand
or fifty thousand men pass along. You
can hardly imagine the impression if
you have not actually felt it. But you
may take all the armies that the earth
has ever seen-the legions under SIENNA
cherib and Cyrus and Caesar, Xerxes
and Alexander and Napoleon, and all
our modern forces and put them in one
great array, and then on some swift
steed you may ride along the line and
review the troops; and that accumu-
lated host from all ages seems like
half.formed regiment compared with
the great array of the redeemed