Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-16
HEAVENS HOSTS.
DR.. Talmage Describes the Multi
tude John Witnessed.
The Giories OF the New Jerusalem Wildly
Pictured-The Heavenly Hosts With
Palms In Their Hands Sing
ing Praises

In continuing his sermons whlle
abroad Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, in n
recent discourse. took his text from Rev.
vii. o, 10: after this I behold, and, 10,
a great multitude which no man could
number, of all nations. and kindreds,
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, say
ing, Salvation to our God which sit
10th upon the throne, and unto tho
Lamb" DR.. Talmage said:
1t is impossible TO come in contact
with anything grand or beautiful in
art, nature or religion without being
profited 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-
flicts, and see the cloud blossoming OF
the sky and the foam blossoming OF the
ocean. and we come out from the gal
lery better men than when we went In
We go into the concert of music and are
lifted into enchantment; for days after
our soul seems to rock with very tu-
multi Of joy, rs the sea. after long
stress Of weather, rolls and rocks and
surges a great while before II comes
back to its ordinary calm.
On the same principle II Is profitable
to think Of Heaven, and look of upon
that landscape of Joy and light which
st. John depicts: the rivers of gladncss,
the trees Of life, the thrones OF power,
the comminglings Of everlasting love.
] wish this morning l could bring
Heaven from the list Of intangibles and
make il seem to you as it really is-the
great fact in all history, the depot of
all ages, the parlor of Gods universe.
This account in my text gives pict-
urc of Heaven as H. is ON holiday.
Now il man came Ia New York for
the first time on the day that Kossuth
arrived from Hungary, and saw the
arches lifted. and the flowers flung in
the streets, and he heard the guns
booming, he would have been very fool
ish to suppose that that was the ordi-
nary appearance of the city. While
Heaven is always grand and always
beautiful, think my text speaks of u
gala day in Heaven.
1t is time Of great cclcbration--per-
haps of the birth or resurrection of
Jesus: perhaps of the downfall OF some
.despotism: perhaps because of the rush
ing in Of the millennium know not
what. but il does seem to me in reading
this passage MS if it were holiday in
Heaven: after this beheld, and, 10, Il
great multitude. which no man could
number. of all nations. and kindreds,
and people. and tongues, stood before
the throne. and before the Lamb,
clothed in white robes and palms in
their hands. and cried with lond voice,
saying: Salvation to our God, which
stitch upon the throne. and unto the
Lamb"
shall speak to you of the glorified in
Hcavcn-their number, their anteced-
.euts. their dress, their symbols and
their songs. But how shall begin by
telling you Of the numbers of those in
Heaven? ] have seen curious esti-
mate by an 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-seven millions of souls
in glory. have no faith in his estimate.
j simply take the plain announcement
of the teXt-it is "a great multitude,
which no man can number"
Every few years in this country we
take census of the population. and it
is very easy to tell how many people
there are in city or nation. But who
shall give the census of the great nation
of the saved? II is quite easy TO tell
how many people there are in the diff
ferent denominations of Christians
how many Baptists, and Methodists,
and Episcopalians, and Presbyterians.
OF all the denominations of Christians
we could make an estimate. Suppose
they were gathered in one great audi
.ence room; how overwhelming the spec
tacle! But it would give no idea Of the
great audience room Of Heaven-the
multitudes that bow down and lift up
their hosannaS Why, they come from
all the chapels, from all the cathedrals,
from all sects, from all ages; they who
prayed in splendid liturgy, and those
who in broken sentences uttered the
wish of broken hearts-from Grace
church and Sailors bethel, from under
the shapeless rafters and from under
high sprung arch-"a great multitude
that no man can number"
One Of the most impressive things I
have looked upon is an army. Stand
ing upon hillside you see forty thous-
and 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
F. earth has ever seen-the legions under
{. Sennacherib and Cyrus and Cesar,
Xerxes and Alexander and Napoleon,
and all our modern forces and put them