Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-07-15
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
HAVING a VERY BUSY SEASON
IN LONDON.
Churches of England Not Large Enough
for Americas Great Divine--A Thrill
Ing Sermon on the Resurrection of
Mankind.


mage Is spending very busy season in Eng
land. Not only in the London churches, but
In the provinces, enormous crowds have gath
cred hear the eloquent American preacher.
The great Shoreditch Tabernacle in the East
OF London, where Rev. w. Cuff breaches, was
thronged almost 10 suffocaton, and the large
Congregational church In the Hackney Dis
trict could not hold half the people who tried
10 get into it, though IL was on Monday
evening that DR.. Talmage preached there.
Outside London the eagerness 10 hear him
has been quite as intense, In Liverpool. Man
chester Nottingham Crewe and Hanley, no
church could be found large enough TO ac-
commodate the audiences, and Dr. Talmagf
preached in the halls in which the great polit-
ical conventions are held, and the capacity OF
these was tested TO the utmost. Since his ar
rival, he has preached seven times each week.
The sermon selected for publication this week
8 Is from the text: Rev. 10, After This be-
held, 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 with white robes,
and palms in their hands; and cried with n
loud voice saying, Salvation TO our God which
stitch upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
1t is impossible to ccme in contact
with anything grand or beautiful in
art, nature or relis ion, without being
profited and elevated. We go into the
art-Gallery, and our soul meets tho soul
of the painter, and we hear the hum of
his forests and the clash of his con-
flicts, and see the cloud poisoning of
the sky and the foam, blossoming of
the ocean; and we come ont from the
gallery 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
n very tunult of joy, as the sea, after n
ling stress of weather, rolls and rocks
and surgcs great while before it
comes back to it's ordinary calm.
On the same principle it is profitable
to think of heaven, and look off upon
that landscape of JOY and light which
st. John depicts; the rivers of glad
ness, the trees of life, the thrones of
power, the comminglings of everlast-
ing love. | wish this morning that
could bring heaven from the list of in
tangibles, and make it seem to you as
it really is-the great fact in all his
tory, tho depot of all ages, the parlor
of Gods universe.
This account in my text gives pic
ture of heaven as it is on holiday.
Now If a 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 a
gala day in heaven,
1t is time of great cele bration-per-
haps of the birth or the resurrection of
Jesus; perhaps of the downfall of some
despotism; perhaps because of the rush
ing in of the millennium. / know not
what; but it does seem to me in reading
this passage as if it were a holiday in
heaven; after this beheld, and, 10. n
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, saying, Salvation TO our God
which sitteth upon the throne, and
unto the Lamb"
shall speak to you of the glorifed
in heaven-their number their ante
cedents, their dress, their symbols, and
their song. But how shall begin by
telling you of the numbers of those in
heaven? j have seen a 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 trillions of
souls in glory i have no faith in his
estimate. l simply take the plain an
nouncement of the text-it is "a great
multitude, which no man can num-
ber."
Every few years, in this country we
take n census of the population, and it
is very easy to tell how many people
there are in city or in a 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! But it 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 cbapels, from all the
cathedrals, from all sects, from all
ages; they who prayed in splendid lit
urgy, and those who in broken sem
fences uttered the wish of broken
hearts-from Grace church to Sailors
Bethel, from under the shapeless ra IT,
ers 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. Yoa
can hardly imagine the impression if
| you have not actually felt il. But YOU
may take all the armies that the earth
has ever seen-the legions under SIENNA
cherib and Cyrus and Cesar, Xerxcs