Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-07-11
THE HEAVENLY HOST.
DR.. TALMAeE breaches IN LONDON
ON The ARMY OF THE REDEEMED.
He Cannot Agree with Or. Dick That
Men VIII study NJ Mathematics In Heaven.
ue I.oot. Forward to n II enven Of Light
and Music, JOY and Rest.


Men VIII study Mathematics in Heaven
ue I.oot. Forward to II enven Of Light
and Music, Joy and Rest.
f.oypoS. July l0.--Dr. Talmage Is
amending very busy season in England.
Not only ia the London churches, but
in the provinces enormous crowds have
gathered to hear the eloquent American
preacher. The great Shoreditch Taber-
i,acle in the east of London, where Rev.
w. Cuff breaches, was thronged almost
10 suffocation, and the large Congrega-
tional church in the Hackney district
could not hold half the people who tried
TO get into it. though it was on Mon
day evening that DR.. Talinage preached
there. Outside London the cagerness to
hear him has been quite as intense.
In Liverpool. Manchester, Noting
ham, Crewe and Hanley no church
could be found large enough to accom-
modate the audiences, and DR.. Talmage
preached in the halls in which the great
poIitical conventions are held, and the
capacity Of these was tested to the ut
most. Since his arrival he has preached
seven times each week. The sermon Sc
lected for publication this week is from
the text. Revelation vii, 8, 10, "After this
beheld, and 10! great multitude which
no man could number, OF all nations and
aindreds and people and tongues, stood
before the throne, and before the Lamb,
clothed with white robes, and palms in
their hands, and cried with a loud voice,
saving, Salvation to our God which
sitteth upon the throne, and unto the
Lamb"
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 gal
lery and our soul meets the soul Of the
painter, and we hear the hum of his
forests and the clash of his conflicts 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 enchantment; for days after our
soul seems to rock with very tuinult
of 10Y, as the sea, after long stress OF
weather, rolls and rocks and surges a
great while before it comes back to its
ordinary calm.
On tho same principle it is profitable
to think of heaven, and look off upon
that landscape Of JOY and light which
st. John depcts-the rivers Of gladness,
the trees of life, the thrones of power,
the comininglings Of everlasting love.
wish this morning that | could bring
heaven from the list Of intangibles and
make it seem to you as it really is-the
great fact in all history, the depot of all
ages, the parlor of Gods universe.
THE HEAVENLY CONGREGATION.
This account in my text gives pic
ture of heaven as it is on holiday.
Now if 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 boom
ing. he would have been very foolish to
suppose that that was the ordinary APP
pearance of the city. While heaven is
always grand and always beautiful,
think my text speaks of a gala day ia
heaven.
II is time of great celebration-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 holiday i'll
heaven: After this | beheld, 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
with white robes, and palms in their
hands, and cried with loud voice, say
ing. Salvation TO our God which stitch
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb"
shall speak to you of the glorited in
heaven-their number, their antece-
dents, their dress, their symbols and
their song. But how shall begin by
telling you of the numbers of those in
heaven? | have seen curious estimate
by an ingenious man who calculates
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
| have no faith in his estimate. II sim
ply take the plain announcement of the
text-it is "a great multitude, which NJ
man can number"
Every few years in this country W,
take u census of the population, and i
is very easy to toll how many peopl,
there arc in city or a nation; but VIII,
shall give the census of the great nation
of the saved2 1t is quite easy TO tell how
many people there are in diiferent de
nominations of Christians-how man,
Baptists and Methodists and Episcopa
lians and Presbyterians; of all the de
nominations of Christians we coul,
make an estimate.
Suppose they We're gathered in ON
great audience room, how overwhelm
ing the spectacle! But it would give n
idea of the great audience room c
heaven-the multitudes that bow dow
and that lift up their hosannas. Why
they come from all the chapels, from a
the cathedrals, from all sects, from a
ages. They who prayed in splendi
liturgy, aud those who in broken sel
tences uttered tho wish OF broken heart
from Grace church and Sailors Bethe
from under the shapeless rafters an
from under high sprung arch-"a greS
multitude that no man can number"
THE ARMY OF TlIR REnEEalED.
One of the most impressive things
have looked upon is an army. Standin
upon a hillside you see forty thousan
or fifty Thousand men pass along. Yo
can hardly imagine the impression
you have not actually felt it. But yo