Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1892-07-15
TALMAGE IN LONDGh
HIS VIEW OF THE MODE IN WHICH
THE BLEsT WILL SPEND ETERNITY

Thrilling Description Of the Heavenly
most a. Seen ~ st. JOhn-NO More
Toll or Sorrow or Signing or Tears
The Music Of Heaven.
LONDON, July 1O-Dr. Talmage is spend
Ing very busy season in England. Not
emily in the London churches, but IN che
provinces, enormous crowds have gathered
to hear the eloquent American preacher
The great ShoFeditch Tabernacle IN the
cast Of London, where Rev. W. Gua
breaches, was thorOnged almost to suffoca-
ton and the large Congregational church
In the Hackney district could not hold
half the people who tried to get into It,
though It was on a Monday evening that
DR.. Talmage preached there. Outside
London the eagerness to hear him has been
quite as intense.
In Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham
Crewe and Hanley no church could be
found large enough to accommodate the
audiences, and Dr. Talmage preaoked in
the halls in which the great political con-
ventions 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 publica-
ton this week is from the text, Revela-
tons vii, 9, 10, After this beheld, and lol
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 sand palms In their hands, and
cried with. loud voice, saying, Salvation
to our God which stitch upon the throne,
and unto the Lamb"
Il is impossible 20 come in contact with
anything grand or beautiful in art. nature
or religion without being profted and ele-
waited. We 60 into the art gallery aud 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 blossom
ing of the sky and the foam blOssoming Of
the ocean; and VIC come out from the gal
lery better men than when we went in.
We 90 into the concert Of music and are
lifted into enchantment; for days after our
soul seems to rock with a very tumult Of
Joy, as the sea, after a long stress Of
weather rolls and rocks and suEges a great
while before it comes back to its 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 gladness, thestrees OF
life, the thrones Of power, the commin-
glings of everlasting love. ! wish this
morning that l could bring heaven from
the list Of intangibles and make it seem to
you as 1t really is-the great fact In all his
tory, the depot of all ages. the parlor Of
Gods universe
This account in my text gives picture
Of heaven as it is on holiday, Now If a
man came to New York for the first time
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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 Yves
the ordinary appearance of the city. While
heaven is always grand and always beau
tiful, think my text speaks of q gala day
in heaven.
A GREAT DAY IN HEAVEN.
tits a time of great celebratioa-perhaps
of the birth or the resurrection Of Jesus
perhaps of the downfall Of some des-
potism; perhaps because of the rushing
in of the millennium. l 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 lOl a
great multitude which no man could num-
Der, Of all nations and kindreds and peO-
pie and tongues, stood before the throne,
and before the Lamb, clothed with 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 anteeedents,
their dress, their symbols and their song.
But how shall | begin by telling you Of
the numbers of those in heaveni / 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 ] simply take the plain an
nOuncement of the text-it is "a great
multitude, which no man can number"
Every few years in this country we take
a 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 savedg
Il is quite easy to tell how many people
there are in different denominations
of Chrstians-hOw many Baptists and
Methodists and Episcopalians and Presby-
terians; Of all the denominations Of Chris
tians we could make an estimate.
Suppose they were gathered IN one great
audience room; how overwhelming the
spectacle! 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 chapels, from all the cathedrals, from
all sects, from all ages they who prayed
in splendid liturgy, and those who IN bro,
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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 have
looked upon is an army. Standing upon a
hillside YOU see forty thousand or fifty
thousand men pass along. You can hardly
imagine the impression II yOu have not nc
tually felt it, but you may take all the
armies that the earth has over seen-the
legions under Sennacherib and Cyrus and
Caesar. Xerxes and Alexander and Napo-
leon 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 accumulated
host from all ages seems like halt formed
regimenteompared with the great array Of
the redeemed
THE GREAT PARADE.
stood one day at Williamsport, and saw
on the opposite side of the Potomac the
forces coming down, regiment after regi-
ment and brigade after brigade. It seemed
as though there was nc end to the process
sion. But now let me take the field glass
of St. John and look of upon the hosts Of
heaven-thousand upon thousands. ten
thousand times ten thousand, one hun
dred and forty and four thousand, and
thousands of thousands, until / put down
the field glass and say, II cannot estimate
tia great multitude that no man can
number"
You may tax your imagination and
torture your ingenuity and break down
/ your powers Of calculation In attempting