The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-11
TALMAGE ON HIS TOUR.
TIE vICToRS THE SUBJECT OF A
SERMON FOR PUBLICATION.

of Heaven as 1t Is on a Holiday
Given by His Textile Glorided in
Heaven.
LONDON, ENGLAND, July 10.-Dr.
Talmage is spending very busy season Ia
England. Not only in the London churches,
but in the provinces, enormous crowds have
gathered to hear the eloquent American
preacher. The great Shoreditch tabernacle,
in the east Of London, where Rev. W. Cuff
breaches, was thronged almost to suffoca-
ton, and the large Congregational church
10 the Hackney district could not hold half
the people who tried TO get into it, though
it was on Monday evening that DR.. Tai
mage preached there. Outside Of London
the eagerness 70 hear him has been quite as
intense. In Liverpool, Manchester, Not
tingham, Crewe. and Henley no church
could be found large enough to accommo-
date the audiences, and DR.. Talmage
preached in the halls in which the great
political conventions are held, and the
capacity Of these was tested to the utmost.
Since his arrival he has preached seven
times each week. The sermon selected for
publication this week is from the text: Rev.
vii, 9-l0: after this beheld, and, 10. a
great multitude which no man could num-
Der, Of all nations, and kindreds, aud peo-
pie, 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 stitch upon the throne, and
unto the lamb"
It is impossible to come in contact with
anything grand or beautiful In art, nature
or religion without being protited and sle-
waited. We 20 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 conflicts, and see the cloud blossoming
of the sky and the foam blossomlng 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 tumult Of joy, as the
sea. after long stress of weather, rolls aud
rocks and surges 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, the trees OF
life, the thrones Of power, the comminglings
of everlasting love. l wish this morning
that could bring heaven from the list Of
fntangibles, and make it seem to you as il
really is-the great fact in all history, the
depot of all ages, the parlor Of Gods uni
verse.
This account in my text givesia picture Of
heaven as it is on holiday. Now If man
went to New York for the first time on the
day that Kossuth arrived from Hungary,
aud he saw the arches lifted, and the flowers
flung In the streets, and he heard the guns
booming, be would have been very foolish
to suppose that that was the ordinary ap-
pesrance Of the city. While heaven Is al
ways grand and always beautiful, I think
my text speaks Of a gala day in heavel.
IL Is time of great celebration-per-
hans nf tha birth n the remuneration Of
Jesus; perhaps of the downfall Of some
despotism; perhaps because of the rushing
in OF the millennium. / know not what
it does seem TO me in reading this passage
as if 1t we're holiday in heaven; after
this l beheld, and, 10, a great multitude,
which no man could number, of all nations
aud kindreds. and people. and tongues,
stood before the throne, and before the
lamb, clothed In white robes, and palms l
IN their hands; and cried with loud voice,
saying. Salvation to our God which stitch
upon the throne, and unto the lamb"
l shall speak TO you Of the glorified in
heaven-their number, their antecedsnts,
their dress, their symbols, and their song
But how shall begin by telling you Of the
numbers Of those in heaven4 / have seen a
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
twenty-seven trillions Of souls in glory. l
have no faith in his estimate. 1 simply
take the plain announcements 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 IL is very
easy to tell how many people there are In
city or in nation: but who shall give the
census Of the great nation OF the savedl 1t
is quite easy to tell how many people there
are in different denominations OF Christians
how many Bsptists and Methodists and
Episcopalians and Presbyterians; of all the
denominations of Christians we could make
an estimate, Suppose they were gathered
In one great audience room; how over
whelming the spectacle! But 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 chapelB, from all the oathe-
drals, 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 num-
ber."
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
If you have not actually felt it.
But you may take all the armies that the
earth has ever seen-the legions under Sen
nacherib and Cyrus and Caesar, Xerxes and
Alexander and Napoleon, and all our mod
ern 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 half-tormed regiment compared with
the great array Of the redeemed.
l stood one dCy and saw on the
opposite side of the Potomac the
forces coming down, regiment after regi-
ment, and brigade after brigade. 1t
seemed as though there was no end to the
procession. But now let me take the field
glass of st. John and look off upon the
hosts of heaven-thousands upon thou
sands, ten thousand times ten thousand,
one hundred and forty and four thousand,
and thousands Of thousands, until | put
down the field-glass and say II cannot esti-
mate it--a 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
10 express the multitudes of the released
from earth and the enraptured of heaven
and talk of hundreds OF hundreds OF hun
ArAdo. Of thnugapda ~ - A.