The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-12

He LOOKS FORWARD I'd - HltaFth % AAShh
and Music, Joy and Rest
LONDON, July 10.-Dr. Talmage is
spending a very busy season II England
Not only in the London churches, but
in the provinces enormous crowds have
gathered to hear the eloquent American
preacher The great ShOreditch Taber-
nacle IL the east Of London, where Rev.
w. Cuff breaches, was -ChFonged almost
to sufIocation, and the large Congrega-
tional church III the Hackney district
could not hold half the people who tried
day evening that DR.. Talmage preached
there. Outside London the eagerness TO
hear him has been QU.te rs intense
l. Liverpool. Manchester. Noting
ham, Crewe and HaHley no church
could bs found large enough TO accom-
MEDIATE the audiences, and DR.. Tslmage
preached IN the halls u which the great
political conventions are held, and the
capacity Of these was tested to the ut
most Since his arrival ne has preached
seven times each week. The sermon Sc
Iecte5 for publication this week is from
the text, Revelation VII, ., 10, After this
LeheId, and 10! great multitude which
10 man could number, % all nations and
kiudrcds and people ana tongues, stood
before the throne, aud before the Lamb.
clothed with white rooes. and palms in
their hands. and cried with a loud voice,
saying, Salvation 70 our God which
sitteth upon the throne, and unto the
Lamb"
1t is impossible to come in contact with
aDvtbing grand or beautiful in art,
nature or religion without being profited
and elevated. We 20 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 blossoniug Of the sky and
the foam bIossOming Of the ocean, and
we come out from the gallery better
men than when We went il. We go
into the concert Of music and are lifted
into enchantIuent; :or days after our
soul seems to rock with a very tumult
Of iOv, as the sea, after 4 long stress OF
weather, rolls and rocks and surges a
great while before 1t 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 deplcts-the rivers of gladness,
the trees Of life, the thrones of power,
the comminglings Of everlasting love.
wish this morning that l 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 III my text gives pic
ture Of heaven as it is on a 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 boom
ing, he would have been very foolish to
suppose that that was the ordinary Gp-
rearauce OF the city. While heaven is
always grand and always beautiful, l
think my text speaks Of a gala day in
heaven.
IL % time # great cclehranOn-per-
Laps OF the birth or the resurrection of
Jesus. perhaps Of the downfall of some
a1sual.u. perhaps because of the rush
.ug ra OF 5l. millennium. | know not
what. ..- ID does seea. I'd NE III reading
..t. ..-..r- .s II ir were "a holiday IN
l.a-... .l.-.r this aehell, and lol a
r. 4a.l uC- which up nan cOulO
l.a.u.-. .l I'D nations .--d lsHdreis and
..... u- ..-- E.-. stood before ths
.ar... and before .a. Lamb, clothed
with .. robes. r-- palms - then
..u..a.a cried with d. loud vu5ee. say
- ........ "a. .a- ,.r- which stitch
...m I.. throne. and r-sa the Lamb
la.a speak d. r.u ~ tGs gIo~lted IL
.au..a-t...e Ill.a lns-r antece
dents. .u.l. dress, -.al~ symbols ant
.l.rr SONG. Gut IaH shan / begin by
telling v0u Cd. tine numbers OF those u
heaven. have seen d curious estimate
h~ al ingenious man who calculate:
how .r-. aa world was going 70 last
.lE ...a ..-nr D.a-.e there are in eaCi
generation. auG then sums up the who'll
Ilarte-. and says hc thinks there will bt
tggguEr-sevgu trilll0us Of souls i'll glory
have no faith in his estimate. sim
ply take the plain announcement Of tn
tezt-lt is -.a great multitude, which N
man can number
Every few years in this country W
take al census Of the population, and
Is very easy to tell how many peopl
there are IN a city OF a nation; but VIII
shall give the census of the great natlo
of the saved? 1t is quite easy to tell HOY
many people there are in different de
nominations Of Christians-how man
Eaptists and Methodists and Episcopa
lians and Presbyterians; of all the de
nominations of Christians we coul
make an estimate.
Suppose they were gathered IN ON
great audience room. how overwheln
iD,r tho sr,aG+acIpI RUt IL would give n
idea Of the great audience room
heaven-the multitudes that bow dow
and that lift up their hosannas. VIII!
they come from all the chapels, from a
the cathedrals, from all sects, from a
ages. They who prayed IN splendi
liturgy, and those who in broken SCI
fences uttered the wish of broken hear
from Grace church and Sailors Bethe
from under the shapeless rafters an
from under high sprung arch-'s gre;