Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-07-11

and Music. joy and Rest.
LONDON. July I0.-Dr. Talmage is
Spending a very busy season in England.
Not only in the London churches, but
in the provinces enormous crowds have
gathered to hear the eloquent American
nreacher. The great ShOreditch Taber-
nacle in the east of London, where Rev.
w. Cuff breaches, was thronged almost
to suffocation, and the large Congrega-
tional church in the Hackney district |
could not hold half the people who tried
to get into il, though it was on Mon
day evening that DR.. Talnaage preached
there. Outside London the -eagerness 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-
MEDIATE 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 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
Ibeheld, 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, and palms III
their hands, and cried with loud voice,
saving. Salvation to our God which
stitch 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 protited
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 tu1nult
of joy, as the sea, after a long stress OF
weather, rolls and 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 conminglings of everlasting love.
j 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 ali
ages, the parlor of Gods universe.
THE HEAVENLY CONGREGATION.
This account in my text gives a pic
ture of heaven as it is on d holiday.
Now if a man came to New York for
the first time Oh the day that Kossuth
arrived from Hungary, and he saw the
arches lifted, and the flowers flung III
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, L
think my text speaks of a gala day IL
heaven.
1t is a 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
inr j., of the millennium. | know moi
what, but it does seem to me in realilas
this passage as if it We're a holiday in
heaven: After this L beheld, ana 10! 9
great multitude which no man could
number. Of all nations and kindreds and
people and tongues, stood before the
with white robes, and palms IL theil
hands. and cried with loud voice, say
ing, Salvation to our God which sittett
upon the throne and unto the Lamb
1 shall speak to you of the glorified il
heaven-their number, heir antece
dents. their dress, their symbols ar(
their song. But how shall ! begin BY
telling you of the numbers Of those IL
heaven? have seen Il curious estimate
by an ingenious man who calculate
how long the world was going to last
and how many people there are In eacl
generation, and then sums up the who'll
matter, and says he thinks there will b.
twenty-seven trillions Of souls in glory
have no faith in his estimate. | sim
DIV take the plain announcement Of tn
text-it is ga great multitude, which n
man can number.
Every few years in this country w
take d census Of the population, and
is very easy to tell how many peopl
there are in city or a nation; but WI
shall give the census Of the great natlo
of the saved? 1t is quite easy to tell hoy
many people there are in different az
nominations of Christians-hOw man
Baptists and Methodists and Episcop;
lians and Presbyterians; OF all the d'
nominations of Christians we coul
make an estimate
Suppose they were gathered in Oh
great audience room, how OVerWheln
ing the spectacle! But it would give L
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 q
the cathedfals, from all sects, from q
ages They who prayed in splend