Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-07-22
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUM-
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT: "HEAvEN's REDEEMED MUL.
TITUDE." PREACHED IN LoNDoN).

ptc hHu tongues. MOOu FT0Tg me InfOnS,
and before the Lamb. clothed ruth tuhite
robes, and palms IN their hands and crisd
nth a loud rOice saying Sdiration TO our
God trhich Sttteth upon the throne. and
unto the Lamb. ."-Revelation vii, ., IL
1t is impossible to come in contact with
anything grand or beautiful in a.. nature
or religion without being profitei aud elt-
vated. We 60 into the art gallery and our
soul meets the soul OF the painter ami 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
enchantnent; for days after our soul seems
to rock with very tumut of joy, as the sea,
a.ter long stress Of weather, rolls AMI
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 of upon thai land.
scape Of joy and light which st. John de-
picts-the rivers of gladness. the trees OF
life, the thrones OF power, the commIuglings
OF everlasting love- | wish this morning
that could bring heaven from the list of in
tangibles and make it seem to YOU as it
really is-the great fact in ali history, the
depot OF all ages, the parlor of Gods uni-
verse.
bhio hAtOuhG III JtAb gives n picture Oh
heaven as it is on a holiday. Now, if a man
came 10 New York for the first time on the
day that kossuth arrived from Hungary,
and he saw the arches lifted, and the flow.
ers flung in the streets and he heard the
guns booming, he would have been very
foolish to suppose that that was the ordinary
appearance Of the city. While heaven Is
always grand and always beautiful, think
my text speaks Of gala day in heaven.
iG N i'm nF al lnI.
| OF the birth or the resurrection Of Jesus,
perhaps of the downfall of some despo.isnl.
| perhaps because of the rushing in
| OF the millennium. know not
what, but 1t does seem to me in reading this
passage as II 1t were a holi lay in heaven:
After this behed AMI lol great mutt
| tude which no Iuan 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 u loud vo:c.,
/ saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth
| upon the throne, and unto the Lamb
l shall speak to you of the glorfed in
heaven-their numter their antecedents.
their dress their SYMBOLS anl their sony
But how shall begin by telling you OF the
numbers OF those in heaven? have Sc a
curious estimate by an ingenious man who
| calculates bow long the world was going to
| oSN NA'N az" many ISNpIt NiltIt are III cdNu
generation, and then suns up the whole
matter, an says he thinks there will he
twenty seven trillionS OF souls in glory. |
have no faith III his estimate. simply take
The plain announcement o; the tcxt-it is
"a great multitude. which no man eau
number.'
One OF the most impressive things | have
looked upon is an army Standing uDon a
hillside you see forty thousand or fifty thou
| saDd aOnI Won hos ltry
imagine the impression il you have not actu
ally felt it. But you may take all the
armies that the earth has ever sesn--tEs
leeions OF Sennacherib and Cyrus and
CnSar, Xerxes and Alexander and Napoleon,
and all or modern forces and put them in
one great array. and then on some swift
bteeI you may ride along the line and
review the troops; and that accumulated
host from all ages seems lik" half formed
regiment compared with the great array OF
| the redeemed.
stood one day at Williamsport and saw
on the opposite side of the Potomac the fore .s
coming down, regiment after regiment, and
brigade after brigade. 1t seemed as though
there was no cad to the procession. But
now let me take the field glass of St. = ohm
aud look off upon the hosts of heaven
thousands upon thousands, ten thousand
times ten thousand one hundred and forty
and four thousand, and thousands OF thou
sands until put down the field glass and
say, II cannot estimate it-a great multi
tude that no man can number"
You may tax your Imagination and tor
ture your ingenuity and break down your
powers OF calculation in attempting to ex-
press the multitudes of the released from
earth and the enrapturel of heaven. and
talk Of hundreds of hundreds OF hundreds
OF thousands of thousands OF thousan is OF
millions OF millions of millions until your
head aches and your heart faints, and ex-
hausted and overburdened you exclaim: 81
cannot count them-a great multitude that
no man can number
But my subject advances and tells you OF
their antecedents, ''of all nations and kin
dreds and tongues" Some OF them sroks
Scotch, Irish, German English, Italian,
Spanish Tamil, Choctaw, Burmese. After
men have been long in the land you can tell
by their accentuation from what nationality
they came, and suppose in the great throng
around the throne 1t will not be difficult 70
tell from what part of the earth they came
These reaped Sicilian wheat fields ant
those picked Gotten from the pods Thes.
under blistering skies gathered tamarindi
and yams. Those crossed the dessrt or
camels, and those glanced over the snow
drawn by Siberian dogs, and these milkeC
the goats far up on the Swiss crags. Thes
fought the warus and white bear in re gion
OF everlasting snow, and those heard the
song of fiery.winged birds in African thick
cts. They were white. They were black
They were red. They wers copper color
From all lands, from all ages. They were
plunged into Austrian dungeons. The,
passed through Spanish inquisitions. Thel
were confined in London Tower. The
fought with beasts in the amphitheater
They were Moravians. They wtr
Waldenses They were Albigenses. The
were Scotch Covenanters. They wer
Sandwich Islanders.
In this world men prefer different kinds o
government. The United States wants
republic. The British Government neeis t
be constitutional monarchy. Austris
wants absolutism. But when they come VI
from earth from different nationalites they
will prefer one great monarchy king Jesu:
ruler over it. And il that monarchy wer,
dishauded and 1t were submitted to all thS
hosts of heaven who would rule then by tn
unanimous sutfrages OF all the redeeme
Christ would become the president OF tn
whole universe. Magma Chartas, bills o
right, houses OF burGesses, triumvirates
congresses, parliaments nothing in tn,
presence OF Christs scepter swaying over al
the people who have entered upon the grea
glory. Oil eau you imagine III What
strange conmingling OF tastes, of histories
OF nationalities, "of all Nations AMI kindred
and people and tongues"
, Ny subject advances and tells YOU o.
the dress OF those in heaven. The object o
dress in this world Is not only to veil tn
body but to adorn it, The God who dreese
up the spring morning with blue ribbon o.
sky around the brow and earrings of dew
drops hung from tree branch and mantle O
crimson cloud flung over the shoulder and tn
violetted slippers OF the grass for her fec. -
know that God does not despise beautifu
, apparel. Well, what shall we wear Il
heavenf II saw a great multitude clothe
. in white robes.' IL Is whitei In this worl
! we had sometimes to have on working ar
parel. Bright and lustrous garments woui
be rdiculously out Of place sweltering ami
: forses, or mixing paints or plastering coi
! ings or binding books.
In this world we must have the workin
day apparel sometimes and We care not hoS