Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-07-21
A JOYFUL GALA DAY
irf Talmace in Il Sermon in London
>le'GiyeS a Graphic Picture ola
h5 y Holiday in Heaven.
TIE Greeting Accorded the Return of
tonquering Heroes 4 Type OF
the Greeting III Heaven.

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in England. Not only in the Lon
don churches, bur in the provinces,
enormous crowds have gathered to
hear the eloquent American preacher
The great Shoredi5ch Tabernacle in
the East OF London. where Rev. W.
| CUT breaches, was 1hronged almost to
su!socat!on, and the large ConsreGa-
tional Church in the Hackney District
could not hold half the people who
tried 20 get into it, though it was on
Monday evening that d.. Ta!nlage
preached there. Outside London,
,he easerness 20 hear him has been
quite is intense. Ii Liverpool, Man
, chester, Nottingham, Crewe and Han
! ley, no church could be found large
enough 20 accommodated the audiences,
and Dr.. T5irlase preached in the halls
III which the great political conven-
t:ons are held, and the capacity Of
these was tested to the utmost Since
his arrival he has preached
seven times each week. The ser
mon selected for publication
this week is from text: Rev. vii, 80,
"After this I beheid, and, 10, 4 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
in their hands, and cried with a loud
voice, saying, Salvation to our God
which stitch upon the throne, and
unto the Lamb"
This account in my text gives a
picture OF heaven as it is on holiday
Now, il q man came to New York for
the first time on the day that X ossuth
arrived from 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 was the
ordinary appearance OF the city.
While heaven is always grand and al
ways beautiful. think my text speaks
Of q gala day in heaven.
1t Is time OF great celebration
perhaps OF the birth or the resurrec.
zion 0: Jesus: perhaps 0: the downfall
OF some despotisM: perhaps because
OF the rushing in OF the millennium.
know not what, but it does seem to
ME III reading this passage as Il it We're
q holiday i'll heaven.
| have seen a curious estimate by
! ;,n 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 hethinks there
Will be twenty-seven tril,ions OF souls
iii glory. have no faith in his esti.
mate. l simply take the plain an
rouncement OF the text-it is "a great
multitude, which no man can mum
ber'
After speaking OF the various scenes
which he imagined would greet the
hosts OF heaven, Mr.. TalmaSe said:
My subject advances. and tells you
OF the symbols they carry. If my text
had represented the good in heaven as
carrying cypress branches, that would
have meant sorrow. If my text had
represented the good in heaven as
carrying nicht-shade that would
ia { meant Sii4. Dul IL is q pdilQ
branch they carry, and that is Vie
tory. When the people came home
from war in olden times. the conquer
or rode at the head OF his troops, and
there were triumphal arches, and the
people would come out with branches
OF the palm tree and wave them
all along the host. What significant
type this OF the greeting and OF the
Joy OF the redeemed in heaven! On
earth they were condemned, and were
put out OF polite circles. They had
infamous hands strike them on both
cheeks. Internal spite spat in their
faces. Their backs ached with sor.
row.
Their brow reeled with unalleviated
toll. How weary they were Some
times they broke the heart OF the
midnight in the midst OF al! their
anguish, crying out, 80 God" But
bark now to the shout Q: the delivered
captives: as they lift their arms from
the 9 packles and they cry out, "Free,
Free. They look back upon all the
trials through which they have passed,
the battles they have fought, the
burdens they carried, the misrepre.
sensations they suffered, and because
they are delivered from all these, they
stand before God waving their palms.
They come to the feet OF Christ, and
they look up into His face. and they
remember His SORROWS, and they re-
member His pain, and they remember
His groana, and they say: "Why,
was saved by that Christ. He par.
ioned my sins, He soothed my sor-
rows and standing there they shall
be exultant, waving their palms
That hand once held the nipple
ment OF toll or welded the sword OF
war; but now it pluc!:s down branches
from the tree of lie as they stand be-
lore the throne waving their palms.
Once he was pilgrim on earth; he
crunched the hard crusts-he walked
the weary way; but it is all gone now,
the sin gone, the WEAKNESS gone, the
sickness gone, the sorrow gone, as
Christ stands up before the great ar
| ray OF the saved and recounts His
victories, il will be like the rocking
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