The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-07-21
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
HIS VIEW OF THE MODE IN WHICH
7HEBLEST WILL SPEND ETERNITY.

Thrilling. Description of tho Heavenly
Host as Seen by St. John-No Moro Toll
or Sorrow or SiEhing or Tears.--Tho
Music of Heaven.
LONDON, July l0.-Dr. Talmage is
spending very busy season in England.
Not only in the London churches, but
IN the provinces, enormous crowds have
gathered TO hear the eloquent American
preacher. The great ShOrcditch Tabcr-
HaClc i'll the cast Of London, where Rcy.
W. Cuff breaches, was thorongel al
most to suilocation and the large Con-
TregatiOnal church in the Hackney dis
trict could not hold hall the people who
tried to get into it, though it was Oh q
Monday evening that DR.. Talmage
preached there. Outside London the
ragcrncss to hear HIM has been quite as
intense.
In Liverpool, Manchester, Noting
ham, Crews and IIanley no church could
he found large enough TO accommodate
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
selected for publication this week is
from the text, Revelation, vii, Q, 10,
AFTER this l beheld, and 10! a 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 loud voice, saying, Saliva
ton to our God which sittcth 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 prolitcd
and elevated. We go into the art GAL
lcry and our soul meets the soul of the
painter, and we hear the hum of his for
ests and the clash OF his conflicts, and
see the cloud blOssoming ofthc sky and
the foam blossoming OF the ocean; and
we come out from the gallery better men
than when we went in. We 20 into the
concert OF music and are lifted into en-
chantmcnt; Tor days after our soul seems
to rock with very tumult Of JOY, as the
sea, after long stress Of weather, rolls
and rocks and surges a great while be-
lore 1t comes back to its ordinary calm.
On the same principle it is profitable
to think Of heaven, and look of upon
that landscape Of Joy and light which
ST. John depicts; the rivers of gladness,
the trees Of life, the thrones Of power,
tho commlnglings Of everlasting love.
| wish this mo rning that | 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.
This account III my text gives pc
turc OF heaven rs it is on 4 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 ap-
pearancc OF the city. While heaven is |
always grand and always beautiful, |
think my text speaks of gala dav in |
heaven.
1t is time OF great cclebration-per-
laps OF the birth or the resurrection Of
Jesus; perhaps Of the downfall Of some
dcspotSm; perhaps because Of the rush
NY in Of the millennium. | know not
What; but it does seem to nc in reading
this passage rs If il were holiday IN
heaven. 'Altcr this ] bchcll, and lo!
great multitude which no man could
number, OF all nations and knClrcds and
People ana tongues, stood before the
throne, and before the Lamb, clothed
with white robes. and palms in their
hanos, and cried with a loud voice, saw
NC, Salvation TO our God which stitch
upon the throne, and unto the Iamb.n
shall speak to you of the glorihed in
hcaVcn-their number, their antece-
dents, their dress, their symbols and
Their song. But how shall | begin by
telling you of The numbers OF those in
heaven: l have seen q curious estimate
by an ingenious man who calculates how
long the world was going to last. and
how many people there are in each CEN
crallon, and then sums up the whole
matter, and says he thinks there will be
lwenty.scvcn trillions Of souls ip glory.
have no faith in his estimate. | sim
ply take the plain announcement Of the
leXt--lt is "a great multitude, which no
man can number"
Every few years IN this country we
take census OF the population, and it
IS very easy TO tell how many people
mere are IN city or nation, but who
shall give the census Of the great nation
OF the saved? 1t is quite easy to tell
now many people there are in different
denominations OF Chrstians-hOW many
bapls's and Mcthodists and Episcopal.
lans and Prcsbyt erians; of ali the de-
nominations OF Christians we could
make an estimate.
suppose they were gathered in one
great audience room: how Oyerwheln.
ins the spectacle! But it would give no
idea OF tie great audience room of heav-
en-the multitudes that bow down and
That mt up their hosannas. Why, they
come from all the chapcls, from all the
cathedrals, from all sects, from all ages;
lhey who prayed in splendid liturgy,
and those who in broken sentences ut.
tered the wish of broken bearts-from
Grace church and Sailors Bethel. from
under the shapeless raftcrs and from un-
aer high sprung arch-''a great multi
tuue, that no man can number"
one OF the most imOrasslye ibipos T