Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-11
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
HIS VIEW OF THE MODE IN WHICH
THE BLEsT WILL SPEND ETERNITY.

! LONDON, July l0.-Dr. Talrnage is spend
ing 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 Shoreditch Tabernacle in the
east of London, where Rev. w. Cuff
breaches was thoronged almost to suffoca-
ton and the large Congregational church
in the Hackney district could not hold
half the people who tried to get into it.,
though it was on Monday evening that
DIR. Tolmage preached there Outside
London the eagerness to hear him has been
quite rs intense.
In Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham,
Crewe and Hanley no church could be
found large enough to accommodate the
audiences, ana DIR. Talmage preached in
the halls in which the great political CON
ventions are held, and the capacity of these
was tested to the utmost. Since his ar
rival he has preached seven times each
week. The sermon selected for pubica-
ton this week is from the text Revela-
tions vii, 8, 10, "After this beheld and lol
a great multitude which no man could
number, of all nations and kindreds and
people and tongues stood before the
buTOue, anu DClbIt .bllt lAlllLi CiDNi4Itl NlLu
white robes, and palms in their hands, and
cried with loud voice, saying, 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 proftod and Gle
waited. We go into the art gallery 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 blossom
ing of the sky and the foam blossoming Of
the ocean; and we come out from the gal
lery better men than when we went in.
We go into the concert Of music HHd ara
lifted into enchantment; for days after our
soul seems to rock with very tumWt Cf
Joy, as the sea- after n long stress Of
weather. rolls and rocks and augges u 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 gladncas, the trees Of
life, the thrones Of power, the cOmmin-
gings of everlasting love ! wish this
morning that | could bring heaven from
the list of intangbles and make it seem to
you as it really is-thc great fact in all his.
tory, the depot of all ages, the parlor Of
Gods universe.
This account in my text gives pictup
of heaven MS it is on n holiday. Now if Il
man came to New York for the first time
Jon the day that Kossuth arrived from
Hungary, and he saw the arches lifted,
and tho 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 thecjtr While
heaven is always grand and always bean
tiful, think my text speaks oc "a gala day
in heaven.
A GREAT DAY IN HEAVEN.
1t u time of great celebration perhaps
of the birth or the rosuIro,;i,l Of Jesus;
perhaps OF the downfall Of some des
potism; perhaps because Of the rushi,
in of the millennium, know ut
what; but it does seem to me in TeHdius
this passage as if it We're n holiday in
heaven. "After this ! beheld, and lol a
great multitude which no man could nun
Der, of all nations and kiaNreds and PEG
pie and tongues, stood before the throne
and before the Lamb, clothed with white
robes, and palms in their hands, and cried
with n loud voice, saying, Salvation to our
God which stitch upon the throne, and
unto the Lamb"
| shall speak TO you of the glorined in
henven-their number, their antecedents,
their dress, their symbols and their song,
But how shall | begin by telling you Of
the numbers Of those in heaven? ! have
seen curious estimate by an ingenious
man who calculates how long the world
was going to last, and how many people
there are in each generation Gud then
hn ol Il a
thinks there will be tweuty-sevcn trillions
of souls in glory. have no faith in his
estimate. simply take the plain an
nouncement OF the tuAt-it is IA great
multitude, which NO mao can number"
Every few years in th.a country we take
census Of the population, and it is very
easy TO tell how many people there are in
city or nation, but who shall give the
census of the great nation of the savcdH
1t is quite easy to tell how many people
there nre in different denominations
of Christians-how many Bapists and
Methodists and Hpiscopahans and Presby.
terans; OF all the denominations Of Chris,
tians we could make an estimate.
Suppose they were gathered in one great
audience room; how overwhelming the
spectacle But IL would give no idea OF
the great audience room of heaven-thC
mutitudes that bow down and that lift M
their hosaunas. Why, they como from all
the chapels, from all the oathcdrals, from
all sects, from all ages; they who prayed
in splendid liturgy, and those who in bro
ken sentences uttered the wish OF broken
hearts-from Grace church and Sailors
Bethel, from under the shapcless rafters
and from under high sprung arch-"a great
multitude, that no man can number"