Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
THE HEAVENLY HOST.
pR. TALMAoE BREACHES IN LONDON ON THE ARMY OF THE REDEEMED.

ON THE ARMY OF THE REDEEMED. He Cannot Agree with Dr. Dick That Men Will Study M thematics in Heaven.
 He Looks Forward to a Heaven of Light
 and Music, Joy and Rest.
 LONDON, July 10.-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 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 it, though it was on Mon day evening that Dr. Talmage 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- modate the audiences, and Dr. Talmage preached in the halls in which the great
 
 capacity of these was tested to the ut most. Since his arrival he has preached seven times each week. The sermon se- lected for publication this week is from the text, Revelation vii, g, 10, After this l beheld, and lol 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, Salvation to our God which dtteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb"
 It is impossible to come in contact with anything grand or beautiful in art, nature or religion without being profited 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 8 very tumult of joy, as the sea, after a long stress of weather, rolls and rocks and surges a great while before 1t comes back to it's 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 comminglings of everlasting love. wish this morning 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.
 THE HEAVENLY CONGREGATION.
 This account in my text gives pie. ture of heaven as it is on holiday. Now if 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- pearance of the city. While heaven is always grand and always beautiful, think my text speaks of gala day in heaven.
 It is 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. ing in of the millennium. I know not What, but it does seem to me in reading this passage as if it were holiday in heaven: After this I beheld, and To! 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, say ing, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb"
 shall speak to you of the glorifed in heaven-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 heavenp 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, and then sums up the whole matter, and says he thinks there will be twenty seven trillions of souls in glory I have no faith in his estimate. I sim- ply take the plain announcement of the text-it is ia 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 there are in city or nation; but who shall give the census of the great nation of the saved? It is quite easy to tell how many people there are in different de. nominations of Christians-how many Baptists and Methodists and Episcopa. Hans and Presbyterians; of all the de. nominations of Christians we could make an estimate.
 Suppose they were gathered in one great audience room, how overwhelm ing the spectacle But it would give nc idea of the great audience room oi heaven-the multitudes that bow dowI and that lift up their hosannas. Why they come.fr from all the chapels, from al the cathedrals, from all sects, from al ages. They who prayed in splendid liturgy, and those who in broken sen tences uttered the wish of broken hearts from Grace church and Sailors Bethel from under the shapeless rafters ant from under high sprung arch-''a grea multitude that no man can number" THE ARMY OF THE REDEEMED. One of the most impressive things have looked upon is an army. Standing upon hillside you see forty thousand or fifty thousand men pass along. Yor can hardly imagine the impression i you have not actually felt it. But yor may take all the armies that the eartf has ever seen-the legions under Sen nacherib and Cyrus and Caesar, Xerxe and Alexander and Napoleon, and al our modern forces and put them In one great array, and then on some swift steed you may ride along the line and review the troops; and that accumu.