The Red Cloud chief., 1892-07-22
HEAVENS HOSTS.
d.. Talmage Describes the Multi
tude John Witnessed
rhe uiories Of the New Jerusalem WILDLY
Pictured-Thc Heavenly Hosts with
Palms In Their Hands Sing
Ing Praises.

In continuing his sermons. while
abroad Rev. r. Dewitt Talmagc, In o
rccent discourse. took his text from Rev.
vii, O., 10: After this | 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
in white robes. and palms In their
hands; and cried with u loud voice. say.
ing, Salvation to u God which sit
teth upou the throne. and unto the
Lamb" DIR. Talmagc said:
II Is impossible TO come In contact
with anything grand or beautiful In
art, nature or religion without being
profited and elevated. We ga into the
art gallery and our soul meets the soul
of the painter, and we heal the hum OF
his forests and the clash OF his con-
fiicts. and see the cloud blossoming OF
the sky and the foam blossoming of the
ocean, and we come out from the gal
aery better men than when we went In.
We 90 into the concert Of music and are
lifted into enchantmcnt; for days after
our soul seems To rock with a very tu-
mutt Of joy. as the sea. after a long
stress OF wenthcr. rolls and rocks and
Surges u great while before 1t comes
back TO It's ordinary calm.
On the same principle II Is profitable
20 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.
I wish this morning could bring
Heaven from the list Of intangibles and
make Il seem 10 you as II really is-the
great fact in all history. the depot Of
all ages. the parlor Of Gods universe.
This account in my text gives q pict-
ure Of Heaven as II is on a holiday.
Now II a man came to New York for
the first time on the day that Kossuth
arrived from hungary, and saw the
arches lifted, and the flowers flung In
the streets, and he heard the guns
booming, he would have been very fool
ish TO suppose that that was the ordi.
nary appearance Of the city. While
Heaven Is always grand and always
beautiful, l think my text speaks OF u
gala day In Heaven.
II Is a time of great celebration per
haps OF the birth or resurrection OF
Jesus; perhaps Of the downfall Of some
despotism; perhaps because Of the rush
ing in OF the millennium. know not
what, but II docs seem to me In reading
ahis passage AS II IL were Il holiday In
Heaven; latter this l bchcld. and. 10, q
great multitude, which no man coult
number. Of all nations. and kindrcds
and people, and tongues, stood befor,
the throne, and before the Lamb
clothed In white robes and palms II
their hands, and cried with II loud voice
saying: Salvation to our God, whicl
stitch upon the throne, and unto tn
lamb"
shall speak TO you Of the gloriied II
Hcavcn-their number, their anteced
ents, their dress, their symbols an
their songs. But how shall begin b.
telling you of the numbers of those |
Heaven? l have seen q curious est
mate by an ingenious man. who calcu
latcs how long the world was going
last, and how many people there are !
each generation, and then sums up tn
whole matter aud says he thinks ther
will be twenty-sevcn millions of SOU
in glory. ! have no faith in his estimat,
simply take the plain announccmer
Of the text-it Is "a great multitude
which no man can number"
Every few years in this country "
take a census of the population, and
Is very easy to tell how many poop
there are In a city or nation. But wi
shall give the census OF the great matte
of the saved? II Is quite easy to u
how many people there are in the d
ferent denominations Of Christians
how many Baptists, and Methodist
and Episcopalians. and Presbyterian
OF all the denominations of Christia
we could make an estimate. Suppo
they were gathered in one great au,
ence room; how overwhelming the sp,
tacle! But 1t would give no idea of t
great audience room Vt H~eaven--t
multitudes that bow down and lift
their hosannas. Why, they come fro
all the chapcls, from NIL the cathedra
from all sects, from all ages; they "
prayed in splendid liturgy, aud tn,
who In broken sentences uttered
wish of broken hearts-from CIR,
church and Sailors bethel, from M
the shapeless rafters and from un,
high sprung arch-''a great multi,
that no man eau number"
One of the most impressive thing
have looked upon Is an army. Sta
ing upon a hillside you see forty tho
and or fifty thousand men pass alo
You can hardly imagine the impress
IL you have not actually felt it.
you may take all the armies that
earth has ever seen-the lcgions un
Sennacherib and Cyrus and Can.
Xerxes and Alexander and Napole
and all our modern forces and put II
In one great array, and then on st
swift steed you may ride along the
and review the troops; and that accuI
lated host from all ages seems Ill
half formed regiment compared "
the great array Of the redeemed.
i stood one day at Williamsport
saw on the opposite side OF the T.
mac the forces coming down, regim
after regiment and brigade after b
ade. 1t seemed as though there wa
end to the procession. But now let
x.lra tho Aa1t GLASS ~ 81 lain and