Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-07-21
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
HlS VIEW or THE MODE IN WHICH
THE 5LEsT WILL SPEND ETERNITY.

= oooa " bt. John-No more
Toll or Sorrow OF Signing or Tears.
The Music of Heaven.
LONDON, July10.-Dr. Talmage is spend
ing very busy season in England. Not
only In the London churches, but in the
provinces, enormous crowds have gathered
70 hear the eloquent American preacher.
The great Sboreditch Tabernacle in the
east Of London, where Rev. w. Cuff
breaches, was thoronged almost to suffoca-
tion 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 a Monday evening that
DIR. Talmage preached there. Outside
London the eagerness to hear him has been
quite as intense.
In Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham,
Crewe and Hanley no church could be
found large enough to accommodate the
audiences, and 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 publica-
ton this week is from the text, Revela-
tions vii, 0, TO- 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
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 sitteth 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 profited and ele-
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 and are
lifted into enchantment; for days after our
soul seems to rock with very tumult of
JOY, as the sea, after a long stress of
weather, rolls and rocks and surges great
while before it 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 commin-
glings of everlasting love- l wish this
morning that l could bring heaven from
the list of intangibles and make it seem to
you as it really is-the great fact in all his
tory, the depot of all ages, the parlor of
Gods universe.
This account in my text gives a picture
of heaven as it is on a 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 booming, he would have
been very foolish to suppose that that was
the ordinary appearance of the city. While
heaven is always grand and always beau
tiful | think my text speaks of gala day
in heaven.
A GREAT DAY IN HEAVEN.
1t is time of great neutrality-suspicious.
of the birth or the resurrection of Jesus;
perhaps Of the downfall of some des-
potism; perhaps because of the rushing
in of the millennium. l know not
what; but it does seem to me in reading
this passage as if it were a holiday in
heaven. AFTER this beheld, and 10! C.
great multitude which no man could num-
ber, of all nations and kindreds and peo-
pie 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 sitteth upon the throne, and
unto the Lamb"
shall speak to you of the glorified in
heaven-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? I have
seen a 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. have no faith in his
estimate. l simply take the plain an
nouncement of the text-it 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 there are in
a city or nation, but who shall give tAe
census of the great nation of the saved?
1t is quite easy to tell how many people
there are in different denominations
of Christians-how many Baptists and
Methodists and Episcopalians and Presby-
terians; of all the denominations of Chris
tians we could make an estimate.
Suppose they were gathered in one great
audience room; how overwhelming the
spectaclel But it would give no idea of
the great audience room of heaven-the
multitudes that bow down and that lift up
their hosannas. Why, they come from all
the chapels, from all the cathedrals, 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 shapeless rafters
and from under high sprung arch-"a great
multitude, that no man can number"
One of the most impressive things I have
looked upon is an army. Standing upon
hillside you see forty Thousand or fifty
thousand men pass along. You can hardly
imagine the impression If you have not ac-
tually felt it, but you may take all the
armies that the earth has ever seen--the
legions under JSennacherib and Cyrus and
Caesar, Xerxes and Alexander and Napo-
leon and all 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 accumulated
host from all ages seems like half formed
regiment compared with the great array Of
the redeemed.
THE GREAT PARADE.
I stood one day at Williamsport, and saw
on.the opposite side of the Potomac the
forces coming down, regiment after regi-
ment and brigade after brigade. It seemed
as though there was NO end to the process
sion. But now let me take the field gla.
of st. John and look off upon the hosts of
heaven-thousands upon thousands, ten
thousand times ten thousand, one han
dred and forty and four thousand, and
thousands Of thousands, until I put down
the field glass and say, II cannot estimate
it--a great multitude that no man can