Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-07-16
TIHEiHEA VENLY HOST.
DR.. TALMAeE breaches IN LONDON
ON The ARMY OF THE REDEEMED.

! DR.. TAl-NAGEs BREACHES in LONDON
ON THE ARMY OF THEREDEEMGD.
He Cannot Agree with DR.. Dick That
MenNyill Study Mathematics in H caven.
He Looks Forward to H nvcn of Light
and Music. JOY and Eest.
LONDON, July 10.-Dr. Talmuge is
spending a very busy season in England.
Not Only il the London churches, but
in the. provinces enormous crowds have
gathered to hear tile 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-
Lional 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 10
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 a:sa.andiences and d.. T Image
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 Sc
lected for publication this week is from
the text. Revelation vii, 8, 10, t.After this
beheld, and LOLA 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 a loud voice,
saying, Salvation to our God which
sitteth upon the throne, and unto tho
Lamb.
1t is impossible to come in contact with
anything grand or beautiful in art,
nature or religion without being profited
md elevated. We 30 into the art gal
lery and our soul meets the soul of the
painter. and VIE herr the hum of his
forests and the clash of his conflicts and
aeo 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 30
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 long stress OF
weather, rolls and rocks and surges a
r,eot while before il 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 CT life, the thrones of power,
the comminSlinss 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 al history. the depot Of all
ages, the parlor of Gods universe.
THE HEAVENLY CONGREGATION.
This account in my text gives a pic
sure Of heaven as it is on holiday.
Now if IL man camo to New York for
the first time Oh the day that Kossuth
arrived from Hungary, and he saw the
arches lifted. and the flowers flung in
tho streets, and lie heard the guns boom
ing. he would have heen very foolish to
suppose that that was the ordinary APP
pearanco of the city. While heaven is
always grand and always beautiful, !
think my text speaks of gala day ia
heaven.
It is time of great celebration-per-
haps of the birth or the resurrection of
Jesus, perhaps of the downfall of soIac
despotisln, perhaps because of the rush
ing in of the millennium. know not
what. but it docs seem to me in reading
this passage rs if it were holiday in
heaven: After this beheld, and 10!
great multitude which no man could
number, of all nations and kindreds and
people and tongues, stood before the
throne. anu before the Lamb, clothed
with white robes, and palms in their
hands. and cried with loud voice, say
ing, Salvation to our God which stitch
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb"
shall speak to you of the glori6ed in
heayen-t.lcir 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? 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 lie
twenty-seven trillions of souls in glory.
have no faith in his estimate. | sim
ply take the plain announcement of the
itext-it is "a great multitude, which no
man can number"
Every few years in this country we
Jake 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? 1t is quite easy to tell how
many people there are in different de-
nominations of -Christians-how many
Baptists and Methodisrs and Episcopa-
ians and Presbyterians; of all the de-
nominations Of Christians we could
make an estimate.
Suppose they were gathered in one
great audience room, how overwheln-
lug the spectacle! But it would give no
idea of the great audience room of
heaven-the multitudes that bow down
End 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 broken SEN
fences 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"
THE ARMY OF THE REDEEMED.