Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-07-30
REV.DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN .DlNINL'S SUI
DAY SERMON.

TEXT: "a fer Thus 1 tehe{d, nha 10 q
great muIt,t.de uhtch no man you'd nun-
Der, Of MI nations md ttndreds and pso-
pie and tongues. stood before the throne.
and be fore the Lamb. siothsd tc1th sfhst<
robes, und palms ~ their hands. ind crsed
trih Il loud rotce. saying. >att&fsoh 10 our
God trhich .ttteth upon the throne. cH6
rnte the Lumb."-Reseiation vii. =, To-
1t is impossible to come il contact with
anything grand or beautiful III art. nature
pr religion without being pro,tei and eli
waited. We go into the art gallery end our
soul meets the soul OF Inc painter, aut w-
hear the hum of his forests AMI the clash Q:
his conflicts and see the cloud poisoning Ct
the sky and the ioatl biosaJrning Uf the
ocean, and We come out from the gallery
better men than Wnen We went IN We 20
into the concert OF muse and ara lifted f..tn
eDchantrnent; for day after our soul seems
TO rock with = very tumuit Of JOY, As the go.
after a long stress OF weather. rolls ani
rocks and surges a great while before /.
comes back to its ordinary cain,
On the same principle It il profitable -
think Of heaven. and look I'll upon that lani-
scape Of JOY AMI light which st. John &c
picts-the rivers Of gladness. the trees ct
life, the thrones Of power. the c~ommtngling.
Of everlasting love. l wish this morning
that | could bring heaven rom the list of in
tangibles and make it seem to you as it
really is-the great fact in all history. the
depot of all ages. the parior Of Gods uni.
verse.
This account in my text gives a picture Of
heaven as 1t IS on a holiday. Now. if a nan
came to New York fol the first time on the
day that kossuth arrived from Hungary,
and he saw the arches lifted, and the low
ers 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 beautiful, / think
my text speaks Of u gala day III heaven.
1t is a time Of great Observation-Disclosures
Of the birth or the resurrection of Jesus.
perhaps OF the downfall Of some despotis,n.
perhaps because of the rushing in
Of the millennium. | know not
what, but 1t does seem to me in reading this
passage as II it were a holiday IN heaven:
After this | beheld, and 10! Il great mutt
tude 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, aud palms
In their hands, and cried with a loud voice,
saying. Salvation to our God which sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb
/ shall speak to you of the glorified in
EeaVen-thelr number, their antecelents,
their dress. Their symbols ami their song
But how shall l begin by telling you of the
numbers of those i'll heaven? | have SEN a
curious estimate by an ingenious mar VINO
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; AMI says. he thinks there will be
twenty-seven trillions Of souls i'll glory. 1
have no faith In his estimate. / simply take
the PLAIN announcement OF the te1t-lt is
"a great multitude. which no man can
0umber."
One OF the most impressive things l have
looked upon is an army. Standing upon a
aillsIle you see forty thousand or fifty thou
sand men pass along. You can hardly
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ally felt it. But you may take all the
!, armies that the earth has ever seen-the
seglons Of Sennacherlb and Cyrus AMI
Cesar, Aefxes and Alexander and Napoleon,
! and all or modern forces and put them in
one great array. and then on some swift
3 steeu you may ride along the line and
review the troops; and that accumulated
= host from all ages seems lika q half formed
regiment compared with the great array Of
the redeemed.
2 1stood one day at Williamsport, and saw
On the opposite side of the Potomac the forces
2 coming down. regiment after regiment, and
= brigade after brigade. 1t seemed as though
there was no cad to the procession. But
: now let me take the field glass of St. John
4 and look off upon the hosts of heaven
thousands upon thousands. ten thousand
: times ten thousand, one hundred and forty
and four thousand, and thousands OF thou:
sands, until | put down the field glass aud
) say, II cannot estimate lt-a great multi
r tude that no man can number."
You may tax Your Imagination and tor
ture your ingenuity and break down your
, powers of calculation in attending to ex-
Il press the multituies of the reiea ed from
{, earth and the enraptuIel of heaven. an |
talk OF hundreds OF hun reds os hun ire Is,
q IF thousands Of thousands OF th~ousanisao OF
q millions OF millions of millions, until your
y head aches and your heart laints. ana ex-
hausted and overwhelmed you exciaim: -
: cannot count themt-a great multitude tina
V no man can number
But my subject advances. and tells YOU o.
their antecedents, "of all nations and kin
. dredS and tongues Some Of them s-ose
Scotch, Irish, German, English. Italian
II Spanish, Tamil, Choctaw. Burmese. After
q men have been long IN the land You can tel
4 by their accentuation from what nationality
.hey came, and | suppose Ia the great tbron:
around the throne II will not be difficult /,
u tell from what art Of the earth they came
These reaped Sicillan wheat fields an,
s those picked cotton from the pods. Thes
G under blistering skies gathered tamarin
and YAM. ln0s- crOs>ai Il" desert @
Games, ami those gsanc.t oyer the >non
drawn by Siberian dogs. an taase mltNe
y the goats Tar up on IT, SWISS crars. The>
z fought the walTus an whit y n III re zion
OF everlasting snow. ani tno-A heard ii
song of ~fiery-win--i btris in African fhics
cts. They Were white They wer. blac,
II They were rel. inev wera cop e. co.oi
u From all ls,1s, from ali aLe<. THey var
e p!unget into Austrian Dungeons. Thu
. passed through S2ani>h iiQI9Sition>. The
were contin-i in London bower. The
: fought VITA beasts III tle anphltheatei
u They were Moravian-. Th@v weE
n Naldeu>e~. They We're 4lbigeu5es. fine
j. were Sco.rn Covenanters. Ihef We
Sandwich Islander.
In tuis vtrli men nreter different kinds
government The nitrt State wants
II r~eouoilr. Ile British Government u-s.<
o BE- a constitutional mouarch<. An>tr
e wants absoiuutsin, but when tAeg con- Il
from earth from tferent nationatitie< th-
Will prefer one great monarch, j--t
ruler over il. Ami /: that tnoaarr4g wei
y nlshande / AMI 1t were submitted u AL u
l. hosts OF heaven wao would Tusa. then br Il
unanimous sufrace> ~ 3Nl tue r@ie.m.
Christ would become tae president. = =
whole universe. Magma caa-t4>. tta>
right house, ~ blrse>ses. t~riunv4rate
TungreSses. Misunderstanding II 4
\ Presence OF thrf-t Sccpter >wayln< Over Il
the people WHO have entered upon tn gres
). gIors. On can you INA line <, What
4 strange conmtu-ius OF tastes, of historic
u Of Mathematics, OF al Nations an klutr-
r ani people an / t0nE0-s.
Ny subj@ct advances ani tells vol