Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-07-20
CELESTIAL HOLIDAY.
All Nations Throrg Around chrisrs
imperial Throne.
Tho Nuisitndcs Dressed In fsches ut white
Unit" Their Voices Iva sweet SYM
phony-pr. rsimsge'- sermon.


The great Shorcdi,ch tabernacle In
the cast of London. where Rev. w Gun
prcachcs. waa ,hrongcd almost To- susro.
cation, and the largo congregational
church In the Hackney district could
not hold half the people who tried to
set Into II, though ~ was ON Monday
evening that DR. Talmagc preached
there Outside London the cagcrness
t. hear him has been quito ns intense.
In Liverpool. Manchcatcr. Nottingham.
Grove and iianlcy, no church could be
found lnrgc enough TO accommodate the
audiences, aud nr. Talmage preached
In tho halls In which tho great po-
litical conventions arc held and
the capacity of these was tested To tho
utmost Since HIS arrival. he has
preached seven times each week. The
sermon selected for publication this
week Is from the text. Rev. vii. o, 10.
After this bchcld aud. lo, n great
multitude which no man could num-
Der, OF all nations. and Hundreds aud
people. and tongues, stood before the
throne. and before the Lamb clothed
with white robes. and palms i'm their
hands. and cried with "A loud voice,
saying; salvation To our God which sit-
tcth upon the throne. aud unto the
Lamb"
It "a impossible Co come In contact
with anything grand or beautiful i'm
nrt, nature on religion. without being
prohtcd and elevated We go into the
nrt 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 zoe the cloud .blossoming of tho slsy
aud the foam-blossoming OF tho ocean;
and we como out from the gallery bet
ter men than when wo went In. We go
INTO the concert OF music and are lifted
into cnchantmcnt; for days after our
soul seems to-roclS with very tumult
OF joy. AZ the sea. after u long stress of
weather, rolls and roclss and surgcs n
great while before AZ comes back To It's
ordinary calm.
ON the same principle IL Is profitable
90 think OF Heaven. and lool, off upon
that landscape OF joy aud light which
81. John depicts; tho rivers OF plndncss.
the trees OF life, the thrones OF power.
the comminglings of everlasting love.
] with this morning that | could bring
Heaven from the list OF intnngles, and
make IL seem TO you n IL really ia--thc
great fact In all history. the depot OF all
ngcs. the parlor OF Gods universe.
This account In my text gives pict-
tire OF Heaven as IL II ON holiday
Now " man cnmc 10 New York for
the first time on the day that Kossuth
arrived from hungary, and he saw the
arches lifted, mud the flowers flung in
the streets, and lac heard the gums
booming lac would have been very fool
ish 10 suppose that that was the ordl-
nary appearance OF the city. While
Heaven IL always grand and always
beautiful, / think my text speaks Of a
gala day In Heaven
IL Is time OF great cclcbration--pcr-
haps OF the birth or the resurrection OF
Jesus; perhaps OF the downfall OF some
dcspotism; pcrhaps because OF the rush
Ing In Of the millennium. know not
what; but ~ does seem 20 me In reading
this passage as IL it were holiday In
Heaven: after this behcld, and, lc. n
great multitude. which no man could
number OF all nations, and sindreds.
md people, and tongues. stood before
the throne, and before the Lamb. cloth
ed la white robes, and palms i'm their
hands; and cried with "A loud voice, say
Ing, Salvation 90 orr God which sittcth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb A"
shall speak 20 you OF the gloriiicd In
Ilcavcn--thcir number, their anteced-
cnts, their dress, their symbols, and
their song. But how shall begin by
telling you 81 the numbers OF those in
Heaven? ] have seen "A curious estimate
by an ingenious man who calculates
bow long the world was going 90 last,
and how many people there are in each
generation, and then sums up the whole
matter. and says he thinks there will be
twcnty-seven millions OF souls in glory.
have no faith Ira his estimate. sim
ply take the plain announcement OF the
tcxt--it Is "a great multitude. which no
man can number"
Every few years in this country we
take a census OF the population, and IL
Is very easy % tell how many people
there are in a city or In nation; but
who shall give the census Of the great
nation Of the saved? IL Is quite easy 90
tell how many people there are In diff
fcrcnt denominations OF Christinns-
how many Baptists and MethOdists and
EpiscopaliaDs and Prcsbyterians: OF all
the denominations OF Christians we
could make an estimate. Suppose they
were gathered In one great audience
room; how overwhelming the spectacle!
But it would give no idea Of the great
audience room Of IIeaven-the multi
tndc that bow down and that lift up
their hosannas. Why they come from
al the chapels, from all the cathodrals,
from all sects, from all ages; they who
prayed In splendid liturgy. and those
who in broken 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 81 the most impressive things !
have looked upon Is an army. Stand
ing upon n hillside you see 40, 900 or
10000 men pass along. You can hardly
Imagine the impression IL you have not
actually felt H. But you may take all
the armies that the earth has ever seen
the legions under Sennacherib. and
Cyrus, and Cesar. Xerxcs. and Alex
ander, and Napoleon. and all our mod
ern 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