The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-02-08
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
TiiE BEOOKLYS DIvIvE's SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: ga Vision OF Heaven"

THNr "No'r - c1nc 10 mass os = IRA
among tie cdpiires jy he i.ire,. Of CheJ1y. ma
NE heorens mere opened and si,c eisioHs o
God. Ezekiel T., /.
Expatriated and IL far exile on tho bank,
oi the river Chehar. an aiiuent OF the En-
pirates. sat Ezekiel. II was there he had nj
immortal dream. and II is given 10 us IN Ia,
Holy Scriptures. Ha dreamed of Tyre an,
Egypt. He dreamed OF Christ and the con,
ing heaven. This exile. seated by that rive
Chehnr. mad more wonderful dream thai
you or ever have had or ever will bavI
seated on the banks oi the Hudson or Aid
hama or Oregon or Thames or Tiber "A
Danube. 7
But we all have had memorable dreani
some oi them when we were half asieep AMI
haii awake, 50 that We did not know vha,h
they were born OF shadow or suplirhl
whether they were thoughts let loose an,
disirranged as In Siumber. or the imagins
ton oi faculties awake.
such dream had this morning. II WIS
about hnli-pasi 2. and the day was breakinl
u was dream of God. n dream OF heayeI.
Ezekiel had his dream on the banks of tLe
theunr ! had my dream not far from n,
banks OF the Hudson. The most OF the storks
OF heaven were written many centuries o.b
and they tell ~ how the place looked the1
or now Il will look centuries ahead WoId
you not like 10 know how u looks nowY Tltt
" what am going TO toll YOU was thts
TINS morning. have Just got back HodI
got into that city OF the sun I know nd
Which OF the twelve gates 4 entered IA In a.
uncertain. But my first remembrance of The
scene II that ! stood on ON. OF tho main Al /.
hu's. looking this way aud that lost i'm rsi-
lures. nui the air 80 fun Of music and rei-
lehre ani laughter and light that knew IL,
which street 10 iase. when au augel OF Gbd
n'co7tri me- ahd offered TO show me the d.
lecis OF greatest interest and conduct he
from street 10 street, and from mansionIt n
mansion AMI from temple 10 temple. ahl
from wall 10 wall. I said TO the angel "Hbw
long hnst thou been IN heaven aud the in-
earthly calendar.
There was secret about this angels mime
that was not given me. but from the tender
ness ana sweetness aud affection and inler-
est taken IN my walk through heaven. and
more thah at in the TACT OF thirtv-two yetr-
residence, IN" number OF years since khe
assembled. think 1t was my mother. bli
hge and d"crepltudn and the tired look vterr
all gone. Tut think It was she. You se.. |
was only on q visit to tho city and had hot
yet taken up residence. ami | could ktow
only IN part.
looked ia for few moments nj the gteat
t'hple' Our brilliant and lovely Scotch es-
sANIst. Mr.. Drummoud. SAYS there "a no
church in heaven. but he did not look for II
On the right street ~. John was right yhen
IN MS Patmoslc vision, recorded in the third
NAPIER OF Revelation, he speaks oft.the
tempt" OF my Cod saw IL this mohlng.
the largest church I ever saw. as big X ali
the churches aud catheurais of the card nut
together. aud II was thronged. on what a
multitude had never seen so manv peo
pie together All the audiences OF ali the
chlrches OF all the earth put together would
make poor attendance compnred with thp
asssmb!age. There was a fashion i'm atfira
and headdress that Immediately took my at
tention. The fashion was white All IN
white. save one. And the headdress was a
garland OF rose and IT. y And mignonstte.
mingled with green lea, esNulled from the
royal gardens and bound together with bal X
. gold.
men with ring
al and said TO