Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-04-11
AT HEAVENS GATES.
ANOTHER SERMON OF RARE POWER
BY REV. DR.. TALMAGE.

Twelve Gates and All Of PearI-The Door
keepers and the Password-A Few Words
About Bigotry and sectarianism-some
Rare Pearls.
NEW YORK, April THE bright spring
weather has brought still larger crowds to
the Sunday afternoon services conducted
by Rev DIR. Talmage He took for his
subject today The Gates of Heaven" the
text being Revelation xxi, l3: ''On tho east
three gates; on the north three gates; on
the south three gates; on the west three
gates
The Cashmere gate Of Delhi where con
verged heroism that makes ones nerves
tingle the Lucknow gate still dented and
SCARED with sepoy bombardmcnt, the
Madeline gate, with its emblazonry in
bronze the hundred gates of Thebes, the
wonder of centuries, all go out OF sight
before the gates of my text.
A Spiritual Fact.
Our subject speaks of n great metropo-
lis the existence of which many have
doubted Standing on the wharf and
looking off upon the harbor and seeing
the merchantmen coming up the bay, the
flags of foreign nations streaming from
the topgallants, you Immediately make
up your mind that those vessels come from
foreign ports, and you say, THAT is from
Hamburg, and that Is from Marseilles, and
that is from Southampton, and that is
from Havana, and your supposition is
accurate But from the city of which
am now speaking no weather beaten mer-
chantmen or frigates with Scared bulk
head have ever come There has been a
vast emigration into that city, but no EN-
igration from it, SO far as our natural
vision can descry
There is no such city" says the unde
vout astronomer / have stood in high
towers with mighty telescope and have
swept the heavens and have seen spots
on the sun and caverns in, the moon, but
no towers have ever risen on my vision,
no palaces, no,temples, no shining streets,
no massive wall There is no such city. "
Even very good people tell me that heaven
Is not material organism, but grand
spiritual fact and that the Bible descrip
tions of it are in all cases to be taken flgu.
ratively l bring in reply to this what
Christ said, and he ought to know, Il GO
to prepare NOT theory, not principle,
not a sentiment but Il go to prepare q
place for you" The resurrected body i'm
plies this If my foot is to be reformed
from the dist, 1t must have something to
tread on II my hand is to be reconstructed,
it must have something to handle. If my
eye, having gone out in DEATH is to be re
kindled, / must have something to gaze
on Your adverse theory seems to imply
that the resurrected body Is to be hung on
nothing. or to walk in air, or to float
amid the intangibles You may say il
there be material organisms then soul
in heaven will be cramped and hindered
In its enJoymeDts, but / answer, Did not
Adam and Eve have plenty of room in the
garden of Eden? Although only few
miles would have described the circumfer
ence of that place, they had ample room
And do you not suppose that God, in the
immensities, can build place large enough
TO give the whole race room, even though
there be material organisms
Glorious Prospect.
Herschel looked into the heavens. A.
a Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock be-
tween the glaciers and crosses over from
crag to crag SO Herschel planted his
telescope between the worlds and glided
from star to star until he could announce
to US that we live in part Of the uni
verse but sparsely strewn with worlds
and he peers out into immensity until ht
finds region no larger than our solal
system in which there are 80, 600 worlds
moving And Professor Lang says thai
by philosophic reasoning there must be
somewhere a world where there Is nc
darkness, but everlasting sunshine, sc
that do not know but that ii is simply
because we have no telescope powerful
enough that we cannot see into the lane
where there is no darkness at all and oatcf
q glimpse of the FURNISHED pinnacles As
conquering army marching on to take {
city comes at nightfall to the crest Of {
mountain from which, in the midst of the
landscape, they see the castles they arr
to capture, and rein in their war chargers
and halt to take a good look before they
pitch their tents for the night, so now
coming as we do on this mountain top o.
prospect, command this regiment of Goo
to rein in their thoughts and halt, and be
fore they pitch their tents for the nigh
take one good, long look at the gates Of
the great city .tOn the east three gates
on the north three gates; on the south
+
In the first place want you to exam
Inc the architecture of those gates. Pro
prietors Of large estates are very apt tt
have an ornamented gateway. Sometimes
they spring an arch of masonry. the posts
of the gate fianksd with lions in statuary
the bronze gate a representation of inter
twining foliage, bird haunted, until tht
hand of architectural genius drops ex
hausted, all its life frozen into the stone
Gates of wood and iron and stone guarded
nearly all the old cities Moslems have
inscribed upon their gateways inscrip
tions from the Koran of the Mohammedan
There have been a great many fine gate
ways, but Christ sets his hand to thu
work, and for the upper city swung {
gate such as no eye ever gazed on, un
touched OF inspiration. With the nail O
his own cross he cut into its wonderful
traceries stories Of past suffering and O
aladness to come. There Is no wood oi
stone or bronze in that gate, but from toI
to base and from side to eide it is all O
pearl Not one piece picked up from Cey
Ion banks, and another piece from th'
Persian 9ulf and another from the islant
Madam, your attention, please. Do yo
expect to dye this season? We mean, wi
you dye any stockings, carpet rags, cloak
dresses, feathers, or anything; for if you in
tend to, we are anxious to have you dye wit
Magic Dyes. They are easy to use and W
believe them superior to most other brands
Carpet weavers who have used them say the
give more durable colors which don't croc
or fade like others. They color cotton, WOO
etc, with same package, TINS doing bette
work on mixed goods. Although the pack
ages are larger and color about double tn
good, we sell them at 10 cents, same as othe
brands. AT Saur d BaIsley's. Napoleon, Obi