Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-04-08


crowds to the Sunday afternoon ser,
vices conducted by Rev. DR.. Talmage.
ne ne took for his subject to-day: The
NeleS OF Heaven the text being Rev.
-l'iS' On the East three gates; on the
North three gates: on the South three
sues on the West three gates.
me Cashmere Gates Of Delhi where
C1nf erSed q herOism that makes one s
loiF YES Jingle, the Lucknow Gate still
Ven.ed and Scared with Sepoy bonn
Ddfoment, Che Madeline Gate with its
en-. oia~onry In bronze the hundred
s"teS OF Ihobes the wonder Of CEN
luIleS' all so out of sight before the
Gates of my text
Our subject speaks Of a great me-
uopOils, the existence Of which may
nave doubted Standing on the wharf
ana looking OIL upon the harbor. and
seeing the merchantmen coming up
tAe oay, the flags OF foreign nations
streaming from the tOp-gallants. YOU
Immediately make up your mind that
Inose vessels come from the foreign
porls, and yOu say. "That Is from
haInourg, and that is from Narseilies,
ana mat is from Southampton, and
tnat Us tr0m Havana, and your sup-
position is accurate But from the
city OF which I am now speaking no
"edlner-beateu merchantmen or fri
gates with SCARED bulkle3d have ever
come. There has been
a VAST EMIGRATION
into that city. but no emigration from
lt-so far as our natural vision can
- descry. There is no such city says
the undevOut astronomer. FL have
stood m high towers with a mighty
telescope, and have swept the heavens,
and l have seen spots on the sun and
cavernS In the moon. but no towers
have ever risen on my vision, no pal
aces. no temples. no shining streets, no
massive wall There is no such city.
Even very good people tell me that
heaven is not a material organism, but
grand spiritual fact and that tho
Bible descriptions of it are i'm all cases
TO be taken fgurctively / bring in
reply % this what Christ said, and he
ought TO know. "I go to prepare -
not q theory. not a principle, not a
sentiment, but IL so to prepare a place
for YOU. The resurrected body im-
plies this.
n
anime the architecture of those gates.
TroprieJors of large estates are very
apt 10 have am Ornamented gateway.
Sometimes they spring an arch of ma
sOury. the posts of the gate fanked
with lions IN sJatuary, the bronze gate
representation of INTERVENING foil
age. bird-haunted, until the hand OF
age bird-haunted. until the hand Of ar
chiteCtural-gen drops exhausted. all
fits life frozen into the stone. Gates
of wood. and iron, and stone guarded
nearly AN the old cities
MOSLEMS HAVE INSCRIBED
upon their gateways inscriptions from
the Koran of the Nohammedan. There
have been q great many fine gateways,
but Christ sets his hand TO the work,
and for the upper city swung q gate
such as no eve ever gazen on, UNI
r-t--chCJ Oi inspiration. With the nail
of his own Cross he cut into It's Won
derul traceries stories of past suffer
ing and OF gladuess TO come. There Is
no wood. no stone, or bronze in that
Kate. but from top 20 base and from
side To- side. it is all of pearl
In the second place | want 90 count
the number of those gates. Imperial
parks and l0rdly manOrS are apt TO
have one expensive gateway, and 9th
ers are ordinary; but look around at
these entrances to heaven. and count
them. One. two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
Hear it. all the earth and all the
heavens. Twelve gates,
admit this is rather hard on sharp
sectarianismsi iii a Presbyterian Is
bigoted. he brings his Westminster Alb
bev Catechism. and ne makes a gate
way out of that. and he says to the
world: you 80 through there or stay
out" III member of the Reformed
Church is bigoted, ne makes gate QUE
of the Heidelberg Catechism, and he
saws: "You so through there or stay
ont III a Methodist is bigOted. he
plants two posts and he says. Now
Won crowd I'm between those posts OF
STAY out" or perhaps an EpiscOpalian
may say: "Here is liturgy out of
which I mean 20 make a gate; so
through it or stay out Or "a Baptist
NAV say. "Hore is % water-gate, You
go through that or You must stay out
And so i'm an our churches and i'm an
our denominations there are men who
MAKE one eNbN ANt CIV Att7NA'N''' ttttNt
then demand that the whole world go
through it. I abhor this contracted
ness i'm religious views. On. small
souled man. when did God give YOU the
contract for making gates
The fact lis that, great many of thu
churches i'm this day are being doe
trired 10 death. I do not care which
one of the gates YOU so through, If You
only go through one OF the twelve
gates that Jesus lifted.
(vcU nov I see an the redeemed Of
eor-b coming mp towards heaven. DO
Won think they will an get in? Gate
fine first. the Moravians come mp; they
beiived i'm the Lord Jesus; they pass
+brouqh Gate the second; the Qua
l-ers come up. they have received the
inward Hcht. they have trusted m the
Lord. they pass through. Gate the
third The Iutherus come up; they had
tbo same grace that made Luther what
1,o was and they passed through. Gate
tbe fourth. the Baptist pass through.
C9te the fifth. the Free VIII Baptists
mss through. Gate The sixth. the Re
f,rr,e5 church passes through. Gate
49, seventh. The gregaCiOnalists
mass through. Gate the eighth; the
FniscopaIiau Church passes through.
Cs+e tre ninth: the Methodists pass
r-.ss throuch. Gate the tenth. the
SeLb,taria9s pass through. Gate
oisreDth the Church of the Disciples
,.,ss tbr,rgb. Gate twelith the Pres
,.- fhrough Ruf there