The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-12
THE GATES OF HEAVEN.
There is World Somewhere Where
There is No Darkness.
Twelve Gates Through Which You Can Pass
" 10 Enter TIA Few Words About Bigotry
and Sectarianism-Sermon by Rev.
DIR. I. Dewitt Talmage, ID. d.

The east three gates; on the mort
three gates; on the south three gate.
on the west three gates"
The Cashmere gate of Delhi wher
converged a heroism that makes one
nerves Jingle, the Lucknow gate still
dented and SCARED with sepoy BON
bardment, the Madeline gate, with it
cnblazonry in bronze, the hundre1
gates of Thebes, the wonder of cen
turtles all go out of sight before tn,
gates of my text.
Our subject speaks of great metrop
oils, the existence of which many have
doubted. Standing on the wharf anc
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
came from foreign ports, and you say:
t.That is from Hamburg, and that is
from Marseilles, and that is from
Southampton, and that is from Ha-
vana," and your supposition is accu-
rate. But from the city of which am
now speaking no weather-beaten mer-
chantmen or frigates with Scared
bulkhead have ever come There has
been a vast emigration into that city,
but no emigration from it, so far as
our natural vision can descry.
There is no such city," says the I'M
devout astronomer. II 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 tenn
Piles, 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 de-
scriptions of it are in all cases to be
taken fguratively. bring in reply to
this what Christ said, and he ought to
know, II go to prepare"-not theory,
not a principle, not sentiment, but
II go to prepare place for you" The
resnrrected body implies this. If my
foot is to be reformed from the dust, it |
must have something to tread on. If
my hand is to be reconstructed, |
it must have something to handle. If |
my eye, having gone out in death, is to |
be rekindled, must have something to
gaze on. Your adverse theory seems
to imply that the resurrected body is
10 be hung on nothing, or to walk in
air, or to float amid the intangibles
You may say if there be material or
ganisms then soul in Heaven will be
cramped and hindered in its enjoy
but / answer, Did not Adam
and Eve have plenty of room in the
garden of EdenP Although only few
niles would have described the circum-
ference of that place, they had ample
room. And do you not suppose that
God, in the immensities, can build a
'5ace large enough to give the whole {
ace room, even though there be ma
erial organisms?
Herschel looked into the heavens. {
rs Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock '
,etween the glaciers and crosses over I
rom crag to crag, SO Herschel planted S
lis telescope between the worlds and J
.ided from star to star until he could
nnounce to US that we live in part G
f the universe but sparcely strewn t
'
1ensity until he finds a region no +
anger than our solar system in which r
here are $4,000 worlds moving. And t
'rof Lang says that by philosophic n
there must be somewhere a o
yorld where there is no darkness, but n
verlasting sunshine, so that ! do not y
now but that it is simply because we g
ave no telescope powerful enough a
nat we can not see into the land 6
here there is no darkness at all and
steh glimpse of the FURNISHED pin c
acles. AS conquering army march t
Ig on to take a city comes at nightfall II
the crest of mountain from which, a
the midst of the landscape, they see e.
lie castles they are to capture, and Il
in in their war chargers, and halt to d
Ike a good look before they pitch n
Ieir tents for the night, SO now, com Il
q as we do on this mountain top of c,
command this regiment of js
ID to rein in their thoughts and halt, P
i'd before they pitch their tents for al
e night take one good, long look at Il
e gates of the great city. ION the a
st three gates; on the north three Il
ties, and on the west three gates" Of
In the first place 1 want you to ex- sc
nine the architecture of those gates X
'oprietors of large estates are very sc
t TO have an ornamental gateway. b
metimes they spring an arch of ma W
nry. the posts of the gate ianked di
tn lions in statuary; the bronze gate tr
of INTERVIEWING foli- :
e, bird haunted. until the hand of Al
genius drops exhausted, lie
it's life frozen into the stone. Gates ri
wood and iron and stone guarded br
arly all the old cities Moslems have