The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13
TWELVE WIDE GATES
REV. DR.. TALMAeE ON THE EN-
FRANCES TO HEAVEN.


He breaches to Mighty Throng at the
Great Academy of Music In New York
His Subject. .'The Gates of Heaven
New YORK, April 7.--The bright
spring weather has brought still larger
crowds to the Sunday afternoon services
conducted by Rev. DR.. Talmage He
took for his subject today ''The Gates
of Heaven, the text being Revelation
xxi, 13, "On the east three gates; on
the north three gates; on the south three
gates; on the west three gates l."
The Cashmere gate of Delhi, where
oonverged heroism that makes one's
nerves tingle, the Lucknow gate, still
densed and SCARED with sepoy bonn bard
ment, the Madeline gate with its en-
blazonry in bronze, the hundred gates
of Thebes. the wonder of centuries, all
go out of sight before the gates of my
text
Our subject speaks of a great metrop-
oils, 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 mp 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 South
ampton, and that is from Havana, I"
and your supposition is accurate But
from the city of which am now speak
ing no weather beaten merchantmen or
frigates with SCARED bulkhead have
ever come. There has been vast emil
grafton into that city, but no emigration
from it, SO far as our natural vision can
descry
There is no such city, J" says the un-
devout astronomer. 81 have stood in
high towers with mighty telescope
and have swept the heavens, and haye
seen spots ON the sun and oaverns 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 peo-
Pile tell me that heaven is not material
but a grand spiritual fact,
and that the Bible descriptions of 1t are
in all cases to bs taken figuratively. |
bring in reply to this what Christ said,
and he ought to know, ~ go to pre-
pare"-not theory, not principle,
not sentiment, but II go to prepare q
place for you The resurreoted body
implies this If my foot is to be reform
sd from the dust, it must have some-
thing to tread on. II my hand is to be
reconstructed, it must have something
10 handle II my eye, having gone out
in death, is to be rekindled, must |
nave something to gaze on Your ad-
verse theory seems to imply that the
body is to be hung on moth
ng, or to walk in air, or to float amid |
,he intangibles. You may say if there
% material organisms then soul in
heaven will be oramped and hindered in
ts enJoyments, but answer, Did not /
Adam and Eve have plenty of room in 1
he garden of Eden2 Although only a
ew miles would have described the cir i
,umferenoe of that place, they had
lmple room. And do you not suppose
hat God, in the immensities, can build
place large enough to give the whole
ace room, even though there be mate
ial organisms9
The Prospect.
Herschel looked into the heavens. As
Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock be-
ween the glaciers and crosses over from
rag to crag, so Hersohel planted his tele.
cope between the worlds and glided
rom star to star until he could an
ounce to us that we live in part of
be universe but sparsely strewn with
'orlds. and he peers out into immensity
ntil he finds region no larger than
ur solar system in which there are So,
90 worlds moving. And Professor
ang says that by philosophio reason
N there mnst be somewhere world
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