Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-25
THE GATES OF HEAVEN.
mere Is a World Somewhere Wher,
There is No Darkness.
we've Gates Through Which You Can Pau
% Enter It-A Few Words About Birotry
ana NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by Rev.
DR.. 7. Dewitt Talmage, ID. d.

| Rev. DR.. Talmage took for his sui,
Ject Sunday The gates of Heaven.
the text being Revelation xxi. 10: 10,
the east three gates; on the nortl
'hree gates; on the south three gates
on the west three gates"
Inc Cashmere gate of Delhi wher,
converged heroism that makes one,
nerves Jingle, the Lucknow gate still
dented and SCARED with sepoy bonn
bardment, the Madeline gate, with il.
emblazonry in bronze, the hundred
gates OF Thebes, the wonder of cen
turtles all 20 out Of sight before the
gates of my text.
Our subject speaks Of > great metrop.
ellis, the existence of which many have
doubted. Standing on the wharf and
looking of upon the harbor and seeing
the merchantmen coming up the bay,
the tiags of foreign nations streaming
from the topgallants, you Immediately
make up your mind that those vessels
came from foreign ports, and you say:
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 weaeher-beaten mer.
chantmen or frigates with Scared
oulkhead have ever come. There has
been vast emigration into that city.
but no emigration from it, SO far as
our natural vision can descry.
There isrno such city," says the un-
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
pies, 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 figuratively. bring in reply to
this what Christ said, and he ought to
know, 81 go to prepare"-not theory,
not a principle, not sentiment, but
Il 60 to prepare place for you" The
resurrected body implies this. II my
foot is to be reformed from the dust, it
must have something to tread on. If
my hand is to be reconstructed,
1t 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 10
TO be hung on nothing, or to walk in
air, or to float amid the intangibles.
You may say if there be material or
yanisms then soul in Heaven will be
,ramped and hindered in its enjoy
nents, but answer, Did not Adam
md Eve have plenty of room in the
,arden of Eden? Although only few
niles would have described the circum-
erence of that place, they had ample
Dom. And do you not suppose that
Tod, in the immensities, can build
lace large enough to give the whole
ace room, even though there be ma
erial organisms?
Herschel looked into the heavens.
Is Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock
etween the glaciers and crosses over
rom crag to crag, SO Herschel planted
is telescope between the worlds and
lided from star to star until he could
nnounce to us that we live in part
+ the universe but sparcely strewn
nth worlds, and he peers out into i'm
lensity until he finds a region no
anger than our solar system in which
here are $4,000 worlds moving. And
rof. Lang says that by philosophic
there must be somewhere a
,orld where there is no darkness, but
verlasting sunshine, SO that ! do not
now but that it is simply because we
ave no telescope powerful enough
1at we can not see into the land
here there is no darkness at all and
itch glimpse of the FURNISHED pin
acles. AS conquering army march,
e on to take city comes at nightfall
the crest of mountain from which,
the midst of the landscape, they see
le castles they are to capture, and
in in their war chargers, and halt to
Ike a good look before they pitch
leir tents for the night, SO now, COM
q as we do on this mountain top OF
l command this regiment of ]
cd to rein in their thoughts and halt.
i'd before they pitch their tents for
le night take one good, long look at .
e gates Of the great city. ION the
st three gates; on the north three
ties, and on the west three gates" I
In the first place l want you to ex-
nine the architecture of those gates.
.oprietors Of large estates are very
1t to have an ornamental gateway.
,metimes they spring an arch OF ma 7
nry, the posts of the gate fanked S
It'll lions in statuary; the bronze gate
of INTERVIEWING foli-
e, bird haunted. until the hand OF
chitectural genius drops exhausted, c
its life frozen into the stone. Gates '
wood and iron and stone guarded t
arly all the old cities Moslems have {
scribed upon their gateways inscrip- a
ms from the Koran of the Moham- t
sdan. There have been great many '
.e gateways, but Christ sets his hand r
the work, and for the upper city
,ung gate such as no eye ever gazed y
untouched of inspiration. With e
e nail of his own cross he cut into a
.ordarf,,l traceries stories of past G