The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-19
TALMAGE's SERMON.
The Doctor Discusses Upon Em-
4 pigments In Heaven.
Preachers VIII Preach, Teachers VIII
Teach, aud the Worlds Employ
ments win Go On just
About AS Usual.

washington congregation, taxing ior
his text:
Now II came to pass In the thirtieth year, in
khe fourth flonth. in the fifth day OF the month
As was among the captiyes by the River OF
Chebar, that tho heavens were opened -Eze'
Mel /.
Ezekiel, with others, had been ex.
patriated, and while in foreign slavery
was standing on the banks of the royal
canal which he and other serfs had
been condemned to dig by the order OF
Nebuchadnezzar-th royal canal in
khe text called the River Of Chebar-
the illustrious exile had visions OF
Heaven. Indeed, it is almost always
20, that the brightest visions of Heaven
come not to those who are on noun
dain-top of prosperity, but to some
John on desolate Patmos, or to some
Paul in Mamertine dungeon, or to
some Ezekiel, .anding on the banks
of ditch he had been compelled to
hig-ysa, to the weary, to the heart
Broken, to those whom sorrow has
[banished. The text is very particular
TO give us the exact time of the vision.
1t was in the thirtieth year, and in the
fourth month, and in the fifth day of
the month. So you have had visions
of earth you shall never forget. You
remember the year, you remember the
month, you remember the day, you
remember the hour. Why may we not
have some such vision now, and it be
in the twelfth month, and in the sixth
day of the month?
The question is often silently asked,
HhAnul, anlil1u
pounded: What are our departed
Christian friends doing MOVE" The
question is more easily answered than
you might suppose. Though there has
come no recent intelligence from the
Heavenly City, and we seem depend
ent upon the stories of Is centuries
ago, still / think we may from strong
est inference decide what are the pres
ent occupations of our transferred
kinsfolk. After God has made ma
turc He never eradicates the chief
characteristic Of it's temperament.
You never knew man sanguine in
Temperament to become phlegmatic in
temperament. Conversion plants new
principles in the soul, but Paul and
John arc just as different from each
other after conversisn as they were
different from each other before con-
version. If conversion does not Grad
'icate the prominent characteristics of
temperament. neither will death Grad
icatc them. Paul and John are as diff
ferent from each other in Heaven as
they were different from each other
i'm Asia Minor.
hat 1u ht.n IN,
Subtraction and a sum in addition to
decide what are the employments of
your departed friends in the better
world. You are to subtract from them
ali earthly grossness and add all earth
ly goodness, and then you are to come
to the conclusion that they are doing
now in Heaven what in their best mo-
ment they did on earth. The reason
30 many people never start for Heaven
Is because they could not stand it if
they got there if it should turn out
to be the rigid and formal place some
people pilot ograph it. We like to come
to church, but we would not want to
stay here till next summer. We like
to hear the "Ilallelujah Chorus" but
we would not want to hear it all the
time for so centuries. 1t might be on
some great occasion it would be posi-
bly, comfortable to wear a crown of
gold weighing several pounds, but it
would be an affiiction to wear such u
crown forever. In other words, we
run the descriptions of Heaven into
the ground while we make that which
was intended as especial and celebra-
tive to be the exclusive employment in
Heaven. You might as we'll, if asked
to describe the habits of American So
ciety. describe h Decration day or a
Fourth of July, or an autumnal
Thanksg as though it were all
the time halfway.
In the first place, remark that ell
those of our departed Christian friends
who, on earth, found great joy in the
fine arts are no v indulging their tastes
in, the same dill Sction. On earth they
had their gliAddest pleasures amid
pictures and stGtuary, and in the study
of the laws of light and shade and
perspective. Have you any idea that
affiuence of faculty at death collapsed
and persisted? Why SO, when there is
more for them to look at and they have
keener appreciation of the beautiful,
and they stand amid the very looms
where the sunsets and the rain bows and
the spring mornings are woven? Are
you so obtuse as to suppose that because
the painter drops his easel, and the
sculptor his chisel, and the engraver
his knife, that therefore that taste,
which he was enlarging and intensi-
flying for 40 or so years is entirely OBJ
liberated? These artists, or these
friends of art on earth, worked
in coarse material and with i'm
perfect brain aud with frail
hand. Now they have carried their
art into larger liberties and into wider
circumferences. They are at their old
business yet, but without the fatigues,
without the limitations. without .he
hindrnnces. of the terrestrial studio.
Iremark again, that all our depart
I'd Christian friends who In this world
were passionatefy fond Of music are
still RECALLING that taste In the world
celestial. The Bible says SO much
about the music of Heaven that it can
not all be 'fgurative. Why all this talk