Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-31
CHANGES IN HEAVEN,
DR.. TALMAGE TELLS OF CElEsrIA,
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

Great Growth In Population and In
crcn*ed Knowledge Perfection
Augmented - Always Bright md
Joyful.
'Oopyr'ght' ls9S by American Press Asso-
WASHINGTON, Oct. 80.-All out of
the usual line of sermonizing is this
story of DR.. Talmage concerning the
next W Id. and it may do good to see
things from novel standpoint. The
text is Revelation xxi, /, "And saw a
new heaven"
The stereotyped heaven does not mako
adequate impression upon us. We need
the old story told in new style in order
to arouse our appreciation. 1 do not
suppose that we are compelled to the
OLD phraseology. King James trans
lators did not exhaust all the good and
graphic words in the English diction.
airy. l suppose, if we should take the
| idea OF heaven and translate it into
modern phrase, we would find that its
atmosphere is combination of early
June and Of the Indian summer in o.
tober-a place combining the advan.
tages OF city and country, the streets
standing for the one, and the IL manner
OF fruits for the other; place of music
al entertainments harpers, pipers
trumpeters, doxologios; place of Won
derful architecture- behold the tenn
pies, place where there may be the
higher forms of animal life-the beasts
which were Oh earth beaten, lash whip.
ped and CALLED and unblanketed and
worked to death, turned out among the
white horses which the book of Revo-
lation describes as being in heaven; a
place of stupendous literaturc-the
books open; place of aristocratic and
democratic attractiveness-the kings
standing for the one, all nations for the
other; all botanical, pomological, Or
astrological, arboreecent, worGAipful
beauty and grandeur.
But my idea now is to speak chiefly
Of the improved heaven. People some
times talk of heaven as though it were
an old city, finished centuries ago, when
have to tell you that no city Oh earth
during the last SO years has had such
changes as heaven. 1t is not the same
place as when Job and David and Paul
wrote of it. For hundreds and hundreds
Of years it has been going through peace
month by month, and hour by hour, and
moment by moment it is changing and
changing for something better. Away
back there was only one residence in
the universe-the residence of the AL
mighty. Heaven had not yet been start
ed. immensely was the park all around
about this great residence, but Gods
sympathetic heart after awhile over
flowed in other creations, and there
came all through this vast country Of
immensely inhabited villages, which
grew and enlarged until they joined
each other and became one great central
metropolis Of the universe, streeted,
gated, tempted, watered, inhabited.
One angel went forth with reed, we
are told, and he measured heaven on
one side, and then he went forth and
measured heaven on the other side and
then st. John tried to take the census
of that city, and he became so bewil-
dered that he gave it up.
Vast Population.
That brings me to the first thought
of my theme-that heaven is vastly I'M
proved in numbers. Noting little under
this head about the multitude of adults
who have gone into glory during the
last 100 or 500 OF /, 900 years, l remem-
Der there are 1000, 000 coo of people in
the world, and that the vast majority
Of people die in infancy. How many
children must have gone into heaven
during the last 500 or 1000 years! 1t
New York should gather i'll one genera
ton 1000, 600 population, If London
should gather in one generation 4,0OO,-
900 population, what vast increase!
But what mere nothing as compared
with the 500, 900, 900, the 1000, 600, 600,
the "multitudo that no man can num-
ber' that have gone into that city! OF
course all this takes for granted that
every child that dies goes as straight
into heaven as ever the light sped from
etar, and that is one reason why heav-
en- will always be fresh and beautiful
the great multitude of children III 1t.
Put 500, 900, 900 children in country
It will be blessed and lively country.
But add to this, if you will, the great
multitude of adults who have COMO into
glory and how the census OF heaven
must run up! Many years ago clergy
man stood in q New England pulpit,
and said that he believed that the vast
majority of the race would llnally pe
DESTROYED and that not moro than one
person out Of 1000 persons would %
finally saved. There happened TO oe
about 2, 900 people in the village where
he preached. Next Sabbath two persons
were heard Disgusting the subject, and
wondering which one of the 1000 pee
nile in the village would finally reach
heaven, and one thought it would be the
minister, and the other thougnt IL
would be the old deacon. Now, nave
not much admiration for llfepoae
which will 20 out to ship SINKING
with 1000 passengers and got one or
in safety and let 1899 go to inc po''
tom. Why, heaven must have been
village when Abel, the first soul from
earth, entered it, as compared win ,ne
present population of that great city,
Growth In Knowledge.
Again. remark that heaven has vast
IL ;mnroyed in knowledge. Give man
40 or 30 years to study one science Or
ali sciences. with all the advantages OF
laboratories and observatorios and PM,
I,n a