Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-03
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Heaven Improves in Grandeur NJ the
Ares Pass Ia.
The Departed ID y "a Into a Region q
Dizziness, Eut Int" stirring, r.ctur-
'squr, Radiant C nc Things seen
Prom u vel Standpoint.

DuiIn'>s, Eut Int" stirring, r.ctur-
,squ", Radiant e nc Things seen
Prom vel Standpoint.
An cat of the u,ual line of sermon
lzinr j. this story of DIR. Talmagc con
ccrnin" the rcNt world. and il may du
good I" see things frum a novel stand
point. The text i Revelation Nj. /:
Aud | SAW a new Heaven"
The >tcrr"typrd heaven docs not
make I'D, puatc impr, SION upon H.. We
need the old story told in new style in
order tu arouse our appreciation, Il"
not suppose that We are compel Ell IT,
the old phrasrnlngv King James
iranSlator> did not exhaust all the
good and graphic words in the English
dictionary. suppose if we should
take the idea of Heaven. and translate
it into m"drrn phrase, we would find
that it, atmosphere is a combination
"f III" early June and of the Indian
summer in October u place com
hining the advantages nf city
and country the streets standing
fur the utr. and the twelve manner ri
frujt, for the other; place of musical
entertainments harpcrs. piprr>. trum-
peters. loNulurirN: a place IF wonder
ful architecture behold the temples,
place where there may he the higher
.,m> of animal life the beasts which
were on earth beaten. lash-whippcd
aud CALLED aud unblank ctrd. and work.
sal IT, death. turned put ahiung the
! "a Ia I'm Nh I,.l Ia. ,f
citation describes a. being in Heaven;
place of StuprndouS literature the
books open; place of ariStncratic and
, democratic attractivcncsN the kings
standing for the one. all nations for
the other: all botanical, genealogical.
archaeological. arhorcsccnt. wor>hipful
beauty and grandeur
But my idea now Is to speak chiefly
of the improved Heaven. People
sometimes talk of Heaven rs though it
were an old city. finished centuries
ago. when | have To tell YOU that no
city ON earth during the last 30 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 If years II has
/ been going through peaceful rcvolu-
! ton. and year by year. and month by
! month. and hour hy hour. and moment
/ 10y moment il is changing. and chang
! ing for something better.
Away back there was only one resi-
dcucc in the univcrsc--thc residence of
/ the Almighty. Heaven had not vet
! been started. immensely was the park
nj, Ia 4
/ hut Gods sympathetic heart after II
while ovcriluwcd in other creations,
and there came. all through this vast
country uf immensely. inhabited viii
lagos which grew and enlarged until
they joined each other. and became one
great central metropolis of the uni
verse. strcctcd. gated. tempted, WA
tered, inhabited. One angel went
, forth with reed. we are told. and he
measured Heaven ON one side. and then
he went forth and mca Surcd Heaven ON
the other side: and then 81. John tried
J to take the ccnsuS of that city. aud
he hcrame so bcwildcrcd that he gave
It mp.
That brings me tn the first thought
of my theme-that Heaven is vastly
improved i'm numbers. Nothing little
under this head about the multitude of
adults who have gone into glory dur
ing the last hundred. or five hundred,
or thousand years. | remember there are
1000, 900 900 pc6pc- IN -rfrs wprfd. ar1
that the vast ma iority uf people die iii
infancy. How many children must
have gone into Heaven during the last
| E,.n
New York could gather in one gcncr-
alton l.000.0O0 population. If London
/ should gather in anc generation 1000.
0O0 population. what a vast increase.
I;ut what mere nothing as compared
with the 500. 600. 900 the 2.00o. 600. 900.
The multitude 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 rs
straight into Heaven rs ever the light
sped from a star: and that is one rca-
son why Heaven will always be fresh
and bcautiful-thc great multitude of
children in it. Put 500. Oo0, 900 children
in a country. it will nc blessed and
lively country.
| hut add to this. if You will. the great
multitude of adults who have gone in
To glory, and how the census of Heaven
must run up. Many years ago n clergy
man stood in II New England pulpit
and said that he believed that the vast
ma jority of the race would finally be
destroyed. and that not more than one
person out of two thousand persons
would he finally saved
| L., oil,
people i'm the vi lagc where he preached.
Next sabbath two persons were heard
discussing the subject and wondering
which one OF the 1000 people in the
village would finally reach Heaven.
and one thought il would he the minis
ter. and the other thought it would he
the deacon. Now. have not much add
miration for a life boat which will go
cut tn a ship sinking with 1000 passen-
gers and get onc OF in safety and let
1899 go 10 the bottom. Why. Heaven
must have been Il village when Abel.
the first soul from earth. entered it. as
compared with the present population
of that great city.
| Again. | remark that Heaven has
vastly improved in knowledge. Give IA
man 10 or 10 years To study one science.
or all sciences. with all the advantages
of laboratories and obscrvatorics and
philosophic apparatus. he will lie
marvel of Information. Now into what
intelligence must Heaven mount. angel
hood and sainthood. not after studying
for 10 or 30 years but for thousands of
years studying God and the soul and
Immortality and the universe. Now
the intelligence of that world must
keep on and on. with cycsight farther
reaching than telescope. with power of
calculation mightier than all human
mathematics. with powers of analysis
surprising the chemical laboratory.
with speed swifter than telegraphy.
What must Heaven learn. with all these
advantages. in a month. in year. in "A
century. in millennium? The differ
ence between the highest university
ON earth and the smallest class in n
primary school can not he a greater
difference than Heaven as il now is
and Heaven as it once was. Do you
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