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TALMAGE
SERMON
BY Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, DID,.
Pastor of jefferson Park Presby.
terrain Church, Chicago

terrain Church, Chicago
Chicago, Aug. 23.-From the giftcr
and fascination of worldly pleasures
and cnjoymcnts the preacher in this
sermon directs us to the contemplation
of tho greater joys Of the "better land"
The text is I Corinthians XIV, 40. eve
shnl also bear the image Of the heav-
enly'
What is heaven? Some people think
that we do not know much about 1t. |
remember how my father, who loved to
preach about the celestial city" used
to say he felt when he described it
that he was looking through "a glass
darby" Some years ago one of his
dear friends, Judge Nelson, was dying.
He was Brooklyn's most honorcd ju-
rst. The last time my father visited
him the judge asked, What did you
preach upon last Sabbath?" Upon
heaven" Upon heaven" exclaimed
tho old Judge. "Will YOU send me the
sermon? l would lih" TO read it.
Certainly" said my f.'h"r But that
afternoon his face We @ad smile as
he came into tho asked,
what Is the matter n.y.
said he IT have bee to visit
Judge Nelson, who is lie asked
me to send him my Ia lays ser
mon on heaven. WIS ,u~t thinking
that within few days the old judge
will hc in heaven. He will 20 there
Just after reading my description Of It,
Then all the grandeur and glories of
that celestial city will so eclipse any
thing that havC ever dreamed of that
he will laugh at me and my sermon and
say what a poor idea Talmage had of
what Christ has prepared for us. For
since the beginning of the world men
have not heard nor perceived by the
ear. neither hath the eye soon. o God.
besides thee. what he hath prepared for
him that wniteth for him ! guess l
will not send Nelson my sermon on
heaven. 1t would make mo Il laughing
stock for him through all eternity
Glance Through the C"t"..
That is true 30 human mind can
conceive. no human voice or pen can
depict, the beauties of the celestial
kingdom. There are. however, pas
sagcS in Gods word which open the
peary gates n little way, so that we
con catch q plimpso of the supernal
grandeur of that city of celestial glory.
We can. as it We're, pluck rose of
Sharon or lily of the valley and learn
ir ,,inioturn what tho fropronce of the
,oovo,l,. Gardens eho1 ha whore every
hilleido ond neadowlend Is covered
wifi, nornetuol eora Through the
crovice Of TINT omen gate we can. as it
vora for n,oment catch a sight of
tho redeemed whose garments are as
,rii,, os tho drircn snow and whose
fo,o oro Irpi+o1 only nv thoir own ca
no.itv 70 eniov tho honniness nrovidod
! for thon I've their almighty and MI
Ilovtnp Father # is for such a GLIMPSE
~ +,is hoo,or IN u.licb all christians
ora hoodino n,ot would onion nv RI
11o today and snrok from the text. CAS-
wo havc horne the imopc of tho earthly
we sbou also hnor tho image of the
I.covonIv"
Heaven is place Of immortal resi-
dcnce Whit does that imply2 "Why."
answers some one "thnt means we
shall 1.-Two an millions unon millions Of
wears" II means thnt long after this
oorth as a burning star shall flicker
md go ONT our snirituol existence shall
coutinuo It means conscious life
extending t. agoe which dwarf into
hrevitv the Io,r,ost term even of the
iuonimate roIrcs of tho most remote
lpast. "Immortnl," exclaimed NAPOLEON
RonnDartc. turning TO one of his pener-
ais who had applied the epithet TO a
statue of vast antiquity which had
been brought from Egypt TO the Lon.
yre in Paris. Immortal, That is not
immortal What are the three or four
thousand wears which that statue has
Ipyisted in comparison with the immor-
tality which uoes on for ever and
ever"
But the immortality of heaven is not
TO be measured in wears alone. 1t is
the immortality of eternal youth. Old
ppn imnhes weakness Of body and of
mind. In heaven there will be such n
perfect removal of our powers day bv
day that ts@ massage of wears leaves no
trace of decay.
No Need of Rest In Heaven.
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