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A GALA DAY IN HEAVEN. Dr, Talruagre Preaches to a London Audlenoe Vast Aboot a (Ireat Celebration Spoken of In the mill An Klouuent Acul to Thou Who Hut Not Consecrated Themselves to the Lord. In a ivcent sermon at London Dr. Talmagc preached from the text, Rev. vii.,!-10: -After this I beheld, and lo, n, great multitude which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and tumult?, and tontrue, stood before the throne, und before the Lamb, j clothe with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, j Haying: Salvation to our Uod, which Bittoth upon tho throne, and unto the Lamb." The eloquent divine spoke as follows: i It is impossible to come In contact with anything grand or beautiful in art, nature, or religion, without being profited und elevated. We go into tho art gallery, and our soul meets tho aoul of the painter, and we hear the hum of his forests and the clash of his conflicts, and see the cloud-blosnomlng of the bi'.y und the foam-blossoming of the oceuu; and we come out from tho jrallory better men than when we went iu. We go Into the concert of music and arc lifted into enchantment; for luys after our soul seems to rock with a verv tunr.ilt of iov. as tho sen, after a lonir stress of weather, rolls and rocks und kiiri'e a irreat wlnle before it I comes back to its ordinary calm. On the .srtine principle it is profitable to think of heaven, and look oft" upon that landscape of joy and light which St. John depicts; the rivers of gladness, the trees of light, tho thrones of power, the commingling of everlasting love. I wish this morning that I could bring Heaven from the list of intangibles, and make it seem to you as it really is tho i ereat fa. t in all history, the depot of nil ages, the parlor of God's universe. This account in my text gives a pict nre of heaven as it is on a holiday. Now if a man came to New York for the first time on the day that Kossuth arrived from Hungary, and he saw the arches lifted, and the tlowers Hung In the streets and ho heard the guns booming, he would have been very fool ish to suppose that that was the ordi nary appearance of tho city. While Heaven is ahiys grand and ulways beautiful, I think my text speaks of a gala day in Heaven. It is a time of great celebration per Tiaps of the birth or the resurrection of .lesus; perhaps of tho downfall of some despotism: perhaps because of the rushlnff in of tho mlllonulum. I know i not what; but it does seem to me lu reading this passage as If It were a holi- j day in Heavon;"aftnr this I beheld.and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kin dretls, and people, and tongues, stood tefi.re the throno. and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palms in their hands, and cried with a loud oice, saying, salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb." I shall speak to you of the glorified in Heaven their number, their antece dents, their dross, their symbols, and their song. But how shall 1 begin by telling you of the numbers of those in 'Heaven? I have seen a curious estimate iby an Ingenious man who calculates iow long the world was going to last Und how many people there are in each feneration, and then sums up the whole .Matter, Bnd says lie thinks there will je twenty-seven trillions of souls in glory. I have no faith in his estimate. I simply take the plain announcement mt the' text it is "a great multitude which no mon ran number." Every few years in this country we lake a census of the population, and it Is very easy to tell how many people there are in a city or in :t nation; but who shall give the census of tlie great nstion of the saved? It is quite easy to tell howmany people t!iere are in dif ferent denominations of Christians how many Buptits ami Methodists anil Episcopalians und I'resbyturiaiis; of all the denominations of Christians we could make an estimate. Suppose they were gathered in one great audience room: how overwhelming the sjiectacle! But it would give no idea of the great auilieiiec room of Heaven the multi tudes that Ikiw down and that lift up their hosMiinas. Why, they come from all the chapels, from all the cathedrals, friin all sects, from all ages; they who prayed in splendid liturgy, and those who in broken sentences uttered tho wish of broken hearts from Grace church and Sailors' bethel, from under the shapeless rafters, and from under hhfh-sprung arch "a great multitude that no man can nuinlwr." One of the most impressive things I have looked upon Is an army. Standing upon a hillside you see forty thousand or fifth thousand men pass along. You can hardly Imaglno the impression if yon have not actually felt it But you may take all the armies that the earth lias ever seen the legions under Senna cherib and Cyrus and Cu-'sar, Xerxes and Alexander and Napoleon, and all other modern forces, and put them in one jrreat array, and then on some swift ted you may ride along the line and review tlv troops; and that accumulated tost from all ages seems like a half tinned regiment compared with the jreut array of the redeemed. Jtood one day at Willlamsport, and tow on th e opposite sidcW the Votonnie tc forces comUig down, regiment after regiment, and brigade after brlgado. It remed as though there was no end to the procession. But now let me take the field-glass of St. John and look off upon the hosts of Heaven thousands opou thousands, ten thousand times ten tlioiv iind, one hundred and forty and four thousand, and thousands of thou (Kinds, until I put down the field-glass and say, "1 cannot estimate it a great fnultitude that no man can number." You may tax your Imagination, and torture yuur Ingenuity, and break down your powers of calculation In attempt ing to express the multitudes of the re leased from earth and the enraptured of gcavcu, and talk of hundreds of bun- dreds of hundreds; of thousands at thousands of thousands; of mil lions of millions of millions; until your head aches and your heart faints, and exhausted and overburdened you exclaim: "I cannot count them a great multitudo that no man can num ber." But my subject advances and tellB you of their antecedents, "of all nations and kindreds and tongues." Some of them spoke Scotch, Irish, German, En glish, Italian, Spanish, Tamil, Choctaw, Kurmcsc. After men have been long In the land you can tell by their accentu ation from what nationality they came; and I suppose in the great throng around the throne it will not be dim cult to tell from what part of tho earth they came These reaped Sicilian wheatflelds and those piuked cotton from the pods. These under blistering Bides gathered tamarind and yams. Those crossed the desert on camels, and those glanced over tho snow, drawn by Siberian dogs, and these milked the goats far up on the Swiss crags. These fought the wai' rus and white bear In reg on. joi ever- , lnstini nnw nnd those heard tne songs of fiery-winged birds in African thick' ets. They were white. 'I hey were black. They were red. They were copper color. From all lands, from all ages. They were plunged into Austrian dungeons. They passed through Span ish Inquisitions. They were confined In London Tower. They fought with beasts in the amphitheater. They were Moravians. They were Waldcnses. Thev were Albiirenses. They were i Scotch Covenanters. They were Sand wich Islanders. In this world men prefer different kinds of government Tho United States want u republic. The British govern ment needs to be a constitutional mon archy. Austria wants absolution. Hut when they come up from earth from dif ferent nationalities, they will prefer one great monarchy King .lesus ruler over it. And if that monarchy woro dis- banded, and it were submitted to alltne hosts of Heaven who should rule, then by tho unanimous suffrages of all the redeemed, Christ would become the president of tho whole universe. Magna Chartas, bills of right, houses of bur gesses, triumvirates, congresses, parlia ments nothing in tho presence of Christ's scepter, swaying over all the peoplo who have entered' upon that great glory. Oh! can you Imagine It? What a strange commingling of tastes, of histories, of nationalties, "of all na tions, and kindreds, and people, and tongues." My (subject advances and tells you of the dross of those In Heaven. The ob ject of dress In this world Is not only to or! tho body but to adorn it The God i who dresses up the spring morning with blue ribbon of sky around tne br(JW anJ currmss Gf dew-drops hung from tree branch, and mantle of crim son oloud Hung over the shoulder, and the vloleted slippers of the grass for her feet 1 know that God does not despise beautiful apparel. Well, what shall we wear in Heaven? "I saw a great multi tude clothed in white robes." It Is white! In this world we had sometimes to have on working apparel. Bright and lustrous garments would be ridicu lously out of place sweltering amid forges, or mixing paints, or plastering ceilings, or binding boo'ts. In this world we must have tho working day apparel sometimes, and we caie not how coarse it is. It is appropriate; but when all the toll of earth Is past and there is no more drudgery and no moro weariness, we shall stand before tho throne robed in white. On earth we sometimes had to wear mourning ap parel black scarf for t'.ie arm, black veil for the face, black gloves for the hands, black band for the hat Abra ham mourning for Sarah; Isaac mourn ing for Rebecca; Rachel mourning for her children; David mourning for Absa lom; Mary mourning for Lazarus. Every second of every minute of every hour of every day a heart breaks. The earth from zone to zone and from pule to polo is cleft with sepulchral rent, and the earth can easily afford to bloom and blossom when it is so rich with inoldering life. Graves! graves! graves! But when those bereavements have ull passed, and them are no more graves to dig, and no more cofllns to make, and no more sorrow to suffer, wo shall pull off this mourning and bo roln-d in white. I see a soul going right up from all this scene of sin and trouble into glory. I seem to hear him ay; I Journey forth rejolrtnif Krom this iturk vnlc of tears. To bnkveuli Joy ml freedom, Krom 1'urllily rate sail (ears. When Christ my Lord shall gather All His redeemed again, HU Ulnndoin to Inherit Good night till then. I hear my Saviour calling: The Joyful hour has come, Th angel guards are ready To gutilo me to our homo. When Christ our Lord shall gather All Ilia redeemed again, tils kingdom to Inherit Hood night till then. My subject advances, and fells yon of the symbols thoy carry. If my text had represented the good n Heaven as carrying cypress branches, that would have meant sorrow. If my text had rep resented the good in Heaven as carry ing night-shade, that would have meant sin. But it Is a palm branch they car ry, and that is victory. When the peo ple came home from war in olden times, the conqueror rode at the hend of his troops, and there were triumphal arches, and tho people would come out with branches of the palm tree and wave them all along the host What a significant typo this of the greeting and of the joy of the redeemed In Heaven! On earth they were condemned, and were put out of polite circles. They had infamous hands strike them on both chocks. Infernal spite spat in their faces. Their back ached with sorrow. Their brow reeled with unallevlated toil. How weary they were! Sometimes they broke the heart of the midnight in the midst of their anguish, orylng out: "OOod!" But hark now to the shout of the delivered captives; as they lift their arms from ths shackles and they cry out "i'roe! Fceel" They look back upon ell the trials through which they have passed, the battles they have fought, the burdens they carried, ths misrepresentations they suffered, and because they are delivered from all these, they stand before God waving their palms. They come to the feet of Christ and they look up into His face, and they remt'mber His sorrows, and they remember Ilia pain; and thoy re member His groans, and they say! "Why, I was saved by that Christ. He pardoned my sins, He soothed my soi rows;" and standing there they Bhall be exultant, waving their palms. That hand once held the implement of toil or wielded the sword of war; but now it plucks down branches from the tree of lifo as they stand before the throno waving their palms. Once He was a pilgrim on earth; Ho crunched the hard crusts He walked the weary way; but it Is ail gone now, the sin gone, tho weariness gone, tho sickness gone, tho sorrow gone. As Christ stands up before the great array of the saved and recounts His victories, it will be like tho rockinir and tossing of a forest in a tempest, as all the redeemed . . r' . sank, waving, waving thoir palms. My subject makes another advance ment, and speaks of the song they sing. Doctor Dick, in a very learned work, says that among other things in Heaven he thinks they will give a great deal of time to the study of arithmetic and the higher branches of mathematics. I do not believe it It would upset my idea of Heaven if I thought so; I never liked mathematics, and I would rather take tho representation of my text, which describes tho occupation of Heaven as being joyful psalmody: "They cried with a loud voice, saying, Salva tion to our God." In this world wo have secular songs, nursery songs, boatmen's songs, harvest songs, sentimental songs; but in Heaven wo will have . taste for onlv one song, nnd that will be the j song of salvation from an eternal death j to an eternal Heaven, through the blood i of the Lamb that was slain. I see a soul coming up to join the re deemed in Heaven. As it goes through the gates, tho old friends of that spirit come around it and say: "What shall we sing?" and tho nowly-arrived soul says: "Sing salvation;"" and after a while an earthly despotism falls, and a scepter of iniquity Is snapped, and churches are built where once there was superstitious mosques, and angel cries to angel: "Let us sing;" and the answer is: "What shall we sing?" and another voice says: "Let us sing salva tion." And after awhile all tho church oil earth will rush into the outspread arms of the church of Heaven, and while the righteous are ascending, and the world Is burning, and all things are being wound up, the question will be i asked: "What shall we sing?" and there will be a voice "like the voice of many waters, like the voice of mighty thundering, " that will respond: "Sin g salvation." In this world we have plaintive songs songs tremulous with sorrow, songs dirgeful for the dead; but in Heaven there will no sighing of winds, no wall ing of anguish, no weeping symphony. The tamest song wlH be hallelujah tho dullest tune a triumphal march. Joy among the cherubim! Joy among the seraphim! Joy among the ransomed! Joy forever! On earth the musio in churches is often poor, because there is no Interest in it, or because there is no harmony. Some would not sing; some could not sing; some sang too high; some sang too low; some sang by fits and starts; but in the great audience of the redeemed on high all voices will lie accordant and the man who on earth could not tell a plantation melody from the "Dead Starch in Saul" will lift an anthem that the Mendelssohns and Beethovens and the Schumanns of earth never im- agined; and you may stand, through all I eternity and listen, and there will be not one discord in that great anthum I that forever rolls up against the great heart of God. It will not be a solo; it will not bo a duet; it will not be a quln I tette: but an Innumerable host before the throne, crying, "Salvation unto our J God and unto the Lamb." They crowd I all tho temples; thoy liend over the bat ' tlumeuts; they till all tho heights and depths, and lengths, and breadths of I Heaven with hosamias. I When people were taken into the I Temple of Diana It was such a brilliant ! room that they were always put on ' their guard. Some people had lost i their sight by just looking on the brll i liancy of that room, and so tho janitor when he brought a stranger lo tho door and let him in would always charge him, "Take hetd of your eyes." Uli! when I think of tho song that goes up aroul.l tho throne of God, so Jubilant many-voiced, multitudinous, I feel like saying, "Take hoed of your ears." It is so loud a song. It Is so blessed an anthem. They sing a rock song, saying, "Who is He that sheltered us in the wilderness, and shadowed us In tho weary land?" And the chorus comes in: "Christ the shadow of a rock in a weary land." They sing a star song, saying: "Who is He that guided us through the thick night and when all other lights went out, arose in the sky the morning-star, pouring light on tho soul s darkness?" And tho chorus will come In: "Christ, tho mornnig-star shining on tho soul's darkness." They will sing a flower song, saying: "Who is Ho that bright ened all our way, and breathed sweet ness upon our soul, and bloomed through frost and tempest?" and the chorus will come In: "Christ the lily of tho valley, bl.wnlng through frost and tempest Thoy sing a water -song, saying: "Who Is He that gleamed to us from the frowning crag, and lightened thu darkest ravine of trouble, and brought cooling to the temples, anil refreshment to the lip, and was a fountain in tho midst M the wilderness?" And then the chorus will come In, Christ, the fountain In the midst of the wilderness;" My friends, will you Join that an them? Shall we make rehearsal this morning? If we cannot sing that song on earth we will not be able to sing it in Heaven. ' Can It be that our good friends in that land will walk all through that great throng of which I ipeak, looking for us and not finding us? 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