Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1894 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1894-T WELTE 1UGES,

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IMC REV. III. TALMUB I'll KACIIUS OS A VISION OF HKAVLV. tlhei Eloqaent Preacher Speak of Impre.atops of HriTrn-What He Sm.Tr In Drem A (.lnnlaK Description - The Letion and the Exhortation. ' BHOOKLYN. Feb. 1 in the Brooklyn tabernacl this forenoon the hymns, the Scripture lesson and the prayers, as well as ths sermon, were about the future World more than about this -world. The Xtev. Dr. TaJmage took for his subject 'A Vision of Heaven," the text being Ezekiel I. 1, "Now it came to pass as I "was among the captives by the river of Lhehar that the heavens were opened, ind I taw visions of God." Expatriated and In far exile on the tanks of the river Chebar, an affluent of he Euphrates, sat Hzekiel. It was there he had an immortal dream, and it 3s tfven to us in the holy scripture Jfe dreamed of Tyre and Egypt, lie dreamed of Christ and the coming Jioaven. This esllo seated by that river Vhebar had a more wonderful dream than you or I ever have had or ever will have seated on the Kinks of the iludVon or Alabama or Oregon or Thames or Tiber or Danube. A Hrautifol Dream. ' Such a dream I had this morning! 9t was 5:30, and the day was breaking. ,3t was a dream of God a dream of bieaven. Kzekiel had his dream on the. "banks of the Chebar. I had my dream not far from th banks of the Hudson. 'The most of the stories of heaven were "written many centuries apo. and they '"lell us how the place looked then or hw it will lok centuri' ahead. Would Vou not like to know how it looks now? That is what I am going to tell you. "1 was there this morning. I have just Urot back. How I got into that city of Xho sun I know not. Which of the twelve gates I entered 'S to me uncertain. Uut my first remembrance of the seen. is that I stood on Tne of the maü. avenues, looking this vay and that, lost In raptures, and the "nir fro full of music and redolence and laughter and lig!it that I knew not "which street to take. whn an angel of T;od accosted me and offered to ?how 5ne thi objects of greatest interest, and 1 conduct me from street to street, and Jroni mansion to mansion, and from temple to temple, and from wall to wall. 3 said to the angel. "How long hast Miou been in heaven?" and the answer tame. "Thirty-two years, aeeordins to h earthly calendar." There was a secret about this angel's 3iamo that was not given me, but from ?ihe tenderness and sweetness and affeclion and interest taken in my walk .through heaven, and more than all in Tlhe fact of thirty-two years' residence he number of years since she ascended I think it was my mother. Old age and decrepitude and th tired look were all gone, but I think it was she. You J5. I was only on a visit to the city Änd had not yet taken up residence, and 2. could know only in part. I looked in for a few moments at the srreat temple. Our brilliant anl lovely Scotch essayist, Mr. Drummond, says there Is no church in heaven, but he did snot look for it on the lipht street. St. John was right when in his Patmosic vision, recorded in the third chapter of IRevelation. he speaks of "the temple of C.od." I saw it this morning the largest hurch I ever saw. as biff as all the -hurches and cathedrals of the earth put together and it was thronged. Oh, what . multitude'. I had never seen so many rpeople together. All the audiences of '11 the churches of all the earth put together would make a por attendance compared with that assemblage. There was a fashion in attire and head-.-arefs that immediately took my attention. The fashion was white. All in "white save one. And the headdress was a garland of rose and lily and mignonette, mingled with even leaves culled from the royal gardens and bound together with bands of gold. . . And I saw some young man with a Tin on the fin ire r of the right hand and said to my accompanying angel, "Why. those rings on the fingers of the right hands?" and I was told that those who wore them were prodigal sons and once Ted swine In the wilderness and lived on Uiusks, but they came home, and the retclnjar father said, "Put a ring on his hand." The Celestial Story. But I said there was one exception to this fashion of white pervading all the auditorium and clear up through all the 'fralleries. It was the attire of the one "who presided in that Immense temple the chief est, the mightiest, the loveliest 'jTson ir all the place. His cheeks reemed tc be flushed with Infinite beauty end his IIds were eloquence omnipotent. Hut his attire was of deep colors. They suggested the carnage through which he ad passed, and I said to my attending nr'. ""What is that crimson robe that lie wears?" and I was told. "They are Jyed garments from liozrah," and "lie trod the wine press alone." Soon after I entered this temple they H?a.n to chant the celestial litany. I; "was unilke anything I had ever hard for sweetness or power, and I have heard the most of the great organs and the most of th great oratorio. I said to my accompanying angel. "Who is that standing yondcr with the harp?" '.nd the answer was, "David." And I Jd. "Who is that sounding that trumpet?" and the answers was. "Gabriel." .And I said. "Who is that at the organ?" und the answer was, "I lande!." And the music rolled on till it came to a tloxology extolling Christ himself, when 11 the worshipers lower down and higher up, a thousand galleries of them, sudjTily droppnl on thMr knes and chanted. "Worthy is the Lamb that was flatn." Under the overpowering har-r.io-ny I fei! back. I said: "Lt us g. rThls is too much for mortal ears. I caniiot bear the overwhelming symphony." But I noticed as I was about to turn mway that on the steps of the altar was something like the lachrymal, or tear lottK as I had peeri it Jn the earthly Tnuseums. the lachrymals, or tear bottles. Into which the orientals usd to weep their griefs and set them away as sacred. Jiut Uiis lachrymal, or tear bottle, instead f earthenware a thos th orientals used. Vras lustrous and fury, with many splenrs, and it was towering and of great capacity. And I fcaid to my attending ariel. "What Is that great lachrymal, r tear bottle, etanding on the step of th altar?" and the angel tmjd: "Why io you not know? That is the bottle lo which DavH. the psalmist, referred Irj his fifty-sixth psalm when he said, 'Put thou my tears into thy bottle It Js full of tears from earth tears of rejentanee, tear of bereavement, tears of Joy. tears of many centuries." And then I aw how sacred to the Fympathetic Cod are earthly sorrows. As I was coming out of the temple I ww all along1 the pictured walls there were shelves, and golden vials were being set up on all those shelves. And I said: "Why the setting up of those vlaJs at this time? They seem Just now to have been filled," and the attending angel said: "The week of prayer all around the earth has just closed, and more supplications have been made than have been made for a long while, and these new vials, newly set up, are what the bible speaks of a3 "golden stars full r.f odors, which are the prayers of saints. " And I said to the accompanying angel. "Can it be possible that the prayers of earth are worthy of being kept in u-h heavenly shape?" "Why." aid the angel, "there Is nothing that !0 moves neaven as the prayers of M-rth. and they are set up. in sight of these infinite multitudes, and, more than

all. in fight of Christ, and he cannot forget thm, and they are before Him world without end." Meeting the Saints. Then we came out, and as the temple is always open, and some worship at one hour and others at other hours, we passed down the street amid the throngs coming and going from the great temple. And we passed through a street called Martyr-place, and we met there or saw sitting at the windows the souls of those who on earth went through fire and flood and under sword and rack. We paw John Wlekliff, whose ashes were by decree of the council of Constance thrown into the river, and Hogers, who bathed his hands In the fire as though it had been water, and Bishop Hooper and MeKail and Intimer and Ridley and Polycarp, whom the flames refused to destroy as they bent outward till a spear did the work, and some of the Albigenses and Huguenots and consecrated Quakers who were slain for their religion. They had on them many scars, but their scars were illuminated and they had on their faces a look of especial triumph. Then we rassed along Fong row, and we met soma of the old gospel singers. "That is Iaac Watts," said my attendant. As we came up to him he asked me if the churches on earth were tt'll singing the hymns he composed at the house of Ixrd and Iady Abney,. to whom he paid a visit of thirty-six years, and I told him that many of the churches opened their Sabbath morning services with his old hymn. "Welcome. Sweet Day of Rest." and celebrated their gospel triumphs with his hymn. "Salvation. O the Joyful Song!" and often roused the4r devotions by his hvmn. "Come We That Eove the Lord." While we were talking he introduced me to another of the song writers and said. "This is Charles "Wesley, who ln longed on earth to a different church from mine, but w are all now members of the same church, the temple, of Gd and the Lamb." And I told Charles Wesley that almost every Sabbath we sang one of his old hymns, "Arm of the Lord Awake!" or "Come. Let I's Join Our Friends Alwve." or "Love Pivine, All Love Excelling." And while we were talking on that street tailed Song row. Kirk White, tho consumptive collepe student, now everlastingly well, came tip, and we talked over his old Christmas hymn. "When Marshaled on the Nightly Plain." And William Cowper came up. now entirely recovered from his religious melancholy and not looking as if ho had ever in dementia attempted suicide, and we talked over the wide earthly celebrity and heavenly power of his oid hvmns. "When I Can Read My Title Clear" and "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood." Health la Ifenven. And there we met George W. Pethuno of wondrous Brooklyn pastorate, and I told him of how his comforting hymn had been sung at obsequies all around the world "It Is Not Death to Die." And Toplady came up and asked about whether the church was till making use of his old hymn, "Pock of Ages. Cleft For Me." And we met also on Song row Newton and Hastings, and Montgomery and Horatio Ronar, and we heard floating from window to, window snatches of the old hymns which they started on earth, and started never to die. "But," say somo of my hearers, "did you see anything of our friends in heaven?" Oh, yes. I did. "Did you see my children there?" says some one, "and are there any marks of their last sickness still upon them?" I did see them, but there was no pallor, no cough, no fever, ro languor about them. They are all well and ruddy and soneful and bounding with eternal mirth. They told me to give their love to you. that they thought of you hour by hour, and that when they could be excused from heavenly playground.4 they came down and hovered about you. and kissed your cheek, and filled your dreams with their glad faces, and that they would be sit the gate to greet you when you ascended to be with them forever. "But." say other voices, "did you see our glorified friends?" Yes, 1 saw them, and they are well in the land across which no pneumonias or palsies or drop, sles or typhoids ever sweep. The atom i blows over from orchards with trees bearing twelve manner of fruits, and gardens compared with which Chatsworth is a desert. The climate is a mingling of an earthly June and October, the balm of the cne and the tonio of the other. The social life in that realm where they are is superb and perfect. No controversies or jealousies or hates, but love, universal love, everlasting love. And thy told me to tell you not to weep for them, for their happiness knows no bound, and it is only a question of time when you shall reign with them in the same palace sind join with them in the same exploration of planets and the same tour of worlds. But yonder in this assemMy is an upturned faco that seems to a.sk how alKut the ages of those in heaven. "Do my departed children remain children, or have they lost their childish vivacity Do my departed parents remain aged, or have they lost the venerable out of their nature?" Well, from what I saw I think childhood had advanced to full maturity of faculty, retaining all the resilience of childhood, and that the aged had retreated to midlife, freed from all decadence, but still retaining the charm of the venerable. In other words, it was fully developed and complete life of all souls, whether young or old. A Glorions Gift. Some one says, "Will you tell us what most impressed you in heaven?" I will.

I was most impressed with the reversal j of earthly conditions. I knew of course that there would be differences of attire and residence J l heaven, for Taul had i declared iong ago that so-uls would thn differ "as one star differeth from I another," as Mars from Mercury, as Saturn from Jupiter. But at every step I In my deam in heaven I was amazed I to see that some who were expected to be high in heaven were low down, and some who were expected to be low down wre high up. You thought, for Instance, that those born of pious parent age, and of naturaly good, disposition, and of brilliant faculties, and of all styles of attractiveness will move In' the highest range of celestial splendor and pomp. No. no! I found the highest thrones, the bright est coronets, the richest mansions were occupied by those who had reprobate father or bad mother, ana who inherited the twisted natures of ten generations of miscreants, and who had compressed in their body all depraved appetites and all evil propensities, but they laid hold of God's arm, they cried for especial mercy, they conquered seven devils with in and seventy devils without, and were washed in the blood of the Lamb, and by so much as their contest was terrific and awful and prolix their victory was consummate and resplendent, and they have taken places immeasurably higher than those of good parentage, who could hardly help being good because they had ten generations of preceding piety to aid them. The steps by which many have mounted to the highest places In heaven were made out of the cradles of a corrupt parentage. When I sä w that I said to my attending angel: "That is fair; that Is right. The harder the struggle, the more r lorious the reward. Then I pointed to one of the most col onaded snd grandly domed residences in ail the city and said. "Who lives there?" and the answer was, "The penitent thief to whom Christ said, 'This day shalt thou be with Me In paradise. And who lives there?" I said, and the an swer was, "The blind beggar who prayed. 'Lord, that my eyes may be opened." " Some of thnse professors of religion who were famous on earth I asked about, but no one could tell me anything con cerning them. Their names were not even in the city directory of the New Jerusalem. The fact Is thst I suspected fome of them had not got there at all. Many who had ten talents were living on the back streets of heaven, while many with one talent had residences fronting on the King's park and a back

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tal, and the highest nobility of heaven were guests at their tabl?. and often the white horse of him who "hath the moon under his feet" champed its bit at their doorway. Infinite capsize pf earthly conditions! All social life in heaven graded according to earthly struggle and usefulness as proportioned to talents given! As I walked through those streets T appreciated for the first time what Paul said to Timothy, "If we suffer we shall also reign with Him." It surprised me beyond description that all the great of heaven were great sufferers. "Not all?" Yes, all. Moses, him of the Red sea,a great sufferer. Divid. him of Ab salom s imflllal behavior and Ahithorhel"s betrayal and a nation's dethrone ment, a great sufferer. Ezekial. him of the captivity, who had the dream on the banks of the Chebar. a great sufferer. I'atii. him of tho diseased eyes, and tho Mediterranean shipwreck, and the Mars Hill derision, and the Mamertine endungeonment. and the whipped back, and the headman s ax on the road to Ostia, a great sufferer. Yea, all the apostles after lives of suffering died by violence. beaten to death with fuller's clubs or dragged to death by mobs, or frori the thrust of the sword, or by exposure on barren island, or by decapitation. All tho high up in heaven great suf ferers and women more than men Felicitas and St. Cecelia and St. Agnes and St. Agatha and St. Lucia and women never heard of outside their own neigh borhood, queens of the needle, and the broom, and the. scrubbing brush, and the wash tub, and the dairy, rewarded according to how well they did their work. whether to set a tea-table or govern a nation, whether empress or milkmaid. I could not get over it as in my dream I saw all this, and that some of the most unknown of earth were the most famous in heaven, and that many who seemed the greatest failures of earth wen the greatest sucepses of heaven. And as we passed along one of thj grandest boulevards of heaven there approached us a group of persons so ra diant in countenance and apparel I had to shade my eyes with both hands be cause I could not endure the luster, and I said. "AngeR do toll me who thev are?" and the answer was. "These are tli-;.-who came out of groat tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb!" Then He Awoke. My walk through the city explained a thoisand things on erth that had been to me inexplicable. When I saw up there the superior delight and the su perior heaven of many who had on earth had it hard with cancers i:nd baiikrupcies and persecutions and trials of all srts, I said: "God has equalized it all it last. Excess of enchantment in heaven has more than made up fur the deficits on earth." "But." I said to my angelic escort, "I must go now. It is Sabbath morning on earth, and I must preach today and be in my pulpit by 10:30 o'clock. Goodbe," I said to the attending angel. "Thanks for what you have shown me. I known I have seen only in part, but I hope to return sigain thiough the atoning mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. CiocHl-by." Then I passed on amid chariots of sal vation, and along by conquerors' thrones. and amid pillared maj.-sties, and by windows of agate, and under arches that had been hoisted for returned vistors. And as I came toward the walls with the gates, the walls flashed upon mc with emeralds and sapphires and Chrysoprases and amethysts until I trembled under the glory, and then I heard a "oolt shove and a latch lift and a gate swing, and thev were all of pearl, and I pasied out loaded with raptures, and down by worlds lojver and lower and lower still, until I came within sight of the city of my earthly residence, and until through the window of my earthly home C sun poured so strong upon my pillow that my eo!ids felt it. and in bewilderment as to where I was and what I had seen I awoke. Conclnnion IlrnTvn. Reflection the first: The superiority of our heaven to all othr heavens. The Scandinavian heaven: The departed are in everlasting battle except as restored after leing cut t pieces. They drink wine out of the skulls of their enemies. The Moslem heaven as described by the Koran: "Theire shall be houris with large black eyes lik? pearls hidden in their shells." The Slav's heaven: After death the soul hovers six weeks about the body and then climbs a steep mountain, on tho top of which is paradise. The Tasmania n's heaven: A spear is placed by the clad that they may have something to light with, and after a while they go into a long chase for gsime of all sorts. The Tahitian's heaven: The departed are naten up of the god.-?. The native African heaven: A land of shadows, and in speaking of the departed they say, "All is done forever." The American aborigine's heaven: Happy hunting grounds, to which the soul goes on a bridge of snake. The philosopher's heaven: Made out of a thick fog or an infinite don't know. But harken and behold our heaven, which, though mostly described by figures of speech in the bible and by parable of a dream in this discourse, has for its chief characteristics separation from all that is vile, absence from all that can discomfort, presence of all that can gratulate. No mountains to climb, no chasms to bridge, no n'ght to illurrv, no tears to wi7e. Scandinavian heaven. Slav's heaven Tasmanian nraven, Tahitlan heaven, African heaven. aborigine's heaven, scattered into lameness and disgust by a glimpse of St. John's heaven, of Paul's heaven, of Christ's heaven, of your heaven, of my heaven! Reflection the second: You had better take patiently and cheerfully all pang3, affronts, hardships, persecutions and trials of earth, since if rightly born they insure heavenly payments of ecstacy. Every twinge of physical distress, evory He told about you. every earthly subtraction if meekly born, will be heavenly addition. If you want to amount to anything in heaven and to move in it3 best society you must be "perfected through suffering." The onlv earthly currency worth anything at the gate of heaven is the silver of tears. At the top of all heaven sits the greatest sufferer, Christ of the Bethlehem caravansary and of Pilate's oyer and terminer and of the Calvarean assassination. What he endureth, oh. who can tIl. To save our souls from death and hell? Oh. ye of the broken heart, and the disappointed mbttlon. and the shattered fortune, and the blighted life, take comfort from what I saw in my Sabbath morning dream. Reflection the third and last: How desirable that we all get there! Start this moment with prayer and penitence and faith In Christ, who came from heaven to earth to take us from earth to heaven. Last summer a year ago I preached one Sabbath afternoon in Hyde iark. London, to a great multitude that no man could number. But I heard nothing from it until a few weks ago. when the Rev. Mr. Cook, who for twenty-two years has presided over that Hyde park outdoor meeting, told me that last winter, going through a hospital in London, he saw a dying man whose face- brightened as he told him that his heart was changed that afternoon under my sermon in Hyde park, and II was bright now at his departure from earth to heaven. Why may not the Lord bless this as well as that? Heaven as I dreamed about It and as I read about it is so benign a realm you cannot any of you afford to miss it. Oh, will it not be transcendently glorious after the struggle of this life is over to stand in that eternal safety? Samuel Rutherford, though they viciously burnei his books and unjustly arrested him for treason, wrote of that celestial spectacle: The King Is there In all his beauty, Without a veil. Is seen; It were a well spent journey. Though seven deaths lay between. The Lttmb with his fair army lKtli on Mount .Ion stand. And glory, glory dwrllcth In lmmanucl's land.

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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. I.KS I. 1'IltST (ll AKTKR. IXTKU. N VTioxAi, si;hii, rnii. n. Test of tin I.eson, drn, &vii, 1 Memory- Yrre. 7, S olcln 1 it, (irn. x-. (-((iinmculr)- by the Itev. I). I. Slenrn. 1. "And whi n Abrain was iiinoty years old and nine, the Lrd appeared tu Abram and said unto him, I am tho Almighty Ciul; walk before Me nnd bo thou porfW-t." It is now twenty-four years ime Ahrain entered the land of Canaiiu (tee cha.rter xli, 4), during whijh time lAt left him and went to dwell in Sodom, while Abrain removed his tent and altar to Hebron (xiii. 1 IS). At this time tli Ijord appeared and renewed the covenant. We next see Abram rescuing Lot and his grood.5 from the four kinjrs, and being Messed by Mekhizedec. he gives him tithes and is enabled to refuse the goods of Sodom. In chapter xv the Lord conies to him again, and we have for the lirst time fear not, shield, reward, believe, righteousness and other words. Then follows another story of human wisdom and weakness, and a blank of thirteen years (eompare xvi. 16, and xvii, 1). after which in this lesson Jehovah appears again, but with a new name (bxl Almighty, or El Shaddal. Almighty, or fchadda!, signifies the all sufficient sacrificing love pouring Itself out for others. Jehovah virtually said to Abram, You have again listened to human wisdom, wondered from Me and failed, now return and walk before Me sincerely, uprightly, for I am the powerful, all pulheient one Kl Shaddal and in M alone you will lind all your need. 2 "And I will make my covenant between Me and the and will multiply th3 exceedingly." Thirteen times do we find the word ' covenant" in this chapter and once In xv. IS. making a full twice seven. Clod's perfect number. Nine times He says "My covenant," emphasizing ttw fact that It is all of Him. He is the author and finisher of it. and it cannot fail. The time will surely come when, notwithstanding all their wanderings. He will y-t give them repontence and remission of sins and will perform the truth to Jaxb and mercy to Abraham which he has sworn from the days of old (Acts v, SI; Zech. xii, 13; xiii. 1; Mic. vii, 20). 3. "And Abram fell on his fare, and Ood talked with him, saying." This position is suggestive of weakness, unworthiness, nothingness, on the part of Abram, but of worship and adoration toward GM. When Jesus appeared to John on Patmos, John fell at his feet hh dead. So also Paniel, when he saw the glory of the Lord, fell on the ground, with his face toward 'he ground (Uev. 1, 17; Dan. x, 9. Isaiah said. "Woe is me, for I am undone," and Job said, "I abhor myself (Isa. vi. F: Job xlli, 6). A sight of the Lord anl His beauty and holiness delivers us from saying r thinking anything more about ourselves and enables ua to glory only in the Lord. 4. "As for Me, behold. My covenant Is with theo, and thou --halt be a lather of many nations." The details of th covenant are more fully unfolded with every ?ew statement of It. First, God would make of him a great nation, then they should be as numerous .as the dust of the earth, then as the stars of heaven, then they would have great substance, but now he is to lcme a multitude of nations (se margins). Whatever fulfillment of this there was In the descendants of Islnnael and of the son-; of Kenturah there is noubtless a fulfillment to be manifested in the coming ages. We do well to hold fast the promise and wait with expectation. He will do exceeding abundantly alove all our thinking. 5. "Neither schall thy name any more be called Abram, for a father of many rations have I made thee." Some of tho scholars may not know that the part of the namo which signifies "father"' is

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