REV. DR. TALMAGE
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun-
day Sermon.
Subject: “The Gates of Heaven.”
Text: “On the east three gates: on
north three gates: on the south three
on the west three gates," — Revelation xxi.
The Cashmere gateof Delhi,
verged a heroism that makes one's nerves
tingle, the Lucknow gate, still dented and
scarred with sepoy bombardment
line gate with its emblazonry in bronze,
hundred gates of Thebes, the wonde
centuries, all go out of sight before
gates of my text,
Our subject speaks of a great metropolis,
the existence of which many have doubted,
Standifig on the wharf and looking off upon
the harbor and seeing the marchantmen coms
ing up the bay, the flags of foreign nations
streaming from the topgallants, vou immedi-
ately make up your mind that those vessels
rome from foreign ports, and you
is from Hamburg, and that is from
geilles, and that is from Southampton,
that is from Havana,” and your supposition
i8 accurate, lat from the city of which ar
now speaking no weather-heaten me
men or frigates wit it |
ever come, There}
tion into that city,
it, so far as our nat
“Thera
Astronomer,
with a
heavens,
and eav
ever risen
ples,
There
Me tel
the
gatos;
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the
of
Mar-
and
weaith
in the
all the
them
Brew ternal
the gate! It strike
ti through every one that
step this side of the gate and we are
One step the other side of the gate
are kings, The pilgrim of earth
going through sees in the one huge pearl all
his earthly tears in erystal. Ob, gate of
light, gate of pearl, gate heaven, for our
weary souls at last swing open!
When shall these eyes thy heaven bullt walls
And pearly gates behold
Thy bulwarks with salvation
And gtreets of shining gold?
Oh, heaven is not a dull place!
% not a contracted place,
stupid place. ‘I saw the
they were twelve pearls,”
FE
it. Une
paupers,
and we
of
strong
twelve gates,
the number of those gates,
and lordly mandrs are apt to have one expen.
sive gateway, and the others are ordinary,
but look around st these entrances to heaven
and count them. One two three four five six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, Hear
it, all the earth and all the heavens! Twelve
gates!
I admit this is rather hard on sharp sectaris
anisms’
brings his Westminster assembly catechism,
stay out,” If a member of the Reformed
Church i# bigoted,
the Heidelberg eatechism, and he says,
Jo through there or stay out,"
dist
ann may say: “‘Herelsn liturgy out of which
1 mean to mace a gate, Go thoough it of
stay out,” or a Baptist may say:
water gate, You go through that,
and so in
and in all our denominations there are
who make one gate
demand that the
I abhor this contractedness
views. O, small souled may,
give vou the contract for
whole
in
making gates?
the twelve
who says,
of
man
ane rats
choose, Here is a
I say,
then use the prayer book.”
who says, “I believe there
Here 18 a
is only
immersion."
Let me plunge you."
is
say,
and rusted
twelve gates and they
The fact
posts when there
are twelve pearls,
that a great many
day
They have bee
all about God's decrees, and they want
to be
mned, and they
ussing that subject
there are millions of souls who need
the truth put straight at them.
counting the number
with which Sa
They zit on
vessel going
and instead o gating .
pulling away for the
is
are reprobated to be
keeping on dis
the Philistines
and
the
boat
lew
beach
in
into a
} y they
to pect 3
f nn
git dis
tended
usn
us to know #
it to know othe
i sermons
cama
went.
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pa
Late
bananas
ROrores
Mex-
Highlan
ens nota an
It is not ¢
val families,
with small populati
iced that an ange! was suring it,
this i 1 then he mes
ured it that way, i whichever way he
measured it it was 1590 miles, so that Baby-
lon, and Tyre and Nineveh and St, Peters-
burg and Canton and Pexin and Paris
London and New York and all the dead o
f the and all the living cities of the
present do 1 together would not equal the
census of that great metropolis,
Walking along a st rout, you ean, by
contour of the dress or of the face, guess
where a man comes from. You say: “That
is & Frenchman; that is a Norwegian; that iz
an American.” But the gates that gather in
the righteous will bring them in irrespective
of nationality, Foreigners sometimes got
Bome of the tenderest and most
John saw it, at
hon hen
he measured it
pas
the
they died. Butthe Swiss, coming to the high |
residence of heaven, will not long any more
for the Alps, standing amid the eterna! hills,
more for the |
luxuriant harvest fleld he loft now that he
hears the hum and the rustle of the harvests
of everlasting light. The royal ones from
earth will not long to go back again to the
Those who once lived
the trees of life that bear twelve manner of |
fruit.
While I speak an everlasting throng is
They are going
indian from Hong Kong, “What,” you savy,
introduce ail the heathen into
glory?” 1teli you the fact is that a major |
ity of the people of those climes die in ins |
Racy, and the infants all go stenight into |
everinsting life, and so the vast majority of |
those who dio jn China and Indias, the vast
majority who die in Africa, go straight into |
tho world was created, and sn I estimate
{ there must be 15,000,000 children in glory.
at a concert 2000 children sing, your soul
| raptured within vou, Ob, the transport
{| when 15,000,000 little ones stand up in white
before the throne of God, their chant drown-
ing out all the stupendous harm 5 of Duss
seldor! and Leipsie, Pour in through the
| twelve gates,
Oh, ve redeemed, banner liftad,
rank, saved battalion after saved
| until all the city of God
{ tramp, tramn! Crowd all the t
Room vet. loom on the thrones
the mansions, Room on tho
Let the trumpet of invitation be sounded un.
| til all earth's mountains hear the shrill blast
and the glens echo it. Let misaslonaries tell
| it in pagoda and colporteurs sound it across
the western prairies, Shout it to the Lanlan-
| der on his swift sled, Hallo it to the Bedouin
| carearing aeross the desert. News, news!
A glorious heaven and twelve gates to get
{into it! Hear it, O vou thin blooded nations
| of eternal winter-—-on the three gates!
| Hear it, O you nronzed inhabitants panting
under equatorial heats n the south three
i gates!
ButI no
{ they ware open
| always be so,
gathered up
the ¢
Every
Every
the
in
mit
rank after
battalion,
1 hear the
dy gates,
Room in
river bank,
aha
north
saw those ontes
They will not
heav LV
hn
apen,
when J
wide
After awhile
all its intended
God will hs
taken, E
mounted, A
harvested in
tine
hildren of
wn
ne
op
thr
universe
And hes
gates will be
nd gate
being made
shut, Russia
shut. Italy in,
ven
sixth gate
savent!
ir hon
have
gates, did
sed,
Any
thoy?
and,
and tha ory
everlasting
me i Oh, whe
the troops of God sho
grand it will be if y
Blessed are all th
gates int
AaB
fare a ng then
2 taro
yi and
Y Woo ene
the city,
« Iga S00
FATAL PLAQUE
ft Carries ON 130 of 200 Sirieken
Canses Sadden Death.
and
of the plague in
Kentucky, which
pec sang, ita
5
ue by the Biate Board of
The following description
Fioyd and Both Counties,
has carried off seventy-five
victims, is furnished by physicians sent
investigate the plag
Health,
The doostors say it ia identical with
plague which swept Ireland in 1858
malignant, but not esntagions,
local conditions, though about the exact
cause nimost nothing is known, Its most
| appalling feature is the rapidity ofits a tion,
It longest course does not excesd three days,
| and scores died in from two to eignt hours,
The symptoms are pain fn the head, a high
fover and a taudency to draw bask tue head
and shoulders, Pains like the stinging of
| bees attack the ends of the toes and Nugers,
| Sxtending to the head, Th»
fixed, orossed as death draws near,
Oo
the
It is
and is dus to
and the
than the more painful features of the bhorri-
| ble disease, Of 200 causes 150 died,
ig Timber Land Doal,
F. 1. and C. W. Goodyear, of Baffaly, NX. Y,
! have purchased 4000 acres of Potter + Junty
| (Pennsylvania) timber land from William
Dent, and the timber and hemlosk bark on
| aadtaer trast of 4000 anres,
| satimated to contain 1,000,000 poy fest of
| standing timber. The price paid was $150,
000. The timber lands of Potter County are
| years, whose sawmills are at Again,
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to
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