ENTERING THE GATE. Dr. Talmage Describes What May Be Ex- pected in the Next World. Exultant Admission Awaits Those Who Have Lived for Others, While the Bigot and Penurious Will Barely (iet There. [Copyrivht 1801, ] Wasnrzatron, D. C—In a very novel way Dr. Talmage in his discourse describes what may be expected in the next world by those who here bend all their energies in the right direction; text, 1I Peter i, 11, “For so an entrance shall be minis- tered unto you abundantly.” Different styles of welcome at the gate of heaven are here suggested. We all hope to enter that supernal capital throuch the grace that is ready to save even the chief of sinners, but not now. No man healthy of body and mind wants to go now. The man who hurls himself out of this life is either an agnostic or is de- mented, or finds life insufferable, and does not care where he lands. This is the best world we ever got into, and we want to satay here as long as God will let us stay But when the last pace of the volume of our earthly life is ended we want enroll ment in heavenly citizenship. We want to get in easily We do not want to be challenged at the eate and asked to show our passports We do not want the gate. keeper in doubt as to whether we ought to go in at all. We do not wr to he kept in the portico of the temple until consultation is made as to where we came from and who we are and whether it is safe to admit ues, lest we he a discord in the eternal harmonies or lower the spirit of heavenly worship. When the Peter in the text addresses the ant unto you abhundantlev.” ke i.uiplies rapturous and heaven, if they get in at all arrive anxious and exci sive and wondering “Come!” or “Go! such persons as another place as will eneaks of hether it The Bible Yeearcely rave “saved as by fire,” the teeth.” Carrving out the suggestion of my text 1 provose to show vou what Christians will get into heaven hard push and those who will amid salutations nite In the elass T put that man who gets into kingdom of God at the close of a life given to worldliness ane Years he made the resalutior he would gerve himself and serve world body, mind and then would seek heaven. He He genuinely or the fast hour or the last minute his life He takes the last seat in the last car of the last train bound heavenward leased and immortal soirit one wing bears down toward hin with a welcome. No =i } i None there ob! idness done or alms { itual help administere place to stav. but I do not envy that man his heaven. He got in, but it was not an abundant entrance. Sometimes in our pulnits we give a wrong turn to the story of the dving thief to whom Christ said: “This day thou he with Me in par We to admire the merey of the Christ t pardoned him m bunt do not t us admire the When was arrested | think his pockets were of stolen coin and the ecnat he had on his back was not his own. He stole right on until he was arrested { I He classes with a sob in all aro ] the out of prepare his just tins to enter Carries resoiution renents dn ¥ BRODY en of ~ladness at dice the last hour Aving thief he crimes to paradise, but he was no follow. What a gigantic mean’ vote the wondrous eoni yf brain and nerve and mnscle and bone with which we are endowned. these miracles of and hearing snd speech. to. purposes nnworthy or profane and then, through pentance at the last enter heaven ing God all one's lif advantage of a } rupt law and free of all Labiliti YOu hink some men would l heaven. Again, the b text calls an his bedwarfed oninion as to wil believe and order to gain residence. He has his creed in one pock and his catechism in another 3 it may be a good creed and a good cate chism, but he uses them as sharp swords against those who will not accept his the ories. You must be baptized WY igh p as to de nment « 1 sight hasty re Cheat and then taking made that got will nave abundant entra not do in : : ot an ket, a ! a or come to him through aposts WUOCOS gion or be foreordained of eternity are in an awful! way. He shrivels up a shrivels up and becomes more spleneti until the time of his departure is at hand He has enough of the salt of him, but his entrance into hea something worth watching. want with him in heaven. where bave all gone into eternal eatholicity, and commingling of Methodists will vik ven and Congregationalists and Presbyterians and a score of other denominations as good as anv I have mentioned? They eters on their trumpets “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and pow- er.” t Denominations of Christians on earth were necessary in order to better work and to suit preferences, as an army must be divided into regiments, yet one army; as a neighborhood must be divided into families, though one neighborhood. But there is no need for such divisions in heav- en, and therefore all belong to one de- nomination of sainthood. What will be the bigot's amazement when he sees seated side by side on the banks of the viver of life Calvin and Arminius, Arch Lishop Cranmer and some dissenting bre Ber of the gospel who never gradu: ated, one who on earth was a robed and rpliced ecclesiastic, iy a backwoods inister who in the log cabin meeting house preached in a lipen duster? Among the great surprises of Pe for the bigot will be the éelestial friendliness of those ¥ho on earth opposed each other in wrath: t polemics. He will get through the Pe for he has a spark of divine grace in # heart, but there will not be an inch of room to spare on either side of him. It will not take long for heaven to educate him into a glorious big heartedness. Again, the penurions Christian will not Bave an abundant entrance. Perhaps he was not converted until all his habits of tight fistedness were fixed beyond recov ery. The people who are generous were taught to be generous in childhood. You #an tell from the way that boy divides the apple what his characteristics for gener peity or meanness will for the next ighty vears if he lives so long. If he eat i all himself while others look wistfully on, he will be a Shylock. If he give half of it to some one who has no apple he will be an ordinarily generous man. be pe three-fourths of it to another, he ii) be a Haron Risch or a George on y. For thirty years tus man has been prac. ticing an economy which prided itself on never ing a pin without picking it up, and il he nded at all in church would put on the collection plate 80 ins nificant a coin that be held his hand over it so that no one could discover the small: ness of the denomination, Somewhere in the fifties or sixties of his life, during A revival of religion. he became a Christian, He is very much changed in most respects, but his all absorbing aecquisitiveness still influences him. To extract from him a gift for an orphanage or a chureh or a poor woman who has just been burnt out is an achievement. But the day is coming for that penurions Christian's departure from the world, He has an awful strusgle in giving up his (iovernment securities. The attorney who drew his last will and testament saw how hard it was for him to leave his farm or hia storehouse or investments, especially those that in the markets are called gilt edged. Those that yield only three ner cent. he easily resigns to the eare of his executors. but those that yield eight or nine or ten ner cent, how ean he give them up while the market is still rizsing? Bolstered up in bed, knowing he has got to sign it, he reads the document over and over again, and then. with a manner that seems to say, “Well, if I must I must.” he signs his name to that surrender of his last farthing of earthly possessions, He enters heaven, but he has not an abundant entrance. jut that brings me to the nther thonght of my text, that there are those who will when they leave this life bound into heaven amid salutations infinite. “For an entrance shall be unto von abundantly.” Such exaitant admission will await those who heaven after on earth living a life for others and with- ont reference to conspicuity I asked the manager of an insane lum in Kentucky, “From what persons do vou get most of your patients?’ and he said, “Fr rmers’ wives,” | asked the same question of the manager of an insane asvium in Pennsvivania and game ouestion of the manager of an Masand and got “We have on our rolls idministered enter ARY ¥ class 0] yn f insane asylum in husetts the “reply treatment m nersons coming hat answer will It was no surprise to me Well, this man of ennseerated affluence is about to go out of this world. He feels in brain and nerve the strain of the early struggles by which he won hia fortune, and at sixty or seventy vears collapses un- der the exhaustions of the twenties and thirties of his lifetime. When the momn- ing papers announce that he is gone there 3 on the IVENnUes same farmers’ than any other surprise to ire wives ¢ 3 ’" from Cisse be a some not . but and all through the homes no on ed with ms nf those who will henceforth have helrer. But h iz & very tame n excitement of ¢ guardian a swept by his 3 * : the excitement of sadness in a few hou 1% A cries mig! geraph The gates © to say, ils who were rones an thr ulin I eall i® not is what Y ou see, it on earth in order ta | But 1 promise t} lived for others i ale or a will into the there in ittraclive have illustrious introduction wearled gateway Here large family you ant gee an res marriage that sr and mother in old This is not an abstraction. 1 have wh such. You have probably known uch. There are in world nmanly ruls as big as that. They cheerfully en- wre the whimsicalities and querniousness ‘hich sometimes characterize the aged ghts wher Some she his and wateh n 1 and septnagenarian ronnt on ight number #it in close moms lest the Hed and of drops at the righ » ob After 5 £ $5 fidelity on ha past of this f : the folks go h VEIT nw 41 gh ih from marital alliane b yank n her cheek in { 3 have lef: their m free the gracefulness the world ungallant God. surely ; n heaven! the emerald name river and which awaits | wt upon horses of the cl meet her at the no others to vill be there to the meet the gr grassiiopper heCame “MM: were (0 us & ood it is to be § s the King's chariot come for you and ride to your everlasting home!” tnat is what I call an abundant entrance Know right well that in whatever sta- tion of life you now move, and whether vour intellectual faculty be brilliant or dull, and your worldly resources opulent or poor. you may have at the gate of heaven jubilant and triamphant reception All soldiers cannot be Hannibals and Mariboroughs, all admirals cannot be Du. onts and Farragute, all authors eannot be Bacons and Southeys, neither ean all Christians be Pauls and Richard Ceeils. Do your best right where you are, asking God's help, and you will not only win glo- rious admission, but you will make all fou life in heaven a grander and higher Hie Oh, child of God, if you had never thought of it before, | present the start ing fact that you are now deciding not only the style of your heavenly reception, but the grade of your association and en- joyment of the world without end. Are you satisfied with yourself that you can afford to throw away raptures and ignore heavenly possibilities ad elect yourself to lower status and classify yourself amid the less efficient when you may mount a higher heaven? Vhile I thus discourse I am aware that some have not taken the first step toward heaven, and they feel like Jacob Stiawn, who took some ministers of the gospel on the top of his house to show hws forme, reaching in every direction as far as eye could see. He was asked how many acres he owned, and he replied, 40,000. “How much is it worth per acre?’ was asked and he replied, “Fifty dollars, at least.” “Then,” said the minister, “you are worth $2,000.000." “Yes,” said Strawn, “and 1 made it all myself.” Then the minister gaid, “You have shown me these earthly possessions, and now will you look up yon- der,” inting to the heavens. “How much do you own up thers?’ and Strawn answered, with tears in his eyes, “Oh, 1 am afraid 1 am poor up there.” Alas how many there are who have acquired all earthly prosperities and advantages, but have no treasures in heaven. y are poor op there. But 1 am to-day chiefly addressing those who are started for heaven and would have them know that while we are apt to speak of a Lamphier, the founder of Ful- ton street prayer meetings, as having an abundant entrance, and Thomas Welch and Fletcher, the glorious preachers of the gospel, as having an abundant entrance, you also, if you live and serve the Lord and fulill your mission, whether it be ap- plauded or unknown, will heve when your work on earth is en and you are called to come up higher an essy, a blisalal, an enrapturing, an abundant entrance, you M want 7 The Roudan un Cand FF eld tor rude Following Lord Kitchener's policy of seeing everything for himself, the sir dar, Sir F. R, Wingate, hay just left Omdurman, accompanied by a large the Blue Nile. ed that in two or three years at most i i Spnrks and luz » Do you remember how they “spark” before their marriage? 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