THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1896. HEAVEN. All Who Enter It Will Find Con. gonial Employment, Our Life Work Will be Extended and Bean tified Soldiers Will March In the Ce- lestinl Army Artists Wil Still Paint and Sing. In his latest Washing#on sermon Dr. Talmage encourages glimpses of the Eternal ( them that they will in continuing the work that they loved to do on earth, Ilis text was Ezekiel 1:1: “Now it came to passin the thirti- eth year, in the fourth in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the the of that the heavens were opened.” Ezekiel, with had been ex- patriated and, while in foreign slavery, was standing on the banks of the royal canal which he and other serfs had been condemned to dig by the order of Nebuchadnezzar—this the text called the river of Chebar. The illustrious e had visions of Heaven. Indeed, it is almost always so, that the brightest come not tain-top of prosperity, on desolate Mamertine dungeon, or to some Ezekiel standing on the banks of a ditch he had been compelled tc to the weary, to the heart-broken, those whom sorrow has banished. text is very particular time of the vision. It tieth year, and in the fourth and in the fifth day of the month, you have visions of earth never forget. You remember t you remember the month, you ber the day, you reme ymber the Why may we not vision now, it month, and month? his hearers with ‘ity,and assures all find happiness month, captives by river Chebar, others, royal canal in xile visions of Heaven who are on mouns but to some John Paul in to those Patmos, or to some dig—vyea, to The to give us the « was in the th month, SO you shall he year, remem» hour. such have some be in the tw and in the sixth The quest nough — Larist you there ha from tl aepender tures stronge the pre ferred a nature 1} characteristic never knew { perament perament sanguine plegmat plants new aul and from each they before c« not eradicate tena p the tempers bralr have Hbertie 1 withou tat terres ‘ ns, wut the hindrances o dudio aphael masterpiece of “Micha that Con ie trial prove upon his he Archangel,” him, and could improve 1 terpicee of the "Holy nit that he has visited them Michael gelo could better present the *‘Last Judgment” after has seen its flash and heard the rumbling battering rams of ts thunder Exquisite colors here, graceful lines * powerful chiaroscuro here, but | persuaded that the grander studies ani the brighter galleries are higher up, by the winding marble stairs of the | sepulcher, and that Turner and Holman ‘Hunt, and Rembrandt, and Titian, and | Paul Veronese, if they exercised saving faith in the Christ whom they portrayed | upon the canvas, are painting yet, but their strength of faculty multiplied ten thousand fold. Their hand has forgotten $s cunning, but the spirit has faculties far superior to four fingers and » mb as the supernatural is superior the human. The reason thas God took away their eye and their hand and was that he might give : more limber, eldy, more sll ful, more multiplignt not, therefore, be melancholy a now he has seer his upon Tri mas now An he i the tapestries, and the brie-a-brac, n= d | the works of art which your departed friends used to admire do not say, “} had to lenve all thes “1 am glad they have gone up to higher artistic oppor tunity and appreciation.” Our friends who found so much joy in the fine urts on carth are y am sorry things.’ they Rather say, and Luxembe args celestial. I remark again that all our departed | world | this music Caristian friends who were passionately that in fond « of in the still regaling tial, The the music of be figurative. hallelujahs and choirs on the glass and trumpets and harps and oratorios and orguns? The of the of Heaven Heaven had no songs of its own a number of those on earth would been taken up by theearthly emigrants. Surely the Christian at lose taste celes Heaven that it cannot all spen) “peaks songs vast his memory. millions of souls in Heaven “Coronation” and ‘Antioech” “Mount Pisgah” and “Old Hundred.” The of the eternal need once tap all will be ready for If Heaven should get out of music, Thomas ings and Lowell Mason bury would start up a magnificent chorals,. But the new song that John mentions, the various doxologies alluded to, and the importation of monies, a Christian fond will have an abundance of reg ment. What though the voice be gone and leader only Heaven hallelujah. his baton Hast and Brad- what sub-lunar of music, dy- ing, in death, what though the ear be fallen | fore to} in dissolution, conclude that power to make Cannot the compliment some exquisite singing by “There was so muct in her music.” In heaven it will soul until the body after awhile comes up in the resurrection, and then it are you there the spirit will have or catch sweet sounds often we no soul sing? How saying, 1 soul be all can hear m Do not, be | awn Lie ven sol ere are grand par Ek when the ng reviews the troops must escort Heaven » armed sent on to bring from earth to Were more than conquerors What are friends who our Christ Aare but with lightning loco vision mieroscopie and at the same A conti- | nent at a glance, A world in a second. | A planetary system in a day, Chris tian John Frsaklin, more in dis | abled Erebus pushing toward the north pole; Christian De Long no more try- ing to free blockaded Jeannette from the ice; Christian Livingstone no more, | amid African malarias, trying to make revelations of a dark continent, but all of them in the twinkling of an’ eye taking in that which was once unapproachable. Mont Blane sealed without alpenstock. The coral depths of the ocean explored without a diving. bell. The mountains unbarred and opened without Sir Humphrey Davy's safety lamp. What are our departed friends who found their ehlef joy in study doing now? Studylog yo, but instead of a an nng now? departed explorers Exploring vet, motion, with telescope time no ~~ now luxuriating in Louvres | unre | world | Bible says so much about | Why ull this talk about Bible over and over again If | have | death does not | Then there must be who know | orchestra | and the | aver | hundred old | with | and | hare | (Bie | up ] » wh, fow thousand wolumes on a few shelves, all the volumes of the univer open before them-—-geologie, logie, conchologie, botanic, astronomie, philosophic. No more need of Leyden Jars, or voltaic piles, or electric bats teries, standing as they do face to face with the facts of the universe. What are our departed Christian chemists doing? Following out their own science, following out and follows ing out forever. Since they died they have solved 10.000 questions whieh Jus zled the earthly laboratory. They st tand on the of the thin wall ol electricity, the thin wall that seems tg divide the ph val world, the thin wall of elect thin the wall that and seems to be almost through broken through by tele: phonie and telegraphic apparatus, broken through from the other side by strange influences which men in their ignorance cali tions, ornitho other side cal from the spiritual riety; se ever anon i broken side from one spiritualistic manifesta Alltsat matter cleared up. They laughing at us brothers will laugh at inexperienced brothers, they Heo ith contracted perimenting and wishing they could show us the open all the mysteries Agassiz standing amidst his explorers down some great novel as older brow ex- only way Wo Us w experimenting, ty in the rocks, off his hat and saying: us pray; we “Gentlemen, must have divine tion; we want wisdom from ator to study these them; let us pray.” right on with hi for ever, What friends who in this we in the at their old business, Heaven, but plenty earth, ple nty of wi parts of the Cre He Agassiz going and rocks mado s studies for ever are our departed Christ had their ian rid joy healing doing now? No sickness in of sickness on be healed yrified tors God's ninion to and t medics I. Those gr ming d but with 0 be BOIS © of bell of ! There in eI the eathedral Heaven soiling ing } athedra What isthe: titer now to be a great Worshipers all « meeting the tem) lo the Conqueror All OR oming through \! ake r m for the Christ standing in the temple Heaven gathe around him ] to Thos ring beautiful, Rose of Sharon who loved the at the loved music, « come look Ww ho ome to listen to His voice, mathematicians, years of his reign who were explorers, come to Those who were Those discover the height and the depth and the length and breadth of his love, The astrono mers come to look at the Morning Star, The men who healed the sick come to look at Him who was wounded for our transgressions, All different and dif. ferent forever in many respects, yotall alike in admiration for Christ, in wor ship for Christ, and all alike in joining in the doxology, “Unto Him who washed us from our sins in Tis own blood, and made us Kings and priests unto God; to him be glory in the church throughout all ages, world without end.” Amen, Toshow you that our departed friends unre more alive than they ever were, to make you homesick for Heaven, togive you an enlarged view of the glories to be revealed, I have preached this ser mon. to count the ns | student | in Brazil, coming across | taking | let | illumina- | Busy | yunds inthe different | | nothing come | A WOMAN'S LIFE. 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