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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 10, 189(5. 5 VISIONS OF HEAVEN. DR. TALMAGH DESCRIBES THE EM PLOYMENTS OF THE BLEST. CmcH Savei 1 Soul, Kach Great Painter, Karh Great S« leullrt l«al>oritis In tlio Great Workshop of Paradise—Craml So ciality—The Library of the Universe. Washington, Dee. C.—Dr. Talmage’s •ermou today /rives a very uuusnal view of the celestial world and is one of the most nnique discourses of the great preacher. The text is Ezekiel i, 1, "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth mouth, in tho fifth day of the month, as I was among the raptives by tho river Chebar, that tho heavens were opened.” Ezekiel, with others, had been expa triated, and while in foreign slavery, standing on the banks of the royal canal which he and other serfs had been condemned to dig by the order of Nebu chadnezzar—this royal canal in the text called tho river of Chebar—the illustri ous exiio had visions of heaven. Indeed it is almost always so—that tho bright- sst visions of heaven como not to those who are on mountain top of prosperity, but to some John on desolato Patmos, or to some Paul in Mamertino dungeon, or to some Ezekiel standing on the banks of a ditch he hud been compelled to dig—yea, to tho weary, to the heart broken, to those whom sorrow has ban ished. Tho text is very particular to give us tho exact timo of the vision. It was in the thirtieth year and in the fourth month and in the fifth day of the month. So you have had visions of earth yon shall never forget. You re member the year, yon remember tho month, you remember the day, you re member the hour. Why may wo not have fomo such vision now and it be in tho twelfth month and in sixth day of the month? What Are They Ilolng? The question is often silently asked, though perhaps never audibly propound ed, "What are our departed Christian friends doing now?” Tho question is more easily answered than you might perhaps suppose. Though there lias como no recent intelligence from the heavenly city, and we seem dependent upon the story of-18 centuries ago, still I think wo may from strongest infer ence decide what arc tho present occu pations of our transferred kinsfolk. Aft er God lias made a nature lie never eradicates tho chief characteristic of its temperament. Yon never knew a man phlegmatic in temperament to become sanguine in temperament. You never knew a man sanguine in temperament to become phlegmatic in temperament. Conversion plants new principles in the soul, but Paul and John are just as dif ferent from each other after couversion as they were different from each other before conversion. If conversion does not eradicate the prominent character istics of temperament, neither will death eradicate them. Paul and John are as different from each other in heaven as they wero different from each other in Asia Minor. You have, then, only by a sum in sub traction and a sum in addition to de cide what nro tho employments of yonr departed friends in the better world. You are to subtract from them all earthly grossiiess and add all earthly goodness, and then you are to como to tho conclusion that they are doing now in heaven what in their best moment they did on earth. Tho reason why so many people never start for heaven is because they could not stand it if they got thero if it should turn out to bo the rigid and formal place some people pho tograph it. Wo like lo come to church, but wo would not want to stay hero till next summer. Wo like to hear tho •‘Halleluiah Chorus,” but wo would not want to hear it all tho time for GO centuries. It might bo on some great occasion it would bo po e Hibly comfort able to wear a crown of gold weighing several pounds, but it would bo sn af fliction to wear such a crown forever. In other words, wo run tho descriptions of heaven into tho ground while wo make that which was intended as especial and celebrativo to bo the exclusive em ployment in heaven. You might as well, if asked to describe tho habits of American society, deccribo a Decoration day or a Fourth of July or an antumnal Thanksgiving, as though it were all tho timo that way. Tho Different Employments. I am not going to speculate in regard to tho future world, but I must, by in evitable laws of inference and deduction and common sense, conclude that in icaveu wo will be just as different from inch other as wo are now different, and lence that thero will tie at least as nany different employments in tho co- estjal world as thero are employments ierc. Christ is to bo the great love, the great joy, tho great rapture, the great worship of heaven, but will that abol- jsh employments? No more than lovo pn earth—paternal, filial, fraternal, conjugal love—abolishes earthly occupa- the first place, I remark that all those of our departed Christian friends who on earth found great joy in the fino arts are now indulging their tastes in tho same direction. On earth they had their gladdest pi rasaros amid pic tures and statuary and in tho study of tho laws of light and shade and per spective. Have you any idea that that affluence of faculty at death collapsed and perished? Why so, when there is more for them to look at and they have keener appreciation of tho boantifnl and they stand amid the very looms where the sunsets and the rainbows and thej spring mornings are woven? Are yon so obtuse ns to suppose, because the painter drops his easel and tho sculptor his chisel and the engraver his knife, that therefore that taste which ho was enlarging and intensify ing for 40 or GO years is entirely oblit- irated? These artists or these friends J>f art on earth worked in coarse mate- with imperfect brain and with Jand. Now they have carried their f art into larger liberties and into wider circumference. They are at their old business yet, bnt without the fatigues, without the limitations, without the hindrau'ee of tho terrestrial studio. Raphael could improve upon his mas terpiece of "Michael (ha Archangel,” now that he has scon him, and could improve upon his masterpiece of the "Holy Trinity,” now that lie lias visit ed them. Michael Angelo could better present the "Last Judgment” after he had seen its flash and heard tho rum bling battering rams of its thunder. Mentors Still I’alnticg. Exquisite colors hero, graceful lines hero, powerful chiaroscuro here, but I am persuaded that the grander studies and the bright, galleries arc higher up, by the winding marble stairs of the sep ulcher, and that Turner and Holman Hunt and Rembrandt and Titian and Paul Veronese, if they exercised saving faith in tho Christ whom they portrayed upon tho canvas, are painting yet, but their strength of faculty multiplied ten thousandfold. Their hand has forgotten its canning, but the spirit lias faculties as far superior to four fingers and a thumb as the supernatural is superior to tho human. Tho reason that God took away their eye and their hand and their brain was that he might give them something more limber, more wieldy, more skillful, more mnltipliant. Do not therefore be melancholy among tho tapestries, and the bric-a-brac, and the embroideries, and the water colors, ; and tho works of art which your do- I parted friends used to admire. Do not say, "I am so torry they had to leave j all these things.” Rather say, "lam ; glad they have gone up to higher artis tic opportunity and appreciation.” Our friends who found so much joy in the fino arts on earth are now luxuriating in Louvres and Luxembonrgs celestial. I remark again that all our departed Christian friends who in this world wero passionately fond of music are still regaling that taste in the world celestial. The Bib’.e says eo much about the music of heaven that it cannot all be figurative. Why all this t.iik about halleluiahs, and choirs on tho glass and trumpets and harps and oratorios and organs? Tho Bible over and over again speaks of the songs oi heaven. If heaven had no songs of its ow n, a vast number of those on earth would have been taken up by the earthly emigrants. Surely the Christian at death does not lose his memory. Then there must bo millions of souls in heaven who know "Coronation” and "Antioch” and "Mount Pisgah” and "Old Hundred.” The lender of the eternal orchestra need only once tap his baton, and all heaven will be ready for the halleluiah. If heaven should ever get out of music, Thomas Hastings and Lowell Mason and Bradbury would start up a hundred old magnificent chorals. But what with tho new song that John mentions, and the various doxologies alluded to, and the importation of sublunar harmonies, a Christian fond of music, dying, will have an abundance of regalement.# What though the. voice be gone in death, what though tho ear bo fallen in dissolution, are you therefore to con clude that tho spirit will have no pow er to make or catch sweet sounds? Can not the soul sing? How often we com pliment Rome exquisite Kinging by say ing, "Thero was so much soul in her music.” Celestial MuhIc. In heaven it will he all soul until the body after awhile comes up in tho res urrection, and then there will bo an additional heaven. Cannot the soul hear? If it can hear, then it can hear mnsic. Do not therefore let it lo in your household when some member leaves for heaven, us it is in somo households, that you close tho piano and ui.string tho Imrp for two years be cause the fingers that used to play on them are still. You must remember that they huvo better instruments of music where they are. Yon ask me, ‘‘Da they have real harps and real trumpets and real organs?” I do not know. Some wiseacres say positively thero are no such things in heaven. I do not know, hut I should not bo sur prised if tho God who made all the mountains, and all the hills, and all the forests, and all tho mines of the earth, and all the growths of tho uni verse—I should not bo surprised if he could, if ho had a mind to, make a few harps and trumpets and organa. Grand old Haydn, sick and wornout, was car ried for tho last timo into tho music ball. Thero he heard his oratorio of tho "Creation.” History says that as the orchestra came to that famous passage, "Let thero bo light!” tho whole audi ence rose and cheered, and Haydn waved his hand toward heaven and said, ‘‘It comes from there!” Over whelmed with his own music, he was carried out in his chair, and as he came to tho door he spread his hand toward the orchestra us in benediction. Haydn was right when he waved bis baud to ward heaven and said, ‘.‘It comes from there.” Music was born in heaven, and it will ever have its highest throne in heaven, and I want you to understand that our departed friends who wero pas sionately fond of music here are now at tho headquarters of harmony. I think that the grand old church tunes that died when your grandfathers died have gone with them to heaven. When those tunes died, they did not stay on earth, and they could not Inivo been banished to perdition, and so I think they must bo in tho corridors of alabaster and Leb anon cedar. In nioodlrM Hattie. Again, I remark that those of our de parted Christian friends who in this world had very strong military spirit arc now in armies celestial and out in bloodless battle. Thero are hundreds of people born soldiers. They cannot help it. They belong to regiments in times of peace. They cannot hear a drum or a fife without trying to keep stop to the music. They are Christian, and when they fight they fight on the right side. Now, when these our Christian friends who had natural and powerful military spirit entered heaven, they entered the celestial army. Tho door of heaven scarcely open.* * ** ; hoar a military demonstration . ;J cried out, "The chariots of Go, are £0,000!” Elisha saw the mountaini filled with celestial cavalry. St. John said, "Tho armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses. ” Now, when those who had tho military spirit on earth sancti fied entered glory, I suppose they right away enlisted in some heavenly cam paign. They volunteered right away. Thero must needs be in heaven soldiers with a soldierly spirit. There are grand parade days, when tho King reviews the troops. Thero must be armed escort sent otft to bring up from earth to heaven those who were more than con querors. Thero must bo crusades ever being fitted out for somo part of God’s dominion—battles, bloodless, groanless, painless—angels of evil to be fought down and fought out, other rebellious worlds to bo conquered, worldj to be put to the torch, worlds to bo saved, worlds to be sunk, worlds to be hoist ed. Besides that, in oar own world there are battles for the right and against tho wrong where we must have tho heaven ly military. That is what keeps ns Christian reformers so buoyant. So few good men against so many bad men; ro few churches against so many grog shops; so many pure printing presses against so many polluted printing press es, and yet wo are buoyant and coura geous, because, while we know that tho armies of evil in the world are larger in numbers than tho army of truth, there are celestial cohorts in the air fighting on our side. I have not ro much faith in tho army on the ground as I have in tho army in tho air. O God, open our eyes that wo may see them—tho military spirits that went up from earth to join tho military spirits before the throne—Josh ua and Caleb and Gideon and David and Samson and tho hundreds of Chris tian warriors who on earth fought with fleshly arm, and now, having gone up on high, are coming down the hills of heaven ready to fight among tho invisi bles. Our departed Christian friends who had tho military spirit in them sanctified are in the celestial army. Whether belonging to tho artillerv, or the cavalry, or tho infantry, I know not. I only know that they have started out for flwt service and courageous service and everlasting service. Perhaps they may como this way to fight ou our sido and drive siu and meanness and satau from all onr huarts. Yonder they are coming, coming. Did you bear them as they swept by: KvcrlaHliog Xletapliyslcii. But what are our mathematical friends to do in tho next world? They found their joy and delight in mathe matics. There was more poetry to them in Euclid than in John Milton. They wore as passionately fond of mathemat ics ns Plato, who wrote over his door, "Lot no one enter here who is not ac quainted with geometry.” What are they doing now? They are busy with figures yet No place in all the universe like heaven for figures. Numbers infi nite, distances infinite, calculations in finite; if they want them, arithmetics and algebras and geometries and trig onometries for all eternity. What fields of space to bo surveyed! What magni tudes to moasur?! What diameters, what circumferences, what triangles, what quaternions, what epicycloids, what parallelograms, w)mt conic sections! The didactic Dr. Dick said he really thought that the redeemed in heaven spent somo of their time with the high er branches of mathematics. .So of our transferred and transported metaphysi cians. What uro they doing now? Study ing tho human mind, only under better circumstances than they used to study It. They used to study tho mind sheath ed in tho dull human body. Now-, tho spirit unsheathed—now they aru study ing the sword outside tho scabbard. Have you t »y doubt about what fcsir William Ham ’ton is doing in heaven, or what Jonathan Edwards is doing in heaven, or tho multitudes on earth who had a passion for metaphysics sanctified by tho grace of God? No difficulty in guessing. Metaphysics, glorious meta physics, everlasting metaphysics. What arc our departed Christian friends who are explorers doing now? Exploring yet, but with lightning lo comotion, with vision microseopie and telescopic at tho same time. A conti nent at a glance, a world in a second, a planetary system in a day. Christian John Franklin, no more in disabled Ero- bm pushing toward tho north pole; C stian do Long, no more trying to fre«. /loekaded Jeannette from the ice; Christian Livingstone, no more amid African malarias, trying to make reve lation of a dark continent, but all of them in the twinkling of an eyo taking in that which was once unapproachable. Mont Blanc scaled without alpenstock, tho coral depths of tho ocean explored without a diving bell, tho mountains unbarred and opened without Sir Hum phrey Davy’s safety lamp. The Library ot the t’uiverso. What arc our departed friends who found their chief joy in study doing now? Studying yet, but, instead of a few thousand volumes on a few shelves, all tho volumes of tho uuiverso open before them — geologic, orniBiologic, couohologio, botanic, astronomic, phi- losophla No more need of Leyden jars or voltaic piles or electric batteries, stand ing as they do fuco to face with the facts of tho uuiverso. What are the historians doing now? Studying history yet, but not tho his tory of a few centuries of our planet only, but the history of tho eternities—whole millenniums before Xenophon or He rodotus or Moses or Adam was born. History of ouo world, history of all worlds. What are our departed astrono mers doing? Studying astronomy yet, but not through the dull lens of earth ly observatory, but with ono stroke of wing going right out to Jupiter and Mars and Mercury and Saturn and Orion and the Pleiades, overtaking and passing the swiftest comet in their flight. Herschel died a Christian. Havo you any doubt about what Herschel is doing? Isaac Newton died a Christian. Have yon any doubt about what Isaac Newton is doing? Joseph Henry died a Christian. Havo you any doubt about what Joseph Henry is doing? They wero in discussion, all these astronomers of earth, about what tho aurora borealis was, and none of them could guess. They Know now; they have boeu out there to see for thems'lves. Wiiat are onr departed Christian chemists doing? Following ont their own science, following out and follow ing out forever. Sinro they died they havo solved 10,000 questions which puz zled the earthly laboratory. They stand ou tho other side of tho thin wall of electricity—tho thin wall that seems to divide tho physical from tho spiritual world; the thin wall of electricity, so thin the wall that ever and anon it seems to bo almost broken through— broken through from ono side by tele phonic and telegraphic apparatus, bro ken through from tho other side by strange influences which men in their ignorance call spiritualistic manifesta tions. All that matter cleared up. Th^y laughing at us ns older brothers will laugh at inexperienced brothers, as they see us with contracted brow experiment ing and experimenting, only wishing they could show us tho way to open all the mysteries. Agassiz, standing amid his student explorers down in Brazil, coming across some great novelty in the rocks, taking off his hat and saying: ‘‘Gentlemen, let us pray. We must havo divine illumination. Wo want wisdom from tho Creator to study these rocks. He made them. Let us pray.” Agassiz going right ou with his studies forever and forever. Thn Men of tho Latt. Bnt what arc the men of tho law who in this world found their chief joy in the legal profession, what are they doing now? Studying law in a universe i where everything is controlled by law from tho flight of humming bird to flight of world—law, not dry and hard and drudging, but righteous mid mag nificent law, before which man and cherub and seraph and archangel and God himself bow. Tho chain of law long enough to wind around the Im mensities and infinity and eternity. Chain of law. What a place to study law, where all tho links of tho chain are in the hand. What are onr departed Christian friends who in this world had their joy in thn Healing art doing now? Busy at their old business. No sickness in heav en, but pleuty of sickness on earth, plenty of wounds in tho different parts of God’s dominion to be healed and to be medicated. Those glorified souls coming down, not in lazy doctor's gig, but with lightning locomotion. You cannot understand uhy that patient got well after all Uic skillful doctors had said he must die. Perhaps Abercrombio touched him—Abercrombie, who, after many years’ doctoring tho bodies and tho souls of people in Scotland, went np to God in 1(544. Perhaps A bercrorabis touched him. I should not wonder if my old friend Dr. John Brown, who died in Edinburgh—John Brown, the author of "Rab and His Friends;” John Brown, who was as hnuiblo a Christian as he was a skillful physician, and world renowned author—I should not wonder if ho had been bark again and again to seo somo of his old pa tients. Those who had their jcy in healing tho sickness and tho woes of earth, gone up to heaven, arc como forth again for benignant medicament. Grander Sociality. Bat what arc onr friends who found their chief joy in conversation and in sociality doing now? In brighter con versation there and in grander sociali ty. What n place to visit in, where yonr next door neighbor* uro kings and queens, you youipelves Kingly and queenly! If tliry want to know more parlicnlarly about tho first paradise, they havo only to go over and ask Ad am. If they want to know how tho sui. 1 and tho moon halted, they have only to go over and ask Joshua. If they want to know bow tho storm pelted Sodom, they have only to go over and ask Lc t. If they want to know more about the arrogance of Ilamau, they have only to go over and ask Mordccni. If they want to know how tho Red sea boiled when it was cloven, they have only to go over and ask Moses. If (hey want know tho particulars about the Bethlehem advent, they havo only to go over and ask tho serenading angels who stood that Christmas night in tho balconies of crystal. If they want to know more of the particulars of the crucifixion, they have only to go over and ask who were personal spectators while tho mountains crouched and tho hoaveus got black in the face at the sjicctaclo. If they want to know more; about tho sufferings of tho {Scotch covenanters, they have only to go over and usk An drew Melville. If they want to know more about tho old time revivals, they have only to go. pve^q as>k Whitfield and Wesley anil luvingstoil and Fletcher and Nettletoq anil Finney, Oh, what a place fo visit ini If eter nity were onp minute sherter, it would not bo long enough for such sociality. Think of our friends who in this world were passionately fond of flowers turn ed into paradise. Think of our friends who were very fond of raising superb fruit turned into tho orchard where each tree has 12 kinds of fruit at once and bearing the fruit all the year round. What uro our departed Christian friends doing in heaven, those who ou earth found their chief joy in the gospel min istry? They are visiting their old cou- gregatious. Most of those old ministers have got their people around them al ready. When 1 got to heaven—as by tho grace of God I am destined to go to that place—I will come and see you all. Yes, I will come to all the people to whom I have administered in tho gos pel, and to the millions of souls vo whom, through tho kindness of the printing press, I am permitted to preach every week in this land and in tho ut termost parts of the earth. I will visit them all. I give them fair notice. Our departed friends of tho ministry are now engaged in that delectable entertain ment and undertaking. Hat what are our departed Christian friends who in all departments of use- fnluess were busy, finding their chief joy in doing good, what are they do ing now? Going rigiit on with the work. John Howard visiting dungeons; tho dead women of nortnem and south ern battlefields stiil u! ro.,(l looking for the wounded; George' Pcaholy still watching the poor; Thomas Clarkson still looking after the enslaved, all of those who did good on earth busier since death than before. The tombstone not tho terminus, bat the starting post. What are our departed Christian friends who found their chief joy in studying Goddoinguow? {studyingGod yet. No need of revelation now, for, uublanclied, they are face to face. Now they can handle tho omnipotent thunderbolt.! just as a child bundles the sword of a father come back from victorious bat tle. They have no sin; no fear, conso- quemiy. Study 1;;^ 'Jhris? ; not- through a revelation save the revelation of tho scars—that deep lettering which bring.! it all up quick enough. Studying tho Christ of tho Bethlehem caravansary; tho Christ cf the awful massacre, with its hemorrhage cf head and hand and foot and side; tho Christ of the shat tered mausoleum; Christ tho sacrifice, the Star, the Son, the Man, tho God, tho God-Man, tho Man-God. But hark! The bid! of the cathedral rings—the cathedral bell cf heaven. What is the matter now? There is go ing to be u great meeting in the temple. Worshipers all coming through tho aisles. Make room for tho Conqueror. Christ standing in tho temple. All heaven gathering around him. Those who loved the beautiful como to look at tho Rose of Sharon. Those who loved music como to listen to his voice. Those who were mathematicians come to count tho years of his reign. Those who wero explorer.! como to discover tho height and tho depth an 1 tho length and breadth of his love. Those who hail the military spirit in heaven come to look at tho Captain of their salvation. The astronomers come to look at tho Morning Star. The men of tho law como to look ::t him who is tho judge of quick and dead. The men who healed tho Kick come to look at him who was wounded for our transgressions. All different and different forever in many respects, yet all alike in admira tion for Christ, in worship for Christ, and all alike in joining in thedoxology, "Unto him who washed us from our sins iu his own blood and made us kings and priests unto God, to him bo glory in the church throughout all ages, world without cud. ” Amen. To show you that yonr departed friends are more alive than they ever wore, to make you homesick for heav en, to give yon an enlarged view of tho glories to be revealed, I have preach- od this sermon. Pure Blood means sound health. With pure, rich, healthy blood, the stomach and di gestive organs will be vigorous, and there will l)e no dyspepsia. Rheumatism and Neuralgia will he unknown. Scrofula and Salt Rheum will disappear. 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" Charlotte ** Gastonia • King's Mt ** Blacksburg . ■' Gaffneys ” S|Mirlaid>urg ** Urts-uvillo.. “ Central | 1 “ Henan “ Westminster. • T.hvou " Mt. Airy “ Cornelia “ Lula ” Gainesville " Buford Noreross Atlanta, K. T. Atlanta, ft. T. Ar. Ar. f 35 a 0 57 a 7 JO a 7 4H u HJT a 1)30 a x:m u m I. M. Peeler. i> !» “M" non. "If" night" Nos. 37 and 33—Daily. Washington and South western Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman sleeping oni • liet ween New York and New Or leans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgom ery, and also 1~ tween New York and Memphis, vlaWaabington, Atlantn and Birmingham. Pull man slootitng ears Is-twis-a New York and New- Orleans, In connection with t lie "Sunset Line Bwd" trains for Knn Franels. o, semi-wcekJjr, <Mlvln* Jersey City Tues'lays and Saturdays- returning, leave New Orleans Wi din-sdsysana Baturdnys. This train also carries Kichiimnd- Augusta sleeping ears Is-lween Danville and Charlotte. First class thoroughfare eoaehea between Washington and Atlanta. Diuingcara Serve all meals en route. Nos. 35 and 38—United States Fast Mail runa solid botwoen Washington and New Or leans, via Southern Railway. A. «V W. P. U. It., and L. & N. It. R.. being coimio-ie.l of luiggago car and ooauhns, through without change for pasHengera of all classes. Pullman istlm-e drawing room sleeping ears between Wash ington and Galveston, Tex , via Atlanta, New OrleansandKo ithoru Pacific Hallway ; Pullman drawing room sleeping oars between Jxrxoy City and Atlanta. ]>-aving Washington each Saturday, a ourlst sleeping ear will run through lietween Washington and Nan Fran cisco without change. Nos. 11 and 12 -Pullman sleeping ears I sit wis-u Richmond and Yanvillo. Tho Air Lln< Polio train. Nos 17 and 13, lo- twoen Atlanta and Cornelia, Go., daily nm-Mpt Nunday. W.H GREEN, J M i’L’LP. Unn’l Hupt., Traffic M’g’r., Washington, D. O. Washington. D. O. W. A. TURK. 8 11 HARDWICK. Gen’l Pass. Ag’t , Asa'tUenT Pasa. Ag'L, Washington, 1). C. Atlanta, Go.