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i TFE LEDOER: OAEFNEV. P. C.. NOYE3IBER 3, 1898. r > CHANGES IN HEAVEN. pR. TALMAGE TELLS OF CELESTIAL I CITY IMPROVEMENTS. Great Growth In l*opnInti«>n and In- erenHed Knotiledse — I'erfectlon AuKinented — Alwayn llriulit mid Jojfnl. [Copyright, ISOS, by American Press Asso ciation.] Washington, Oct. 30.—All out of the usual liue of seriuouiziuK is this story of Dr. Talruage concerning the next world, and it may do good to see things from a novel standpoint. The text is Revelation xxi, 1, “And I saw a new heaven. ” The stereotyped heaven does not make adequate impression upon us. Wo need the old story told in new style in order to arouso our appreciation. 1 do not suppose that we are compelled to the old phraseology. King ^1^8’ trans lators did not exhaust all the good and graphic words in the English diction ary. I suppose, if we should take the idea of heaven and translate it into modern phrase, we would find that its atmosphere is a combination of early June an 1 of the Indian summer in Oc tober—a place combining the advan tages of city and country, the streets standing for the one, and the manner of fruits for the other; a place of music al entertainments — harpers, pipers, trumpeters, doxologics; a place of won derful architecture—behold the tem ples, a place where there may be the higher forms of animal life—the beasts which wore on earth beaten, lash whip ped and galled and nublaukcted and worked to death, turned out among the white horses which the book of Reve lation describes as being in heaven; a place of stupendous literature—the bonks open; a place of aristocratic and democratic attractiveness—the kings standing for the one, all nations for the other; all botanical, pomological, or nithological, arborescent, worshipful beauty and grandeur. But my idea now is to speak chiefly of the improved heaven. People some times talk of heaven as though it were an old city, finished centuries ago, when I have to tell you that no city on earth during tbo last 50 years has hud such changes as heaven. It is not the same place as when Job and David and Paul wrote of it. For hundreds and hundreds of years it has been going through peace ful revolution, and year by year, and moutb by month, and hour by hour, and moment, by moment it is changing and changing for something better. Away back there was only ono residence in the universe—the residence of the Al mighty. Heaven had not yet been start ed. Immensity was tbo park all around about this great residence, but God’s sympathetio heart after awhile over flowed in other creations, and there came all through this vast country of immensity inhabited villages, which grew and enlarged until they joined each other and became ono great central metropolis of the universe, streeted, gated, templed, watered, inhabited. One angel went forth with a reed, we are told, and ho measured heaven on one side, and then he went forth and measured heaven on the other side, and then Sit. John tried to take the census of that city, and ho became so bewil dered that he gave it up. A Vnat Population. That brings me to the first thought of my theme—that hoaven is vastly im proved in numbers. Noting little under this head about tho multitude of adults who have gone into glory during the last 100 or 500 or 1,000 years, I remem ber there are 1,000,000,000 of people in tho world, and that tbo vast majority of people die in infancy. How many children must have gone into heaven during the last GOO or 1,000 years! If New York should gather iu one genera tion 1,000,000 population, if London should gather iu one generation 4,000,- 000 population, what a vast increase 1 But what a mere nothing as compared With tbo 500,000,000, tho 2,000,000,000, tho “multitado that no man can num ber’’ that have gone into that city! Of course all this takes for granted that every child that dies goes as straigut into heaven as ever tho light sped from a star, and that is one reason why heav en will always be fresh and beautiful— tbo great multitude of children iu it. Put 500,000,000 children in a country. It will be a blessed and lively country. But add to this, if you will, tbo great multitude of adults who have gone into glory and how tho census of heaven must run np! Many years ago a clergy man stood in a New England pulpit, and said that ho believed that tho vast majority of the race would finally bo destroyed and that not moie than one person out of 2,000 persons would be finally saved. There happened to bo about 2,000 people in the village where ho preached. Next Sabbath two persons were heard discussing the subject and wondering which one of tbo 2,000 pim ple iu the village would Anally reach hoaven, and one thought it would be the minister, and the other thought it would bo tho old deacon. Now, I have not much admiration for a lifeboat which will go out to a ship sinking with 2,000 passengers and get one off in safety and let 1,090 go tc the bot tom. Why, heaven must li:i\o been a village when Abel, tho first soul from earth, entered if, us compared with the present population of that great city! Grontti In KnotYl<-<l;c«‘. Again, I remark that heaven has vast ly improved in knowledge. Give a man 40 or 50 years to study ono Bcionoo or all sciences, with all tho advantages of laboratories and observatories and phil osophic apparatus, ho will bo a marvel of information. Now, into what intelli- gi mo mu'-t heavt n mount, angelhood ami sainthood, not ufh'r studying for 40 or 50 years, but for thousands of years—studying God and tho soul and } immortality and tbennivi rsol How the V Intelligence of that world must sweep on and on, with eyesight farther reach ing than telescope, with power of calcu lation mightier than all ham,'in mathe matics, witli powers of analysis sur passing all chemical laboratory, with speed swifter than telegraphy! What must heaven learn, with all these advan tages, iu a month, iu a year, iu a cen tury, in a millennium? The difference tetween the highest university on earth and the smallest class iu a primary school cannot be a greater difference than heaven as it now is and heaven as it once was. Do you not suppose that when Dr. James Simpson wont up from the hospitals of Edinburgh into heaven he knew more than ever the science of health, and that Joseph Henry, grad uating from the Smithsonian institution into heaven, awoke into higher realms of philosophy, and that Sir William Hamilton, lifted to loftier sphere, un derstood better the construction of the hnman intellect, and that John Milton took np higher poetry in the actual presence of things that on earth he had tried to describe? When the first saints entered heaven, they mnst have studied only the A BO of the full literature of wisdom with which they are now acquainted. Again, heaven is vastly improved in its society. During your memory how many exquisite spirits have gone into it? If you should try to make a list of all the genial, loving, gracious, blessed souls that you have known, it would be a very long list—souls that have gone into glory. Now, do you not suppose they have enriched the society? Have they not improved heaven? You tell of what hoaveu did for them. Have they done nothing for heaven? Take all the gracious souls that have gone out of your acquaintanceship and add to them all the gracious and beautiful souls that for 500 or 1,000 years have gone out of all the cities and all the villages and all tho countries of this earth into glory, and how the society of heaven must have been improved I Suppose Paul, the apostle, were introduced into your social circle on earth; but heaven has added all the apostles. Suppose Hannah More and Charlotte Elizabeth were introduced into your social circle on earth; but heaven has added all tho blessed and tho gracious and tho holy women of the past ages. Suppose that Robert MacCheyne and John Summer- field should be added to your earthly circle—but heaven has gathered up all the faithful and earnest ministry of the past. There is not a town, or a city, or a village that has so improved in society in tho last 100 years as hoaveu has im proved. Always I’erfeet. But you say, “Hasn’t heaven always been perfect?” Oh, yes, but not in tho sense that it cannot bo augmented! It lias been rolling on iu grandeur. Christ has been there, and he never changes the same yesterday, today and for ever; glorious then and glorious now and glorious forever. But I speak now of attractions outside of this, and I have to tell you that no place cm earth has improved in society as heaven lias with in the last 70 years, for the most of you within 40 years, within 20 years, with in live years, within one year—in other words, by the accessions from your own household. If heaven were placed in groups—an apostolic group, a patri archal group, a prophetic group, group of martyrs, group of angels, and then a group of your own glorified kindred— which group would yon choose? You might look around and make compari son, but it would not take you long to choose. You would say: “Give me back those whom I loved on earth; lot mo enter into their society—my parents, my children, my brothers, my sisters. Wo lived together on earth, let us live together iu heaven.” Ob, is it not a blessed thought that heaven has been improved by its society—this coloniza tion from earth to heaven? Again, I remark that heaven has greatly improved in tho good cheer of nunoauced victories. Where heaven re joiced over one soul it now rejoices over a bundled or a thoasand. In tho olden times, when tho events of human life were scattered over four or live cen turies of longevity and tho world moved slowly, there were not so many stirring events to bo reported iu heaven; but now, I suppose, all the great events of earth are reported in hoaven. If there is any truth plainly taught in this Bible, it is that heaven is wrapped up in sym pathy with human history, and we look at those inventions of the day—at teleg raphy, at swift communication by steam, at all these modern improve ments which seem to give one almost omuipresence, and wo see only tho coc- ular relation, but spirits before tbo tbroue look out and see the vast and tho eternal relation. While nations rise and fall, while the earth is shaking with revolution do you not suppose there is arousing intelligence going up to the throne of God and that the question is often asked before tho thruuc, “What is the news from that world—that world that rebelled, but is coming buck to its allegiance?” If ministering spirits, ac cording to the Bible, are sent forth to minister to those that shall be heirs of heaven, when they come down to us to bless us, do they not take tho news back? Do the ships of light that come out of tho celestial harbor into the earthly harbor, laden with cargoes of blessing, go back uufreighted? Minister ing spirits not only, but our loved ones leaving us, take up the tidings. Sup pose you were In a far city and had been there a good while, and you board that same <»o had arrived from your native place—some ono who hud recent ly seen your family and friends—you would rush up to that man and you Would ask all about the old folks at home. And do yem not suppose when your child went uptoGod your glorified kindred in heaven gathered around and asked about you, to ascertain us to whether you were getting along well in the st aggie (if life; t.j find out whether you were in any especial peril, that with swift and mighty wing they might come down to intercept your perils? Oh, yes! Heaven is a greater place for news than ituned to lie—news sounded through the str. i ts, news ring ing from tho towers, news heralded from tho palace gate. Glad news I Vic torious news! A Glorlona Day. But the vivacity and sprightliness of heaven will bo beyond all conception when tho final victories come in, when the church shill bo triumphant every where. Oh, what a day iu heaven it will bo when the last throne of earthly oppression has fallen, when the last chain of serfdom is broken, when the last wound of earthly pain is healed, when the last sinner is pardoned, when the last nation is redeemed! What a time there will be in heaven! Yon and I will be in the procession. Yon and I will thrum a string iu that great orches tra. That will be the greatest day in heaven since the day when the first block of jasper was put down for the foundation and the first hinged pearl swung. If tnero is a difference between heaven now and heaven as it was, oh, the difference between heaven ae it shall be and heaven as it is now! Not a splendor stack fast, but rolling on and rolling on, and rolling up and rolling up, forever, forever. Now, I say these things about the changes in heaven, about tbo new im provements iu heaven, for three stout reasons. First, because I find that some of yon are impatient to be gone. You are tired of this world and you want to get into that good laud about which you have been thinking, praying and talking so many years. Now be patient. I could see why you would want to go to an art gallery if some of the best pictures were to be taken away this week or next week, but if some one tells you that there are other beautiful pic tures tocomo—other Keusetts, Raphaels and Rubenses—other masterpieces to be added to the gallery—you would say: “I can afford to wait. The place is improving all the time.” Now, I want you to apply the same principle in this matter of reaching hoaven and leaving this world. Not one glory is to bo subtracted, but many glories added. Not one angel will be gone, not one hierarch gone, not ono of vor.r glorified friends gone. By the long practicing the music will be better, the procession will be longer, tire rainbow brighter, the coronation grander. Heaven, with magnificent addenda! Why will you complain when you are only waiting for something better? AIiy.'IJH llrliflit. Another reason why I speak in regard to tho changes in heaven and tho now improvements in heaven is because I think it will ho a consolation to busy and enterprising good people. I see very well that you have not much taste fora heaven that was all done and finished centurios ago. Alter you have been ac tive 40 or 50 or (!0 years it would bo a shock to stop you suddenly and forever, but here is a progressive heaven, an ever accumulative heaven, vast eutor- pri.so on foot there before tho throne of God. Aggressive knowledge, aggressive goodness, aggressive power, aggressive grandeur. You will not have to come and sit down on tho banks of the river of life in everlasting inoccupation. Ob, busy men, I tell you of a heaven where there is something to do! That is the meaning of the passage, “They rest not day nor night” in the lazy sense of rest- mg. I speak these words on tho changes iu heaven and the new improvements iu heaven also because I want to cure some of you of the delusion that your depart ed Christian friends have gone into dullness and silence and unconscious ness. They are in a stirring, pictur esque, radiant, ever accumulative scene. When they left their bodies, they only got rid of the last hindrance. They are no more in Gakwood, Laurel Hill or Mount Auburn than you iu holiday at tire, having seated yourself at a ban quet, can bo said to be in a dark closet where you have left the old apparel that was not lit to wear to the banquet. A soldier cannot use a sword until lie has unsheathed it, and tho body of your departed was < nly the sheath of a bright and glittering spirit which God has lifted and is swaying in tho heavenly triumph. According to what I am tell ing you at present, your departed Chris tian friends did not go so much into the company of the martyrs, and the apostles, on l the prophets, and the po tentates of heaven as into the company of grandfather and grandmother, and the infant sister that tarried just long enough to absorb your teudercst affec tion, and all tlio homo circle. When they lauded, it was not as you laud iu Ant werp or Hamburg or Havre, wandering up a strange wharf, looking at strange luces, asking for a strange hotel. They lauded amid your glorified relatives, who were waiting to greet them. No Kroxen Spli-niltir. Oh, docs not this bring heaven nearer? Instead of being far off, it comes down just now, and it puts its arms around our necks and we feel its breath on our luces. It melts the frigid splendor of tho conventional heaven into a domestic scene. It comes very dose to us. If we had our choice iu heaven, whom would wo first see? Rather than look at tho great potentates of heaven we would meet our loved ones. I want to see Moses and Paul and Joshua, but 1 would n great deal rather see my father, who went away 30 years ago. 1 want I to seo the groat Bible heroines, Deborah and Hannah ami Abigail, hut I would rather see my mother than to seo tho archangel. 1 do not think it was superstitious when, ono Wednesday night, i stood by a deathbed within a few blocks of tho church where I preached, and on the same street, and saw one of tho aged Christians of tho church going into glory. After 1 had prayed with her 1 said to her: “We have all loved you very much and will always cherish your memory in tho Christian church. You will see my sou before I see him, and I wish yon would give him our love. ” She said, “I will, I will," and iu 20 minutes she was ill heaven—tho last words she over spoke. It was a swift message to tho skies. If you hud your choice between riding in a heavenly chariot and occupying the grandest pul- | u -«fc ■ ■< "I. ace in heaven, and sitting on the throne next highest to the throne of God and pot seeing your departed loved ones, and on tho other hand dwelling in the humblest place in heaven, without crown or throne, and withont garland and without scepter, yet having your loved ones around you, you would choose the latter. I say these things be cause I want you to know it is a do mestic heaven, and consequently it is all tho time improving. Every one that goes up makes it a brighter place, and the attractions are increasing month by month and day by day, and heaven, so vastly more of a heaven, a thousand times more of a heaven, than it used to be, will be a better heaven yet. Oh, I say this to intensify your anticipation! The Jubilee. I enter heaven one day. It is almost empty. I enter the temples of worship, and there are no worshipers. I walk down the street, and there are no pas sengers. I go into the orchestra, and I find the instruments are suspended in the baronial halls of heaven, and the great organs of eternity, with mnlti- tudinous banks of keys, are closed. But I seo a shining one at the gate, as though he were standing on guard, and Isay: “Sentinel, what does this mean? I thought heaven was a populous city. Has there been some great plague sweep ing off the population?” “Have yon not heard the news?” says the sentinel. “There is a world burning, there is a great conflagration out yonder, and all heaven has gone out to look at the con flagration and take the victims out of the ruins. This is the day for which all other days are made. This is the judg ment! This morning all tho chariots, and the cavalry, and the mounted in fantry rumbled and galloped down the sky.” After I had listened to the sen tinel I looked off over the battlements, and I saw that the fields of air were bright with a blazing world. I said, “Yes, yes, this must be the judgment,” and while I stood there I heard the rumbling of wheels and the clattering of hoofs, and tho roaring of many voices, and then I saw tbo coronets and plumes and banners, and I saw that all heaven was coming back again—coming to the wall, coming to the gate, and the multitude that went off in tho morning was augmented by a vast multitude caught up alive from the earth, and a vast multitude of tho resur rected bodies of the Christian dead, leaving the cemeteries and the ab beys and the mausoleums and the graveyards of the earth empty. Proces sion moving in through the gates. And then I found out that what was fiery judgment day on earth was jubilee in heaven, and I cried: “Doorkeepers of heaven, shut the gates! All heaven has come in! Doorkeepers, shut tho 12 gates, lest the sorrows and tho woes of earth, like bandits, should some day come up and try to plunder the city !” Her Kur Cape** First Ontlntf. An old lady got on a Walnut street car yesterday morning wearing an old fashioned astrakhan fur capo with an immense bearskin collar. Evidently, the morning being cool, she had hur riedly taken it from a chest filled with moth balls, for tho odor of them was almost unbearable. The car being crowded, she was compelled to stand. Consequently every time she swayed from side to sido tho tiny glistening particles of insect destroyer that were still in the fur would sprinkle every ono near. Directly the car gave a particularly bad lurch, and something fell from the cape into the lap of a lady near by. That something proved upon a close in spection to be a tiny mouse, not yet able to look aboot. Following closely came several more sprawling on the floor in their blind helplessness. It did not take over a half minute lor every woman iu that car to grab her skirts and get on the seats, tho overflow tak ing refuge on the platform. Meanwhile the innocent cause of all this trouble calmly unfastened her cape and shook out the remains of a nest, which had been snngly built by some motherly mouse in the long fur. The owner of tbo capo seated herself as calmly as you please and tho other women subsided.—Philadelphia Rec ord. Snioklnx New Guinea. Snioking is common all through the possession, the natives using tho wild tobacco leaf, but preferably the manu factured “trade” article when procur able. The pipe, or buubau, is a very different instrument from that iu use among white people and is far more economical. It is usually a piece of bam boo, from one foot to two feet long and over an inch in diameter, one end being partially open, the other closed by be ing cut off close to the joint. Near tho closed end is a small hole, like tho aper ture of a flute. 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A bottle costs only 25 its. Try Panther Creek Headache Pemcily. a po.iitivr ninl liiii iMli's-, i'un- for |H*ii(hu'lir. A1 >*. li. Crawley m Co's. Drugstore, luio-yil ftoDllnic by tho Tall. An amusing story tells how a belated hunter dropped into a hollow tree, in tending to “bunk” there for the night, but fell so many feet that he became alarmed, fearing he rhonld never get out. Toward morning a bear began de scending the hollow trunk sterufore- most. The hunter grasped tho bear’s tail, and the frightened animal, scram bling out, drew the man after him to tho exit. In Colonel Inman's descrip tion of “The Old Kanta Fo Trail” there is a story which illustrates the fact that a tail hold is a safe hold. One of tbo Kansas pioneers, the Hon. R. M. Dodge, started out ono day with a stage driver named Harris to hunt for buffalo. They were hungry for fresh meat, but buffalo were scarce, and after hunting all day they were returning without having seen one. Suddenly an old buffalo bull jumped up from a sand hollow, and both hunt ers emptied their revolvers into his body. The bull, though bleeding and staggering, stood on his legs defiantly, as if waiting attack. Harris dismount ed, that he might hamstring the ani mal, which had finally lain down. The cut of his knife brought tho bull to his feet, and with lowered head he went round the sand bill. Harris, a tall, lank fellow, had caught bold of the bull’s tail as be rose, and in a moment bis legs were flying higher than his head. He did not dare let go his hold on the bull’s tail. Round and round they went. Finally tho old bull weakened. Slower and slower l.o circled ronnd, and Harris succeeded in cutting the bison’s hamstrings. “I feared,” said Harris when the beast went down, “that his tail would pull out. Then I knew I should be a goner.” Oratory anil DyMi»<>|i»la. Postprandial oratory is responsible, wo believe, for more dyspepsia and suf fering than even the excessive long drawn out feeding and drinking. The poor martyrs cast for parts in the dreary farce to come can neither eat calmly nor digest well on account of tho ter rors that approach, and the poor hear ers know they have to suffer fur tho de lights of the haiiiiuet by later listening or by an impolite escape through tho side door. AH are impaled and must suffer at tho hands of a tyrannous and senseless fashion. Very few men aro capable of enter taining an audience with spontaneous wit, and even these, if we but knew it, spend a sleepier previous night pre paring and memorizing the bright ex tempore things that are struck out— i. e., lugged in by tho horns, as flashes of tho jolly esprit do corps all pretend to fuel. We are as kind as wo cun be. We laugh—at lea>t we applaud most loudly to encourage ihe trembling, wrig gling fellow who, when he sits down, does so with many an inaudible “Thank heaven, that’s over!’’ Apropos of which our genial contem- porary, Tho Practitioner, makes a most valuable and praiseworthy suggestion that as our singing is by artists hired for the purpose, why should not also our speaking bo done for us by hired orators. Verbum sap!—Philadelphia Medical Journal. A Trout FInIiIiiu Froir. A very singular incident was brought to my notice during a visit to Lake Vyruwy, in North Wales. A year or two ago tho breeding ponds were being cleaned out, and when there was but lit tle water remaining the man iu charge— from whom I heard the story—observed a peculiar looking fish swimming nbont. It was captured with the aid of a laud ing net and proved to be a trout of near ly half a pound iu weight. Clasped firmly around its back and shoulders was a live frog of ordinary size. 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