The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-03
THE COMING GLORY.
Or. Talmage's New Year Sermon
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
"A COURSE OF SERMONS TO THE WOMEN

Sabbath he viii begin a course of sermons to
the women Of America, with practical hints
zor mon. the following subjects among others:
The Women Who Have to Fight the Bat
lie OF Lie Alone :" Marriage for Worldly
Success without Reference to Moral Cha5ac-
ter" is Engagement as Binding as Mar
riage?" women Who are Already Uncon-
genlallT Married;" "Intuences Abroad for
the Destruction of Women" "Wifclv Ambi-
zion Right and Wrong" "What Kind OF Men
Women Should Avoid - "Simplicity as OPP
posed to Affectation;' Reformation in
Dress" "Plain Women" "The Female
Skeptic," and Christian Housewifery."
This morning DR.. Tamage's subject was
s'The Coming Glory his text I. Corinthians,
chapter >, verse 9: Eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard neither have entered into the heart
of man the things which God hath prepared
for them that love Him" lie said:
Eighteen hundred and eighty-eight How
strange it looks and how strange it sounds
Not only is the past year dead, but the century
is dying. Only twelve more long breaths and
tho Old giant will have expired. None of the
past centuries will be present at the obsequics
Only the twentieth century will see the nine
teentl2 buried. As all the years are Mastering
pasr, and all our lives on earth will soon be
ended, propose to cheer myself and cheer you
with the glories to como, which shall utterly
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that eye hath not seen, ear heard anything
like the advancing splendors.
The city of COrinth has been called the Paris
OF antiquity. Indeed, for splendor, the world
holds 10 such wonder today. 1t stood on an
isthnlus washed by two seas, the one sea bring
ing the commerce OF Europe, the other sea
bringing the commerce of Asia. From her
WharveS, in the construction of which whole
kingdoms had been absorbed war galleys with
three banks OF oars pushed out and COMPOUNDED
the navy yards OF all the world. Huge-handed
machinery, such as modern invention cannot
equal, lifted ships from the on one side and
TRANSPORTED them on trucks across the iSthrnus
and sat them down in the sea on the other
side. The revenue officers of the city went
down through the olive groves that lined the
beach to collect tariff from all nations. The
mirth of all people sported i'll her isthmian
games. and the beauty of all lands sat in her
theatres, walked her porticos and threw
itself the altar OF her stipend
Gus designations. Column, and statue,
and temple bewildered the beholder. There
were white marble fountains into which, from
apertures at the side, there rushed waters
everywhere known for heath-giving qualities.
Around these basins, twisted into wreaths of
stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture
and architecture: while standing, as if to
guard the costly display was a statue of Her
cules of Furnished Corinthian brass. Vases of
terra-Cotta adorned the cemeteries of the
dead vases SO costly that Julius Caesar was
not satisfied until he had captured them for
H.,
up and down to see that no statue was deiaced,
no pedestal overthrow, no bas-relief touched.
From the edge of the city hill arose, with its
magnificent burden of columns, and towers
and temples Zone thousand slaves waiting at
one shrine), and q citadel so thoroughly inn
prcgnabie that Gibraltar is heap of sand
compared with it. Amid all that strength and
magnifcence Corinth stood and deted the
world.
Oh it was not to rustics who had never
seen anything grand that Paul uttered this
text. They had heard the best music that
had come from the best instruments in all the
world they had heard songs floating from
morning porticos and melting in evening
groves; thcy had passed their whole lives
among pictures, and sculpture, and arciitcc-
turc, and Corinthian brass, which had been
moulded and shaped until there was no
chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and
no tower inWhich it had not glttered, and no
gateway that it had not adorned. All, it was
a bold thing for Paul to stand there amid all
that and say: All this is nothing. These sounds
thai come from the temple of Neptune
are not music compared with tho harmonies Of
which | speak These waters rushing in the
basin of Pyrene are not pure. These statues
OF BacohuS and Mercury are not exquisite.
Your citadel of Acrocorinthus is not strong
compare with that which | offer to the poorest
slave tat puts down his burden at that braycn
gate. on Corinthians think this is a splon-
did city; you think you have heard all sweet
sounds, and seen all beautiful sights but tell
Won "eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither
have entered into the heart of man. the things
which God hath prepared for them that love
Him"
You see my text sets forth the idea that
however exalted our ideas NAV be of heaven
they come far short OF the reality. some wise
men have been calculating how many fnrlonoe
lone aad wide is the new Jerusalem: and thSv
have calculated how MANY inhabitants there
are on earth; how long the earth win proba
DIV stand. and then they come to this esti
mate That after all the nations lave been
gathered to heaven there will be room for each
sou-a room sixteen feet long and fifteen feet
wide. 1t would be large enough for me Tam
glad TO know that 10 human estimate ie
Sufficient to take the dimensions. Eve hatl,
not seen, nor ear heard" nor arithmetics cal.
crlated
first remark that we can in This world cot
no idea of the health of Heaven, When Tor
were a Child and YOU went ont in tho moIni,',r
now YOU bounded along the road or straet,,o,,
nevef felt sorrow or Sickness Perho1e 1GtnT
YOU felt glow in your check. and sDri,ro in
your step and am exInlaraucc Of snirits. aMd n
SlcaYucss of eve. that made Won ti,apI C;od yo,,
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