Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-02
The Blind, the Lame, the ldiotic, the
Insane, the Destitute, a World
of Misfortune.
Wha Can Explain for What Reason All
These Ills Must be Borne In
This World!
BY the RefulEsns light That Peurs from
the ThrOne of God This Dark HEys-
terry VIII bs Cleared,
TINE COMING GLORY.


ernacle this morning Rev. T. Dewitt Tsl-
mage, DID,, announced thst next Sabbath
he will begin e course of sermons to the
women OF America, with PRACTICAL hints
to 3nen-the following subjects among
Others:
PFhe Women Who Have to Fight the
Bdtle OF Lie Alone;" Marriage for
Worldly Success, Without Reference to
Mljrsl CharacteT:n "Is Engagement IS
Binding IS Marri8geP" "WomeL Who
Are Already Unc3ngenially Married."
Influences Abroad for the Destruction
0f Women" "Wi.ely Ambition, Right
and Wrongs" "WnaG Kind of Men Women
Should Avoid )" "SimpIicitY as Opposed
to ATectatIon;" "Ratormstion in Dress"
'sPlsin Women" "The Female Skeptic,"
and "Chrietlsn Housewitery."
This morning DR.. Talmsge's subject
was: "Tae Coming Glory" his text L.
Corinthians, ii, g.: "Eye hath not sesa,
nor esr heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that love Him."
He said:
Eighteen hundred aud eighry-eight.
How strange it looks, sOd how strange it
soundsi Not only is the past year dead,
but the century is dying. Ony twelve
more long breathS and the old giant will
hsve expired. None OF the past centuries
will be present at the ob5equies. Oaly
the twentieth century will see the nine
teenth buried. As ali the years are
fastening past, and all our lives
on earth will soon be ended, propose TO
cheer myself, and cheer you With the glo-
ries to come, which shall utterly eclipse
ali the glorles past: for my tex tells Us
that eye hath nor seen, nor ear heard,
anything like the advancing splendors.
The city CT Corinth hgs been called the
P.ris of antiquity. Indeed, for spIendor,
the world holds no such wonder to-day.
It stood On an isthmus washed By TWO
seas, the one sea bringing the commerce
of Europe, the other sea bringing the
commerce of Asia. From her wharfes, in
the construction of which whole king
doms had been absorbed, war galleys
with three banks OF oars pushed out and
confounded the navy yards OF al the
world. Huge-h&nded machinery, such es
modern invention cannot equal, lifted
ships from the see ON one side and trans
ported them On trucks across the isthmus
and sat them down in the sea On the otker
side. The revenue officers of the city
went down through the olive groves that
lined the beach to collect tariff from all
L
in her Isthmlsn games, and the beauty of
alI lands sat in her theaters, walked her
prtic0s, and threw Itself on the altar of
her stupendous designations. Column,
and statue, ana temple bewildered the be-
holder. There were white marble foun-
tains into Whic1, from apertures
at the side there rushed waters every
where known for health giving qualities.
Around these basins, twisted into Wresths
of stone, there were ell the beauties of
sculpture and architecture; while stand
ing, as IL TO guard the costly display, was
a Statue of Hercules of FURNISHED Co.
rinthian brass. Vases OF terra Gotta
adorned the cemeteries of the de:d-
vases so costly that Julius C@ sar was not
satisfied until he had captured them for
Rome. Armed officials, the corintnarii,
paced up and down to see thst no Statue
wss defaced, no pedestal overtime I'm, nc
bas relief touched. From the edge of the
CITY hill arose, with It's magnificent bur-
den OF columns, and towers, and temples
zone thousand slaves waiting as one
shrine), and citadel 50 thoroughly i'm
pregnaOla that Gibraltar Is 8 heap Of sand
compar with it. Amid all that strength
and mxgnifcence Corlnth stood and
DEFIaD TIE WORLD.
o. 1t wgs not to rustIcs Who hsd never
seen anything grand that Paul uttered
this text. They had heard the best music
thst had come from the best instruments
In all the world; they had heard songs
floating from morning portlcos and melt
ing in evening groves; they had passed
their whole lives among pictures, and
sculpture, and architecture, and Cor
iuthian brass, which had been nodded
and shaped until thare was not q chariot
rh.Np nnd nt
tower in which il had not glittered, and
no gateway that it had not adorned. All,
il was G bold thing for Paul to stand
there amid eli that and say: "All this is
nothing. These sounds that come from
the temple of Neptune are not music com
pared with the harmonies of which
sneak, These waters rushing in the ba-
sin of Pyrene are not pure. These stat
mes of Bacchus and Mercury are not eI
ouisfte, Your citadel of Aero orinthus
n not strong compared with that which l
offer to the poorest slave that
nuts down his burden at that
brazen gate. You Corinthians think
this is q splendid city; you think you
have heard all sweet SOUNDS, ano
seen all beautiful sights: but tell you
eve hxth not seen or ear heard, neither
have not entered into the heart OF man,
them that love Him."
You see my text sets forth the idea that,
however exalted our ideas may be OF
heaven, they come far short OF the re-
atty. Some wise men have been caicu-
Isting how Easny furloDgs long snd wide
is the new Jerusalem; and they have
calculated how msDy Inhabitants there
are on the earth; how long the earth VIII
prob.blysstan6; sGd then they come TO this
estimate: that after al. the nations have
beer gathered to heaven, there VII! De
room. for each Soul room eiYteen feet
long and fifteen feet wide. It would not
be large enough for me. am clad TO
know that no human estimate IS sunclent
TO take the dimensions. "Eye had not
seen. nor car hesr0," nor aritnmetics
calculated,
first remark that we csn in this world
oes no ides Of the health OF Heaven
when you were chi d, snd you went OUT
in the morning, how you bounded along
the rosd or street--you ned never Iei'
PRrh6Dg later you