The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-05
THE COMING GLORY.
NEW YEARS SERMON BY THE REV
DR.. TALMAGE..


DR.. TALMAGE..
In This World We Get no Idea of the
Extent and Glory of Heaven-Eye Hath
Not Seen Ear Heard Anything Like
the Advancing Splendors.
BEooHYN, Jan. AT the Tab
ernacle this morning the Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmage, d. D., announced that
next Sabbath he will begin course of
sermons to the women of America, with
practical hints for men, the following
subjects among others:
The Women Who Have to Fight the
Battle of Life Alone" Marriage for
Worldly Success, without Reference to
Moral Chsracter;' els Engagement as
Binding as Marriage?' "Women Who
Are Already Uncongenially Married."
influences Abroad for the Destruction
of Wonen,'' ''Wifely Ambition Right
and Wrong" '.What Kind of Men Wo-
men Should Avoid" Simplicity as OPP
posed to Affectation," Reformation in
Dress" '.Plain Women,n 1.-THE Female
Skeptie" and Christian Housewifery,S
This morning DIR. Talmage's subject
was: ''The Coming Glory" his text,
Il Corinthians, Ii, ., Eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart Of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that loves him.
He said:
Eighteen eighty-eight! How strange
1t looks, and how strange 1t soundsI Not
only is the past year dead, but the CEN
tury is dying. Only twelve more long
breaths and the old giant will have ex-
pired. None of the past centuries will
be present at the obsequies. Only the
Twentieth century will see the Nine
teenth buried. AS all the years are
fastening past, and all our lives on earth
will soon be ended, I propose to cheer
myself, and cheer you with the glories to
come, which shall utterly eclipse all the
glories past; for my test tells US that
eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, any
thing like the advancing splendors.
The city Of Corinth has been called the
Paris Of antiquity. Indeed, for splendor,
the world holds no such wonder today.
1t 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 wharves.
an the construction of which whole king
doms had been absorbed, war galleys with
three banks of oars pushed out and con-
founded the navy yards of all the world.
Huge handed machinery, such as modern
invention cannot equal, lifted ships from
the sea on one side and transported them
on trucks across the isthmus 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 ma
tione The mirth of all people sported in
her Isthnian games, and the beauty of
adj lands sat in her theatres, walked hen
porticos, and threw itself ON the alt; y of
her stupendous dissipations. Column,
and statue, and temple heswildered the
EJt;is5iaef. There were white marble
+ fountains into which, from apertures al
the side, there rushed waters everywhere
known for health giving qualities.
Around these basins, twisted into
wresths of stone, there were all the
beauties Of sculpture and architecture
while standing as if to guard the costly
display, was a statue Of Hercules of bur.
nished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra
Gotta adorned the cemeteries of the
-dead--vases so costly that Julius Cesar
was not satisfied until he had captured
! chem fnx Rome. Armed officials, tht
corintharii paced up and down to see that
no statue was defaced, no pedestal over.
thrown, no bas-relief touched. From
the edge of the city hill arose, with it,
magnificent burden of columns, and
towers, and temples Q,000 slaves wait.
ing OF one shrine) and citadel sc
thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar
Is heap of sand compared with it
Amid all that strength and magnihcenct
(orinth stood and defed the world
OH it was not to rustics who hac
never seen anything grand that Paul ut
tered this text. They had heard the
best music that had come from the bes
instruments in all the world; they had
heard songs floating from morning por
ticos and melting in evening groves; they
had passed their whole lives among pict
ures, and sculpture, and architecture
and Corinthian brass, which had beer
nodded and shaped until there was nj
chariot wheel in which it had not sped
and no tower In which it had no
glittered, and no gateway that i
nlu bNJb ttlOlilcbs I1ik, ~ WIZ
n bold thing for Paul to stanC
there amid all that, and say: "Ah thi
is nothing. These sounds that come from
the temple of Neptune are not musi,
compared with the harmonies of which
speak These waters rushing into tn!
basin of Pyrene are not pure. Thes
statues of Bacchus and Mercury are no
exquisite. Your citadel of Acrocorinthu
is not strong compared with that which
offer to the poorest slave that puts dow
his burden at that brazen gate. Yo1
Corinthians think this is splendid city
YOU think you have heard all swee
sounds, and seen all beautiful sights; bu
] tell you eye hath not seen nor ca
heard, neither have entered into tn
heart of man, the things whish God hat
prepared for them that love him.
You see my text sets forth the ide
that. however exalted our ideas may b
of heaven, they come far short of the re
ality. Sone wise men have been calcu
lating hog many furlongs long and wild
Is the Now Jerusalem; and they hav
calculated how nany inhabitants ther
are on the earth; how long the earth wi
prohably stand, and then they come I
This estimate, that after all the nation
nave been gathered to heaven there wi
be room for each soul-a room sixtee
feet long and fifteen feet wide. 1t woul
not he large enough for me- am gla
TO know that no human estimate is s,iff
cient 10 take the dimensions. sEye hat
not seen nor car heard" nor arithmetic
calculated.
/ first remark that we can in tn
world get no idea of the health OF HEAVIER
When you were child and you WEI
out in the morning, how you bounds
along the road or street-you had new
,felt sorrow or sickness. Perhaps Lat.
you felt glow in your cheek, and
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