The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-12
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Weekly Discourse of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher
Subject: "Tho Coming Glory"

Subject: "Tho Coming Glory"
tat the brooklyn Tabernacle tho Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage, d, D., announced that next Sabbath no
would begin course OF sermons to the women OF
America, with practical hints for men, the follow
Ing subjects among others; The Women VINO
Have to Fight the Battle of Life,n wharfage for
Worldly Success, without Reference to Moral Char
acler" us Engagement as Binding as Marrages"
"Women Who Are Already unconganially Mar.
ried," influences Abroad for the Destruction or
Women,h "Wfey Ambition Right and Wrong
"What Kind of Men Women Should Avoid, /" "Sim-
plielty as Opposed to Affectalion," "Reformation,
In Dress" "Plain Women "The Female Skeptic"
ind "Christian llousewifery,'l
TEXT: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither hare entered into The heart of man,
The things lOhich God hath prepared for
them that lore him,n-l. Corinthians, H., o.
Eighteen hundred and lightweight. How
strange it looks, and how strange it sounds!
fury is dying, Only twelve more long
breaths and the old giant will have OK,
pired. None of the past centuries Will
be present at tho obsequies. Only
the Twentieth Century will see the Nine
teenth buried. As all the years are hasten
ing past, and all our lives on earth will soon
be ended, l propose to cheer myself and
shall utterly eclipse all the glories past; for
my text tells us that eye hath not seen nor
ear heard anything like the advancing SPLEEN
doris.
The city of Corinth has been called the
Paris of antiquity. Indeed for splendor the
world beholds no such wonder to-day. 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, 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. 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 nations.
The mirth of all people sported in her
lsthmian games, and the beauty of all lands
sat in her theatres, walked her porticos and
threw itself on the altar of her stupendous
designations. Column, and statue, and tenn
pie bewildered the beholder. There were
white marble fountains, into which, from
apertures at the side, there rushed waters
everywhere known for health giving quail
ties. Around these basins twisted into
wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties
of sculpture and architecture; while stand
ing, as if to guard the costly display,
nshed 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 them for
Rome. Armed officials, the corintharii,
paced up and down to see that no statute was
defaced, no pedestal overthrow, no bas-re-
lief touched. From the edge of the city a hill
IS
and towers and temples 1000 slaves waiting
at one shrine), and a citadel so thoroughly
tmpregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of sand
compared with it. Amid all that strength
and magnificence Corinth stood and deied
the world.
Oil it was not to rustics who had never
,een 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 even
ing groves; they had passed their whole lives
among pictures and sculpture and architect
ure and Corinthian brass, which had BEEN
nodded and shaped until there was no chariot
wheel in which it had not sped, and no tower
IN which it had not glittered and no gate
way that it had not adorned. All, it
was bold thing for Paul to stand there
amid all that and say: "All this is
nothing. These sounds that come from the
temple OF Neptune are not music compared
with the harmonies of which | speak. These
waters rushing in the basin of Pyrene are
not pure. These statues of Bacchus and
Mercury are not exquisite Your citadel of
Acrocorlnthus is not strong compared with
that which offer to the poorest slave that
puts down his burden at that brazen gate.
You Corinthians think this is splendid city;
you think you have heard all sweet sounds
and seen all beautiful sights; but l tell you
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 may be of heaven
they come far short of the reality Some
wise men have been calculating how many
furlongs long and wide is the New Jerusalem;
and they have calculated how many inhabit-
ants there are on the earth; how long the
earth will probably stand; and then they
come to this estimate: that after all the
nations have been gathered to Heaven, there
Will be room for each soul-a room sixteen
feet long and fifteen feet wide. It would not
be large enough for me. am glad to know
shat no human estimate is sufficient to take
the dimensions. Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, nor arithmetics calculated.
first remark that we can in this world
get no idea of the health Of heaven. When
you were child, and you went out in the
morning, how you bounded along the road
or street-you had never felt sorrow or sick
oess. Ferhaps later you felt glow in your
chce!t,and spring in your step,an an exu-
perance OF spirits, and clearness of eve, that
made You thank God you We're permitted to
I'VE, The nerves were harpstrings and the
sunlight was doxology, and the rustling
ieaVes We're the rusling of the robes of a
great crowd rising up to praise the Lord,
You thought that you knew what it was to be
We'll, but there is no perfect health on earth,
Inc diseases of past generations came down to
us. he airs that float now upon the earth
ar are Ike those which floated above Paradise.
Ihey are charged with Impurities and dis
tenpers. The most elastic and robust health
Oh earth, compared with that which those ex-
perlehce before whom the gates have been
opeped: IS nothing but sickness and emacia-
tlon. Look at that soul standing be-
lore the throne. On earth she was life long
Invalid. See her step now, and hear her
voice now. Catch, if you can, one breath of
that celestial air. Health in all the pulses
Meath of vision, health of spirits, immortal
health. No racking cough no sharp pleu-
rlsies, no consuming fevers, no inexhaust-
men. Health swinging in the air:
heaith flowing in all the streams;
heaith blooming on the banks No head
aches, no sideaches, no backaches. That
child that died in the agonies of Group, hear
her voice now ringing in the anthem That
Old man that went bowed down with the in
nrmlties of old age, see him walk now with
the step of an immortal athete-for ever
young again. That night when the needle
woman tainted away in the garnet, wave
OF the heavenly air resuscitated her forever.
For everlasting years to have neither ache,
nor pain, nor weakness, nor fatigue. "Eya
bath not seen it, ear hath not heard it."
remark, further, that we can, in this
world, get no just idea of the splendors of
heaven. John tries to describe them. He
says ''the twelve gates are twelve pearls, I"
and that "the foundations of the wall are
garnished with all manner of precious
stones.n As we stand looking through the
telescope of st. John, we see blaze of
amethyst and pearl, and emerald and sar
donyx, and chrysoprasus, and sapphire a
mountain of light, a cataract of color, sea
of glass and city like the sum-.
John bids us look again and we see thrones
thrones of the prophets, thrones of the patri-
archs, thrones of the angels, thrones of the
apostles, thrones of the martyrs, throne of
Jesus-throne of God. And we turn round
to see the glory and it is thronesl thrones!
thronesl
John bids us look again, and we see the
great procession of the redeemed passing;
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