Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-01-07

Rome. Armed OFFICIALS, Inc COZ Lt u -.
paced up and down to see that no statue was
defaccd, no pedestal overthrown, no bas-relief
touched. From the edge OF the city O hiii
nrose. with its magnificent burden OF columns
ind towers and temples 900 slaves waiting
at one shrne), and citadel so thoroughly
imprcrnablo that Gibraltar is q heap of sand
con,uared with it. Amid oil that strength
and masnificence Corinth stood and deied
the world
OH it was not to rustics vino had never
seen ANYTHING grand that Paul uttered this
toyt. They had heard tho best music that
had come from tho best instruments in all
tho world; they had heard songs floating
from morning portcos and melting III even
ing groves; they had passed their Whole hVes
among pictures and sculpture and architect
urc and Corinthian brass which hal been
nodded and shaped until there was no
chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and
no tower i'll which it had not glittered, and no
gateway that it had not adorned Ali
it was a bold thing for Paul to stand
there amid all that and say: "All this IS
nothing. These sounds that como from the
temple of Neptune are not music compared
with the harmonies of which l speak. These
waters rushing in the basin of Pyrcne are
not pure. These statues Of Bacchus and
Mercury are not exquisite. Your citadel OF
AcrocorintlIus is not strong compared with
that which | offer to the poorest slave that
puts down his burden ut that brazen gate.
You Corinthians think this is a splendid city;
you think you have heard all sweet sounds
and seen all beautiful sights; but l tell you
lam, 7aftl to, "a
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;
md they have calculated how many inhabit-
ants there are on the Garth; how long tho
earth will probably stand; and then they
come to this estimate: that after all the
nations have been gathered to beavon, there
will be room for each soul-a room sixteen
feet long and fifteen feet wide. 1t would not
be large enough for me. / am glad to know
that no human estimate is sufficient to take
tie dimensions. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear
I first remark that VIC can in this world
get no idea of tho health Of heaven. Whom
you wero child, aud you went out in the
morning, how you bounded along the road
or street-you had never felt sorrow or sick
ness. Perhaps later you fclt glow in your
check, and spring in your step, and an exu-
berancc of spirits, and clcarness Of eye, that
made you thank God you were permitted to
live. The nerves were harpstrings, and the
sunlight was a doxology, and tho rustling
leaves were the rustlins of the robes OF
great crowd rising up to praise the Lord.
You thought that you know what twas to be
we'll, but there is no perfect health on earth.
The diseases of past generations came down to
lis The airs that float now upon the earth
are not like those which floated above Para
disc They are charged with impurities and
dis.empers Tho most elastic aud robust
health of earth, compared with that which
those experience before whom the gates have
been opened, is nothing but sickness and
e,naciaton Lock at that soul standing be-
fore tle 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 il all the pulses
health of vision, health of spirits, immortal
health. No racking cough, no sharp plcuri-
sizes, no consuming fevers, no exhaust
ing pains, no llopitals OF wounded
men. Health swinging In the afr;
health flowing in oil the streams;
healtl, blooming on the banks. No head
aches, no sidcaches, 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
Infirmities of old age, see him walk now with
the step of an immortal athlete-for ever
young again. That night when the needle
woman tainted away in the garnet, wave
of tho heavenly air resuscitatcd her forever.
For everlasting years to have neither ache,
nor pain, nor weakness, nor fatigue. Eye
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