The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-02
THE COMING GLORY.
Rev. Dr. Talmage's Sunday Sermon.
Thoughts Appropriate to the Ad-
vent Of tho New Year.
The Glories Which Eye Hath Nos
Seen Nor Ear Heard.
The Felicities Which Are in Stora
for the Righteous.
An Eloquent Appeal TO Sinners to Turn
to God That They May En-
Joy the Promised
Land.

DhouhLlN, W. L., Jan, l.-M tlle IAN
emaclo this morning the Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmagc, ID. H., announced that next Sab
hath he will begin course Of sermons to
the women OF America, with practical
hints for mon, the following subjects
among others:
"The Women Who Have 10 Fight tho
Battle OF I.iie Alone" Marriage for
Worldly Success Without Reference 10
Moral Character" "Is Engagement as
Finding as Marriage" "Women Who arc
Already Uncongcuislly Married." "lnnu-
cnces Abroad for the Destruction oi Wom-
en-" "Wiicly Ambition Right and
Wrong" "What Kind OF Men Women
Should Avoid" simplicity as Opposed 10
Affection" "Rciormalion in Drss;"
"plain Women" "Thc Female skcptic,"
and "Christian IIouscwifcry."
This morning Dr. Talmago's subject was
"Tho Coming Glory" his text, !. Cornth-
ians, II, q: "Eyo bath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart
Of man, the things which God hath pre-
pared for them that love him." lie said.
Eighteen hundred and cighty.cight.
How strange 1t looks aud how strange il
sounds Not only is the past year dead,
but the century is dying. Only twelve
moro long brcaths and the old giant viii
have expired. None Of the past centuries
will bc present ut the obsequics. Only
the twentieth century will see the nine
eenth buried. As all the years are has
tcnng past, and all our lives on earth will
soon be ended, propose to cheer myself
and cheer you with the gories 10 come.
which shall utterly eclipse all the glorics
past; for my text tells us that eye hath not
seen, nor ear hcarl, anything like the adj
yancing splondoB.
"'Thc city OF Corinih has been called tho
Paris Of antiquity. Indeed, for splcndor,
the world holds no such wonder today.
II stood on an isthmus washed by two
seas, the one sca bringing the commerce oi
Europe, the other .eca bringing the com-
mcrc of Asia. From her wharycs, in tho
construction oi which whole kingdoms had
been absorbed. war Hallcys With three
banks Of oars pushed ont and coniUnndcd
the navy yards Of all the world. Huge
handed machinery, such ~ modern inycn-
ton cannot equal, lifted ships from the sea
on one side aud transported them on trucks
across the isilimus and sat them down IN
the .sca ON the other side. The revenue
officers OF the city went down through the
olive groves that lined the beach Ia collect
a tariff from all nations. The mirth OF all
people sportcd in her isthmian games, and
the beauty of all lands sat in her theaters,
Il
the altar of her siupcndous dissipaiions.
Column aud statue aud temple bcwildcred
the bcholdcr There were white marble
fountains into which, fnm apcrtues
ut the side. there rushed waters
everywhere known for hcallhrgiying
qualities Around these basins. twisted
into wrcaths Oi stone. there wcr all tho
beauties uf sculpture and architecture;
while standing, as II 10 guard the costly
| display, was statue oi Hercules ~
FURNISHED Corinlhan brass. Vases of ter
ra Gotta adorned the cemeteries Of the dead
-vnscs ~ costly that Julius Crsar was not
satisfied until he hal captured them foe
Rome. Armed officials, the Corinlharii,
paced up aud down 90 sec that no statue
WIS dciaccd. no pedestal Ovcrhrown, no
bns relief touched. From the clgr of thS
city hill arose, with its magnificent
burden Of columns and towers nnd
temples 1000 slaves waiting at Qua
shrincl, aud a city NJ thoroughly inn
prgnablc that Gibraltar X heap oi sand
compared with II. Amid all that strength
and maguiliccnco Corinih stool aud dc.
fled the world.
"Oh Il was not tn ruslics who hal
never seen anything grand that Paul ut
tered this text. They hal heard the beet
| ti.a III .a,.... f..,. tt.t k..af
mnnts la al the world; they hal heard
songs lloaiing ifum morning porlicos ani
melting in evening groves, they hal passed
their whole lives among pictures ani
sculptures, and architecture, and torlnih-
| ian brasa, which had bcon nodded ani
shaped until there was no chariot wheel iu
which Il had not sped, and No tower Ia
| which Il had not glitiorcd, and no gate
way that Il had not adorned. All, Il wasa
| bold thing for Paul 10 stand there amid all
that, and say: AN this X nothing. These
sounds that come from the temple NJ Ncp-
| tune are not music compared with the llar-
monies Of which ! speak. Thrsr waters
rushing In the basin Oi pyn'nc aro not
pure, THESE statues of Bacchus and Aier-
| cnry aie not exquisite. Your citadel ot
| Acrocorinlhus Ii not strong compared with
| that which oiler to the poorest slave that
| puts down his burden nj that braken gate.
You Corinthians think this Is u splendid
city, you think YOU have heard all sweet
sounds, aud seen all beautiful sights; but |
tell YOU eye hath not sccn nor ear heard,
neither have entered ntothc heart Of man.
the things which God hath prepared for
them that love him..
"You see my textsets 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 iurl0ngs long and vide Is the new
Jerusalem; aud they have calculated how
many inhabitants there are ON the earth;
how long the earth will probably stand;
aud then they come 10 this esiinmtc; that
after all the nations have been gathered
t. heaven, there will bo room lor each
soul--a room sixteen feet long aud fifteen
feet wide. II would not be- largo enough
for me. am glad 70 know that no human
estimate is sufficient 10 tnke the LINEN,
sons Eve hath not seen, nor ear hcarh,
nor arthmeiics calculated. -,
III hrst remark that We can in HIS wofw
get no idea Of the health oi hcavrm Whsp