Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-14
Rev. DIR. Talmage breaches On the
Glories ( Come.
The Splcndors OF the City OF Cor
NTH Described.
Dur Ideas OF Heaven Come short
of h Reality.
The Mysteries of Providence TO BE
Finally Made Plain.
THE COMING GLORY.

crnacle this morning the Rev. Il. Dewitt
Talmage, ID. d., announced that next
Sabbath he will begin a course Of sermons
to the women of America, with practical
hints for men, on the following subjects
among others:
The Women Who Have To Fight the
Battle of Life Alone Marriage for
Worldly Success without Reference to
Moral Character" is Engagement as
Binding as Marriagc?' Women Who
Are Already U~ncongenially Married"
influences Abroad for the Destruction Of
Women" "Wifcly Ambition Right and
Wrong" What Kind of Men Women
Should Avoid simplicity as Opposed
to Arectation;'' Reformation in Dress"
plain Women The Female Skeptic;"
and Christian Housewifery."
This morning DR.. Ia IMAGES subject
was: THE Coming Glory" his text, |
Corinthians, Oh. 2 V. 8:
eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart OF man, the things
WHICH bOu halu pItPaicu " lhtih tHat ioNS
him.
He said: 1888. How strange it looks,
and how strange it soundsl Not only is
the past year dead but the century is dy-
ing. Only twelve more long breaths and
the old giant will have expired. None Of
the past centuries will be present at the
obsequies. Only the twentieth century
will see the nineteenth buried. Az all 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
all the glories past; for my text tells MS
that eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, any
thing tike the advancing splendors.
THE CITY OF CoRISrH.
The city of Corinth has been called the
Paris of antiquity, Indeed. for splcndor,
the world holds 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
OF Asia. From her wharves,
in the construction of which whole king
doms had been absorbed, CALLERS
with three banks Of oars pushed out and
COMPOUNDED the navy yards OF all the
world. Huge-handcd machinery, such as
modern invention cannot equal, lifted
ships from the sea on one side and trans
ported them on trucks across the isthmus
and set them down in the sea on the other
went down through the olive groves that
lined the beach to collect a tariff from all
nations. The mirth Of all people sported
in her Isthmian games, and the beauty of
all lands sat in her theaters, walked her
porticos, and threw itself on the altar of
her stupendous designations. Column,
and statue, and temple bcwildered the
beholder. There were white marble
fountains into which, from aperturcs at
the side, there rushed waters every where
known for health giving qualities. 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, was
n statue of
HERCULES
of Furnished Corinthian brass. Vases of
terra Gotta adorned the cemeteries OF the
dead-yases so costly that julius Caesar
was not satisfied until he had captured
them for Rome. Armed officers, the cor
intharii. paced up and down to see that
no statue was dcfaced, no pedestal over
thrown. no bas-relicf touched. From the
edge Of the city a hill arose, with its mag
nificent burden Of columns. and towers,
and temples zone thousand slaves waiting
at one shrinc), and a citadel SO thoroughly
impregnablc that Gibraltar is a heap of
sand compared with it. Amid all that
strength and magniticence Corinth stood
and deticd the world.
PAuL's AUDIENCE.
OH it was not to rustics who had never
heard anything grand that Paul uttered
this text They had heard the best music
that had come from the best instruments
i'm all the world; they had heard songs
boating from morning porticos and melt,
sing in evening groves; they had passed
their whole lives among pictures,
sculpture, and architecture, and Corinth-
ian brass, which had been moulded ana
shaped until there was no chariot wheel
in which it had not sped, and no tower IN
which il had not glittered, and no gate
way hat it had not adorned. All, it was
a bold thing for Paul to stand there amid
ali that, and say: "All this is nothing.
These sounds that come to you from the
temple of Neptune are not music com.
pared with the harmonies OF which l
sneak. These waters rushing in the basin
of Pyrene are not pure. These statues OF
Bacchus and Mercury are not exquisite.
Your citadel of Acrocorinthus is not
strong compared with that which | offer
to the poorest slave that puts down ms
burden at that brazen gate. You Cor
inthians think this is a splendid city; you
think you have heard sweet sounds, and
seen all beautiful sights; but | tell you
eve 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"
OUR IDEAs OF HEAVEN.
You see my text sets forth the idea
that. however exalted our ideas of
Heaven, they come far hort Of the real
ity. Some wise men have been calculat-