Sharp County record., 1888-01-26
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
"The Coming Glory" the Subject
of a New Years Discourse.
The Past Year Dead, the Century Dying
"A Look Into the Beyond" orlo-
ly IDEAS of Heaven Far Short
of the Reality.

The subject OF Kew. l. LIS " i,u, itu rIa,s;,o,
Nav Year,s discourse was "lhe Ioilins
Glory" his text being:
Eve hath not seen, nor ear hearu, ,,Ia
have entered into the heart OF man tne 'h,ioo
which God hath prepared for them lh"V io''
him. - loo,e
He soid: 1888. How strange 1t LOOKS
ord how strange it sounds! Not only Is
the mast year Dead but the century 10
dvinc. ONLY twelve more long breatnS
and the old giant will have expireu'
None of the past centuries will be preSehv
ot tbe obseouies. Only the tWentleth
+ oortnrv will see the nineteenth buried.
As all the years are Fastening past anu
all our lives on earth Will soon 10
ended l propose to cheer myself anu
cheer YOU with the glorie' to come, "hlch
sbelI ntter,y eclipse all the glorles paSU'
for NV text tells us that eye hath not
seen nor ear heard anything like the ad-
vancing splendor u,4,o
The CITY of Corinth has been called the
Paris of antiquity. Indeed, 1or Splenuol'
the world holds no such wonder to-day
II stood on an isthmus washed by TWO
seas the one sea bringing the commerce
of Europe, the other bringing the com.
merce of Asia. From her wharVes' IN tne
construction of which whole klngdomS
Ind been absorbed, war-galleys with
three banks of oars pushed out ana con-
/ founded the navy-yards Of all the world
| Hupe-handed machinery, such as modern
invention can not 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 grove that
! lined the beach to collect m d
tariff from all nations Inc
mirth of all people sported IN her
isthmian games, and the beauty OF all
lands sat in her theaters, walked her
norticos. and threw itself on the altar OF
| her stupendous designations. Column,
and statue, and temple bewildered the be-
holder. There were white marble fouht-
aims into which, from apertures 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
ecrlnture and architecture; while stand
ing, as if TO guard tho costly display, was
a statue of Hercules Of FURNISHED CORN,
THAN brass. Vases of terra Gotta adorned
the cemeteries of the dead-vases so cost
" that julius Caesar was not satsfled un.
iii he had captured them for Rome. Armed
officials. the corintharii, paced up and
down TO see that no statue was detaced,
no nedeStal overthrOwn, no bas-relet
touched. From the edge Of the city NIL
arose, with its magnificent burden of COL
umns, and towers, and temples Zone thous'
and slaves waiting at one shrine), and
citadel so thoroughly impregnabie that
! Gibraltar is a heap Of sand compared with
if. Amid all that strength and magnih-
cence Corinth stood and deted the
world.
OH It was not to rust cs who had never
seen any thing 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 melt.
ing in evening groves; they had passed
their whole lives among pictures, and
sculpture, and architecture, and Corlnth.
ian brass, which had been nodded ana
shaped until there was no chariot wheel
in which it had not sped, and no tower
in which it had not glittered, and
no gateway that it had not
adorned. All, it was bold thing for Paul
to stand there amid all that and say:
GAN this is nothing. These sounds
that come from the temple of Neptune are
not music compared with the harmonles
of which I speak. 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
his burden at that brazen gate. You Cor
intbians think this is a splendid city;
YOU think YOU have heard all sweet
sounds, and seen all beautiful sights, but
/ tell you eye hath not seen nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart OF
man, the things which God has 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
raolitv Some wise men have been calcu'
lating how many furlongs long and
wide is the new Jcrusalem ana they
have calculated how many lnhablt
onts 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. II
would not be large enough for me. l an
clad TO know that no human estimate is
sufficient to take the Dimensions "Eyt
hath not seen nor ear heard" nor arith'
metics calculated. first remark that we
can in this world get no idea of the weal ii
of Heaven. When you were child, ant
when you went out in the morning, how
YOU bounded along the road or street
Won had never felt sorrow or sickness
Perhaps later you felt glow in you
cheek, and spring in your step, ant
an exuberance of spirits, and {
c,earness of eye, that made you thanl
God you were permitted to live. Tht
nerves were harp-strings, anC
the sunlight was a doxology. ant
the rustlng leaves were the rustlinE
of the robes of great crowd rising up t.
praise the Lord. You thought that yol
knew what it was to be well, but there il
no perfect health on earth. The diseases
of past generations came down to Us
The airs that float now upon the earth ar,
not like those which foated above para
disc. They are charged with impurities
and dstempers. The most elastic and 70
bust health of earth, compared with tha
abich tbose eynerience before whom thl