Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-01-13
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Weekly DiscOurses of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher
Subject: "The Coming Glory"

Tamage, d. D., announced that next Sabbath he
would begin course Of sermons to the women Of
America, with practical hints for men, the follow
ing subjects among others: 1.-The Women Who
Have to Fight the Battle of Life" "Marriage for
Worldly Success, without Reference to Moral Char
acter;" lis Engagement as Binding as Marriage3'
"Women Who Are Already Unconganiay Mar
ried," "lnfluenccs Abroad for the Destruction Of
Women "Wifely Ambition Right and Wrong,
"What Kind of Men Women Should Avoid" "Sim-
picity as Opposed TO Affectation," Reformation
and "Christian Housewfery."
TEXT: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither hare entered into The heart of man,
the things tChich God hath prepared for
them that lore him."-L Corinthians, H., o.
Eighteen hundred and eighty eight How
strange il. looks and how strange it soun Isl
Not only is the past year dead but the cen
tury is dying. Only twelve more long
breaths en1 the old giant will have ex-
pired. None Of the past centuries will
be- present at the ob5equies Only
the Twentieth Century will see the Nine
teenth buried. As all the years are hasten
ing rast, and all oar lives on earth will soon
be ended, | propose to cheer myself and
cheer you with the glories to come, which
shall utterly eclipse all the glories plst for
my text tells us that eye hath not seen nor
ear heard anything like the advancing splen-
dors.
The city of Cornth has heen called the
uIlS VI ulblluilG. lIlleeu, lOr SDietNlOr Uub
world behOds 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 cCGfOunded the navy yards of all the
world. Huge-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 a 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
disspations Column, and statue, and tenn
PIE bewidered the behoider 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,
was a statue of Hercules of bur-
nished 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 overthrown, no bas-re-
lief touched. From the edge of the city hill
arose, with its magnificent burden of columns
and towers and temples Q.0O0 slaves waiting
at one shrine), and a citadel so thoroughly
lmpregnable that Gibraltar is heap of sand
compared with it. Amid all that strength
and magIifcence Corinth stood and deiied
the world.
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seen 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 harmOnes 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
phOo uOhu buluGal uO UudU DIaIeu RHUe.
You Corinthians think this is 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 hath prepared for them that love
Him."
You see my text sets forth the idea that.
however exaltel ou 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. 1t would not
be large enough for me- | am glad to know
that no human estimate is sufficient to take
the dimensions Eye hath not seen, nor ear
beard" nor arithmetic5 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
ness. Perhaps later you felt glow in your
cneeK, am spring IN your step, and an exu.
berance of spirits, and a clearness of eve, that
made you thank God you were permitted ia
live. The nerves were harpstrings, and the
sunlight was doxology, and the rustling
leaves were the rustlng of the robes of a
great crowd rising up to praise the Lord.
You thought that you knew what it was to be
well, but there is no perfect health on earth.
The diseases of past generations came down to
us. The airs that float now upon the earth
are like those which floated above Paradise.
they are charged with impurities and dis
tempers. The most elastic and robust health
OF earth, compared with that which those ex-
perlence before? whom the gates have been
opened, IS nothing but sickness and emacia-
tion. Look at that soul standing be
fore the throne. On earth she was life Ions
invalid. See her step now, and hear hel
voice now. Catch, if you can one breath o
that celestial air. He1lth in all the pulses
health of vision, health of spirits, immorta
health. No racking cough, no sharp pleu
risies, no consuming fevers, no inexhaust
ing pains, no hospitals of wounded
men. Health swinging in the air
health flowing in all the streams
health blooming on the banks. No head
aches, no sideaches, no backaches Tha
child that died in the agonies of Group hea
her voice now ringing in the anthem. Tha
old man that went bowed down with the in
firmities of old age, see him walk now witt
the step OF an immortal athlets-for eve
young again. That night when the needle
woman tainted away in the garret, wav
OF the heavenly air resuscitateu her forever
For everlasting years to have neither ache
nor pain, nor weakness, nor fatigue. "Ey'
hath not seen it, ear hath not heard it,"
I remark, further, that we can, in tht
world, get no just idea Of the splendors o
heaven. John tries to describe them. II,
says "the twelve gates are twelve pearls
and that 'the foundations of the wall ar
garnished with all manner of preciou
stones" AS we stand looking through tn
telescope of st. john we see blaze o
amethyst, and pearl and emerald, and sar
donyx, and chrysoprasus, and sapphire,
mountain Of light, a cataract Of color, a SCI
of glass and a city like the sun.
John bids us look again and we see thrones
thrones OF the prophets, thrones of the patri
archs. Thrones Of the ANGELS. thrones of tn