Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-12
fHE COMING GLORY.
DR- rALMAGE's SUNDAY SERMON.
7he Wonderful Things that God will do
for them that Lore Him.

TSimaee, ID. D.. announced tGat next sabbath be
Rouid begin course Of sermons 10 the women OF
Anrcrtca with practical hints for men, the follow
ing sabjsce among others; ''rhe Women Who
Have TO Fight the Battle OF Life" Wharfage for
WORLDLY Success, without Reference to aoral Char
Nc,ers" lis Engagement as Binding as Marriage?"
~Women Who Are Already Uneonganially Mar
Esed." "lnfnences Abroad for the destruction OF
Women ''Wifely Ambition Right and Wrong"
plic,ty as Opposed to AffectaIion," "Reformailon
In Drees, "Plan Women, - 'The Female Skeptic'
and ''Christian Housewlfey'1
TEXT: Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
Hejther haze catered into The heart of man,
the tAfRg' Uhich God hath prepared for
4heR that lore him."-I. Corinthians, H., Q.
Eighteen hundred and lightweight. How
strange il looks, and how strange it soundsl
Not only Is the past year dead but the CEN
fury Is dying. Only twelve more long
breaths and the ole giant will have ex-
Rlred- None Of the past centuries will
be present at the obsequies. Only
the Twentieth Century will see the Nine
teenth buried. As all the years are hasten
ing past, and all our 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 past; for
my text tells us that eye hath not seen nor
ear heard anything like the advancing splen-
dors.
The city Of Corinth has been called the
Paris OF antiquity. Indeed, for splendor the
world beholds 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 wharyes, in the construction of
tNFhich whole kingdoms had been absorbed,
war galleys with three banks of oars pushed
out and confoupded the navy yards of all the
world. Hugehanded machinery, such as
Kmoderll Invention cannot equal, lifted ships
from the sea on one side and transported
Ehem on trucks across the isthmus and sat
Them down in the seq on the other side.
The revenue officers of the city went
down through the olive groves that lined
the beach to collect tariff from all nations.
The mirth of all people sported in her
1stbmian games, and the beauty of all lands
sat in her theatres, walked her porticos and
threw itself on the altar of her stupendous
djssipations. Column and statue, and tenn
pc bewildered the behoder There were
white marble fountains, into which, from
apertures at the side, there rushed waters
everywhere known for health giving quail
tics. Around these basins twisted into
wreatlfs of stone, there were all the beauties
of sculpture and architecture; while stand
swas 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
met 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 1000 slaves waiting
at one shrine), and a citadel so thoroughly
imPregnable that Gibraltar is heap of sand
r90anpared with it. Amid all that strength
and magnifcence Corinth stood and deted
the world.
Oh, it was not to rustics who had never
sEeen 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
frOiR 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
nsokled and shaped until there was no chariot
wheel in which it had not sped, and no tower
IEn which il had not glittered, and no gate
-uE1w tarat it had not adorned. All, it
@as abold thing for Paul to stand there
nmid all that and say: "Al this is
nETAing These sounds that come from the
s$eEnBle of Neptune are not music compared
wieh the harmonies of which speak. These
waters rushing in the basin of Pyrena are
mot pure. These statues Of Bacchus and
Mercury are not exquisite. Your citadel OF
Acr0cornthus is not strong compared with
Gfszas which offer to the poorest slave that
I1ysuts down his burden at that brazen gate.
IXum Corinthians think this is splendid city;
Won think YOU have heard all sweet sounds
a1s1 asen all beautiful sights; but tell you
.ayye hath not seeu nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart Of man, the things
vsllicA God hath prepared for them that love
Him.
You sec my text sets forth the idea that
however exalted our ideas may be of heaven,
far short 0f .ha rnntltv Nome
SgSse men have been calculating how many
9ssxhngs long and wide is the New Jerusalem;
and they have calculated how many inhabit
.;anfs there are on the earth; how long tht
eaafih win probably stand; and then theJ
..sznne to this estimate; that after all tht
nations have been gathered to Heaven, there
YssSIii be room for each soul-a room sixteeI
rEEset long and fifteen feet wide. 1t would moi
bs large enough for me. am glad to know
SEsat no human estimate is sufficient to taxi
she dimensions Eye hath not seen, nor eal
heard, !" nor arithmetics calculated.
frat remark That we can in this worlt
-ae& NO idea Of the health of heaven. When
yuu were child, and you went out in tn
mn1sming, how you bounded along the roat
-xr atxeet-you had never felt sorrow or sick
zassS Perhaps later you felt glow in youl
cheek, and q spring in your step, and an exI
ferance of spirits, and a clearness of eye tina
aaade you thank God you were permitted Il
-.
Eve Tho nerves were harpstrings, and tn
sunlight was q doxology, and the rustlint
asaves were the rustling of the robes OF ;
great crowd rising up to praise the Lord
You thought that you knew what it was to b
well, but there is no perfect health on earth
The dIseasesof past generations came down T
RkS The airs that float now upon the cart
arc like thoss which foated above Paradise
They are charged with impurities and dis
AenApers The most elastic and robust healtl
OF earth, compared with that which those OK
Earience before whom the gates have beel
opened, is nothing but sickness and emacla
2iar- Look at that soul standing bt
Sore the throne. On earth she was life Ion
invalid See her step now, and hear he
voice now. Catch, II YOU can, one breath
chat celestial air. Health in all the pulses
heath Of vision, health of spirits, immort'
health. No racking cough, no sharp, pie,
ling pains, no hospitals of wounde
uien- Health swinging in the al
asealth flowing in all the stream
tAealth blooming on the banks No hea
nehes, no sideaches, no backaches. Thu
child that died in the agonies of Group, het
her voice now ringing in the anthem. Thu
cid man that went bowed down with the i
ssrInities of old age, see him walk now vii
che step of an immortal athlete--for ev
young again. That night when the needl
woman tainted away in the garret, a wa
of the heavenly air resuscitated her foreve
Foreverlasting years to have neither ach
FsOr pain, nor weakness, nor fatigue. "Ey
hath not seen 1t, ear hath not heard II"
I remark, further, that we can, In th
world, get no just idea of the splendors .
heayen. John tries to describe Them I
says ttthe twelve gates are twelve pearls
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