Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-06
WHY ?sNT
The Blind, the Lame, the Idiotic, the
Insane, the Destitute, a WerId
of Misfortune.
VINO Can Explain for what Reason ALL
fhese Ills Must be Borne In
This Worid' ek1s>
os the hefuigsnt Light That Peurs from
the Throne of God This Dark Mys-
terry VIII DO Cleared.
the COMING GLORY.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan. AT the Tab.
ernacle this morning Rev. L. Dewitt Tai
mage, DID,, announced that next Sabb stl
ne will begin course of sermons to tn,
women OF America, with practical hint
to men-the following subjects anon.
others:
"The Women Who Have to Fight tn,
Battle OF Life Alone;" Marriage fo
Worldly Success, Without Reference tx
Moral Characters" sis Engagement e..
Binding as Marriage?" "Womel WHO
Are Already UncoDgenially Married.
influences Abroad for the Destruction
OF Women" "Wifely Ambition, Right
and Wrong" "Whet Kind Of Men Womer
Should Avoid" "SimplicitY as Opposed
to Affectatlon;" Reformation in Dress ~
SPAIN Women; )" "The Female Skep.ic,'
and "Christian Housewiiery."
This morning DR.. Talmage's subject
was: "Tne Coming Glory;" MS text I.
Corinthians, ii, g: "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.
He said:
Eighteen hundred and lightweight.
How strange 1t looks, aud how strange it
sounds! Not only is the past year dead,
but the century is dying. 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 nine
teenth buried. As al the years are
Fastening past, and aIl our lives
CT earth will soon be ended, propose to
cheer myself, and cheer you with the glo-
ries to come, which shall utterly eclipse
all the glerles past: for my text tells Us
that eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
ANYTHING like the advancing splendors.
The city of Corinth hiss been called the
Paris OF antiquity. Indeed, for splendor,
the world holds no such wonder to-day.
It 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 wharfes, in
the construction Of which whole king
doms had been absorbed, war-galIeys
with three banks Of oars pushed out and
COMPOUNDED the navy yards Of all the
world. Huge-hended machinery, such as
modern invention cannot equal, lifted
ships from the sea on one side and traus-
ported them on trucks across the isthmns
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 tariff from all
nations. The mirth of all people sported
In her Isthmian games, ead the beSuty 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 beWildered the be-
holder. There were white marble fOun-
tains into which, from epertures
st 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
sstatue Of Hercules OF FURNISHED Co.
rinthian brass. Vases Of terra Gotta
adorned the cemeteries of the dead
vases so costly that julius Caesar was not
satisfied until he had captured them for
Rome. Armed officials, the corintharii,
paced up and down to see that no statue
was defsced. no pedestal overthroWn, no
has relief touched. From the edge Of the
city hill arose, with its magnificent bur-
den OF columns, and towers, and temples
zone thousand slaves waiting at one
shrine), and citadel 50 thoroughly i'm
pregns0le that Gibraltar is heap Of sand
compar with it. Amid all that strength
and msgnifcence Corinth stood and
DErIBD THE WORLD.
OF. II was not TO rustlcs who had never
seen anythiag grand that Paul uttered
this text. They had heard the best music
that had come from the best instruments
il all the world; they had heard songs
fiosting from morning porticos and melt
ing in evening groves; they had passed
their whole lives among pictures, and
sculpture, and architecture, and Cor
inthian brass, which had been nodded
and shaped until there was not Chariot
wheel in which 1t 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 ali thst and say: "All this is
nothing. These sounds that come from
the temple Of Neptune are not music COM
oared with the hermonies OF which l
speak. These waters rushing in the ha-
sin of Pyrene are not. pure. These stat
ues OF Bacchus and Mercury are not ex-
oujsite. Your citadel of Aero Corinthus
IS not strong compared with that which |
offer to the poorest slave that
puts down his burden st that
brazen gate. You Corinthians think
this is q splendid city; you think you
have heard all sweet sounds, and
seen sill beautiful sights: but tell you
eve hsth not seen or ear heard, neither
nave not entered into the heart OF man,
the things which God hsth 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 re-
atty. Some wise men have been calcu-
Jsting how many furiongs long and wide
"a the new Jerusalem; and they have
calculated how many inhabitants there
ara IN the earth; how long the earth will
nroh.bly:stand ;and then they come to this
Estimate: that after ali the nations hsve
heer Gathered to heaven, there Will pc
>..to,,, Car each soul-s room sixteen feet
nc md afteen feet wide. II would not
heSsrge enough for me. sm glad to
Know that no human estimate is sufilcient
- take the dimensions. "Eye had not
seen. nor ear heard" nor arithmetics
calculated, or,d
ro. no IDEA of the health OF Heaven
STheD you were q Chi d, and you went out
~ the morning, how you bounded along
.ha Yosd or street-you bad never felt
sar,ow ar sickness. Perhaps later you
eft a glow in your cheek, and spring
=, uou7 step. snd an exu5erance OF spirits,
and . clesrness of eye, th.t made you
+bsnk God you were permitted TO i've.
The nerves were hsrp-strings, ana the
s,rl,el,t was doxology, snd the rustling
1annas we're the rustliDg OF the