The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-05
TIE COMING GLORY.
NEW YEARS SERMON BY THE REV.
Or. TALMAGe.


Rot ~c"" ior Far Heard Anything Like
j the Advancing splendors.
( ErooRLYN. Jan. AT the Tab.
! crnaclo this morning the Rev. r. De-
Wit T&imagr d. D., announced that
ncN. &.,hath he will begin course Of
seriuo!s to the women of America, with
| practical hints for men, the following
! tul iycts among others:
THE Women Who Have to Fight the
Battle Of Life Alone" Marriage for
| Worldly Success. without Reference To
Moral CHI sracter;" "Is Engagement us
Binding as Marriage?" "Women Who
Are Already Uncongenially Married, -
'1nfiucnces Abroad for the Destruction
| Of Women," .'Wifely Ambition Right
and Wrong "What Kind of Men Wo-
men Should Avoid" Simplicity as OPP
posed 10 AffectatiOn," "Reformation in
Dress" "Plain Women" The Female
Skeptic" and "Christian Housewifery.
This morning DIR. Talmage's subject
was: The Coming Glory" his text,
| Corinthians, il, 8; Eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard, neither have entered into
| the heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that loves him. -
! H. said:
Eighteen lightweight! How strange
it looks, and how strange it sounds! Not
| only i the past year dead. but the cen
tury Is dying. Only twelve more long
l,1 old
pired. 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
I fastening past and all our lives on earth
Will soon be ended, l propose to cheer
myself, and cheer you with the glories to
come, which shall utterly eclipse all the
EloricS past; for my test tells us that
eye hath not seen, nor ear heard. any
thing like the advancing splendors.
The city OF Corinth has been called the
Paris oil antiquity. Indeed, for splendor,
tie world holds no such wonder today
! 1t stood on an iathmus washed by two
! seas, the one sea bringing the commerce
Of Europe, the other sea bringing the
comnie.te OF Asia. From her wAuryes,
in the construction of which whole king
doms had teca absorbed, war Eallel5 with
three hanks II oars pushed oat and con-
founded the navy yards Of all the world.
/ Huge banded machinery, such as modern
invention cannot equal, lifted ships from
the sea on one side and transported them
on trucks uclJSs the isthmuS and sat
them down III the sea on the other side
The revenue officers of the city went
down through the olive groves that lined
the bca~h to collect tariff from all ma
tions The mirth of all people sported in
her lstl!Dian games. and the beauty Of
all lands sat i'll her theatres, walked hen
purticos, and threw itself on the altar Of
her stupendous dissipatlons. Column,
and statue. and temple bewildercd the
behullcr. There were white marble
fountains into which, from apert,wes at
the ii !e. there rushed waters eyerywhe
known fr health giving qualities.
Around these basins, twisted into
wreaths of stone, there were ali the
beauties tf sculpture and architecture;
while standing. as if TO guard the costly
display, was'a statue of Hercules Of bur-
nished COrinthiau brass. Vases OF terra
Gotta adorned the cemeteries of the
dead-vascs 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 dcfaced, no pedestal over
thrown, no bas-relief touched. From
the edge of the city a hill arose, with its
MAGNIFICENT burden of columns, and
towers, and temples Q.000 slaves wait
ing at one shrine), and a citadel so
thoroughly inlpregnable that Gibraltar
is Q heap Of sand compared with it,
Arad all that strength and magnificence
Corinth stood and defied the world.
OH it was not to rustics who had
tered this text. They had heard the
lest music that had come from the best
instruments in all the world; they had
heard songs floating from morning por-
ticoS and melting in evening groves; they
had passed their whole lives among pict-
urcs. and sculpture, and architecture,
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
glttcred, and 10 gateway that it
had not adorned. All, it was
bold thing for Paul to stand
there amid all that, and say: ''All this
ia nothing. These sounds that come from
the temple of Neptune are not music
compared with the harmonies of which l
speak. These waters rushing into tho
basin of Pyrene are not pure These
statues of Bacchus and Mercury are moi
exquisite. Your citadel of Acrocorinthu3
isrot strong compared with that which |
offer to the poorest slave that puts down
his burden at that brazen gate. You
Corinthians think this is a splendid city;
you think You have heard all 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 whioh God hath
prepared for them that love him"
You see my text sets forth tho idea
that, however exalted our ideas may be
Of heaven, they come far short Of the re-
alitv. Some wise men have been calcu-
tating how many furlongs long and wide
Is the New Jerusalem, and they have
calculated how many inhabitants there
are on the ealah; 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
net be large enough for me. ! am glad
to know that no. human estimate is sufii-
c1eut TO take the dimensions. "Eyo hath
not seen nor ear heard nor arithmetics
calculated.