The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-13
TALMAGES SERMON.
s'The Coming Glory" the Subject
of O New Yosr's Discourse.
The Past Year Dead, the Century Dying
"A Look Into the lB-yond-wOrld.
ly Ideas OF Heaven Far Short
of tho Reality.

ly Ideas OF Heaven Far Short
of tho Reality.
The subject Of Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage's
| New Years discourse was "1he Coming
Glory" his text being:
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: 1888. How strange it looks,
md 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 tn. past centuries will be present
at the obsequies. Only the twentieth
century will see the nineteenth buried.
As all the years are Fastening past, and
all our lives on earth will soon be
| ended. / propose to cheer myself, and
cheer you with the glorie' 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 ad.
vancing splendor.
The City of Corinth has been called the
Paris Of antiquity. Indeed, for splendor,
the world holds no such wonder to-day.
1t stood ON an isthmus washed by two
seas, tho one sea bringing the commerce
of Europe, the other bringing the com.
MERGE of Asia. From her wharves. in the
construction CT which whole kingdoms
had been absorbed, war-galleys with
three banks of oars pushed out and con-
founded the navy.yards of all the world.
Huge-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 S ide.
The revenue officers of the city went
down through the olive grove that
lined the beach to collect a
tariff from all nations. The
mirth Of all people sported in her
isthmian games, and the beauty of all
lands sat in her theaters, walked her
porticos, and threw itself on the altar of
her stupendous designations. Column,
aud statue, and temple bewildered the be.
holder. There were white marble fOuht-
aims into which, from apertures at the
side, there rushed waters everywhere
known for heaith-giving qualities.
Around these basins, twisted into wreaths
of stone, there were all the bea uties of
sculpture and architecture; while stand.
ing, as if to guard tho cos tly display, was
a statue of Hercules of FURNISHED COrin-
THAN brass. Vases of terra Gotta adorned
the cemeteries Of the dead-vases so cost
ly that julius Cesar wcs not satisfied un.
til he had captured them for Rome. Armed
officials, the corinthsrii, paced up and
down to ses that no statue was defaced,
no pedestal overthrown. no bas- relief
touched. From the edge of the city a hill
arose, with its magnificent burden OF col.
umns, and towers, and temples Zone thous.
and slaves waiting ut one shrine), and a
citadel so thoroughly impregnabie that
Gibraltar is heap Of sand compared with
it. Amid oil that strength and magnif-
cence Corinth stood and dsfied the
world.
Oh! 1t 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 Corinth.
ian Irass, 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 gateway that it had not
adorned. All, it was a 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 harmonies
Of which speak. These waters rushing
in the basin of Pyrene are nos pure. These
statues of Pacchus and Mercury are not
exquisite. Your citadel of Acrocorinthus
is not strong compared with that which l
offer to the poorest slave that puts down
his burden at that brazen gate. You Cor
inthians think this is splendid city;
you think you have heard al 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
reality. Some wise men have been calcu-
lating 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 heard" nor arith. |
nletics calculated. l first remark that we |
can in this world get no idsa of the wealth |
of Heaven. When you were child, and |
when you went out in the morning, how |
you bounded along the road or street.
you had never felt sorrow or sickness. |
Perhaps later you felt a glow in your |
cheek. and a spring in your step, and |
an exuberance Of spirits, and a |
clearness of eye. that made you thank |
God you were permitted to live. The |
nerves were harp strings, and |
the sunlight was doxology. and |
the rustling leaves were the rustliug |
of the robes of great crowd rising up to /
praise the Lord. You thought that you
knew what it was to be we'll, but there is
no perfect health on earth. Tho diseases
Of past generations came down to Us.
The airs that float now upon the earth are
not like those which 1oated above para
disc. They arc charged with impurities
and distempers. The most elastic and 70.
bust health Of earth. compared with that
which those experience before whom the
gates have been opened, is nothing but
sickness and emacistion. Lock at that
soul standing before the throne. On
earth she was . lifelong invalid. See
her step now, and hear her voice now.
Catch, il you can, ono breath Of that
celestial air. Health in all the pulses
health of vision; health Of spirits; i'm.
mortal health. No rackin9 cough, no
sharp pleurisies. NO consuming fsvers, no
eXhauStin1 Mains no hosnitals of