The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-01-05
COMING GLORIEs.
DR. TALMAGE ON THE FUTURE LIFE.
The Magnificence of Earth
Naught in Comparison.


Power OF Imagination Promised to All the
Followers of the Lord-The TIVE Hives Con-
trasted-The Wondrous Mysteries of Provi-
dence-Grand Anthems Of Heaven
Special u he Kansas city Times.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Jan. AT tile Taber-
nacle this morning Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage,
u d., announced that next Sabbath he would
Degn course Of sermons to the women of
America with practical hints for men, the
following subjects among others: "The
women Who Have to Fight the Battle of Life
Alone;" Marriage for Worldly Success With
OUT Reference to Moral Character;" is EA-
gagement as Binding as Marrage?" women
Who are Already Uncongenially Married.
! influences Abroad for the Destruction of
Women;" "Wifely Ambition Right and
/ Wrong;" "What Kind of Men Women Should
Avoid;" simplicity as Opposed to Affecta-
tion;" Reformation in Dress" plain
/ Women;" ''The Female Skeptic," and Chris
| tian HOusewifery."
This morning DR.. Talmages subject was
'The Coming Glory;" his text, Corinthians,
il, 9: EYE hath not seen, nor ear heard
I neither have entered into the heart of man
the things which God hath prepared for them
! IhdI 4OFe I1lln lie Salui
! 1888 How strange it looks, and how strange
I 1t 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
VIII see the niDteenth buried
AS all the years are Fastening past, and all
our lives on earth will soon be ended. pro-
pose to cheer myself and cheer you with the
glorles to come, which shall utterly eclipse all
the glores past; for my text tells US that eye
hath not seen nor ear heard anything like the
! advancing splendors.
THE GLORIEs OF CoRINTH.
The city of COrinth has been called the
Faris OF antiquity. Indeed, for splendor, the
world holds no such wonder to-day. 1t stood
on an lsthmus washed by two seas, the one sea
bringing the commerce of Europe, the other
a bringing the commerce Of Asia. From her
WnarVes, III the construction of which whole
Kingdoms had been absoI bed, war-g&lleys
Win three banks of oars pushed out and
contounded 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 rev.
enue officers of the city went down through
the olive groves that lined the beach to col
lect 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 stupUndOus designations Column
and statue and temple beWldered the behold
Ell. There were white marble fountains into
which from apertures at the side there rushed
waters everywhere known for health-giving
qualities. Around these basins twisted
into wreaths Of stone there were all
the beauties OF sculpture and architecture,
while standing, as if to guard the costly dis
play, was statue of Hercules of FURNISHED
Corlnthian brass. Vaces of terra Gotta
adorned the cemeteries of the dead-vases so |
costly that Julias Casur was not satisfied I'm
I'll he had captured them for Rome. Armed |
officials, the Corintharii, paced up and down
10 see that no statue was defaced, no ped
estal Overthrown, no bas-relief touc he'd |
From the edge of the city hill arose, with
its magnificent burden Of columns and towers
and temples $1,000 slaves waiting at one |
shrIne), and citadel so thoroughly impreg-
nable that Gibraltar is heap of sand com
pared with it. Amid all that strength and |
magniticence Corinth stood and defed the |
world.
ALL EARTHLY BEAUTIES NAUGHT.
On 1t was not TO rustics who had never |
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 portcos and melting in evening
groves; they had passed their whole lives |
among pictures, and sculptures, and arcbi-
lecture, 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 gateway
that it had not adorned. All, it was bold |
thing for Paul to stand there amid all that |
and say: GAN 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 not pure These |
statues of Bacchus and Mercury are not ex- |
Qusite Your citadel of AcrocOrinthus is not |
strong compared with that which | offer to |
the poorest slave that puts down his burden |
at that brazen gate. You Corinthians think |
this is splendid city; you think you have |
heard all sweet sounds, and seen all the |
sights; but | tell you eye hath not seen nor |
ear heard, neither have entered into the |
heart of man, the things which God hath pre- |
pared for them that love Him."
You see my xt 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 calculating how many fur |
longs long and wide is The new Jerusalem; and !
they have calculated how many inhabitants |
there are on the earth; how long the earth |
will probably stand; and then theF come to |
this estimate; that after all the nations have |
been gathered to Heaven, there viii be room
for each souI-a room sixteen feet long and |
enough for me. / am glad to know that no
human estimate is sufficient to take the di-
mansions. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,' |
nor arithmetirs 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 morn
ing, how YOU bounded along the road or
street-you had never felt sorrow or sickness.
Perhaps latet YOU felt glow in your cheek, /
and a spring in your step, and an exuberance |
of spirits and clearness Of eve, that made I
YOU thank God you were permitted 10 live
The nerves were harp-strngs, and the sun
light was dox0logv, ana the rustling leaves
were the rustling Of the robes of great /
crowd rising up to praise the Lord You
thought that you knew what it was to be well I
hut there is no perfect health on earth. The
diseases of past generations came down to Us. 4
The airs that float now upon the earth are /
not like those which 1Oated above Paradise /
They are charged with impurities and distem- /
perS. The most elastic and robust health OF |
earth compared with that which those expert
ences before whom the gates have been open- !
ed is nothing but sickness and emaciaton Look /
at that soul standing before the throne On /
earth she was a lifelong invalid. See her /
step now aud hear her voice now. Catch, il /
yon can, one breath of that celestial air. /
Health in all the pulses-health of vision, /
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