The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-02
SERMONS TO THE WOMEN.
! TALMAGE WILL AT THE SAME
TIME GIVE THE MEN SOME HINTS.

| IWSlVS OlSCOuTStS IN Un6 berries
1.-THE Coming Glory" Was the Sub
ject on Which he Preached Yester-
day-Only Twelve More Long Breaths
and the Century VIII be Dead
BROOKLYN, Jan. 1.-At the Tabernacle
this morning, the Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage,
D. D., announced that next Sabbath he will
begin a course of sermons to the women of
! America, with practical hints for men, the
following subjects among others: 1.-The
Women Who Have to Fight the Battle of
Life Alone, Marriage for Worldly Success
| Without Reference TO Moral Character
us Engagement as Binding as Marriage"
"Women Who Are Already Uncongenially
Married" Influences Abroad for the De-
struction of Women" "Wifely Ambition,
Right and Wrong" "What Kind of Men
Women Should Avoid" simplicity as
Opposed to Affectation," Reformation in
Dress" "Plain Women" ''The Female
Skeptic" and ''Christian Housewifery"
This morning DIR. Talmage's subject was:
''The Coming Glory" his text, l. Corn-
thians, H., 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 love him" He
said:
| 1888. How strange it looks, and 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 CEN
| tIries 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 my
self and cheer you with the glories to come,
which shall utterly eclipse all the glories
| past; for my text tells us that the eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard, anything like the
advancing splendors.
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
the one sea bringing the commerce of
Europe, the other sea brin 2ing the com
| merce of Asia. From her wharves, in the
| construction of which whole kingdoms had
been absorbed, war-galleys with three banks
of oars pushed out and confounded the navy
| yards of all the world. Huge-handed ma
| chinery, 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 revenue officers of the
city went down through the olive groves
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 theatres, walked her
porticoes and threw itself on the altar of her
stupendous dissipations. Column, and
statue, and temple bowiioeTed the be-
holder There were white marble fom-
tains 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 20 guard
the costly display, was a statueof Hercules
| of FURNISHED Corinthian brass Vases of
| terra-cotta adorned the cemeteries of the
dead-vases 50 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 defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no
bas-relief touched. From the edge of the
city hill arose, with its magnificent bur-
den of columns, and towers, and temples
| (one thousand slaves waiting at one shrine)
and a citadel so thoroughly impregnable
that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared
with it. Amid all that strength and mag
| nificence COrinth stood and uefied the world.
Oh! it 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 ell
the world they had heard songs floating
| from morning porticoes and melting in even
ing groves; they had passed their whole
| lives among pictures, and sculpture, and
| architecture, and Corinthian brass, which
had been moulded and shaped until there
| was no chariot wheel in which it had not
| sped, and no tower in which II had not gilt
tered, and no gateway that it had not
adorned. All, it was 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 not pure. These statues of Bac
| chus and Mercury are not exquisite Your
| citadel of Acrocorinthus is no. strong COM
| pared 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 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"
You see my text sets forth the idea that
| however exalted our ideas may be Of
heaven, they come far snort of the reality
Some wise men have been calculating how
| many furlongs 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 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-
meticS calculated.
| first remark that we can in this world
get no idea of the health of heaven. When
you were a child and you Went cut IN the
morning, how you bounded along the road
or street--you had never felt sorrowor sick
ness. Perhaps later you felt glow in your
cheek, and 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 a doxology,
and the rustling leaves wer. the r1stliug of
the robes of a great crowd rising up to
praise the Lord You thought that you
knew what it was TO be well, but there is no
perfect health on earth. The diseases of
! past generations came down TO us. The
airs that float now upon the earth are not
like those which foated above Paradise.
They are charged with impurities and dis
teinpers. The most elastic and robust
health of earth compared with that which
those experience before whom the gates
have been opened, is nothing but