Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-13
THE COMING GLORY.
New Years Sermon by the Rev. DR.. Tai
mage.


tent tnd Glory OF Heaven-Eye Hath No
seen Sor lar Heard Anything Like til
Advancing ;.piepdors.
Bhooiyi-.N, Jan. AT the labernacl
this mornne the Rev. I. de Witt Tai
mage. y. %. announced that next Sabbatl
Tie Will hcgin q course of sermons to tn
women Of America, with practical hint
Cor men, the following subjects anon.
e5Eess:
the Women Who Have to Fight tn,
Battles Of Life Alone,' Marriage TO
Worldly Success. without Reference tt
Winding as Maria ger" "Women Who Are
z.nces Abroad fer The Destruction OF
Women aWifely Ambition Right and
Wrong" sAyhat Kind of Men Women
Should Avoid, Simplicity as Opposed to
.Affectation," Reformation in Dress.
.sPiai4, Women" aThe Female Skeptic,
and Christian Housewifery."
This morning DIR. 1almage's subject was
'"The Coming Glory" his text, 1 Corinthians
u. 9; sEye hath not seen. nor ear heard,
s1eithef have entered into the heart of man.
f2ae things which God hath prepared for
ssaeia that love Him." He said: Eighteen
hundred and lightweight. How strange it
Looks. and how strange it sounds! Not
only is the past year dead but the century
1s dying. Only twelve more long breaths
and the old giant will have expired. None
of the past centuries will be present Mt the
nhsequies. Only the twentieth century
7silt see the nineteenth buried. AS all the
years arc Fastening past. and ell our lives
t,n earth will soon be ended, ] propose to
ebecr myself, and cheer you with the
essoT9es TO come, which shall utterly eclipse
all The giores past for my text tells us
saaat ego hath not seen, nor ear heard, any
dbing like the advancing splendors.
The city of Gorinth has been called the
naris of antiquity. Indeed. for sIlendor
si1e world Iaeholds no such wonder too day.
It stood on an isthmus washed by two
seas, the one sea bringing the commerce
of Europe, the other sea bringing the com
saerce of Asia From her wharves, in the
construction Of which whole kingdoms had
szecn absorbed. war galleys with three
tsaniSs of cars pushed out and COMPOUNDED
tSso navy yards of all the world. Huge
BANDED machinery, such as modern inven-
ions cannot equal, lifted ships from the
sea on enc side and transported them
sasl tracks across the isthmus and sat them
down IN the sea on the other side. The
iSaNanHe officers of the city went down
tarongh the olive groves that lined the
iosach 10 collect tariff from all nations.
The mirth of all people sported in her
Msthmian games, and the beauty of all
ENDS sat i'll her theaters. walked her por-
st5acos and threw itself on the altar of her
designations. Column. and
szsatue. and teluple bewildered the beholder.
There we're white marble fountains, into
which. from apertures at the side, there
ss1shed waters everywhere known for
seaitb giving qualities. Around these
Basins. twisted into wreaths of stone,
thc1e wore all of the beauties OF sculpture
and architecture; while standing, as if to
xsiard the costly display, was a statue of
Stercules Of FURNISHED Corinthian brass.
Vases O! terra Gotta adorned the cemeteries
nj thc dead-vasos so costly that Julius
'!asa: was not satisfied until he had cap
snrcd them for Rome. Armed officials,
the Gorintharii, paced up and down to see
shat no statue was defaced, no pedestal
orerthrown. no has -relief touched From
zAe edge OF the city hill arose, with its
burden of columns and towers
Mad temples. 1,000 slaves waiting at one
shrine;. and q citadel so thoroughly i'm
saresnahle that Gibraltar is heap of sand
with it. Amid all that strength
and nagnifcence Corinth stood and detied
she world.
Oh! it WAS not to rusiics who had never |
seen anything grand that Paul uttered this
seXt. They had heard the best music that |
had come from the best Instruments in all |
The world: they had heard songs floating
fnoul morning porticos and melting in
evening groves; they had passed their
1hele lives among pictures and sculptures
and architecture and Corinthian brass,
which had been nodded and shaped until |
lhers vas no chariot wheel in which it had /
not sped. and no tower in which it mad not
glittered. and no gateway that it had not
adorned. hhs it was bold thing for Paul
20 stand there amid all that and say: "AIl
zhis is nothing. These sounds that come
from the temple of Neptune are not
snuslc compared with the harmonies of
ahlch speak. These waters rushing in
Che basin Of Pyrene are not pure. These
statues OF Bacchus 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 CORN
ahians think this is splendid city; YOU
thlnh you have heard all sweet sounds and
seen all beautiful sights; but tell you
eye hath not seen nor ear heard. neither
nave entered into the heart OF man, the
shlngs which God hath prepared for them
that love Him.
Aou see my text sets forth the idea that,
aoWeyer oAalted our ideas may be of
fieaven. they come far short of the reality.
Some wise men have been calculating how
,nany furlonGs long and wide is the New
Jerusalem; and they have calculated how
an any inhabitants there are on the earth:
no" 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
vide. 1t would not be large enough for
me. ! om glad to know that no human
estate is sufficient 10 take the dimensions.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, /" nor
antnmetcs calculated.
;irst 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
how you bounded along the road
OF ssreel-you had never felt sorrow or
sickness. Perhaps later you felt glow in
sour check, and spring in your step, and
an eXuberance OF spirits, and clearness
OF eye. that made you thank God you were
permitted to live. The nerves we're harp
strings. and the sunlight was a doxology.
and the fustling leaves we're the rustline
Of the robes of a great crowd rising up to Il
praise the Lord. You thought that you
ahe" what 1t was to be we'll, 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
VIE those which tieated above Paradise.
They are charged with impurities and dis
,GynperB. The most elastic an1 robrot