The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-01-12
THE COMING GLORY.
New Years Sermon by the Rev. DR.. Tai
.. mage.

In This World We Get No idea of the Ex.
tent and Glory of HeaVen-Eye Hath MOI
seon Nor Ear Heard Anything Like the
Advancing SPIondOrs.
| BROOKLYN, Jan. AT the Tabernacle
! this morning the Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage, ID. 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 1t r
"The Women Who Have to Fight the
Battles Of Life Alone" Marriage fol
Worldly Success, without References "a
Binding as Marriage?" Women Who Are
| Already Uncengenially Married" "Euflu.
ences Abroad for the Destruction OF
| Women" "Wifely Ambition Right and
Wrong" "What Kind of lden 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, 1 Corinthians
| ii, 8: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man,
the things which God hath prepared fol
them that love Him." He said: Eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight How strange il
looks, and how strange it sounds! MOI
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
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
| glories 10 come, which shall utterly eclipse
all the glories past; for my text tells US
, that eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, any
1 thing like the advancing splendors.
| The city OF Corinth has been called the
! Paris of antiquity. Indeed, for sLlendoI
the world beholds no such wonder to- day.
| 1t stood on an isthmus washed by tive
| seas, the one sea bringing the commerce
of Europe, the other SEQ bringing the com.
| merce of Asia. From her wharVes, in the
! construction of which whole kingdoms had
been absorbed, war galleys with three
I banks of oars pushed out and confounded
| the navy yards of all the world. Huge
handed machinery, such as modern iuven
tions cannot equal, lifted ships from the
sea on one side and transported them
on tracks 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 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 por-
ticos and threw itself on the altar of her
stupendous designations. Column, and
statue, and temple bewildered the beholder.
| 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 of the beauties of sculpture
| and architecture; while standing, as if to
| guard the costly display, was a statue OF
| Hercules of FURNISHED Corinthian brass.
Vases of terra Gotta adorned the cemeteries
| of the dead-yases 30 costly that Julius
| Caesar was not satisfied until he had cap
| tured 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 burden of columns and towers
and temples, Q,000 slaves waiting at one
shrine), and citadel 80 thoroughly inn
! pregnRble that Gibraltar ia heap of sanG
compared with it. Amid all that strength
and magnifcence Corinth stood and defet
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 thai
had come from the best instruments in all
the world they had heard songs floating
from morning porticos and melting in
| evening groves; they had passed theil
whole lives among pictures and sculptures
| 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 MOI
\ glittered, and no gateway that it had moi
| adorned. All, it was q bold thing for Pau
| to stand there amid all that and say: "All
this is nothing. These sounds that come
from the temple of Neptune are no
music compared with the harmonies Of
which | speak. These waters rushing il
the basin Of Pyrene are not pure. These
statues of Bacchus and Mercury are no
exquisite. Your citadel of Acrocorinthu'
is not strong compared with that which
offer to the poorest slave that puts down his
burden at that brazen gate. You CORN
thians think this is splendid city; yor
think you have heard ali sweet sounds anC
seen all beautiful sights; but tell yor
eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neithe
have entered into the heart of man, the
things which God hath prepared for then
that love Him."
You see my text sets forth the idea that
however exalted our ideas may be o
Heaven, they come far short of the reality
Some wise men have been calculating how
many furlongs long and wide is the New
Jerusalem and they have calculated how
4 many inhabitants there are on the earth
how long the earth will probably stand
and then they come to this estimate: tina
after all the nations have been gathered t
Heaven, there will be room for each sou
"a room sixteen feet long and fifteen fee
wide. 1t would not be large enough 70
me. am glad to know that no human
estate is sufficient to take the dimensions
eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, no
arithmetics calculated.
first remark that we can in this worlt
get no idea of the health of Heaven. Whel
you were child, and you went out in thu
morning, how you bounded along the roaC
or street-you had never felt sorrow o
sickness. Perhaps later you felt glow il
your cheek, and spring in your step, anC
an exuberance of spirits, and clearnes
of eye, that made you thank God you wer
permitted to live. The nerves were harp
strings, and the sunlight was doxology
and the rustling leaves were the rustlinl
Of the robes of great crowd rising up t
praise the Lord. You thought that 20,
knew what it was to be WE'LL but there i
no perfect health on earth. The disease
Of past generations came down to us. Tn
airs that float now upon the earth are no
like those which hOated above Paradise
They are charged with impurities and dis
tempers. The most elastic and robus
/ health Of earth, compared with tina
which those experience before whom tn
gates have been opened, is nothing bu
sickness and emaciation. Look at tina
soul standing before the throne. o.
earth she was lifelong invalid. See he
step now, and b ,ar her voice now. Catch
| If Won can, one breath of that celestial air