Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-01-07
TIE COMING GLORY.
NEW YEARS SERMON BY THE REV.
DR.. TALMAGE.

In This World wo Got no Idoa of tho
Extent and Glory OF HcnveE-Eye HATH
Not Seen nor Ear Heard Anything Like
tho Advancing Splendors.
BRooKLYN jan AT tho Tabernacle this
morning the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmagc, D. D.,
announced that next Sabbath he will begin
course of sermons to the women Of America,
with practical hints for men, the following
subjects among others:
a:rhe Women WHO Have to Fight tho
Battle Of Life Alone, Marriage for Worldly
Success, without Reference TO Moral Char
actcr;a as Engagement Us Binding rs Mar
ria,ee?n "lYoinen Who Arc Already UnconI
cenially Married." "Iniucnces Abroad for
the Destruction of Women, '.IVilcly AGbi-l
ton Right aud Wrong" "What Kind Of
Men Women Should Avoid, simplicity as
Opposed to Afrectation," Reformation in
Dress y "Plain Women" "The Female
Skepticr and "Christian HousewiGery."
This morning Dr.. Talmase's subject was:
sThe Coming Glory" his text, corinthians
ii. o: eve hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into tho heart of man,,
the things which God hath prepared for them
chat love him. He said Eighteen hundred
md lightweight How strange it looks, and
how strange it sounds! Not only is tho past
wear dead but the century is dying Only,
twelve moro long breaths and the Old giant
will have expired. None of the past cen.
turies will be present ut the obscquies Only
the Twentieth century will see the Nine
teenth buried AS all the years arc hasten-
inp MIST. and all our lives OIL earth Will soon
he ended. l propose to cheer myself, and
cheer Won with the glories To come, which
shall utterly eclipse all the glories past; ior
my text tells us that eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard, anything like the advancing spIon-
doris.
Tho city of Corinth has been called tho
Paris of antiquity Indeed, for splcndor tho
world bcholds 10 such wonder to-day. IL
stood ON nm isthmus washed by two sens, tho
one sea bringing the commerce OF Europe,
the other sea bringing tho commerce OF Asa.
From her wharves, i'll tho construction Oh
which who'll, kingdoms had been absorbed,
war galleys with three banks OF oars pusneo
out and COMPOUNDED the navy yards oil al inc
world. Huge handed machinery, sucn as
modern invention cannot equal, hited shlps
from tho sea on one side and transported
them on trucks across the isthmus ana sas
them down in the sen on the other side:
Tho revenue officers of the city ~ehI
down through the olive groves that lined
the beach to collect tariff from ell nations.
The mirth of all people sported in her
Isthn,ian games and the beauty Of all lands
sat in her theatres, walked her portlcos anu
ti,rew itself on the altar of her stupendouS
designations. Column, ard statue, anu tenn
pie bowlldcred the bebolder. There were
White marble fountains, into which, from
aperturcs ut the side, there rushed waters
everywhere known for health giving quail
ties. Around these baxins, twisted into
wrcaths OF stone, there were all the beauties
of sculpture and architecture; while stand
iny. rs il to guard tho costly display,
was n statue of Hercules of burn
isbed Corintllianss brass Yases OF terra terri
Gotta ri orned the n 5ceinet eTies the
Sdead ;lses So cost thtlt Illus Casarswes