The South western news., 1888-01-18
REV DR. TALMAGE.
TIE BROOKLYN DIYINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: THE Coming Glory"

would begin course of sermons to the women Of
America, with practical hints for men, the follow'
ing subjects among Others: "lhe Women NhG
nave to Fight the Bat,lo of life" ''Marriaga for
Moriuiy Success, without Reference to Moral Char.
hSIerJ' rs Engagement as Binding a Marriage!h
women Who Are Already Unconganialy Mar
RED, influences Abroad for the Destrdytion of
"What Kind of Men Women Should Avoid" "Sni-
phGlty as Opposed to Afectation," Reformation
In Dress" "Plain Women, - 1.-The Female Skepticn
and "Christian Housewliory.'J
TEXT: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither hare entered into the heart of man,
ne things lchich God hath prepared for
them that Tore him."-L. Corinthians, ii, 0.
Eighteen hundred and lightweight How
strange it looks, and how strange it sounds!
Not only is the past year dead but the cen
fury Is dying. Only twelve more long
bfeathS ami tho old giant will have ex-
pred None OF the past centuries will
be present at the obsequies Only
The twentieth Century will see the Nine
teenth buried. As all the years are hasten
Ing past, and all our lives on earth will soon
ce ended, propose to cheer myself and
cheer you with the glores to come which
Shall utterly eclipse all the glores pest; foE
my text tells us that eye hath not seen nor
ear heard anything like the advancing splen-
dorS,
The city of Coriuth has been called the
Paris OF antiquity Indeed, for spendor the
world beho.dS no such wonder to day. 1t
ctOOu OLl &ii lNJDIlltlS WaSleu DY TWO seas, the
one sea bringing tie commerce OF Europe,
the other sea bringing the commerce of Asia
FROM her WharVes, i'll tho construction OF
which whole Kingdoms had been absorbed
war galleys with three banks of oars pushed
out and confounded the navy wards CT all the
world Huge-handel 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
5nem 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 mlrth ct ali paop,e sDo"ted in her
Asthmlan games and the beauty OF all lands
sat IN her theatres, walked her port COS and
torew Itself on the altar of her stupandous
dlsSipatons. COluln ard statue anI tenn
pie hewildered the baho,dar. There We're
white marble fountains, into which, from
apertures at the side, there rushed waters
everywhere known for health giving Quali.
ties Around these basins, twisted into
wreaths of stone there were all the beauties
of sculpture and architecture; while stand
ing, as if to guard the costly display.
was statue of Hercules Of bur
n;shed Corinthian brass Vases of terra
Gotta adorned the cemeteries Of the
dead-yaSes SO costly that Julius Cesar was
not satisfied until he had captured them for
Rome. Armed officials, the corintharii.
paced up and down 10 see that 10 statute was
defaced no pedestal overthrown, no bas-re-
ueI touched From the edge of the city a hill
arose with its magnificent burden of columns
and towers and temples UO19 slaves waiting
at one shrlne), and a citadel so thoroughly
1mpregnable that Gibraltar is heap of sand
compared with it. Amid all that strength
and magnittcence Corinth stood and defed
the world.
OH it was not to 1ustics who had never
seen anything grand that Paul uttered this
text. They had heard the best music that
had Come from tle best instruments in all
the world; they had heard songs floating
from morning porticos and melting in even.
ing groves; they had passed their whole lives
among pictures and sculpture and architect
IRE 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 winch 1t had not glitterel, and no gate
way that it had not adorned Ali. il
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 bas II of Pyrene ars
not pure. These statues Of BacchuS and
mercury are not exquisite. Your citadel of
AcfocorinthuS 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 n sp,enlid citv.
you think you have heard ali sweet sounds
and seen all beautiful sights: but | tell yea
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 short of the reality Some
wise men have been calculating how many
turiongS long and wide is the New Jerusalem;
and they have calculated how many inhabit-
ants there are on the earth how long the
earth VIII probably stand; and then they
come TO this estimate; that after all the
NATIONS have been gathered t0 Heaven, there
Will be room for each soul room sixteen
ieeG long and fifteen feet wide. II wo1l not
ne lelge enough for me. am Cla 10 know
that no human estimate is s. &c. g, { take
the dimensions. Eye hath not .een nu. ear
heard, nor arithmetics cacy ya l.
trst remark that we can Ia this world
get 10 idea of the health of heaven. When
you were child, ana you went out in the
morning, how you bounded along the road
or street-you had never felt sorrow or sick
ness ferhaps later you felt glow in your
[ remark, further, That we can, IL THIS
world, get no just idea of the splendors of
heaven. John tries to describe them. He
says THE twelve gates are twelve pearls"
+ and that 1.-The foundations of the wall are
garnlshed with all manner of precious
stones" As we stand looking through the
telescope of st. John, we see a blaze of
amethyst, and pearl, and emerald, and sar
donyx, and chrysoprasus, and sapphire, a
of glass and a city like the sun
John bids us iook again and we see thrones
thrones OF the prophets, thrones of the patri-
hrchs, thrones of the angels, thrones of the
apostles, thrones of the martyrs, throne of
Jesus-throne Of God And we turn round
~ sea the glory and it is thrones! thrones!
thrones
John oids us look again. and we see the
great procession of the redeemed passing;
Jesus, ON white horse leads the march, and
all the armies of heaven following on white
horses. Infinite cayalcade passing, passing;
empires pressing into line, ages following
ages Desperation trampling on after dis
pensation. Glory in the track of glory. Eu-
rope, Asia Africa, North and South
America pressing into line. Islands of the
sea, shoulder to shoulder Generations be-
fore the fool following generations after tle
feod, and as Jesus rises at the head OF that
cheek, ami spring in your step,an an exu
berance of spirits, and a clearness of Lye, tina
made You thank God you were permitted Il
1--we Tho nerves were harpstrings, and tn,
sunlight was doxology, and the rustins
leaves Were the TustEng of the robes of {
great crowd rising up to praise the Lord
You thought that you knew what it was to he
well, but there is no perfect health on earth
1he dlseasesof past generations came down to
us. The airs that lo8t now upon the earth
are like thCsa which iio2ted above Paradise
They are charged with impurities and dis
tempers. The most elastic and robust health
OF earth, compared with that which those ex-
perlence before whom the gates have been
opened, is nothing but sickness an emacia-
ton. Look at that soul standing be.
fore the throne. On earth she was life long
= invalid. See her step now, and hear her
voice now. Catch, if you can, one breath of
that celestial air Health in all the nlIsps-