West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-01-12
THE COMING GLORY.
d TAlMAGE's SUNDAY SERMON
The Wonderful Things that God will do
for them that Love Him.

tAtUo brooklyn Tabernacle the Rev r. Dc witt
Talmage ID. ID announced tax next sabbath he
would begin course OF sermons 10 the women OF
America, with practical hints FOR men, the follow
Have TO Fight ;he Battle OF life" ''Marrags for
Worldly Success. without Reference to Moral thar
ae.er' lis Engagement as Binding as Marfage7"
''women Who Are Already Unconganially Mar.
res, "lnliucuces Abroad for the Destruction OF
Women, ''wif,iy Ambition Right and Wrong, y
"whAt Kind Of Men Women should Avoid" "sim-
plieity as Opposed to AGectaon,' Reformation
In Dress "l'ain Women" The Female Skepto"
ana "Christian iiousewfery.l
TEXT: "Egc hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither hare uttered into Tie heart Of man,
the things irhich God hath prepared for
them that iore him.n-l Corinthians, H., ..
Eighteen hundred and cighty-eight How
strange 10 looks, and how strange it sounds
Not only j. the past year dead but the cen
fury is dying. Only twelve more long
breaths AMI the old giant will have OK
pircd. None of the past centuries will
be present at the obsequios Only
the Twentieth Century viii see the Nine
teenth buried. AS all the years are hasten
ing past, and all our lives on earth will soon
be ended, propose to cheer myself and
cheer YOU with the glories to come which
shall utterly eclipse all the glories past; for
my text tells US that eye hath not seen nor
doris.
The city OF Corinth has been called the
Paris Of antiquity Indeed for splendor the
world beholds 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 bringing tho commerce 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 COMPOUNDED the navy yards of all the
world. Huge-handed 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
them down in the sea on the other side
Tho revenue officers OF the city went
down through tho olive groves that lined
the beach TO collect tariff from all nations.
The mirth OF all people sDorted i'm her
lsthmian games and the beauty of all lands
sat i'm her theatres, walked her porticos and
threw itself on the altar of her stupendous
designations Column and statue, and tenn
pc bewidered the beholder There were
white marble fountains, into which, from
apertures at the side, there rushed waters
everywhere known for health giving quail
ties Around these basins, twisted into
wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties
of sculpture and architecture; while stand
ing, as If 10 guard the costly display,
was statue of Hercules OF bur
n.shed Corinthian brass. Vases OF terra
Gotta adorned the cemeteries of the
dead-vases so costly that Julius Cesar was
not satisfied until he had captured them for
Rome. Armed officials, the corntharii
paced up and down to see that no statute was
lief touched. From the edge of the city a hill
arose, with its magnificent burden of columns
ana towers and temples u 900 slaves waiting
at one shrlnel, and a citadel so thoroughly
impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of sand
compared with it. Amid all that strength
and mlgniticence Corinth stood and dehed
the world.
OH it was not 10 rustics who had never
seen anything grand that Paul uttered this
text They had heard the best music that
md come from tho best instruments in all
the world; they had heard songs floating
IRON morning porticos and melting i'm even
ing groves; they bad passed their whole lives
among pictures and sculpture and architect
ure and Corinthian brass, which had been
nodded and shaped until there was no chariot
wheel IN which IT had not sped and 10 tower
IN which IL had not glittered, and no gate
way that IT had not adorned All il
was bold thing for Paul to stand there
amid all that and say: CAN this is
nothing. These sounds that come from tho
temple OF Neptune are not music compared
with tue harmonies Of which / speak These
waters rushing in the basin OF Pyrene are
not pure. These statues of Bacchus and
Mercury are not exquisite. Your citadel of
Acrocorlnthus 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 a splendid CITY:
you think you have heard all sweet sounds
and seen all beautiful sights; but l tell you
eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things
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
furlongs long and wide is the New Jerusalem.
and they have calculated how many inhabit-
ants there are on the earth: how lone the
earth viii probably stand and then thew
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 IL would NOT
be large enough for me. / am glad to know
that no human estimate is sufficient to take
the dimensions. Eve hath not seen nor eor
heard, nor arithmetics calculated.
hrst 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
morning, how you bounded along the road
or Street-you had never felt sorrow or sick
ness Perhaps later you felt glow in your
cheek and a spring in your step, and an exu
Derance OF spirits, and a clearness Of eve that
iinode you thank God you were permitted to
lVe The nerves we're harpstrings and the
sunlight was dOXolOgy, and the rustling
leaVe5 were the rustiing Of the robes Of a
great crowd rising up 70 praise the Lord
on thought that YOU knew what il was 10 be
Vel out there Is no perfect health on earth
The diseases Of past generations came down to
US he airs that float now upon the earth
are like those which floated above Paradise
AHsy are enaFBei with Impurities and dis
tempers The most elastic and robust health
OF earth, compared with that which those e1-
perienc6 before whom the gates have been
opened. is nothing but sickness and emacia-
Ton. LOOK at that soul standing bo-
Tore the throne. On earth she was a life long
Ihvalld- See her step now, and hear her
voice now. Catch, If you can. one breath OF
that celestial air. Health in an the pulses
neat Of vision health Of spirits, immortal
health. No racking cough, no sharp plau.
INlesf no consuming fevers no ineVhaugt-
ing pains, no hospitals Of wounded
men Health swinging in the dir
health flowing in ali the streams .
he9ith blooming on the banks No beod
aches, no sideaches, no hackachoq That
enid That died in the agonics u croup beer
heI voice now ringing Boa the anthem That
Oh man that went bowed down with the i'm
HFmities N old age, sec him walk now with
the step OF an immortal athleto-for ever
young again Tint night when the neodle.
woman fainted away in the garnet. a wave
or the heavenly arr resuscitate1 her forever.
p or everlasting year % have neither ache
nor PAIN nor weakness. nor fatigue Eve
hatH not seen D., ear hath not heard f.
. remark, further That $50 can. I'm TINS
world. get no just ilcn of tha sulendors of
heaven. John tries to- dos r.he them He
says tho twelve gates arc twelve pearls"
ana that "tho foundations of tho wall are
Raruished with Oh manner Of urecioua
stones As wo stand lcoeuy through tho
telescope ~ So John we eos "a blaze az
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