Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-12-04
"FOR NOW We SEE THROUGH a
GLASS DARKLY"
OUR KNOWLEDGE HERE DIM AND
UNSATISFACTORY.
THE MAN WHO Does NOT GET ON
IN THE SVORLD.
PROFOUND MYSTERIES OF PROVI-
DENCE.
DIR. TALMAeE's SERMON, NOV. oath.

ATHENS, November "a The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, ID of Brooklyn, preach
ed in this city this morning to a group of
friends, basing his discourse on the follow
ing two passages from the Pauline epistles:
| Corinthians, H., 9: "Eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard" and / Corinthians, xiii, 2:
''For now We see through glass darkly."
The sermon was as follows:
Both these sentences were written by the
most illustrious merely human being the
world ever saw, one who walked these
streets, and preached from yonder pile of
rocks, Mars Hill. Though more classic as
sociations are connected with this city than
with any other city under the sun, because
here Socrates, and Plato, and Aristotle, and
Demosthenes and Pericles, and Herodotus,
and Pythagoras, and Xsnophon, and Prax-
iteles wrote or chiseled, or taught or thun
dered or sung, yet in my mind all those
men AID their teach; gs we're eclipsed by
Paul ard tie Gospel he preached in this
city and in your near by city of Corinth.
Yesterday, standing on the old fortress at
Corinth, the Aero Cornthus, out from the
ruins at its base arose in my imagination the
old city, just as Paul saw it. 1 have been
told that fer splendor he world behods no
such wonder to-day as that ancient Corinth
standing On an isthmus washed by two seas,
the one sea bringing tie commerce of Eu-
rope, the other sea bringing the commerce
of Asia. From her vnarVes, in the con-
struction of which whnio Kingdoms had been
absorbed, war galleys with three banks of
oars pushed out and confounded the navy
yards of all the,wosld. Huge handed mach.
inery, such IS pfS.e.n invention cannot
equal, lifted ships iioyu the sea on one side
ard transported them IN trucks across the
isthmus and set them down in the sea on
| the other side. The revenue officers of the
city vent down through the olive groves
| that lined the beach tn collect a tariff from
all nations. The mirth of all people eported
10 her 1sthmian games, and the beauty OF
all lands sat in her theatres walked her
porticos and threw itself on the altar of hel
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 kuuwn for health wing
qualities. Around these basins, twisted
into wreaths of store, there were all the
beauties of sculpture ard architecture, while
standing, as if to quad the costly display
was statue Of Hercu es of FURNISHED Cor
inthian brass. Vases If terra Gotta adorned
the cemeteries of the dead-vases SO costly
that Julius Cesar was not satisfied until b,
: had captured them for Rome. Armed Off
cials, the cHrintharii, paced up and down t.
see that no statue was defaeed, no pedesta
overthrown, no has-rslief touched. From
the edge of the city the hill held its magnif
cent burdens of columns and towers an
temples Il 900 slaves waiting at one shrine,
and citadel SO thoroughly impregnabl
that Gibraltar is heap of sand compare
| .