Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-07

I'm FOREIGN LANDS
ORR. Talmage Gathers Subject
Waiter for His life Of
Christ"
Hde breaches at Athens to a
Large Group Of Admiring
Friends.
Thine Brooklyn Preacher Reminds His
Hearers OF the Classic Associa-
tions Connected With the
Grecian City.
The Glorious Revelation to Be.

pr0reacned IN TINS city tuls morning 10 d
gryroup OF friends. blsing his discourse on
ththe following two passages from the
PaPauline epistles: ! Cor, II, o: eye
ha,ath not seen. nor ear heard" and I
Cocor., xiii, 2: For now we see through a
iglylass, darkly." The sermon was as fol-
loiows:
Both these sentences were written by
ththe most illustrious merely human being
ththe world ever sa9, one who walked
ththese streets, and preached from yonder
pipile OF rocks, Mars Hill. Though more
oaclassic associations are connected with
ththis city than with any other city under
tithe sun, because here Socrates, and
pplato. and Aristotle. and Demosthenes'
srsnd Pericles. and Herodotus, and Pytba-
gsgoras, and Xenophon, and Praxiteles
wwrote or chiselel, or taught or thun-
d,dered or sung, yet in my mind all those
mmen and their teacbin - were ecllpsed
bly, Paul ami the Gospel he preached in
tlthis city and In Jour near by city of
CCorinth. Yesterday, standing on the
odd fortress at Corinth. the Acro-Cor-
IL inthus, out from the ruins at its base
n arose in my Imagination the old city
4 Just as Paul saw IL. I have been told
I that for splendor the world beholds no
s such wonder today as that ancient
{ Corinth standing on an isthmus washed
I by two seas, the one sea bringing
I the Of Europe, the other
q sea bringing the commerce Of Asia.
From her wharves, In the construction
{ 81 which whole kingdoms had been alb
sorbed, war galteys with three banks OF
oars pushed oat and COMPOUNDED the
navy yards Of all the world. Huge
handed machinery, such as modern in
vention cannot equal, lifted ships from
from the sea on one side and transported
them ON trucks across the isthmus aud
set 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 10 collect a tariff
from all nations. The mirth Of all peo-
pie sported in her Isthmian games, and
the beauty OF all lands sat in her thea
ters, walked her porticos 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 apertlres at the side, there rushed
waters everywhere known for health
giving qualities. Around these basins,
twisted into wreaths OF stone, there
were all the beauties of scuiptGre and
architecture, while standing, as il 10
guard the costly display, was a statue of
Hercules of FURNISHED Corinthian brass.
Vases Of terra Gotta adorned the ceme-
teries OF the dead-vases so costly that
Julius Caesar was not satisfied until he
captured them from Rome. Armed
officials, the corintharii, paced
up and down to see that no
statue was defaced. no pedestal over.
thrown, no bas-relief touched. From
the edge OF the city the hill held its
magnificent burdens OF columns and
towers and temples 1000 slaves wait
tng at one shrineD. and n citadel so
thoroughly im~pregnable that Gibraltar
Is . heap of sand compared with 1T.
Amid all that strength and ma~gniicence
Corinth stood and deied the world. Oh!
It was not to rustics who had never seen
anything grand that Paul uttered one
of my texts. They had beara'the best
music that had come from the best in
struments In all the world; they had
heard songs floating from morning por-
ticos and melting in evening groves;
they had passed their whole lives among
pictures md sculpture and architecture
and C~orinthian brass, which bad been
nodded ami shaped until there was no
chariot gbsel in which 1t had not sped,
and no tower in which 1t had not gilt
tered, and no gateway that il had not
adorned All, il was q bold tAing for
Paul to stxnd there amid all that and
say: "AIl this is nothing. These sounds
that come from the temple OF Neptune
are not music compared with the bar
monies of which | speak. These waters
rushing In the basin Of Pyrene are not
pure. These statues of Bacches and
Mercury are not exquisite. Your cita-
del Of AcrO-Cprinthus IL moi strong COM
III pared VIII 0HAt which ! OFFER 10 The
poorest slave that puts down his harden
at that brazen gate. You Corinthians
think this Is . splendid city;
YOU think you have heard all
: sweet sounds and seen all beauSiful
sights; but I tell you eye hath not seen
nor ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them hat love Him."
Indeed, both nay texts. the one spokea
by Paul and the enc written by Pad.
show us hat we have very imperfect
eyesixht, and that our day Of vision Is
yet to come. For now we see through .
glass darkly, but then face TO face. So
Paul takes the responsibility Of saying
that the Bible Is an indistinct mirror.
and that fts mission shall be finally sus-
pended. I think there may be one Bible
In heaven fastened TO the throne just
- now, in . museum, we have q lamp
-exhumed from Herculaneum or Nine
web, and we look q 1t with great inter-
est and say: "How poor . ligkt 1t must
have given. compared with orr modern
Tampa" So l think that this Bible,
which was . lamp TO our feet IN this
world, may lie nee the throne OF God.
exciting our interest 20 all eternity by
the contrast between Its comparatively
9behls light and tAe illumination OF
heaven. The bible. now. is the sca6old-
lng 70 the rising temple. but when the
bnildine IL dono there will be no uss Dor
che scaAOlding. The idea shall devlop
tOday ~ that In this world our knowl.