Telegram-herald., 1889-11-25
HE FOLLOWS PAUL
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On Fzuls Kiss on 1ners.
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ArazSs. Nov Z4-Ths Rev 7. De WITT
Tslzage. d. D.. Of Brookiyn, preached IL
suis city Elis evening, = = group u friends.
basiug 1is discourse on tie following tao
uassages from the Pauline eplst.ss. CoriL-h-
ans Ii. b. ~Eye hara noE seen a0r eaT heard .
All CoTlnlnl2as All, l<s For now Ne ses
rlro1ga glazs a. kly.@ Ibe sermon was 4s
tolloasi
BON these sentepcss written by ne most
1l1srFioas merely human be-ng ths world
ever saw, one who walked these streets, and
preached from yon1er pie O. rocks, Mars
hlI Ihough more classic associations are
eonneeted With this eity than with any city
under the Sun. because here Socrates, aud
Plato. and Aristotle aul Dem0sGhenes, and
Fericles, aud Her0dltus. and Pythsgorss, aud
Asn0phoH. and PraKltslss wrote or chiseled
or taught or thuniered or sung YET IA nv
mind a. those men and ther teachings were
ecliLssi BY Paul aud the Gospel he preached
in tlis city and Ia your nearby city Of Cor
NTH Yesterday. standing Oh tAs Old fortress
ruins az It's base arose IN my imagination the
old ciry, just as Paul saw il have been
told thar for splsndor the world beholds no
such wonder today as that ancient COriuth
standing on an isJhsnus washed by two seas.
the one sea bringing the Commerce Of Eu-
rope. the other sea bringing the commerce Of
Asa From her wharves, in the construction
Of which whole kingdoms had been absorbed,
cur and coufounded the navy yards Of al 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 .he isthmus and sat
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 al people sported in her
Isthmian games. and the beauty OF all
lands sat in her theatres walked her
porticos and threw itself on the altar
Of her stupendous dlssipatlOns. Column, and
statue, and temple bewiidered the beholder
There were white marble fountains, into
which, from apertures at the side, there
gushed waters everywhere known for health
giving qualities. Around these basins,
twisted into wreaths or stone, there were all
the beauties of sculpture and architecture;
while standing, as if to guard the costly dis
play, was a statue Of Hercules Of FURNISHED
COrinthian brass. Vases of terra Gotta
adorned the cemeteries Of the dead-vaSes 50
costly that Julius Cesar was not satisfied un-
I'll he had captured them for Rome. Armed
officials. the corintharh, paced up and down
70 sec that no statue was defaced, no pedestal
OverthrOwn, no bas-reiief touched. From the
edge Of the city the hill held It's magnificent
burden Of columns and towers and temples
u LOCO slaves waiting at one shrine), and
citadel 50 thoroughly impregnable that Glib
raltar is a heap Of sand compared with it,
Amid all that strength and magnifcence
Corinth stood and defed the world.
PAUL ADDRESSED high INTELLIGENCE.
Oh! il was not TO rustics who had never
seen anything grand that Paul uttered one of
my texts. They had heard the best music
that had come from the best instruments in
ali 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
ture and Corinthian brass, which had been
molded and shaped until there was no
chariot wheel IN which it had not sped. and
no tower in which it had not glIttered, and
no gateway that it had not adorned. An, it
was bold thing for Paul 20 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 harnonies
of which | speak These waters rushing in
tie basin Of Pyrene are not pure. These
statues Of Bacchus and Mercury are not ex-
quisite Your citadel Of Acro-Corinthus is
not strong compared with that which offer
to the poorest slave that puts down his bur
den at that brazen gate. You Corinthians
think this is a splendid city; you think you
have heard oil sweet sounds and seen all
beautiful sights: but 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 that love him" IndSed,
both my texts, tho one spoken by Paul and
the one written By Paul, show us that we
have very imperfect eyesight, and that our
day Of vision is yet 10 come: for now we see
through glass, darkly, but then face 70 face.
So Paul takes the responsibility of saying
that even the Bible is an indistinct mirror.
and that its mission shall be finally suspended.
I think there may be one Bible in heaven
fastened 70 the throne. just as now, in
museum we have a lamp exhumed from
Herculaneum or NIneveh, and we look at II
with great interest and say: How poor
light il must have given, compared with our
modern lamps so / think that this Bible,
which was a lamp to our feet in this world,
may lie near the throne Of God, exciting our
interest to al eternity by the contrast be-
tween its comparatively feeble light and the
illumination Of heaven The Bible, now, is
the scafolding to the rising temple, but
when the building is done there will be no
use for the scaGolding The idea | shall de-
velop today Is, that in this world our knovl
edge Is comparatively dim and unsatisfac-
tory, but nevertheless is introductory TO
grander and more complete vision This is
erninently true in regard 70 our view Of God.
"CANsT THOU FINO OUT GoDT'
We hear 80 much about God that we con-
clude that we understand him. lie Is repre-
ssnted as having the tenderness Of a father,
the frmness Of Judge. the pomp Of a king
and the love OF a mother We hear about
him. talk about him. write about him We
lisp his name in infancy. and it trembles on
the tongue Of the dying octogenarian- We
think that We know very much about him.
Take tee attribute Of mercy. Do We under
stand itl The Bible blossoms oil over with
taat word, mercy. Il speaks again and again
of toe tender mercies of God. Of the sure
mercies. of the great mercies, q the mercy
that endureth forever. Ot the multtude =
his usrciss Al yet know that tie views
We have q this CREST being are most iudsA-
mite. one sided and Incomplete When. az
death. the gates shall fy open, and ws shall
look directly upon him. bow new and sur
urisisri We see upou canvas picture of
the rsorninz We study The cloud IN tbe SKY,