Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06
IMAGE IN ATHENS
c WHERE PAUL DID. HF
Fr,,ts ON PAUL's WORDS.


FAcnEs ON rAuI's WORDS.
-, Picture of Ancient Corinth-
zeal city of Atl,ens-lmperfect
Eternity Will MIKE Them Clear
,,,ic,pations of Heaven.
Paw. T. Dewitt Talmage, of
,,n ~ preached in the ancient city
w. w. ON Sunday, Nov. "a. to q
en- friends, basins his discourse
Glowing two passages from the
'spistles: 1 Corinthians. ii, 8:
,L nor seen, nor ear heard, and
[n in xiii, 2: For now we see
b a glass, darkly." The sermon
| follows:
| tgesc sentences were written by
|ost lIlustrious merely human be-
\ world ever saw. one who walked
E,rects. and preached from yonder
f rocks, Mars Hill. Though more
| associations are connected with
|,y than with any other city under
'n,, because here Socrates, and
and Aristotle, and Demosthenes,
'erlcles, and Herodotus, and Py-
MS and Xenophon, and Praxiteles
or chiseled, or taught or thun-
or sung, yet in my mind all those
md their teachings were eclipsed
n! and the Gospel he preached in
ityand in your near by city of Cor
Yesterday, standing on the old
sat Corinth, the Arco-Corinthus,
ON the ruins at its base arose in
aeination the old city, just as Paul
| have been told that for SPLEEN
,e world beholds no such wonder
vas that ancient Corinth standing
istnmus washed by two seas, the
IA bringing the commerce of
Nc, the other sea bringing the COM
OF Asia. From her wharves, in
obstruction of which whole king
had been absorbed, war galleys
hree banks of oars pushed out and
1ndcd the navy yards of all the
Huge handed machinery, such
dern invention cannot equal,
ships from the sea on one side and
orted them on trucks across the
is. and set them down on the sea
other side. The revenue officers
city went down through the olive
that lined the beach to collect
from all nations. The mirth of
,ple sported in her Isthmian games
e beauty of oil lands sat in her
rs, walked her porticos and threw
on the altar of her stupendous
ltions.
lmn and statue and temple be-
ed the beholder. There were
marble fountains into which, from
res at the side, there gushed
everywhere known for health
qualities. Around these basins,
1 into wreaths of stone, there
II the beauties of sculpture and
ecture, while standing, as it to
the costly display, was a statue of
es of FURNISHED Corinthian brass.
of terra Gotta adorned the ceme-
of the dead--vases SO costly that
Caesar was not satisfied until he
lptured them for Rome. Armed
s, the corintharii, paced up and
10 see that no statue was defaced,
lestal overthrown, no bas- relief
d. From the edge of the city the
cid its magnificent burdens of
rs and towers and temples $1,000
waiting at one shrinel, and Il
SO thoroughly impregnable that
tar is q head of sand compared
t. Amid all that strength and
ticence Corinth stood and defied
rid. Oh! it was not to rustics
ad never seen anything grand that
uttered one of my texts. They
card the best music that had come
the best instruments in all the
they had heard songs floating
aorning porticos and melting in
e groves; they had passed their
lives among pictures and sculp-
I'd architecture and Corinthian
which had been nodded and
until there was no chariot wheel
lch it had not sped, and no tower
oh it had not glittered, and nc
~ that it had not adorned. All,
bold thing for Paul to stand
amid all that and say: "All this
hing. These sounds that come
the temple of Neptune are not
compared with the harmonies OF
I speak. These wate.s rushing
e basin of Pyrene are not pure
statues of Bacchus and Mercury
t exquisite. Your citadel of Aero
,hus is not strong compared with
hich l offer to the poorest slave
uts down his burden at that brazer
You Corinthians think this is &
lid city; you think you have heard
eet sounds and seen all beautiful.
but tell you eye hath not seer
r heard, neither have entered into
art of man, the things which Goo
for them that love Him.
4, both my texts, tho one Spoken
IL and the one written by Pau.
us that we have very imperfec;
hit, and that our day of vision il
come: For now we see through q
larkly, but then face to face. 81
axes the responsibility of saying
lie Bible is an indistinct mirror
lat it's mission shall be finally sus.
d. I think there may be one
in Heaven fastened to the throne,
S now, in a museum, we have :
exhumed from Herculaneum o.
Ell, and we look at it with grea
st and say: How poor light il
have given, compared with oul
II lamps" So I think that this
which was lamp to our feet il
orld, may lie near the throne o,
exciting our interest to all eternit.
contrast between its compare.
feeble light and the illumination
aven. The Bible, now, is the
lding to the rising temple. but
the building is done there will bt
2 for tho scaffo]ding.
idea I shall develop to-day is
Il this world our knowledge is com
velv dim and unsatisfactory, bu
theless is Introductory to grande
more complete vision. This il
ntly true in regard to our view o