The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-09-05
.TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN PICTUR-
ED BY MASTER HAND.
"Eye Hath Not Seen Nor Ear Heard',
NO sickness md No Troubles
There-The Great Family Reunions
Songs of Heaven. Il

encouragement than those Of the SER
mon prepared by Rev. DR.. Talmage
for to-day. His subject was "Surpass-
ing Splendors."s With inimitable touch
be has pictured the glories and attrac-
tons Of the world beyond the skies in
a way to bring joy to believing souls,
and to fascinate even the thoughtless
and Indifferent. Tho text chosen was:
"Eyc hath not sc II nor ear heard"
II. Cor. ii, 8.
~ am going to heaven! am going
to heaven! Heaven! Heaven! Heaven!'
These were the last words uttered a
few days ago by my precious wife as
she assembled to be with God forever,
and is it not natural, as we'll as Chris
tianly appropriate, that our thoughts
be much directed toward the glorious
residence of which st. Paul speaks in
the text 1 have chosen.
The City of Corinth has been called
the Paris of antiquity Indeed, for
splendor, the world holds no such won
uCl CO-udy. IL SIOOu Oh an lSCQmuS
washed by two seas, the one sea
bringing the commerce of Europe, the
other the commerce of Asia. From
her Wharves, in 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
| e.1,;
sea on one side and transported them
on trucks across the isthmus and 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 to collect tariff
from all nations. The mirth of all
people sported in her isthmian games,
and the beauty of the lands sat in
her theaters. walked her porticoes,
and threw itself on the altar of her
stupendous designations Column, and
statue, and temple bewildered the be-
holder There We're white marble
fountains into which, from apertures
at the side, there rushed waters every
where known for health giving quail
ties. Around these basins, twisted in
to Wreaths of stone, there were all the
| beauties OF sculpture and architecture; ;
while standing as if to guard the cost
ly display, was a statue of Hercules
of FURNISHED Corinthian brass. Vases
of terra-cotta adorned the cemeteries
of the dead-vaSeS so costly that Jul
! Jus Caesar was not satisfied until he
had captured them for Rome. Armed
officials, the "CCrinthiarii," paced up
and down to see that no statue was
defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no
bas-relief touched. From the edge Of
the city a hill arose. with it's magni-
icent burden Of columns, and towers,
and temples 1900 slaves awaiting at
one shrine) and citadel so thoroughly
impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap
of sand compared with it. Amid all
that strength and magnifcence, Cor
inth stood and detied the world.
Oh! it was not to rustics who had
never seen anything grand that ST..
Paul uttered this text. They had heard
tie hest music that had come from
the best Instruments in all the world:
they had heard songs floating from
morning porticoes and melting in even
ing groves; they had passed their
whole lives away among pictures. and
sculpture, and architecture. and Cor
inthian brass, which had been nodded
and shaped, until there W; S no chariot
wheel in which it had not sped. and
no tower in which it had not glitterel,
and no gateway that it had not adorn-
ed. All. it was a bold thing for Paul
to stand there amid all that, and say,
Call this is nothing. These sounds
that come from the temple of Neptune
are not music compared with the har-
nony Of which I speak. These waters
rushing i'll the basin Of Pyrene are
not pure. These statues of Bacchus
and Mercury are not exquisite. YOn
citadel of Acrocorinthus is not strong
compared with that which I offer to
the poorest slave that puts down his
burden at that brazen gate. You, Cor
inthians, 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 which
God hath prepared for them that
love him."
You see my text sets forth the idea
J 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
| e1AAu "AAO 40 CAS IAO tHCy LID
calculated how many inhabitants
there are on earth; how long the eartl
! will probably stand; and then they
come to this estimate; that after all
r the nations had been gathered> to heav
en-, there will be room for each SOU
a room 16 feet long and Is feet wide
1t would not be large enough for me
I am glad to know that no human es
+ innate is sufficient to take the di
mansions, eye had not seen. nor cal
j heard,' nor arithmetic calculated.
I first remark that we can in this
+ world get no idea of the health OF
heaven. When you were q child, anC
you went out in the morning, how yor
bounded along the road or street-yol
had never fell sorrow or Sickness! Per
Il haps later-perhaps in these very sum
mer days-you felt a glow in YOU
: cheek, and a spring in your step, an(
i an exurberance of spirits, and a clear
ness Of eye, that made you thank Coz
v you were permitted to live. The
:, nerves were harpstrings, and the sun
light was doxology, and the rustlins
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