The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-26
THE WORLD BEYOND THE SKY.
DIR. TALMAGE PICTURES ITS WON
DERS AND ITS JOYS.

The Surprising SpIendOrs of Ancient
CorInth, the True Paris of Antiq-
uity. Grand and Noble city, Yet
How Poor Compared With the
wonders of HeaveR-"'Eye Hath
Not seen. Ear Hath Not Heard Of
the Things God Prepares.fOr Those
Who Love Him."
New York. Aug. 25-FOr the bereayed
and faint-hearted. there could be no words
OF stronger consolation or encouragement
than those Of the sermon Prepared by
Rev. DR.. Talmage for to-day. His sub
5ect was Surprising Splendors." With
inimitabie touch. he has pictured the
Elories and attractions Of the world be-
yond the skies in way TO bring joy
10 believing souls, and TO fascinate even
the thoughtless and indifferent The text
chosen was: Eye hath not seen nor ear
heard" l. Cor. 20
I am giong to heaven, 1 am going to
heaven, Heaven, Heaveni Heaven"
These were the last words uttered few
days ago by my precious wife as she
assembled to be with God forever, and is it
not natural. as well as christianity appro-
pirate, that our thoughts be much al
rected toward the glorious residence OF
which st. Paul speaks in the text I have
chosen.
The city OF Corinth has been called the
Paris of antiquity. Indeed, for splendor,
the world holds no such wonder to-day. 1t
stood on an isthmus washed by two seas,
the one sea bringing the commerce of Eu-
rope the other the commerce Of Asia.
From her wharves, in the 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 ma
chinery, such as modern invention cannot
equal lifted ships from the 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 a
tariff from all nations. The mirth of al
people sported in her Isthmian games,
and the beauty of all lands sat in her
theaters, walked her porticOes, and threw
itself on the altar Of her stupendous dis
sipatiOns Column, and statue, and tenn
pie bewildered the behOlder. There were
white marble fountains into which, from
apertures at the side, there rushed waters
everywhere known for health-gving quail
ftes. Around these basins, twisted into
wreaths of stone, there were all the beau
ties of sculpture and architecture; while
standing, as If to guard the costly display,
was a statue of Hercules Of FURNISHED
Corinthian brass. Vases Of terracotta
adorned the cemeteries of the dead-vases
so costly that Julius Caesar was not sat
isfied until he had captured them for
Rome. Armed officials, the "Corinthiarii, q"
!.
was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no
bas-relief touched. From the edge of the
city hill arose, with its magnificent bur-
den of columns, and towers, and temples
Q,0O0 slaves awaiting at one shrine), and
citadel so thoroughly impregnable that
Gibraltar is heap Of sand compared with
81. Amid all that strength and magnifi-
cence. corinth stood and defed the world
Oh. il was not TO rustics who had never
seen anything grand that St. Paul ut
tered this text. They had heard the best
music that had come from the best in
struments in all the world they had heard
songs floating from morning porticos and
melting in evening groves; they had pass
ed their whole lives away among pic
lures, and sculpture. and architecture,
and Corinthian brass, which had been
nodded and shaped, until there was no
chariot wheel in which II had not sped,
and no tower in which 1t had not gilt
tered. and no gateway that 1t had not
adorned. All, IL was a bold thing for
Paul to 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 har-
nony of which ] speak. These waters
rushing in 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
hrazen gate. You Corinthians think this
Is a splendid city; you think you have
heard all sweet sounds, and seen all
beautiful sights; but 1 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
that, however exalted our ideas may be
of heaven, they come far short of the
reality Some wise men have been cal
culating how many furiongs long and
wide is heaven; and they have calculated
how many inhabitants there are on the
earth; how long the earth will probably
stand: and then they come to this esti-
mate: that after the nations had been
gathered to heaven, there will be a room
for each soul-a room sixteen feet long
and fifteen feet wide 1t would not be
that no human estimate is sufficient to
take the dimensions. Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard" nor arithmetic cal.
culated.
first remark that we can In this world
get no idea of the health of heaven
When you were child, and you went
out in the morning, how you bounded
along the road or street-you never had
felt sorrow or sicknessi Perhaps later
perhaps in these very summer days
you felt a glow in your check, and q
spring in your step, and an exuberanct
of spirits, and a ciearness of eye, thai
made y0u thank God ysu were permitted
TO live. The nerves were harpstrings
and the sunlight was a doxology, and tn,
rustiing leaves were the rustlng of tn,
robes of a great crowd rising up to prais,
the Lord. You thought that you knew
what it was to be Wen, but there is M
perfect health on earth. The diseases
of past generations come down to us. TIL
airs that now float on the earth are unlik
those which fioated above Paradise. The,
are charged with impurities and distem
pers. The most elastic and robust healtl
of earth, compared with that which thos
experience before whom the gates hav
been opened, is nothing but sickness am
y auna citation 1,Ook at that soul Staud5p,