Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-08-24
EYE HATH NOT SEEN.
AsERMoN ON THE SURPRISING SPLEEN.
DORIS OF THE HEAVENLY HOME.

! \ Si-SAON yin Z s1E othFNooiN0 orl EN-
DORIS OF The HEAVENLY HOME.
Rare Power and Eloquence to the BE.
reaved aud Faint Hearted = His Late
wife's Last v'ords-A Heavenly Song.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.---For the be-
reaved and faint hearted there could be
no words Of stronger consolation or en-
enlargement than those Of the sermon
prepared by Rev. Dr.. Talmage for to-
day. His subject was Surprising
Splendors With inimitable touch, he
has pictured the glories and attractions
of the world beyond the skies in a way
TO bring joy 10 believing souls and tc
fascinato even the thoughtless and in
different TIE text chosen was, 'sEye
hath not seen nor ear heard, / Cor
inthians ii, 0.
II am going to heaveni am going
to heaven Heaven Heaven Heaven"
These were tho last words uttered few
days ago by my precious wife as she as
: cendod TO DO with God forever, and is it
not natural as well as Christianity APP
propTiate that our thoughts be much di.
rected toward the glorious residence Of
which St Paul speaiss in tho text have
chosen?
Tho city Of Corinth has been called
tho Paris Of antiquity. Indeed for splen-
dor the world holds no such wonder to-
day. 1t stood on an isthmus washed by
two seas, the one sea bringing the COM
merce Of Europe, the other the COM
nerce Of Asia. From her wharves, in
the construction of which whole king
doms had been absorbed, war galleys
with three banks OF oars pushed out and
COMPOUNDED tho navy yards Of all the
world. Hugo handed machinery, such
as modern invention cannot equal, lift
cd 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 tho beach to collect
tariff from all nations.
The mirth of all people sported in her
Isthmian games, and the beauty Of all
| lands sat i'll her theaters, walked her
porticoes aud threw itself on tho altar
of her stapendons diss.pa5ions. Column
and statue and temple bewildered the
beholder. There were white marble
fountains into which, from apertures 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 sculpture and architecture,
while standing, as if to guard the costly
display, was a statue Of Hercules of
FURNISHED Corinthian brass. Vases of
terra Gotta adorned the cemeteries of the
dead-yases so costly that Julius Caesar
was not satisfied until he had captured
them for Rome, Armed officials, the
1 "Corinthiarii. paced up and down to
see that no statue was defaced, no ped
estal oyerthrown, no bas relief touched.
From the edge Of the city hill arose,
with its magnificent burden OF columns
aud towers and temples 1900 slaves
awaiting at one shrine), and q citadel
so thoroughly imprcgnable that Gibral-
tar is heap of sand compared with it.
Amid all that strength and magniGcence
Corinth stood and defed the world.
The Glorious Text.
Oh, it was not to rustics who had
never seen anything grand that st. Paul
uttered this text. They had heard the
best music that had come from the best
instruments in all the world They had
heard songs floating from morning por-
ticoes and melting in evening groves
They had passed their whole lives away
among pictures and sculpture and archi-
! lecture and Corinthian brass, which had
been nodded and shaped, until there
was no chariot wheel III which it had
not sped, and no tower in which it had
not glittered, and no gateway that it
had not adorned.
All. it was 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 arc not
music compared with the harmony Of
which speak These waters rushing in
the basin of Pyrene are not pure. These
statues of Bacehus and Mercury are not
exquisite Yon citadel of Acrocorinthus
is not strong compared with that which
offer to the poorest slave that puts down
his burden at that brazen gate. You,
Corinthians, think this is 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 tho 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 furlongs 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 all the nations had
been gathered to heaven there Will be
room for each soul, a room g feet long
and 10 feet wide. 1t would not be large
enough for NE. 1 am glad TO know that
no human estimate is sufficient to take
nor ear heard" nor arithmetic calcu-
lated.
Health In Heaven.
I first remark that we can in this
world get no idea of the health Of heav-
en-. When you We're Il child and you
went ont in the morning, how you
bounded along the road or stIect-you
had never felt sorrow or sickness! Per-
haps later-perhaps in these very sum
mer days-you felt a glow in your
cheek, and spring in your step, and an
exuberance of spirits, and a clearness Of
eye, that made you thank God you were
permitted 20 live Thenerves were harp
strings, and the sunlight was a doxology,
and the rastling leaves We're the rus
Ting Of the robes Of great crowd rising
up to praise tic Lord. You Thought that
yea knew what it was to he we'll. but
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