Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-08-26
EYE HATH NOT SEEN.
ASERMONON SURPRISING SPLEN-
DORIS OF THE HEAVENLY HOME.
Rev. DIR. TalrlaGe breaches a Sermon of
Rare Power and Eloquence to the Be-
reayed and Faint Hearted = his Late
wife,s Last worts-A Heavenly Song.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-For the be-
reaved and faint hearted there coul1 be
no words of stronger consolation or en-
couragement than those of the sermon
prepared by Rev. Dr.. Talmage for to-
day His subject was Surprising
SpIendors - With inimitable touch. he
has pictured the glories and attrac 9
of the world beyond the skies II = way
to bring joy to believing sou3.; ard to
fascinate even the thougltles3 all II
different. The text chosen W Eye
hath not seen rCr ear hcG->!, Cor
inthians ii, 9.
81 am going II l-eavenl I am going
to heaven Z .-c.l Heaven Heaven :;
These wc-o lie last words uttered few
days ego by my precious wife as she as
ceuded to be with God forever, and is i
not natural as we'll as christianity ap-
propriate that our thoughts be much di-
rected toward the glorious residence of
which st. Paul speaks in the text have
chosen?
The city of Corinth he's been called
the 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
merce 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 the navy yards of all the
world. Huge handed machinery, such
as modern invention cannot equal, lift
ed 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
tariff from all nations.
The mirth of all 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 designations. 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 4 statue of Hercules Of
FURNISHED COrinthian brass. Vases Of
terra Gotta adorned the cemeteries Of the
dead-vases so costly that Julius Caesar
was not satisfied until he had captured
them for Rome Armed officials, the
"Corinthiarii, " paced up and down to
see that no statue was defaced, no ped
estal overthrown, no bas relief touched.
From the edge of the city hill arose,
with it's magnificent burden of columns
and towers and temples (1,O00 slaves
awaiting at one shrine), and citadel
so thoroughly impregnable that Gibral-
tar is heap of sand compared with it.
Amid all that strength and magnificence
Corinth stood and defied 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 in 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 a bold thing for Paul to
stand there amid all that and say: "Al
this is nothing. These sounds that come
from the temple of Neptune are not
music compared with the harmony 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
/ 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
/ 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 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 a
room for each soul, room 16 feet long
and 8 feet wide It would not be large
enough for me. I am glad to know that
no human estimate is sufficient to take
the dimensions. Eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard nor arithmetic calcu-
lated.
Health In Heaven.
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