The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-09-06
SURPRISING SPLENDORS.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Depicts the Clio
ries of the Next World.
The People OF Earth Can Form No Con-
ception OF the Glories OF Heaven
A Place Where Sickness and
Sorrow Cannot Come.

OH the text:
Eye hath not seen nor ear heard--I Coz
sS.,s
II am going to Heaven! am goin,
tO Heaven. Heaven! Heaven! Heaven!
These were the last words uttered
few days ago by my precious wife a
sand is it not natural, as well as Chris
'tianly appropriate, th:t our thought
be much directed toward the glorious
Nesidence of which st. Paul speaks in
tie text have chosen.
The city of Corinth has been calico
She Paris of antiquity. Indeed, for
splendor, the world holds nosuch won.
der to-day. 1t stood on an isthmus
washed by two seas, the one sea bring
ing the commerce of Asia. From her
wharves, in the construction of
which whole kingdoms had been
absorbed. war-galleys with three
hanks of oars pushed out and
eonfounded the navy yards of
all the world. Huge-handed machin-
cry, such as modern invention cannot
equal, lifted ships from the sea on one
side and transported them on trucks
&cross the isthmus and set them down
I'm the sea on the other side. The rev.
cnue officers of the city went down
through the olive groves that lined
she beach to collect tariff from all
nations. The mirth of all people
sported in her isthmian games, and
she beauty of all lands sat in her thea
ters, walked her porticoes, and threw
itself on the altar of her stupendous
Column, and statue,
sind temple bewildered the beholder.
There were white marble fountains
into which, from apertures at the side,
shere 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 dis
play, was statue of Hercules of
FURNISHED Corinthian brass. Vases
Of oerra-cotta adorned the ceme-
teries of the dead-vases so cost
" that Julius Caesar was not salts
fed until he had captured them for
Some. Armed officials, the "Corinth-
srii, i" paced up and down to see that
70 statue was deface6 no pedestal
'verthrown, no bas relief touched.
from the edge of the city hill arose,
With its magnificent burden of col
INNS, and towers. and temples lone
thousand slaves awaiting at one
brlne), and a citadel so thoroughly |
napregnable that Gibraltar is heap {
sand compared with it. Amid all I
hat strength and magnifcence,
orinth stood and defied the world.
Oh! it was not to rustics who had G
ever seen anything grand that st. a
aul uttered this text. They had e
card the best music that had come a
-om the best instruments in all the
ond; they had heard songs floating @
ON morning porticoes and melting y
. evening groves; they had passed n
Ieir whole lives away among pic i
Tres, and sculpture, and architecture, h
I'd Corinthian brass, which had been y
Olded and shaped, until there was h
, chariot wheel in which it had not g.
ed, and. no tower in which it had r
It glittered, and no gateway that h
had not adorned. All, it was a h
Id thing for Paul to stand there n
MD all that, and say: "All this is t,
thing These sounds that come T
,m the temple of Neptune are not q
nsic compared with the harmony of
iich speak. These waters rushing 8
the basin of Pyrene are not pure. Z
iese statues of Bacchus and Mercury a
g not exquisite. Yon citadel of Aero h
rinthus is not strong compared with Q
at which offer to the poorest slave n
at puts down his burden at that =
azen gate. You, Corinthians, think T.
is is splendid city; but 1 tell you Is
ye hath not seen, nor ear heard, a
ither have entered into the heart of 8
IN, the things which God hath pre- Ii
red for them that love HIM" d
You see my text sets forth the idea /"
at however exalted our ideas may o
of Heaven, they come far short of G
e reality. Some wise men have been e
lculating how many furlongs long is
d wide is Heaven; and they have C
lculated how many inhabitants there Il
e on the earth; how long the earth a
Ii probably stand: and then they a
me to this estimate: that after all n
e nations had been gathered to b
,aven, there will be room for each | I,
ul-a room sixteen feet long and fif- Ii
IN feet wide. 1t would not be large h
ough for me. ! am glad to know h
at no human estimate is sufficient II
take the dimensions. Eye hath G:
{ seen, nor ear heard" nor arithme- o
calculated. IN
[ first remark that we can in this Il
rid get no idea OF the health of q,
.aven. When you were a child. and fr
u went ont in the morning. how you b,