The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-08-30
EYE HATH NOT SEEN,
. SERMON ON THE SURPRISING SPLEEN
DORIS Of THE HEAVENLY HOME.

Rev. DIR. Taimage breaches Sermon OF
Rare Power and Eloquence to the BE-
reaved and Faint Hearted - His Late
Wife's Last Words-A Heavenly Song.
New YORK, Aug, 25,-For the boz
reaved and faint hearted there could be
no words of stronger consolation or on
couragement than those of the sermon
prepared by Rev. Dr. Talmago 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 way
to bring joy to believing souls and to
fascinate even tho thoughtless and in
different. The text chosen wa, Eye
hath not seen nor ear heard" Cor
inthians ii, 0,
81 am going TO ,eaven ! am going
to heaven E2aycn! Heaven Heaven y
These wcro 40 last words uttered fow
+ days ago by my precious wife as she as
cended to be with God forever, and is it
not natural as we'll as Christianly APP
propriate that our thoughts DO much di-
rected toward the glorious residence of
which st, Paul speaks in the text have
chosen?
The city Of Corinth has been called
the Paris of antiquity. Indeed for sp!en-
dor the world holds 10 such wonder to-
day. It stood ON an isthmus washed by
two seas, the one sea bringing the COM
merce of Europe, the other the COM
MERGE 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
confounded the navy yards of all the
world. Hugo 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 q
tariff from all nations.
The mirth of all people sported in her
| lSlDU HlIuts. anu tiIt btttlt,p VI GA
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 al
the side, there rushed waters everywhere
known for health giving qualities
| Around these basins, twisted intt
wreaths of stone, there were all tho
beauties of sculpture and architecture
while standing, as if to guard the costly
display, was statue of Hercules Of
FURNISHED Corinthian brass. Vases O
terra Gotta adorned the cemeteries of The
dead-vases so costly that Julius Caesar
was not satisfied @sil he had captured
them for RonA Armed officials, thu
"Corinthiarii, " phed up and down tC
see that no statue was defaced, no ped
estal overthrown, no bas relief touched
From the edge Of the city a hill arose
with its magnificent burden Of column
and towers and temples $1,000 slave
awaiting at one shrine), and a citade
so thoroughly impregnable that Gibral
tar is heap of sand compared with it
Amid all that strength and magnificenc
Corinth stood and defed the world.
The Glorious Text.
Oh, it was not to rustics who hat
never seen anything grand that St. Pau
uttered this text They had. heard tn
best music that had come from the hes
instruments III all the world. They hat
heard songs floating from morning por
ticoes and melting in evening groves
They had passed their whole lives ava
among pictures and sculpture and archi
lecture and Corinthian brass, which ha
been nodded and shaped, until Their
was no chariot wheel III which it ha
not sped, and no tower in which it ha
not glittered, and no gateway that
had not adorned.
All, it was d bold thing for Paul
stand there amid all that and say: " A
this is nothing These sounds that com
; from the temple of Neptune are n
music compared with the harmony {
which I speak, These waters rushing
the basin Of Pyreno are not pure. Thef
statues of Bacchus and Mercury are nC
exquisite Yon citadel of Acrocorinthr
is not strong compared with that whic
offer to the poorest slave that puts dow
his burden at that brazen gate Yol
; Corinthians, think this is splendid city
You think you have heard all swet
sounds and seen all beautiful sights, bI
tell you eye hath not seen, nor ei
heard, neither have entered into IL
} heart Of man the things which &c
) hath prepared for them that love him.
You see my text sets forth the idt
that, however exalted our ideas may
of heaven, they come far short of Il
D reality Some wise men have been ca
n culating how many furlongs long ar
= wide is heaven and they have calculate
how many inhabitants there are ON Il
0 earth; how long the earth will probab
=. stand, and then they come to this est
: mate-that after all the nations h;
. been gathered to heaven there Will be
} room for each soul, room lG feet loi
and 10 feet wide. 1t would not be lary
=, enough for me. l am glad to know til
no HuIllttu tNbA 10 bllllClCIlb w
the dimensions. Eye hath not see
J nsr ear heard nor arithmetic Gale
lsted.
Y Health In Heaven.
# | first remark that we can in ii
world getno idea of the health Of hea
) en-. When you were a child and y
went out in the morning, how y
bounded along the road or street--y
had never felt sorrow or sickness Pr
haps later--rerhaps in these very sul
mer days-you felt glow in 70
check, and spring in your step, and
exuberance of spirits, and a clearness
eye, that made you thank God you We
permitted to live. The nerves We're ha
strings, and the sunlight was a doxoloe
and the rGstiing leaves were the II
Ting OF the robes of great crowd risi
mp to praise the Lord. You thought Il
ron knpLy what il was tO lie well.