The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-30
REV. DR.. TaLuaGE.
The Brooklyn Divinc's Sunday
Sermon.


TExT' Eye hath not seen nor ear heard
- Corinthians H.. 9.
III am going to heaven! I nm going Il
heaven! Heavenl Heavenl Heayen!' Thest
were the last words uttered q few days aet
by my precious wife as shs assembled to "
with God forever, and is 1t not natural al
well ms Christianly appropriate that ouI
thoughts he much directed toward the glori.
Gus residence of which st. Paul speaks il
the text l have chosen2
The city of Corinth has been called the
Paris OF antiquity. Indeed for splendor the
world holds 10 such won,lerto-day. Itstoot
on an isthmus washed by two seas. the ont
sea bringing the commerce of Europe, the
other the m of Asia. From heI
wharves, in the construction of which whole
Kingdoms had been absorbed, wal galley
with three banks OF oars pushed out and
confounded the navy yards of all the world.
Huge handed machinery, 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 >
tariff from all Nations.
The mirth Of all people sported in he
AAhttAAh thNAi's hlh VIZ NeA " ~ ~
sat in her theatres, 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 aperturei
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
fha anatINv dfaTluN- roc . ct 1t1A nj HnrnnlAl
of FURNISHED Corinthian brass. Vases Of
terra Gotta adorned the cemeteries of the
~dead-vases SO costly that Julius Cesar was
not satisfied until he had captured them fol
Rome. Armed officials, the "Corinthiarli,'
paced up and down to see that no statue was
defaced, no pedestal overthrow, no has re-
lief touched. From the edge of the city a
hill arose, with its magnificent burden oil
columns and towers and temples 1000 slaves
awaiting at one shrine), and a citadel 50
thoroughly i~mpreGnable that Gibraltar is q
heap of sand compared with it. Amid Az
that strength and magniflcence Corlntf
stood and deaed the world.
Oh, 1t was not 10 rustics who had neve.
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 hal heard songs float
ing from morning pOrticoes and melting in
GNthlbk EloNfEs Iuil huA laaAFS' hH-Ah
whole lives away among pictures 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 it had
not glittered, and no gateway that it had no
adorned.
All, 1t was a bold thing for Pau to stand
there amid all that and say "Ali this is
nothing. These sounds that come from the
k~-a-1. = TastV,.. n no not ~ naIR Rnm ma FnI
with the harmony of which I speak. These
waters rushing in the basin Of Pyrene are not
pure. These statues Of Bacchus and Mer'
curry are not exquisite. Yon citadel Of
Acrocorinthus is not strong compared with
that which | offer to the poorest slave thai
puts down his burden at that brazsn gate.
You, Corinthians, think this is a 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 mar
the things which Godhath prepared fortheu
hat love Him"
You see nv 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 calculating how many
furioncs long and wild is heaven, and they
have calculated how many inhabitants there
are on the earth; how long the earth VIII
pFODnDIN Sthul, anu iHtu tiCl NohiN ~ hh'1
estimate-that after all the nations had been
gathered to heaven there will be a room fol-
each soul, a room 10 feet long and 10 feet
wide. 1t wonld not be large enough for me.
L an glad to know that no human estimate
is sufficient to take the dimensions. Eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard" nor arithmetic
calculated. ,
first remark that we can in this world get
no idea Of the health OF heaven. When you
were a child and you went out IN the morn
Ing. how YOU bounded along the road OF
street-you had never felt sorrow or sick
ness! Perhaps later-perhaps in these very
summer days-you felt n glow in your
cheek, and a spring in your step, and an eN-
uberance of spirits. and a clearness OF eye,
that made you thank God you We're permit
ted toiivP. The nerves were harp strings,
and the sunlight was a doxology, Ii the
rustling leaves were the rhstling OF the ropes
Of q great crowd rising up TO praise the
Lord. You thought that you knew what 1t
was TO be well, butthere Is no perfect health
on earth. The diseases OF past generations
come down to us. The airs that float now
on the earth are unlike those which fioated
shove paradise. They are charged with lm-
purilies aud distempers. The most elastic
and robust health OF earth, compared with
that which those experience before
gates nave been opened, is nothing put SICK,
ness and emaciation. Look AT mat soul
standing before the throne. On earth she
was a lifelong invalid. See her step now and
hear her voice now! Catch, If you can, one
breath of that celestial aif. Health IN all the
pulses! Health of vision. Health OF splrits'
Immortal health. No raoking cough, no
sharp pleurlsies. no consuming levers, no
e~xhaustinc pains, no hospitals OF wo9hded
men. Health swinging in the ar Health
flowing in all the streams. Health blooming
on the banks. No headaches, no siuetehes,
no backaehes. Tha. child that died IN the
nconies OF eroup, hear her voice now ringing
ia the antheml That old man that went
bowed down with the in6rmities OF age, see
him walk now with the step OF an Immortal
athleta-foreyer Young again! Inat hlght
when the nee ilewoman tainted away IN the
garret. a wave OF the heavenly AIR reSuscltat-
ed her forever. For everlasting wears, &c
have neither ache nor pain nor w'aShess nor
fatigue. eye nath not seen It, ear hasn MOI
heard It,"
Iremark further thqs we can in this world
get no lust idea OF the splendor Of heaven
ST, John tries TO describe it. He says, The
twelve gates are twelve pearls, and thai
i'the foundations OF the walls are g~arnished
with all manner of precious stones" As we
stand looking through the telescope of ST.
John we see u blaze OF amethyst AMI pearl
and emerald and sardOnyS and c~hrysoprasus
and sapphire, q mountain VI IRlt, u cathf-
act Of color, "a sea OF glass and a city like the
sun.
ST. John bids us look again, and we see
lhrones--thronp OF the prophets, thrones OF
the patriarchs, thrones OF the angels, thrones
of the apostles, thrones of the martyrs, throne
OF Jesus, throne OF God! And we turn round
10 see the glory, and it is-thronesl Thrones
Thr0nesl
st. John bids MS look again, and we Sc,
the great procession Of the redeemed passing.
Jesus, on a white horse, leads the march,
and all the armies OF salvation following on
white horses. Infinite cavalcaie passing,
passing; empires pressing into line, ages
following ages. Dispensation tramplng OF
after dispensation. Glory in the track o
glory. Europe, Asia, Africa and North and
South America pressing into lines. Islands
Of the sea shoulder to shoulder. Genera
tions before the hood following generations
after the flood, and us Jesus rises al the heaC
OF that great host and waves His sword il
signal OF victory all crowns are liited, an,
all ensigns flung out, n all chimes rung
and ali halleluiahs chanted, n some cry
''Glory TO God most hight" and some
"E---sN~I. - tho son Of pavidr' and soma
rWorihv is the Lamb that was stain" till al
the explanations OF endearment and homas
ia the vocabulary Of heaven are exhausted
and there come up surge after surge Q
oAmeni Amen! Amenl"