Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-29
GLORIES OF HEAVEN.
REV. pa. TALMA6E TO THE BeReAVED
AND FAINT HEARTED.

the World Beyond - The Health, the
spIendors, the Reunions and the Song Of
Heaven.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-For the bereaved
and faint hearted there could be no words
of stronger consolation or encouragement
than those Of the sermon prepared by Rev.
DR.. Talmagc for today His subject was
Surprising Splendors." With inimitable
touch, he has pictured the glorios and at
fractions Of the world beyond the skies In
q way to bring Joy to believing souls and
to fascinate even the thoughtless and in
different. The text chosen was, Eye hath
not seen nor ear heard" / Corinthians
ii, Q.
IL am going to heavonl am going to
heavenl Hcsvenl H@venl Heaven!"
These were the last words uttered few
days ago by my precious wife as she a.
ccnded to he with Sod forever, and is 1t
not natural rs well as Christianly appro-
pirate that our thoughts be much directed
toward the glorious residence of which St.
Paul speaks in the text 1 have chosenP
Corinth.
The city Of Corinth hos been called the
Paris Of antiquity. Indeed for splcndor
the world holds no such wonder today. 1t
stood on an isthmus washed by two seas,
the one sea bringing the commerce of Eu-
rope the other the commerce of Asia.
From her wharves, in the construction of
which whole Kingdoms 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,
lifted ships from the sea on one side and
transported them on trucks across the
isthmus and set them down in che sea on
the other side.
Tho revenue officers of the city went
down through the olive groves that lined
the beach to collect a tariff from all ma
tions. The mirth of all people sported in
her Isthmaian games, and the beauty OF all
lands sat in her theatcrs walked her por
ticoes and threw itself on the altar Of her
stupendous designations. Column and
statue and temple bewildcred the beholdcr.
There were white marble fountains into
which, from aperturcs 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 ar
chtecture, while standing, as if to guard
the costly display, was 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 sec
that no statue was dcfaced, no pedestal
overthrown, no bas-relef touched. From
tho edge of the city hill arose, with its
magnificent burden of columns and towers
and temples--l, 600 slaves awaiting at one
shrne--and a citadel so thoroughly i'm
IL T..
compared with it. Amid all that strength
and magnifcenco Corinth stood and de1ed
the world.
PauPs 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 porticoes and melt
ing in evening groves, they had passed
their 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
1t 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: CAN
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from 'he "ilpie oi neptune are not music
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