Connecticut western news., 1895-08-29
EYE HATH NOT SEEN.
AseRMoN ON THE SURPRISING SPLEEN.
 DORS OF THE HEAVENLY HOME.
Rev. Dr. Tslmage Preaches . Sermon of Rare Power and Eloquence to the Be-
 reaved and Faint Hearted = His Late

reAseu anu r0int hearted - His Late Wife's Last words-A Heavenly Song.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-For the be- feaved and faint hearted there could 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 "Surpassing Splendors. y 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 the thoughtless and in- different. The text chosen was, Eye hath not seen nor ear heard" Cor inthians ii, 9.
 1T am going to heavenl am going to heaven Heavenl Heaven Heavenr r' These were the last words uttered few days ago by my precious wife us she as- cended to be with God forever, and is it not natural as we'll as Christianly ap- propriate that our thoughts be much di- rected toward the glorious residence of which St. Paul speaks in tho text have chosen?
 The city of Corinth has been called the Paris of antiquity. Indeed for splen- dor the world holds no 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 merce of Asia. From her wharves, in doms had been absorbed, war galleys 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, 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 a 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 pmticoes and threw itself on the altar of her stupendous dissipations. 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 a statue of Hercules of furnished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra cotta 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 (1.000 slaves awaiting at one shrine), and citadel so thoroughly impregnable that Gibral- tar is a heap of sand compared with it. Amid all that strength and magnifcence Corinth stood and defied the world.
 Tho 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- t;coes 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.
 An. it was bold thing for Paul to stand there amid all that and say: "All this is nothing These sounds that come from the temple of Neptune are not music compared with the harmony of which speak. These waters rushing in the basin of Pyrene are not pure. These statues of Bacchus and Mercury are not exquisite. Ton citadel of Acrocorinthus is not strong compared with that which Ioffer 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 I 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 g room for each soul, a room 16 feet long and 15 feet wide. It would not be large enough for me. 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.
 I first remark that we can in thi. world get no idea of the health of heav en. When you were a child and yor went out in the morning, how yor bounded along the road or street--yol had never felt sorrow or sickness Per haps later-perhaps in these very sum mer days--you felt a glow ill you cheek, and spring in your step, and al exuberance of spirits, and clearness O eye, that made you thank God you wer permitted to live. The nerves were harl strings, and the sunlight was doxology and tho rustling leaves were the rus tling of the robes of great crowd risinl up to praise the Lord. You thought tha you knew what it was to be we'll, bu there is no perfect health on earth. Th diseases of past generations come down us. The airs that float now on the cart are unlike those which floated abov paradise. They are charged with in purities and distempers The most elas tic and robust health of earth, con pared with that which those experieuc