The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-05-18
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
NEW JERUSALEM. LAST SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
There Will BE No Parting from One
Another In the Heavenly Kingdom
Its Giories surpass Human Power of
Comprehension.

Text, | Corinthians ii, 8, 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"
The city of Corinth has been called
t n Paris of antiquity" Indeed, for
splendor the world holds no such won
der today. 1t stood on an isthmus
washed by two seas, the one sea bring
ing the commerce of Europe, the other
sea bringing the of Asia.
From her wharfs, in the construction
OF which whole kingdoms had been
absorbed, war galleys with three banks
of oars pushed out and COMPOUNDED the
! navy yards OF. all the world. Huge
handed machinery, such as modern in
Vention 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 a tariff from
all nations. The mirth of all people
sported in her isthmian games, and
the beauty of all lands sat in her thea
ters, walked her porticoes and threw
itself on the altar of her %stupendous
dlss1pations. Column and statue and
temple bewildered the beholder. There
were white marble fountains into
which from a%pertures 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 sculp-
ture and architecture, while standing,
as If to guard the costly display, was
a statue of Hercules of FURNISHED Cor
1nthlan 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
Corlntharii, paced up and down to see
tnat no statue was defaced, no pedes-
tai oVerthrown, no bas relief touched.
From the edge of the city a hill arose.
with its magnificent burden of col
umns, towers and temples Q,00O slaves
waiting at one shrine), and a citadel
so thoroughly impregnable that Glib
raltar is a heap Of sand compared with
1t. Amid all that strength and mag
nlflcence Corinth stood and defied the
world.
Oh, it was not to ~rustics, who had
never seen anything grand, that 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 morn
ing porticoes and melting in evening
groves; they had passed their whole
lives among pictures and sculp-
ture and architecture 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 adorn-
ed. All, it was a 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 har-
monies of which l speak. These wat
ers rushing in the basin of Pyrene are
pure. These statues of Bacchus
and Mercury are not exquisite. Your
citadel of Acrocorinthus is not strong
compared with that which l offer to
the poorest slave that puts down his
burden at that brazen gate. You Cor
inthians 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 man, the things which
God hath prepared for them that love
Beyond Our Conception.
You see my text sets forth the idea
that, however exalted our ideas of
heaven, they come far short of the
Some wise men have been cal
culating how many furlongs long and
wide is the new Jerusalem, and they
have calculated how many inhabitants
there are on the earth, how long the
Will piODoDly SIduu, anu LQon
hey come to this estimate: That after
Ill the nations have been gathering to
heaven there will be room for each
soul, a room Is feet long and Is feet
vide. 1t would not be large enough
or you. 1t would lot be large enough !
me. l am glad to know that no hu- I
nan estimate is sufficient to take the l
dimensions. Eye hath not seen. nor I
ar heard" nor arithmeticians cal I
|
I first remark that we can get no '
dea of the health of heaven. When I
were a child, and you went out in
he morning, how you bounded along
he road or street-you had never felt
orrow or sickness. Perhaps later you i
cit a glow in your cheek and a spring i
n your step and an exuberance of C
pirits and a clearness of Y that v
made you thank God you were permit Il
ed to live. The nerves were harp t
trings and the sunlight was a doxol- 4
gy, and the rustling leaves were the t