The Grit-advocate., 1900-05-18
NEW JERUSALEM. LAST SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
There viii h No Parting from One
Aaothsr in the Heavenly Kingdom-
Its 0iories surpaAs Hsnsn Power of
Comprshsnsion.
lcopyrieht. 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l

not seen nor ear heard, neither hav,
entered into the heart of man, tn,
things which God hath prepared fo
them that love him"
The city of Corinth has been callet
~the Paris Of antiquity" Indeed, fol
sDlendor the world holds no such won
DER today. 1t stood on an isthmu.
washed by two seas, the one sea bring
ing the commerce Of Europe, the othel
sea bringing the commerce of Asia
From her wharfs, in the construction
OF which whole kingdoms had beer
sosorbed. war galleys with three banks
OF oars pushed out and confounded 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 wen,
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
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,
tnere were all the beauties of sculp-
ture and architecture, while standing,
as II TO guard the costly display, was
a statue OF Hercules OF Furnished Cor
lnth1an 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
Corlntharll, paced up and down to see
tnat no statue was defaced, no pedes-
tal oVerthrown, no bas relief touched.
from the edge of the city hill arose,
with its magnificent burden of col
umns, towers and temples q 900 slaves
waiting at one shrine), and a citadel
so thoroughly impregnable that Glib
!altar Is heap of sand compared with
H. Amid all that strength and mag
nlncence Corinth stood and defed the
world.
oh, 1t 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. 1t was bold thing for Pau
to stand there amid all that and say:
All this is nothing. These sounds
mat come from the temple of Neptune
are not music compared with the har.
monies OF which speak. These wat.
ers rushing in the basin of Pyrene are
not pure. These statues of Bacchus
and Mercury are not exquisite. Youl
citadel Of Acrocorinthus is not strong
compared with that which l offer tc
the poorest slave that puts down his
burden at that brazen gate. You Cor.
fnthians think this is a splendid city
You think you have heard all sweet
sounds and seen all beautiful sights