St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-06-16
THE sNEW-JERUSALEM
Dr.. Talmage Lifts the Curtain from
Eternal Felicities.

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Comprehension OF the Finite
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Parting There.
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tcopyright, $50. BY Louis Klopsch.lss
Washington,
In this discourse DIR. Talmage lifts
the curtain from eternal felicities and
| in an unusual way teof the HeaYep=
" world. Text, I. Qfinthians. az
Eye hath not SCI lor Ear hear
Leither have entsre1 inko NE heart r.
man, the things which God hath pre-
pared for them that love Him."
The city of Corinth has been called
"thss R1ri1 Of entiquity.s Indeed for
splendof the world hoIdSno suehwon-
der to-day. 1t stood on an isthmus
washed by two seas, the one sea bring
ing the commerce Of Europe, the other
sea bringing the commerce-of OF Asia.
From her wharfs, in the construetfon
of which whole Kingdoms had been alb
sorbed, war galleys with three banks
Of oars pushed out and confounded the
navy yjr1sf9f al thS sorld,s Huge
handed machhsry ,.such as modern in
vention cannot equal, lifted ships from
the sea on one side and transported
them on trucks across the isthmus and
set them down in the sea on the other
s'a Ii. re.x,i.Ss ssAkf: otassss Ss4
down through the olive groves that
lined the beach to collect tar from
all nations. The mirth of all people
sported in her kfhnian games, and the
beauty of all Aadssatinh her theaters,
walked her porticoes and threw itself
on the altar of her stupendous dissipa-
tions. Column and statue and temple
bewildered the hehel1er. There were
white marble fohltalns fintS iwhieh'
from apertures at the side there rushed
waters everywhere known for health
fgiFiRzsspalite es. s$sSusd these basins.
twfsted into wreaths of stones there
were all the beauties Of sculpture and
architecture, ThiA standing. as. If to
guard the costly display, was statue
of Hercules Of FURNISHED Corinthian
brass. Vases Of teSTa Gotta adorned
the sepsterfes oxxAk deaQ-apas =
costf hat Jflius &br Wis lo4 sSi3
fed until he had captured them for
Rome. Armed officials, the Corintharii,
paced up and down to see that no stone
was defaced, no pedestal overthrown,
no has relief touched. From the edge
of the city hill arose, with it's mag
nificent burden of columns, towers and
temples uyD slayes YaitfYg ak-one
shrine,aanl L cikdeliso &AsoRghly
impregnable that Gibraltar is heap
Of sand compared With it, Amid all
that strength A{3H6iacs4cef fsrI1
Oh, it was not to rustics, who had
neyergseehaaytAint gr3Qd fhst Paul
utSefed tKis texx -1he yshads hard the
best music that had come from the best
tnetEnnente, in all the yyorld; they had
heard songs floating from morning pdr-
ticoes and melting in evening groves;
they he1 sHeszed ftheir whole lives
among pictures and sculpture and
architecture and Corinthian brass,
which had been nodded and shaped un-
til there was no chariot wheel in which
it had not sped, and no tower in which
it had NOT glittefed, and M gateway
ftit ii hSs l9 e@ornfdy All. .Fnl Was 4
hid ahia8 fG PS1 to N{n thfre amid
al tAAt in9tsAys "Afl.thti j nptling.
44sese sounds that come from the tenn
pie of Neptune are not music compared
with the harmonies OF which I speak.
These waters rushing in the basin of
Pyrene are not pure. The statues of
Bacchus and Mercury are not exquisite.
Your citadel of Acrocorinthus is not
strong compared with that which I Of
fer to the poorest slave that puts down
his burden at that brazen gate. You
Corinthians think this Il q splendid
city.-fou- -thiaa. ysa-hsse- heard al.
sweet sounds and seen all beautiful
sights, but tell yodeye 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." T
You see, my text sets forth the idea
that, however exalted our ideas ! of
Heaven, they come far short Of the
reality. Some wise men have been cal
culating how many furlongs long ana
wide is the new Jerusalem, 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 estimate: That aft
er all the nations have been gathered
to Heaven there viii be room for each
soul, = room is feet long and Is feet
wide. 1t would not be large enough
for you. 1t would not Be large enough
for me. am glad to know that no hu-
man estimate il sufficient to take the
dimensions. EYE hath not seen, nor
ear heard, =. nor arithmeticians calcp=
lated.s A,f .sst sts.-s-t n s-,as
first remark that we can get no idea
Of the health Of Heaven. When you
were . child, and you went out in the
morning, how you bounded along the
road,or street-you had never felt sor-
row or sickness. Perhaps Later you
felt . glow in your cheek and 2 spring
In your step and IN exuberance Of spir-
its and azclcarness = Of eye that made
you thank God. you were permitted
VO i've. 1uc uCISES. WcIC HUI ohAA8o
and the sunlight was q doxology, and
! the rustling leaves were the rustling
OF the robes Of great crowd rising mp
to praise the Lord. You thought that
you knew what it was to be well, but
there is no perfect health on earth
The diseases, Of past generations came
down to us. The airs that now float
upon the earth are not like those which
foated above. Paradise< They are
charged with impurities and distem-
pers. TM most lastic and robust
health Of earth, compared with that
which those experience before whom
che gates have been opened, il nsthing
but sickncsu' and d.emaciation. Look 1T
that soul standing before the throne.
On earth she was lifelong invalid.
See her step now and hear. her voice
scw.. Catch. Il yeps can, one breath Of
that celestial aax.s. Health ip al the
pulses-health Of vision, health OF
spirits, imqprt,1 health. No racking
eou1h. nd 6shafupleurisies, no consum-