The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-05-19
HI NEW JERUSALEM
DR.. Talmage Lifts the Curtain from
Eternal Felicities.
The GIories of Heaven surpnss the
comprehension of the Finite
MinJ-There Will lie No
Parting There.
copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsoh.l
Washington,

Iy world. Text, l. Corinthians, go:
EYE hath not seen nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of
man, the things which God hath pre-
pared for them that love Him."
The city of Corinth has been called
"the Paris of antiquity Indeed, for
splendor the world holds no such won
der to-day. 1t stood on an isthmus
washed by two seas, the one sea bring
ing the of Europe, the other
sea bringing the commerce of Asia.
From her wharfs, in the construction
of which whole kingdoms had been alb
sorbed, 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, n the
beauty of all lands sat in her theaters,
walked her porticoes and threw itself
on the altar of her stupendous dissipa-
lions. 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 Gotta adorned
the cemeteries of the dead-vases so
costly that julius Caesar was not salts
fed until he had captured them for
Rome. Armed officials, the C~orintharii,
paced up and down to see that no stone
was defaced. no pedestal ~overthrown,
no bas relief touched. From the edge
of the city a hill arose, with its mag
nifcent burden of columns, towers and
temples 1900 slaves waiting at one
shrine), and a citadel so thoroughly
impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap
of sand compared with it. Amid all
that strength and magnifcence Corinth
stood and deied 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 morning por-
ticoes and melting in evening groves:
they had passed their whole lives
among pictures and sculpture and
architecture and Corinthian brass,
which had been nodded and. shaped IN
til there was no chariot wheel in which
it had not sped, and no tower in which
IL had not glittered. and no gateway
that it had not adorned. 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 tenn
role Of Neptune are not music compared
with the harmonies of which | speak.
These waters rushing in the basin of
Pyrene are not pure The statues OF
Bacchus and Mercury are not exquisite.
lOuI III <h1AO NOl 10 IL hOl
strong compared with that which l of
fer TO the poorest slave that puts down
his burden at that brazen gate. You
Corinthians think this is a splendid
city. You think you have heard al
sweet sounds and seen all beautiful
sights, but l tell you eye hath not seer
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 ide;
that, however exalted our ideas O
Heaven, they come far short of tn,
reality. Some wise men have been cal
culating how many furlongs long ant
wide is the new Jerusalem, and they
have calculated how many inhabitant.
there are on the earth, how long the
earth will probably stand, and ther
they come to this estimate: That aft
er all the nations have been gathered
TO Heaven there will be room for eacl
soul, a room 10 feet long and Is fee
wide. 1t would not be large enough
for you. 1t would not be large enough
for me. 1 am glad to know that no hu
man estimate is sufficient to take tn,
dimensions. EYE hath not seen, no
ear heard,' nor arithmeticians calcu
lated.
1 first remark that we can get no ide;
of the health of Heaven. When yol
were a child, and you went out in tn.
morning, how you bounded along tn
road or street-you had never felt sor
row or sickness. Perhaps later yol
felt a glow in your cheek and a sprins
in your step and an exuberance of spir
its and a clearness of eye that mad
you thank God you were permitte,
to live. The nerves were harp string
and the sunlight was a doxology, an,
the rustling leaves were the %rustlin,
of the robes of a great crowd rising u
to praise the Lord. You thought tina
YOU knew what it was to be well, Blu
there is no perfect health on earth
The diseases of past generations cam
down to us. The airs hat now fioa
upon the earth are not like those whic'