The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-19
NEW JERUSALEM
mage Lifts the Curtain from
Eternal Felicities.
,ories of Heaven surpRss the
of the Finite
I,ud-There VIII he No
Parting There.
wright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington,

wright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington, -
Is discourse DIR. Talmage lifts
tain from eternal felicities and
busual way treats of the Heaven
h. Text, /. Corinthians, $50:
ath not seen nor ear heard,
have entered into the heart of
he things which God hath pre-
Tor them that love Him."
eity of Corinth has been called
bris of antiquity" Indeed, for
n the world holds no such won
day. 1t stood on an isthmus
by two seas, the one sea bring
commerce of Europe, the other
nging the commerce of Asia.
Ter wharfs, in the construction
In whole Kingdoms had been alb
war galleys with three banks
pushed out and COMPOUNDED the
nrds of all the world. Huge
machinery. such as modern in
I cannot equal, lifted ships from
on one side and transported
n trucks across the isthmus and
IN down in the sea on the other
revenue officers of the city went
through the olive groves that
he beach to collect a tariff from
Ions. The mirth of all people
in her isthmian games, and the
of all lands sat in her theaters.
her porticoes and threw itself
altar of her stupendous dissipa
Column and statue and temple
bred the beholder. There were
marble fountains into which
r. bertures at the side there rushed
everywhere known for health
Qualities. Around these basins,
into wreaths of stone, there
h the beauties of sculpture and
eture, while standing, as if to
the costly display, was a statue
Hcules of FURNISHED Corinthian
Vases of terra Gotta adorned
. .neteries of the dead-vases so
hat julius Caesar was not salts
It'll he had captured them for
ARMED officials, the Corintharii,
III and down to see that no stone
Faced, no pedestal overthrown,
relief touched. From the edge
city a hill arose, with it's mag
y burden of columns, towers and
3 $1,000 slaves waiting at one
and a citadel so thoroughly |
liable that Gibraltar is heap
compared with it. Amid all
length and magnificence Corinth
Ahd defied the world.
was not to rustics, who had |
een anything grand. that Paul
this text. They had heard the
bsic that had come from the best
pents in all the world; they had
pngs floating from morning por-
hnd melting in evening groves;
lad passed their whole lives
pictures and sculpture and
Ecture and Corinthian brass,
pad been nodded and shaped I'M
was no chariot wheel in which
pot sped, and no tower in which
mot giittered, and no gateway
had not adorned. All. it was
ing for Paul to stand there amid
and say: "All this is nothing.
bounds that come from the tenn
Neptune are not music compared
lie harmonies of which / speak.
waters rushing in the basin of
are not pure. The statues of
Is and Mercury are not exquisite.
ltadel of Acrocorinthus is not
compared with that which l Of
PIE poorest slave that puts down
den at that brazen gate. You
pans think this is a splendid
You think you have heard all
Sounds and seen all beautiful
put tell you eye hath not seen
i heard, neither have entered
heart of man, the things which
Pin prepared for them that love
fee. my text sets forth the idea
|pWever exalted our ideas of
they come far short of the
Some wise men have been cal
how many furlongs long and
the new Jerusalem. and they
lculated how many inhabitants
Re on the earth, how long the
Pill probably stand, and then
|ne to this estimate: That aft
pc nations have been gathered
ZEN there will be room for each {
room 16 feet long and Is feet
Il would not be large enough
1t would not be large enough {
| am glad to know that no hui !
Innate is sufficient to take the
pms. EYE hath not seen, nor &
rd, nor arithmeticians calcu- t
remark that we can get no idea c
health of Heaven. When you '
ehild, and you went out in the
/, how you bounded along the t
|street-you had never felt sor- L
sickness. Perhaps later you C
|ow in your cheek and a spring t
Ftep and an eXuberance of spir- o
a clearness of eye that made a
nix God you were permitted o
The nerves were. harp strings "
sunlight was doxology, and "
fling leaves were the rustling il
pbes of great crowd rising up r
: the Lord. You thought that s.
W what it was to be well, but t.
no perfect health on earth. p
ases of past generations came II
us. The airs that now float t,
earth are not like those which W
above Paradise. They are Il
with impurities and distem- Vi
he most elastic and robust j.
# earth, compared with that tC
lose experience before whom "
s have been opened, is nothing Y,
ness and emaciatinn. Look at | fl