The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-17

tCopyright 1901
WASHINGTON. d. C.-In this discourse DR..
Talmage lifts the curtain from eternal
lelicities and In an unusual way treats of
the heavenly world; text, Corinthians,
H., g. 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 Corlnth has been called 'the
Paris of antiquity" Indeed for splendot
the world holds no such wonder to-day. II
stood on an isthmus washed by two sens.
the one sea bringing the commerce Of Eu.
rope, the other sea bringing the commerce
of Asia. From her wharfs. in the con.
struction OF which whole Kingdoms had
been absorbed, war galleys with three
banks OF oars pushed out and confounded
the navy yards Of all the world. Huge
handed machinery such as modern inven.
tlon cannot equal lifted ships from the sea
on one side and transported them on trucks
across the isthmus aud 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 bench to collect a tariff from all ma
tions. The mlrth OF all people sported IN
her isthmiau games, and the beauty of all
lands sat In her theatres, walked in her
portlcos and threw itself ON the altar OF
her stupendous designations. Column and
statuo aud temple bewidered the behold.
or. There were white marble fountains
into which, from apertures ut the side,
there rushed waters everywhor5 known
for health giving qualities. Around
these basins, twisted into wreaths OF
stone, there were all the beauties OF
sculpture and architecture while. stand
ing, rs IL to guard the costly display, was
II statue OF Hercules OF FURNISHED Corlnth-
ian brass. Vases of terra Gotta adorned
the cemeteries OF the dead-vases so cost
ly that julius Cesnr was not satisfied until
lie had captured them for Rome. Armed
olhciuls, the Corintharii, paced up and
down 20 see thnt no statue was defaced
no pedestal overthrow, no bas-reief
touched. From the edge of the city u hill
arose, with its magnificent burden of col
umns towers and temples (l000 slaves
waiting at one shrine), and II citadel so
thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is
II heap Of sand compared with It, Amid
all that strength and magnncence Corinth
stood and dened the world.
on 1t was not to rustics who had never
seen anything grand that Paul uttered this
text. They had heard tho best music that
had come from the best instruments in all
the world; they had heard songs floating
from morning porticoes and melting in
evening groves; they had passed their
whole lives among pictures and sculpture
and architecture and Corlnthlan brass
which had been nodded and shaped until
there was no chariot wheel In which 1t had
not sped, and no tower in which 1t had not
glittered, and no gateway that II had not
adorned All, it was a bold thing for Paul
to stand there amid all that and say: CAN
this is nothing. These sounds that come
from the temple of Neptune are not music
compared with the harmones OF which /
speak; these waters rushing In the basin OF
Pyrene are not pure, these statues OF Bac-
chus and Mercury are not exquislte; your
citadel OF Acrocorinthus is not strong com
pared with that which | offer to The poorest
slave that puts down his burden ut that
braZen gate. Your Corinthians think this
is n splendid city; you think you have
heard all sweet sounds and seen all beautl-
ful 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 Him"
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 calculating how many fur
longs long and wide is the new Jerusalem,
and they have calculated how many inhab.
itants there are on the earth, how long
the earth will probably stand, and then
they come to this estimate-that after all
the nations have been gathered to heaven
there will be room for each soul, a room
sixteen feet long and fifteen feet wide. 1t
would not be large enough for you; It
would not be large enough for me. / am
glad to know that no human estimate Is
sufficient to take the dimensions. eye
hath not seen nor ear heard" or arithmeti-
clans calculated.
first remark that we can get no idea OF
the health Of heaven. When you were a
child and you went out In the morning,
how you bounded along the road or street.
YOU had never felt sorrow or sickness.
Perhaps later you felt a glow In your cheek
and a spring in your step and an exuber.
ance OF spirits and clearness OF eye that
| a. a a. ~ A..l
to live. The nerves were harp strings, and
the sunlight was doxology, and the rus
tllng OF the robes OF great crowd rising
up to praise the Lord You thought that
you knew what 1t was to be well, but there
is no perfect health on earth. The dis
eases of past generations came down to us.
The airs that now float upon the earth are
not like those which floated above Para
disc. They are charged with impurities
and distempers, The most elastic and ro-
bust health OF earth, compared with that
which those experience before whom the
gates have been opened, Is nothing but
sickness and emaciation. Look at that
soul standing before the throne. On
earth she was lifelong invalid. See her
step now and hear her voice now.
Catch, II you cru, one breath OF that
celestial air. HEALTH In all the pulses,
health OF vision, health OF splrlts-immor-
| tai health. No racking cough, no sharp
| DIeuTlSltst no COuSuulHB loNcISb no
| hausting pains, no hospitals OF wounded
men. Health swinging in the air; health
| flowing In all the streams: health bloom
| ing on the banks. No head aches, no side
| aches, no back aches. That child that
| died in the agonies OF Group, hear her
| voice now ringing in the anthem; that old
man that went bowed down with the In
| firmitles OF age, see him walk now with the
| step OF an immortal athlete, forever young
| again, That night when the needlewoman
| tainted away In the garret wave of the
| heavenly mir resuscitated her forever. For
everlasting years to have neither ache nor
| pain nor weakness, nor fatiguel Eye
| hath not seen It.; ear hath not heard It,"
/ remark further that we can In this
world get no just idea OF the splendors of
| heaven John tries to describe them. He
says "twelve gates are twelve pearls" and
| that "the foundations OF the wall are garn-
| ished with all manner OF precious stones"
| As we stand looking through the telescope
| OF st. John we see blaze of amethyst and
| PEARL: and emerald and sardonyx and
| chrysoprnsus an1 sapphire, mountain OF
| light, u cataract OF color, u sea OF glass aud
| a city like the sun. John bids us look again.
| and we see thrones-thrones OF the proph-
| cts, thrones of the patriarchs, thrones Of
| the angels, thrones OF the apostles, thrones
| OF the martyrs throne OF Jesus, throne Of
| God. And we turn round 10 see the glory,
| and 1t is thrones, thrones, tGtnesl
John bids us look again ind see the
| great procession OF the redeemed passing.
Jesus, on white horse, leads the march,
| and nll the armies OF heaven follow on
white horses. Infinite cavalcade passing,