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Exeter Advocate, 1900-5-17, Page 71,...1111161110111111.1111•MMOMMONIIIMN THE NEW JERUSALEM Discourse on the Splendors o the Heavenly \Norlci. BEYOND PRESENT CONCEPTION However Exalted Our Ideas of Heaven May Be. They Come Far Short of the Reality -A Place WI ere Sickness or Sorrow Cannot Ent4.tr-All Is Peace and Jay. Washington; May 13.—In this OIs - Course Dr. Talmage lifts thecurtain from eternal felicitiee and in an un- usual way 'treats of the heavenly World; text, I Corinthians ii, 9,' "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 cify of Corinth .bas been callod ,"the Paris of antiquity." Indeed; for splendor' the world holds no such wonder to -day. lt stood on an isth- mus washed by two seas, the one sew bringing the commerce of Europe, the other sea bringing the commerce of Asia. From her wharfs, in the con- struction of vii ich whole kingdoms had been absorbed, we r galleys with three bunks of oars pushed out and confounded. the navy yards of all the world. Huge handed niachinery, such s modern invention cannot. equal, . lifted ships from the sea on one side and traiieported thc.,,in on trucks down in the sea, on the other side. The , revenue officers of the city Went down through the, olivegroves that lined the beach to :cellect a tariff from all nations. The mirth of all People sported • in her isthmian games and the beauty of all lands sat in her 'theatres, walked, her porticoes and threw itself on the altar of ' her stupendous dissipations. Column and statue tied temPle bewildered the be- holder. There were white marble fotuitains into which from apertnres at the side there rushed waters every- where known for health qualities. 'Arouncl these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architect- ure, while standing, as if to guard the costly CliSPlaY, WL1S a statue of Hercules of 13111111 iShOd Corinthian brass. :Vases of terra cotta adorned the cemetm•ies of. the dead --vases so costly that Julius Caesar was not satisfied until he had captured them for Rome. Armed officials, the Cor- intharii, pa.cod up and clow -n to see that no statue WdS defaced, no pe- destal over thr OW11 no bas relief touched. From the edge of the city a hill arose, with its Magnificent bur- den of columns, towers and temples (1,000 slaves waiting at on shrine), and a citadel so thoroughly impreg- nable' that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared with it. Amid all that strength and magnificence Corinth stood and defiedthe world. Oh, it was not to rustics, who had never seen anything greed, that Paul uttered his text. They had heard the best instruments in all the 'world; they had heard songs floating- from morning i)porticoes and melting . in evenhld. groves; they had passed their whole lives among pictures and sculp- ture and architecture and Corinthian brass, which had been melded and shaped -until there was no chariot wheel in, which it had not sped, and no tower in -which it; hadnot glitter- ed, and no gateway that it had not adorned. Ah, it was a 'bold thing for Paul to stand there aanid all that .and say: "All this is nothing. These sounds that come from the temple ef Neptune are not music com- pared with the harmonies of which I speak. These waters ,rushing in the basin of Pyretic: arenot pure. These sla Lues of Bacchus and .Mer- cury, are not exquisite. Your citadel of Aci•ocorinthus is not strong compared with that which I offer to the poorest slave that put a down his burden at that brazen gate. You Cor- inthians think this is a splendid city. You think you have heard all sweet soundsand seen all beautiful sights, but I tell you eye hath not seen nor Car heard, neither have entered into the -heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love 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 furlongs long and wide is the new Jerusalem, and they have calculated how many in- habitants ,there are on the earth, . how long the earth will probably stand, and then they come to this es- . timate: That after all the nations have been gathered to heaven there will be room for each soul, a room 16 feet long and 15 , feet wide. It would' not be large enough for you. It would not be large enough ,for I am. glad to know that no human estimate is sufficient to take the di- mensions. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard," nor arithmeticians calcu- lated. first remark that we can get no idea, of the health of hea,ven. 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. Per- haps later you felt a glow, in your cheek and a spring in your step and an exuberance of spirits and a clear- ness of eye that made you tihank God yon were permitted to ' live. , The peeves were harp strings and the sun- light was a doxology, and the ruetl- ing leaves were the rustling of the .robes of 'a great crowd rising up 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 genera- tions calm down to us. The airs that now float upon the earth are not like those .whioh fleeted above para- dise. They are cherged with lea- pnrities and distempers. The most. elastic anci robust health of earth, compared with that which thoie ex- perience before whom the gates haVe been opened, IP nothing but sickneSs, And eniaciation. ;Look at that soul standing before the, tlfrofio. On earth she .was a lifeloug invalid, See, her step now and hear her Voice, now.: La Catch,' if you can, 0110 breath L -dr that • P celestial air, Health in, all the Ind.- ses---health of 'vision, health Of SlUr- its, immortal health. No racking Lcough, no sharp P10111.1SieS,, 110 COn, suming fevers, no exhausting pains, no hospitals of wounded 111011. Healtb swinging in the air, health flowing in all the Istreanis, health' blooming on the banks. No headaches, no side aches, no back- aches. That child that died. in the agonies of croup, hear her voice now ringing in the anthem'. '.['hat old man that went bowed down with the infirmities of age,' see him walk new with the stet.) or an immortal athlete --forever yOung again. That night when tbe needlewoman' fainted away in a gar- ret, a wave of the heavenly air, re- suscitated her forever. For everlast- ing* years to have neither ache, nor pain, nor weakness, nor fatigue. "Eye ha th noi; seen it, ear hath, not heard I remark further that we can in this world. , get no just idea of the splendors of heave. John tries to describe them. ' He says, "the 12 gates are 12 pearls," and that "the foundations of the wall are garnish - eh with all manner ' of precious stones." As "\ve ' stand looking through the telescope of St. John, we see a blaze of amethyst and pearl and emerald. and sardonyx and chry- soprasus anci sapphire, a mountain of light, a cataract of color, a sea el glass and a city like the san. John bids . us look again,. and we -see thrones --thrones be* the ,prophets, thrones of the • patriarchs, thrones of the angels, thrones ,of the apostles, thrones of the martyrs, throne of Jesus — throne of Cod. And we turn round to: see the glory, and it is thrones, thrones,' thrones! John bids us look again and see the great procession of the redeemed passing. Jesus, on a white horse, leads the march. .and all the armies of .heaven follow on white horses. In- finite cavalcade , passing; empires pressing into line, ages following ages. Dispensation tramping after dispensation. Glory in the, track of glory. Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America pressing into lines. Islands of the sea shoulder to shoulder. Generations before the flood following generations after the flood, and as ..TO$US rises at the head of that great host and waves his sword in signal of victory, 1111 crowns are lifted and all ensigns swung out and all chimes rung and all halleluiahs chanted, and some cry, "Glory to Cod most high!" and some, "Hosanna to the Son o.f Day- id!"'Land some, "Worthy is the Lamb that WEIS all exclama- tions of endearment and homage in the vocabulary of heaven are ex- hausted, and there collies Up surge after surge of "Amen! Amen! and Amen!" "Eye hath not seen it, ear hath not heard it.'' Skim from the summer waters the brightest spark- les, and you will get 00 idea of the sheen of the everlasting sea. Pilo, up the splendors of earthly cities, and they would not. make a stepping stone by which you might T11000 1 tO the city of God. Every house is a palace. Every ,step is a tritunph. Every covering of the head a corona- tion. Every meal i a banquet. Ev- ery stroke from the tower is a wed- ding bell. Every day is. a jubilee, every hour a rapture and every mo- ment an ecsIasy. "Eye hath not seen it, ear bath 11 0 t heard I remark further, we can get no idea of the reunions of heaven. if you have ever been across the seas and met a friend or even an acquftin- taium in some strange land, you re- member how your blood thrilled and how glad you 'were to sea him. What will be our joy after we have passed the seas of death to meet in the bright city' of the Lord those froani whom we have long been separated. After we have been away from our friends 10 or 15 years and we come upon them we see how differently they look. Their hair has:turned, and wrinkles have C0111C in their fac- es, and we say, "How you have chauged!" But, oh, -when we stand before thethrone, all cares gone from the face, all marks of sorrow disap- peared and feeling the joy of that blessed land, methinks we will ,say to each other with an exultation we cannot now imagine, "How you have changed?" In this world we only meet to part. It, is goodby, goodby. Pare - wells floating in the air. We it at the rail car -window..and at the steamboat wharf—goodby. Children lisp it, and old age answers it. Sometimes we -say it in a light way —'‘goOdby''—and' sometimes with anguish in which the soul breaks down—goodby! Ah, that is the word that ends the thanksgiving banquet; that is the .word that 'comes in to close the Christmas chant,. Goodby, goodby. But not so in heaven. Welcomes in the air, • wel- comes at the gates, welcomes at the hoUse of many mansions, but no goodby. That group , is constantly being 'augmented. They aregoing up from our circles of earth to join it ---little voices to join the anthem, little hands to take hold in the great hothe circle, little feet to dance in the: eternal glee, little crowns to be cast down, before the.; feet of Jesus. Our friends are in ,two groups group this side of , the river and a ,group, on the other .side of the river. Now there gees one from this to that and another from this to that, and soon we will all be gone .over. How many of your loved ones have al- ready 'entered upon that . blessed place? If I. should take paper and mncil,do you think I could 'put them aLt down? Ali, ray friends, the Waves, of Jordan ,roar so hoarsely we can_ • not hear the joy on the , other .side when that group is augmented. L A little child's mother had died, and they comfor ted her. They said. '1 our mo ther has gone to 11CaVein 1)00' t cry," And the next day they Went to the graveyard, and they laid the body of the mother dowo into the ground, and the little girl came up to the verge of the grave, and, looking down; said, 'Is (his 11110X - e11?'' We have no idea what hen.ven is. It is the grave hereit is darld- nesS 110re-7-but there is merry -making yonder. Methinks when: a soul fir,. ri'veS. some angel to it around to how it tne wonders of that. Ilk:seed lace, The usher angel 'Says, to the novly arrivedt "These are the tmar- tyrs that perished at 'Piedmont ; these -were torn to p1e0115 a 1, the in- quisition; this is the throne of the great :Jehovah; this is Jesus." "I. 11111 gOhlg to See ;Jesus," said a ing boy. "I a111 going to see Jesus.,, The missionar,y said, "You 010 :7000 You 1'V in see bim?" "011, y(L'S: tha whal 1 want to go to heaven for. - But," said the missionary, "sup- pose Jesus should go away from hca- ven---wimt, then'?" "I should: follow him," said the dying boy. 'But if Jesus went down to hell -- wliat then?" The dying boy thought for 11 moment and, then said, "NV -here Jesus . is there can i)e no bell!" .0h, to stand in his presence! That will be hea ! Oh. te put our hand in that hand which , was wounded for us on the cross—to go aroun(i ainid the groups of the re- deemed and shake ilanliti 111 111 the prophets and apostles and mart:yrs and NV it11 0111' 0.11'11 denr beloved ones! That will be the great reunion. AVe 0111)0011 imagine it 110 \ V. Ow' 1,0VW ' 0005 Seem eo far away. 'When, we are in ixouble and lonesome, they don't, seem 'to come to Us. WO go on to the banks of the jordon and call across 10 them, 13111 they do 'mt. seem. Le hear. We say, "l's it \veil with. the child? is it well. Avith the love'd ones?" and Nve listen to hear if any voice conic back over the wat- ers, None, none! Unbelief says, "They are dead, and they are annihilated," but blessed be God we have a 13ible that tells us clifferent! We open it, and WO find they are neither dead 1101' 110 11111 ila Led —that theydwere. never so much aliv as now -L -that they are only waiting for our comihg, Land that, We "slid] join themon the ether si.de ,of th river. Oh,, glorious reutlion;:we can not grasp it now! "Eye bath . no Seen, nor rear heard, neither have en tered into the heart, of mau, the :things which God hath prepared, fox them , that loVe him.'' • What a place 0! explanation it will bel 11 .see "every . day profound mys teries of providence. There is no question we ask oftener than Why ? There are hundreds of , graves ii. Greenwood and Laurel Hill that need tobe explained. Hospitals for the blind and lame, aSyluMs, for " the idioticand insane, almshOuses. for the destitute and a worldof pain end misfortune that, demand more than human solution.. 0-od will ,Clear. it all. up. In the light' that .pours from the throne no dark mys- tery can live. Things now utterly inscrutable will. be ., as plainly as though the answer :was written on the :jasper wall' or' soutale ed in the temple anthern.Darti- meus will thank God that he was blind, and 3.0Seph that lie. Was cast into:the pit, arid. Daniel that be .was cleaned with Lthe lions, and ,Paul that he Was humpbacked, and MAN id that he was driven /from jerusalem, and that invalid, that . for 20 years he could- not lift' his head front 'the pil- lew„ and that Widow, that she had such hard WOniti .to earn bread for her children. The"song Will be all the grander for earth's weeping- eYes and aching heads acci.:. exhausted hands and scourged backs and mar- tyred agonies; . ..But we ean get •no idea of that anthem here. We ap- preciated the power of secular:music, but do -we :appreciate the power of sacred song? There is nothing more inspiring to me than a whole :con- gregation: lifted on the wave of holy Melody. When we sing some .of those dear old PS di 111S tuns, they idnise all the memories of the past. Why', some of them were i'cradle songs hi our father's house! They :are all sparkling with the morning- dew of a thousand Christian Sabbaths. They were sung by •:brothers and sisters gone now, by voices that were aged end brokenin the musio., voices none the less sweet because they did:trem- ble and break. 1 When,I hear these 91d songs sung, it seems as Lif all the old: country meeting houses joined in the Chorus and city Church and: : sailor's bethel and Western cabinSLLuntil the whole continent lifts the doxology and the scepters of -eternity beat time in the int1sic. Away, then, with your starveling. .tunes that chill the devo- tions ef the ,sanctuary and, make the People sit silent when Jesus. is march- ing Lon to. victork. ,When generals come hack •frcen vietmdous wars, do We not cheer them and shout, `L'Huzza, huzza?": And • whpn TesuS passes along in the conquest of the earth; shall Wenot have for him one loud., ringing ,cheer? • Au hail the power of Jesus.' name! Let .angeis prostrate, fall, Bring form the royal diadem And erqwn bin) Lord 01 an, But, my friends, if music on earth is so sweet what will it be in heav- en! They all know the tune there. All the best singers of all the ages will Join it—choirs of white .robed children, choirs of patriarchs, choirs of apostles. 'Morning stars clapping their cymbals, Harpers with their harps. Great anthems of Ood roll oh! roll on!---oth em pi res joi ning the harmony 1,111 the thrones are all full and the nations all eaved, An- thems shall touch anthem, chorus join chorus, and all the sweet sounds of earth and heaven be poured into the ear of Christ. David of the harp will be there. Gabriel of the trum- pet will be there. Germany redeem- ed, will pour its deep bass vdice in- to the song, and Africa will add, to the music with her matchless voices. I wish in our closing hymn to -day we might catch an echo that slips from the gates. Who knows but that when the heavenly door opens to -day to let • some soul through there rnay come forth the strain of the jubilant ;voices until we catch it? Oh, that as the song drops down from heaven it inight meet half way a song coming up from earth. ' They rise for the doxology, all the multitude of the blest! 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Dr. Chase'n Syrup ot Linseed and Turpentine has by far the largest sale of any remedy for coughs, colds; croup, bronchitis and asthma., 'Each, 25c., at all dealor4 or Edmanson, Bates, & Co., Toronto. FOR JERICHO'S HONOR HOW 'LISH BILLINGS UPHELD HIS TOWN'S GOOD NAME. Old Siltutte Renshaw Thought He Had an Eauy Time, but r'luelz and Strat- egy Proved a LittIe Too mueit For Hi1111. [Copyright, 1900, by C. B. Lewis.] Fur a year or more old Squar' Hen- shaw of Goose Creek had bin eomin over to Jericho once a week to make trouble. I -Ie was known as the great est checker player in four counties, and men had come a hundred miles to play with him and beeu downed. That's, whar be hurt our feelin's. I-Ie'd drap into the postatlice in a keerless way and talk about the weather and butter and eggs, and biumby, jest as he 'peer- ed to be goin home, he'd pull up and say; by the way, mebbe this town of Jericho has got a critter who knows a checkerboard from a corn sheller." We had a few checker players, but none of 'mu dared tackle the squat', and the way he bragged and blowed and trod us into the dust was painful to bear. One day he bore on harder than usual. After his usual bluff lie turns on the crowd and says: "Mebbe times one man in Jericho With one drap of patriot's blood in his body -one man and one drap. Alebbe that nmn would hey fit ag'in 'tyranny If he'd been livin in 1776. alebbe that man, bein as he wasn't alive in 1776, but Is now, is williu to pour out that one drap of blood fur the honor ol' this town. If that' be sich a critter here, let him speak up!" We all knowed that he meant check- ers, and thar was au awful silence flit' a adult or two. Then 'Dish Billings keerfully picks a cobweb off his hat and softly, says: "Squar' Henshaw, I'm that critter, I've got that bleed, and I'm W•illin to shed her fur Jericho as ag'in Goose Creek!" "You don't mean It!" gasps the sonar% "Rut 1 dd." "And you'll play mo a game Of check. ersr• "I will." The squar' spected to win that game in half an hour. He kept gruntin and gurglin, like a hog scratchin his back on a barbed wire fence, but binicapy that balmy look weut off his face. 'Lish was boldin him right to It and not even breathin hard. Thar was a bet of a bushel of turnips ag'in a bag of carrots as to who would git the fust king, and 'long about neon, when 'lash got it, sich cheers went up from the Jericho side that the water in some of the town wells riz a foot higher than was ever known before. Deacon Spooner couldn't be held. Ile went out- doors and waved his cane with one hand and his hat with the other and sobbed: "It's a pint in favor of Jericho!" The game had skassly more than be- gun up to noon. The squar' then made up his mind that he had a job on hand, and when play was resumed after din- ner he kept talkin to 'Lish in a keer- less way to confuse his mind. He asked him about that Alaskan bound- ary dispute, the Darwin theory, the surrender of Burgoyne and Leaps of other thing's, but 'Dish just sits there with his tongue out a leetle farther and never lets on to hear a word. At 6 o'clock at night he was one king ahead, and as they stopped the game fur sup- per the town of Jericho was wild with enthuSlasin. When they begun ag'in, Squar' Henshaw started up that grunt - in and gurglin. We seen it was meant to make 'Lish nervous, and Deacon Spooner calls half a dozen of the boys outdoors and says: "The stiller' is =kin a pint, and we've got to offset it. Do any of you know what 'Dish's favorite tune is?" "It's the 'Sweet Binieby,' " says Itluos Johnson. "'Dish has bin singin that hymn fur the laet 20 years. Lie sings it to his cows and hens and sheep and bogs, and It allus calms him like a cold flatiron laid on his spine." "Then go in and hum it," Says the deacon. "Every time the squar' gruntS and gergles you hum that tune and oll'set him." Enos did so, and it was 'Wonderful to see what tbe effect was. 'Llsb had begun to sweat and git red in the faee, hut the mlnit he heard that "Dimebv" Pc grew as calm as sand and jumped another of the squar's men. After ten minits thar was no more gurglin. The squar' .realized that it was up ag'in him, and lie quit. Long about mid- night, when the game was about half finished, be said he was willin to till the next day, but 'Lish won' let go. He said he'd play right on ti Saturday night without sleepin, an they went ahead. ri'lley was that when daylight come, and they was thar when noon come, and all the time 'Lish was gittin a leetle the best of it.. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon we seen that things was comin to a, cll. max. The squar' realized that he must:: do somethin or go to the wall, and he, suddenly begun grdntin and gurglin ia that saii'h old way. Enos Johnson Wa% not at hand to stop him, and 'Lish get confused and lost a king, It „vas tt critical time, but Deacon Spoonet saved the day. Ire rushed out and got Abner Jones, and Abner 001110 in and started up that "Bitneby" at the top of his voice, 'Lisle fa -lotted a long breath and settled down ag,'In, and ten minits later he had the squar's last man penned up, and the game was won. He tried to crawl out of it by sayiu he had a lame leg and his farm was under mortgage, but it was tie use. We rung the bells and fired the anvil and 1118100 the flags, and ,ferieba. broke loose and whooped till nobody: could sing in prayer meetin fur the next three weeks. lt was 0111. cumin to the front over (loose Crec..k, and from that day to this we hev held onr own over her and had a cooper and a bUtelier shop to spare. M. Quan. In some society it takes a fortune of six figures to keep in form. It is well to leave windfalls out of our anticipations. .The fruit is usu- ally bruised. A man should have no secrets from Iris wife unless be Ims a blind pocket in, every coat. We can always see cousiderable 'nee. try about the hard wqrk other peop11 have to do. Married niett seldomtry to dissuade others from ivedding. DOth hnpple ness and misery loVe coinpany,