The Bossier banner., 1894-12-20
TAlMAGE'S SERMON.
A Graphic Picture Of the Future
Life in Heaven.
The Agonies and Perplexities of This World
Unknown and UnfeIt There, But
to Gain this Reward One
Must Repent.

Rev. DR.. Talmage, who is now near
ing the close of his glot.e -circling tour
and will shortly reach American shores,
selected as the subject of this weeks
sermon through the press: "Victory
Over Pain" the text being:
Neither shalt there be any more pain.-Rev-
elation, xxi, f.
The first question that you ask
w hen about to change your residence
to any city is: "What is the health of
the place? is it shaken of terrible dis
orders? what are the bills of mortality?
what is the death rate? how high rises
the thermometers" And am l not rea-
sonable in asking, What are the sani-
tary conditions of the heavenly city
into which we all hope to move? My
text answers it by saying: Neither
shall there by any more pain"
First, remark, there will no pain
of disappointment in heaven. If I
could put the picture of what you an
ticipated of life when you began it, be-
side the picture of what you have re-
allied, would find great difference.
You have stumbled upon great disap-
pointments. Perhaps you have ex-
pected riches, and you have worked
hard enough to gain them; you have
planned and worried and persisted un-
til your hands were worn and your
brain was racked and your heart
tainted, and at the end of this long
strife with misfortune you find that
you have not been positively defeated,
it has been a drawn battle. 1t is still
tug and tussle-this year losing what
you gained last, financial uncertainties
pulling down faster than you build
For perhaps twenty or thirty years
you have been running your craft
straight into the teeth of the wind.
Perhaps you have had domestic dis
appointment. Your children, upon
whose education you have 1avished
your hard-earned dollars, have not
turned ont as you expected. Notwith-
standing all your counsels and prayers
and painstaking, they will not do right.
Many good father has had bad boy.
Absalom trod on David's heart. That
mother never imagined all this as
twenty or thirty yrars ago she sat by
that child's cradle.
Your life has been a chapter of dis
appointments. But, come with me,
and l will show you different scene.
By Gods grace, entering the other city
you will never again have blasted
hope. The most jubilant of expecta.
tions will not reach the realization.
Coming to the top Cf one hill of Joy
there will be other heights rising upon
the vision. This song of transport will
but lift you to higher anthems; the
sweetest choral but prelude to more
tremendous harmony; all things better
than you had anticipated-the robe
richer, the crown brighter, the temple
grander, the throng mightier.
Further, remark, there will be nc
pain of weariness. 1t may be many
hours since you quit work, but many
of you are unrested, some from over
work and some from dullness of trade
the latter more exhausting than the
former. Your ankles ache, your spir
its flag, you want rest. Are these
wheels always to turn? these shuttles
fly? these axes to hew? these shovels
to delve? these pens to fly? these
books to be posted? these goods to bt
sold?
All! the great holiday approaches
No more curse of taskmasters. NJ
more calculation until the brain is be
wildered. No more pain. No NOR,
carpentry, for the mansions are al
built. No more masonry, for the walls
are all reared. No more diamond cut
ting, for the gems are all set. No NOR,
gold beating, for the crowns are al
completed. No more agriculture, fol
the harvests are spontaneous.
Further, there will be no more pail
of poverty. 1t is a hard thing to b.
really poor; to have your coat wea
out and no money to get another; t.
have your flour barrel empty, anC
nothing to buy bread with for your chill
dren; to live in an unhealthy row, ant
have no means to change your habita
ton; to have your child sick witt
some mysterious disease, and not b
able to secure eminent medical ability
to have son or daughter begin tn
world, and you not have anything t
help them in starting; with a min,
capable of research and high con
temptation, to be perpetually fixed o.
| questions of mere livelihood
Poets try to throw romance abou
| the poor mans cot; but there is no re
nance about it. Poverty is hard
cruel, unrelenting. But Lazaru
walked up without his rags and his di;
eases, and so all of Christ's poor wax
up at last without any of their disad
| vantages-no s~:mshouses. for they ar
all princes; no rents to pay, for th
residence is gratuiGous; no garments
buy, for the robes are divinely fasI
ioned; .no seats in church for poo
folks, but equality among temple wol
shippers. No novels, no hard crusts, n
Insufficient apparel ''They shall hui
ger nc more, neither thirst any more
neither shall the sun light on them nc
any heat" No more paint
/ Further, there viii be no pain {
parting. All these associations mus
some time break up. We clasp hand
and walk together; and talk and laug
and weep together; but we must aftt