Connecticut western news., 1894-11-08
HERE AND IN HEAVEN.
REV. DR. TALMAGE ON LIFE HERE AND HEREAFTER.

REV. DR. TAlMAGE ON LIFE HERE S AND HEREAFTER.
 The Woes of Time and tho Joys of Eter- nity-A Glimpse of Life In the Heavenly : City-Consolation of the Truth of Reve- lAtion.
 BRooKLYN, Nov. 4.-Rev. Dr. Tal- mage, who is now nearing the close of his globe oiroling tour and will shortly reach American shores, has selected as the subject of today's sermon through the press "viotory Over Pain" tho text chosen being Revelation xxi, 4, "Nei- ther shall there be any moro pain"
 The first question that you ask when about to change your residence to any oity Is: 'What is the health of the placef Is 1t shaken of terrible disorders3 What are the bills of mortalityp What is the death rate? How high rises the thermometer?" And am I not reasonable in asking, What are the sanitary condi- tons of the heavenly oity into which we all hope to move? My text answers 1t by saying, Neither shall there be any more pain"
 No Pain Tn Heaven
 First, remark, there will be no pain of disappointment in heaven. If could put the picture of what you anticipated of life when you began it beside the picture of what you have realized, would find great difference. You have stumbled upon great disappoint- ments. Perhaps you expected riches, and you have worked hard enough to gain them; you have planned and worried and persisted until your hands wore worn. and your brain was racked, and your heart fainted. and at the end of this long strife with misfortune you find that if you have not been positive ly defeated it has been drawn battle. It is still tug and tussle, this year los ing what you gained last, financial un- oertainties, pulling down faster than you build. For perhaps 90 or 30 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 lavished your hard earn cd dollars, have not turned out as ex- pected- Notwithstanding all your coun- sells 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 20 or 30 years ago she sat by that child s cradle.
 Your life has been chapter of disap- .pointmenta But come with me, and l will show you different scene. By Gods grace entering the other city, you The most jubilant of expectations will not reach the realization Coming to the top of one hill of joy, there will be other heights rising up in the vision. This song of transport will but lift you to higher anthems, the sweetest choral but a prelude to more tremendous har- mony. all things better than you had anticipatod-ther robe richer, the crown brighter, the temple grander, the throng mightier.
 Further, remark, there will be no
 
 hours since you quit work, but many of you are unrested, some from over work, and some from dullness of trade, the latter moro exhausting than the for mer. Your ankles ache, your spirits flag, you want rest Are these wheels always to turn, these shuttles to fly, these axes to hew, these shovels to delve, these pens to fly, these books to be posted, these goods to be sold?
 No Work and No Poverty.
 Ah, the grsat holiday approaches. No moro curse of taskmakers. No moro stooping until the back aches. No more calculation until the brain is bewildered. No more pain. No more carpentry, for the mansions are all built. No more masonry, for the walls are all reared No more diamond cutting. for the gems nre all set No more gold beating, for the crowns are all completed. No more agriculture, for the harvests are sponta- neous
 Further, there will be no more pain of poverty. It Is hard thing to be real ly poor; to have your coat wear out and no money to get another; to have your flour barrel empty and nothing to buy bread with for your children; to live in an unhealthy row and no means to change your habitation; to have your child sick with some mysterious disease and not be able to secure eminent med ical ability; to have son or daughter be- gin the world and you not have any thing to help them in starting, with a mind capable of research and high con- compilation to be perpetually fixed on questions of mere livelihood.
 Poets try to throw 8 romance about the poor mans cot, but there is no TO- nance about it. Poverty is hard, cruel, unrelenting But Lazarus walked up without his rags and his diseases, and so all of Christ's poor wake upat last without any of their disadvantages-no almshouses, for they are all princes; no rents to pay. for the residence is gratu- ftous: no garments to buy, for the robes are divinely fashioned; no seats in church for poor folks, but equality among temple worshipers; no novels, no hard crusts, no insufficient apparel ''They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sur light on them nor any heat" No more painl
 No More Parting.
 Further, there will be no pain of part ing All these associations must some time break up. We clasp hands ant walk together, and talk and laugh ant weep together, but we must after awhile separate. Your grave will be in ont place, mine in another. We look eacf other full in the face for the Last time We will bs sitting together some even ing or walking together some day, and nothing will be unusual in our appear anoe or our conversation, but God know. that 1t is the last time, and messenger, from eternity on their errand to take us away know it is the last time, an,