Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-11-05

ANI)l.N VEN.
REV. DR.. TALMAG- ON LIFE HERE
AND HEREAFTER.

rity-A Glimpse of Life In the Heavenly
City-Consolation of the Truth Of Reve-
latiOn.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 4-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage, who is now nearing the close of
his globe circling tour and will shortly
the subject OF today's sermon through
the press 'Victory Over Pain" the text
chosen being Revelation xxi, 4, 'Nei-
Their shall there be any more pain
The first question that you ask when
about to change your residence to any
city is: "What is the health of the
place? Is it shaken of terrible disorders?
What arc the bills of mortality? What
is the death rate? How high rises the
thermometer?'' And am not reasonable
in asking, What are the sanitary condi-
tions of the heavenly city into which
we all hope to move? My text answers
it by saying, Neither shall there DO
any more pain. %
No Pain In Heaven.
First, I 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 q 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
were worn, and your brain was racked,
and your heart tainted, and at the end
of this long strife with misfortune you
find that if you have not been positive
" defeated it has been q drawn battle
1t is still tug and tussle, this year los
ing what you gained last, financial I'M
certainties, pulling down faster than
you build. For perhaps 20 or 80 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
ed 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 80 years ago
she sat by that chiId's cradle.
Your life has been q chapter Of disap
pointments. But come with me, and !
will show you different scene. By
Gods grace entering the other city, you
will never again have blasted hope.
The most jubilant Of expectations viii
not reach the realization. Coming to
the top of one hill of JOY, there will be
other heights rising up i'll the vision.
This song of transport will but lift you
to higher anthems, the sweetest choral
but q prelude to more tremendous har
mony, all things better than you had
anticipated---the robe richer, the crown
brighter, the temple grander, the throng
mightier.
Further, J remark, there will be no
pain of WEAKNESS. It 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 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 shovcls tc
delve, these pens to fly, these books K
be posted, these goods to be sold?
No Work and No Poverty.
All, the 60 1T holiday approaches. Nc
more curse Of taskmakers No moro
STOPPING 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
are all set. No more gold beating, for
the crowns are all completed. No moro
agriculture, for the harvests are sponta-
neOuS
Further. there will be no more pain
of poverty 1t is hard thing to be real
ly poor; to have your coat wear out ana
no money to get another; to have YOU
flour barrel empty and nothing to buy
bread with for your children; to live IL
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 sen or daughter be-
gin the world and you not have any
thing to help them in starting, with 4
mind capable of research and high con
temptation to be perpet11ally fixed o..
questions of mere livelihood
Poets try to throw romance about
the poor mans cot, but there is no ro-
nance about it. Poverty is hard, cruel,
unrelenting- But Lazarus walked I'D
without his rags and his diseases, and
so all of Christ's poor wake up at last
without any of their disadvantages
almshouses, for they are all princes; It,
rents to pay. for the residence is gratu
itous; no garments to buy, for the robes
are divinely fashioned; no seats j
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