Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-11-10
HEREANDIN HEAVEN.
REV. DR.. TALMAeE ON LIFE HERE
AND HEREAFTER.

Tho Woes of limo and the Joys of Etcr
nity-A Glimpse of Life In the Hcnvenl;
city-Consolatlon. of tho Truth of Reve
lation.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 4.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage, who is nov nearing the close o
his globe circling tour and will shortl.
roach American shores, has selected a
tho subject Of today,,s sermon through
the press "viotory Over Pair, " the tex
chosen being Revelation xxi, 4, "Nei
Their shall there be any more pain.
The first question that you ask whel
about to change your residence to an.
city is: "What is the health Of til,
place? Is 1t shaken Of terrible disorders
What are the bills Of mortality? Wha
is the death rate? How high rises thu
thermometer?' And am 7 not reasonable
in asking, What ale:the sanitary condi
tions of the heaSsnly city into which
we all hope to move? Ny text answers
it by saying, Neither shall there bC
any more pain. 's
No Pain In Heaven.
First, remar,s therewill be no pain
of disappointmeiIsin heaven. If could
put the picture oflShat you anticipated
of life when yo4eegan it beside thu
picture of what sou have realized,
would find gst difference Yor
have stumbled ul6n great disappoint
meuts. Perhaps sou expected riches
and you have worked hard enough
to gain them; yea have planned ant
worried and persis;ed until your hand.
were worn, and y6ir brain was racked
and your heart tainted, and at the enc
of this long strife with misfortune yor
find that if you have not been positive
ly defeated it has leon a drawn battle.
1t is still tug and sussle, this year los
ing what you gaiuid last, financial un
certainties, pulling down faster thai
you build. For perhaps 30 or 80 year:
you have been Summing your craft
straight into the teeth of the wind.
Perhaps you heEs had domestic dis
appointment. Youfchildren, upon whose
education you laviahed your hard earn
ed dollars, have nat turned out as ex'
pected. Notwithst aliding all your coun-
sells and prayers 9Ad painstailing, they
will not do right Many good father
has had a bad hog Absalom trod OIL
David's heart. satt mother never
imagined all this 20 or 80 years age
she sat by that cllts cradle.
Your life has a chapter Of disap'
pointments., Butepme with me, and
will show you different scene, BY
Gods grace enteriI Che other city, you
will never again have q blasted hope.
The most jubflan expectations will
not reach the rs cation. Coming tc
the top of ond hilg Joy, there willsbe
otKer heights risfag up in the vision.
This song cfs.ts;asas:s sort will but lift you
to higher alittfiie S. The. sweetest choral
but. prelude: to- Better s tfian you had
anticipated-the robe richer, the crown
brighter, the temple grander, the throng
Further, I remark, there will be nc
pain of WEAKNESS 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 moro exhausting than the for
mer. Your ankles ache, your spirit;
flag. you want rest. Are these wheels
always to turn, these shuttles to fly,
these axes to hew, these shovels tt
delve, these pens to fly, these books tt
be posted, these goods to be sold?
No Work and No Poverty.
All, the grsat holiday approaches. NJ
more curse of taskmakers. No more
stopping until the back aches. No more
calculation until tho brain is bewildered
No moro pain. No more carpentry, fol
the mansions arc all built. No more
masonry, for the walls are all reared
No moro diamond cutting, for the gem:
are all set. No more gold beating, fol
the crowns are all completed. No more
agriculture, for the haryests are sponta
neous.
Further, there will be no moro pail
of poverty. 1t is q hard thing to be real
ly poor; to have your coat wear out ant
no money to get another; to have you
flour barrel empty and nothing to buy
bread with for your children; to 1.-Two IL
an unhealthy row and no means tt
change your habitation; to have you
child sick with some mysterious diseast
and not DO able to secure eminent med
ioal ability; to have son or daughter be
gin the world and you not have any
thing to help them in starting, with
mind capable of research and high con
temptation to be pcrpetually fixed Of
questions of nero livelihood.
Poets try to throw romance abou
the poor mans cot, but there is no 70
nance about it. Poverty is hard, cruel
unrelenting. But Lazarus walked NJ
without his rags and his diseases, ant
so all of Christ's poor wake up at las
without any of their disadvantages-n
almshouses, for they are all princes; III
rents to pay, for the residence is gratu
itous; no garments to buy, for the robe
are divinely fashioned; no seats il
church for poor folks, but equalit
among temple worshipers; no novels
no hard crusts, no insufficient apparel
"They shall hunger no more, neithe
thirst any more, neither shall the SUI
light on them nor any heat. No NOR
painl
No More Parting.
Further, there will be no pain of part
ing. All these associations must som
time break up. We clasp hands an
walk together, and talk and laugh an
weep together, but we must after awhll
separate. Your grave will be in Oh
place, mine in another. We look eac
other full in the face for the last time
We will be sitting together some ever
ing or walking together some day, an
nothing will be unusual in our appear
ance or our conversation, but God know