The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-11-09
LAND in HEAVEN.
,GV. Or. TALMAGE ON LIFE HERE
AND HEREAFTER.

AND HEREAF TER.
Tho Woes of Time and the Joys Of Eter-
nity--A Glimpse Of Life In the Heavenly
Consolation of the Truth of Reve-
Iation.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 4,-Rev DR.. Tai
rage, who is now nearing the close OF
his globo oircling tour and will shortly
roach American shores, has selected as
tho subject of today's sermon through
the press Victory Over Pain, " the text
chosen being Revelation xxi, 4, Mel
ther shall there be any more pain. F"
The first question that You ask when
about to change your residence to amy
city is: "What is the health Of the
placer Is it shaken of terrible disorders:
What arc the bills of mortality? What
is tho death rate? How high rises the
thermometer And am not reasonable
in asking, What are the sanitary condi-
lions of the heavenly city into which
we all hope to move? My text answers
it by saying, Neither shall there be
any more pain.
No rain In Heaven.
First, remark, there will be no pain
of disappointment in heaven. If i 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
were worn, and your brain was rackod,
and your heart tainted, and at the end
of this long strife with misfortune you
find that if you have not been positive
ly defeated it has been o 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
imagined all this as 20 or 80 years ago
she sat by that child's cradle.
Your life has been chapter Of disap-
pointments. But come with me, and
will show you a different scene. By
Gods grace entering the other city, you
will never again have a blasted hope.
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 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, l remark, there will be no
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 more 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.
All, the 81. at holiday approaches. No
more curse of taskmakers No more
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 more
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 and
| no money to get another; to have you,
| flour barrel empty and nothing to buy
| bread with for your children; to live III
an unhealthy row and no means tt
change your habitation; to have your
| child sick with some mysterious disease
l ho obl fS ID
ical ability; to have son or daughter be.
gin the world and you not have any
thing to help them in starting with q
mind capable of research and high cen
temptation to be perpetually fixed Of
questions of mere livelihood.
Poets try to throw romance about
the poor mans cot, but there is no 10
nance about it, Poverty is hard, cruo,
unrelenting. But Lazarus walked NJ
without his rags and his diseases, al
SO all of Christ's poor wake up at las
without any of their disadvantages,
almshouses, for they are all princes; ]
rents to pay. for the residence is graf,
itous; no garments to buy, for the rob
are divinely fashioned; no seats
church for poor folks, but equal
among temple worshipers; no hove
no hard crusts, no insufficient appar,
"They shall hunger no more, neith'
thirst any more, neither shall the 6,
light on them nor any heat" No NOR
painl
No More Parting.
Further, there will be no pain Of par
ing. All these associations must SOL
time break up. We clasp hands
walk together, and talk and laugh q
weep together, but we must after awh
separate. Your grave will be in
place, mine in another. We look Q;
other full in the face fer the last tim
We will be sitting together some eve
ing or walking together some day, a
nothing will be unusual i'll our appe
ance or our conversation, but God kno
that it is the last time, and messeng's
from eternity on their errand to tax