The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-12-07
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
a Graphic Picture of the Future
Life in Heaven.
The Agonles and Perpieaities OF This World
Unknown and Unfelt There, But
to Gain this Reward One
Must Repent.

and Will shortly reach American SHORES, |
as the subject of this weeks
sermon through the press: "Victory
Over Pain" the text being:
Neither shalt there be any more pain.-Rev-
citation, xxi, 4.
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 thermometer" And am not rea-
sonable in asking, What are the SAM
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. 1t l
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 I'M
til your hands We're 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 drawn battle. 1t is still
tug and tussle-this year losing what
To- nin1
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 lavished
your hard-earned dollars, have not
turned out as you expected. Notwlth-
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 chapter OF dis
appointments. 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 expecta'
tions will not reach the realization
| Coming to the top IF one hill OF JOY
there will be other heights rising upon
the vision. This song of transport VIII
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
rrander, the th-ong mightier.
Further, remark, there will be ne
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 dizziness of trade
the latter more exhausting than the
former. Your ankles ache, your splr
its flag, you want rest. Are thes'
wheels always to turn? these shuttle'
Avp these axes to hew? these shovel
to delve? these pens to hyp thes'
books to be posted? these goods to o.
sold?
All! the great holiday approaches
No more curse of taskmasters. N
more calculation until the brain is be
wildered. No more pain. No NOR
carpentry, for the mansions are al
bn;it. No more masonry, for the wall
are all reared. No more diamond cut
: ting. for the gems are all set. No NOR
pold beating, for the crowns are al
CONNECTED. No more agriculture, TO
the harvests are spontaneous.
Further, there will be no more PAL
If noverty. 1t is hard thing to
really poor; to have your coat wea
ont and no money to get another; I
have your -four barrel empty, an
nothing to buy bread with for your Chi
p, dren: to live in an unhealthy row, an
have no means to change your habita
t;on. to have your child sick wit
some mysterious disease, and not b
! .ble To secure eminent medical ability
to have son or daughter begin tn
world. and you not have anything
help them in starting; with MIN
capable of research and high col
trmplation, to be perpetually liked o
Questions of mere livelihood
Poets try to throw romance abor
.h. moor mans cot; but there is no n
vance about it. Poverty is har'
!. cruel. unrelenting. But Lazar.
8 ~aked up without his rags and his oil
aces and SO all of Christ's poor wal
up at last without any OF their ia, als .,
+ xsntaxes-no almshouses, for they a.
0 al nrinces; no rents to pay, for Il
e residence is gratuirous; no garments
$ Inv for the robes are divinely fasl
}. ,onsd: no seats in church for po'
i folks. but equality among temple wo
8 -h,ners No novels, no hard crusts'
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