Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-11-05
NO MORE PAIN.
THE JOYS OF TIE ETERNAL CITY ELOQUENTLY
PICTURED
By Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, Who has Just Re-
turned to America From Bis Tour Around the
World.

/ WVllus
BROOKLYN, November 4.-Rev. DR..
Talmage, who has now ended his globe
circIing tour and who has landed
upon American shores. has selected
as the subject of to-day's sermon
through the press: Victory over
Pain" the text chosen being Revelation
21:4, Neither shall there be any more
pain"
The first question that you ask when
about to change you residence to any
city is, what is the health Of the
place? is it shaken of terrible disorders?
what are the bills Of mortality what is
the death rate? how high rises the Their
mometer?" And am l not reasonable
10 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 be
any more pain"
| uFirst, 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, l
would find a 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 aud wor-
ried and persisted until your hands were
worn and your brain was racked and
your heart tainted, ,aud at the end Of
/ this long strife with misfortune you find
| that il you have not been positively de-
| feated it has been a drawn battle. 1t
/ is still tug and tusse-this year losing
what you gained last, financial uncer-
tainties 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 disap-
pointment. Your children, upon whose
education you lavished your hard
earned dollars, have not turned out as
expected. Notwithstanding all your
Counsels and prayers and painstaking,
they will not do right. Many a good
father has had bad BOY. Absaom trod
on David's heart. That mother never
imagined all this as twenty or thirty
years ago she
SAT BY THAT CHILD's CRADLE.
Your life has bsen chapter Of dis
appointments. But, come with me, and
l 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 upon 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
anticipated-the robe richer, the crown
brighter, the temple grander, the throng
mightier.
Further, I remark, there will DO no
pain Of WEAKNESS. 1t may be many
hours since you quit work, but many
of you are unrested, some from over
work, aud some from dizziness of trade,
the latter more eXhausting than the
| former. Your ankles ache, your spirits
| flag, you want rest. Are these wheels
always to turn? these shuttes to fly?
| these axes TO hew?; these shoves TO
delve? these pens to fly? these books to
be posted? these goods TO be sold?
All the great holiday approaches.
! No more curse of taskmasters. No
more STOPPING until the back acks. No
more calculation until the brain is be-
widered. No mote pain. No more
carpentry, for the mansions are all
built. No more masonry, for the walls
are all reared. No more diamond-cut-
| ting, for the gems are all set. No more
! gold-beating, for the crowns are all
completed. No more agriculture, for
THE HARvESTs ARE SPONTANEOUS,
Further, there will be no more pain
! Of poverty. II is q hard thing to be
really poor; to have your coat wear out
| and no money to get another; TO have
your flour barrel empty, aud nothing to
buy bread with for your children; to
| live 10 an unhealthy row, and 90 means
TO change your habitation; TO have your
! child sick with some mysterious dis
ease, and not De able to secure eminent
medical ability; to have son or daughter
begin the world, and you not have any,
| thing 10 help them In starting; with a
mind capable OF research aud high con-
temptation, to be perpetnally fixed on
questions of mere Livelihood.
| Poets try 10 throw romance about
] Il. - hpk fknra fc
nance about IT, Poverty is hard, cruel,
unrelenting. But Lazarus walked up
! without bis rags and his diseases, and
so all OF Christs poor, wake up at last
without any of their dissdvantages-no
| almshouses, for they are all princes; no
rents 10 pay, for the residence Is gratui-
] tous; no garments TO buy, for the robes
are divinely fashioned; no seats In
/ church for poor folks, but equality
among temple worshippers. No novels,
no hard crusts, no insufficient apparel.
They shall hunger no more. neither
thirst any more, neither shall the sun
light on them nor any heat" No more
pain!
Further, there will be no pain of
parting. All these associations must
some time break up. We clasp hands
and walk together, and talk and laugh
and weep together; but we must after
awhile separate. Your grave will be 10
one place, mine in another. We look
/ each other full in the face for the last
time. We will be sitting together some
evening, or walking together some day,
and nothing will be unusual In our ap-
pearance, or our conversation: but God
knows that it is the last time; and mes
| sengers from eternity, on their errand
to take us away, know it is the last
time; aud in heaven, where they make