The Indiana State sentinel., 1894-11-07
THE VICTORY OVER PAIN
THE REV. DIR. TALNAGE WRITES OF
THE HEAVENLY CITY.
A Vivid Word Picture Of the Joys of
acknowledgement for the
Weary and SorrOwfuI-The Pains of
Living and Joys of Heaven.

A-AN ms oDt VI
BROOKLYN, Nov 4-The Rev. Dr.
Talmage, who is now nearing the close
of his globe circling tour and viii shortly
reach American shores, has selected as
the subject If today's sermon through
the press, Victory over Pain the text
chosen being Revelation xxi. 4, Neither
shall there be any more pain"
The first questions that you ask when
about to change your residence to any
city is: What is the health of the place?
Ii is 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 in
asking, What are the sanitary conditions
of the heavenly city into which we all
hope TO move? My text answers it by
saying, Neither shall there be any more
pain"
First. / remark. there will be no pain
Of disappointment i'm heaven. If 1 could
put the picture Of what you anticipated Of
life when YOU began it beside the picture
of what you have realized, / would find
a great difference. You have stumbled
upon great disappOintments. 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 you heart tainted, and at
the end of this long strife with misfor-
tune You find that if you have not been
positively defeated il has been drawn
battle. II is still tug and tussle, this year
losing what you gained last. financial un-
certainucs 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 VIII 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 years ago she sat by
that chi.d's cradle.
No More Blasted Hopes.
Your life has been a chapter of disap-
poinments, but come with me, and / will
show you different scene. BY Gods
grace, entering the other city you will
never again have a blasted hope. The
most jubllant of expectations will not
reach the realization. Coming to the top
Of one hill of joy. there will be other
nights rising upon the vision. This song
of transport will but lift you to higher an
thems, the sweetest choral but a prelude
10 more tremendous harmony, ali things
better than YOU had anticipated-the rooe
richer. the crown brighter the temple
grander. the throng mightier.
Further. 1 remark, there VIII be no pain
of WEAKNESS. It may be many hours since
you quit work, but many Of you are un-
rested. some from overwOrk, and some
from dullness Of trade. the latter more
eXhausting than the former Your an
kles ache; your spirits flag; you want
rest. Are these whee,S always TO turn
these shuttles TO fly. these axes to hew,
these shovels to delve, these pens to fly,
these books 10 be posted, these goods 10
be sold?
All, the great holiday approaches No
more curse of tasl<masters; 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 spontaneous.
Further, there will be no more pain
or poverty. 1t is a hard thing to be re-
ally poor, To have your coat wear out and
no money TO get another. To have youc
flour barrel empty and nothing TO buy
bread with for your children, 10 live i'm an
unhealthy row and no means TO change
your hahttation, to have your child sick
with some mysterious disease and not be
able to secure eminent medical ability, to
have son or daughter begin the world and
YOU not have anything to help them in
starting, with Il mind capable of research
and high contemplation TO be perpetually
fixed on questions of mere livelihood.
Poets try 10 throw romance about the
poor mans cot. but there is no romance
about 1t. Poverty is hard, cruel unre-
lenting. But Lazarus walked up without
his rags and his diseases and so all of
Christ's poor wake up at last without any
of their disadvantages almshouses, for
the residence is gratuitous; no garments
to buy, for the robes are divinely fash
toned; 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.
No FareweIIs.
Further, there will be no pain of part
ing. All these associations must some
time break up. We clasp our hands and
walk together and talk and laugh and
weep together. but we must after awhile
separate. Your grave will be in 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 walk
ing together some day, and nothing will
be unusual in our appearance or our con-
versation, but God knows that it is the
last time, and messengers from eternity
on their errand TO take us away know it
is the last time, and in heaven, where
they make ready for our departing spirits,
they know il is the last time
On, the long agony of earthly separa-
ton, 1t is awful to stand in your nur-
sery fighting death back from the couch
of your child and try to hold fast the
little one and see all the time that he is
getting weaker and the breath is shorter
and make outcry to God to help US and
to the doctors 10 save him and see IL is
of no avail and then 10 know that his
spirit is gone, and that you have nothing
, left but the casket that held the jewel
and that in two or three days you must
even put that away and walk around
about the house and find it desolate,
sometimes feeling rebelliOus, and then to
resolve to feel differently. and to resolve
on self-cOntrol, and just as you have
come 10 what you think Is perfect self
control to suddenly come upon some lit
tie coat or picture or shoe half worn out
and how all the floods of the soul burst
I'm one wild wall Of agony! Oh, my God,
how hard ii is to part, to close the eyes
that never can look merry at our coming.
to kiss the hand thai will never again
do Us a lkindncsSi l know religion gives
great consolation in such an hour and
we ought TO be comforted, but anyhow
and anyway you make it. il is awful.
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