Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-11-08
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON
VICTORY OVER PAIN"
Death the Only Conqueror OF the Tria.s
and Tribulations of the World-Rev.
21:iv Neither Shall There BE Any
More Pain"


mage. who is now nearing the close of
his globe-circling tour and will short
" reach American shores, has selected
as the subject of to-days sermon
through the press Victory Over
Pain" the text chosen being Revela-
ton 81: iv, Neither shall there be any
more pain"
The first question that you ask when
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 NOR
tality? What is the death rate? How
high rises the thermometers" And am
not reasonable in asking, what are
the sanitary conditions of the heavenly
city into which we all hope to move?
NY text answers it by saying.
Neither shall there be any more pain.
First, | remark, there will be no pain
or disappointment in heaven. If l
could put the picture of what you anti
cipated of life when you began it, be-
side the picture of what you have real
lied, | would find a great difference.
You have stumbled upon great disap-
pOintments. 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
racled and your heart tainted. and at
the end of this long strife with misfor-
tune you find that if you have not been
positively defeated it has been drawn
battle 1t is still tug and tussIc--this
year losing what you gained last, tinan-
cial uncertainties pulling DOVE 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 domestic disap-
pointment. Your children upon whose
education you lavishcd your hard
earned dollars, have not turned out as
YOU expected Notwithstanding all
your counscls and prayers and pains
taking, they will not do right Many
a good father has had bad boy. Abb
SALON. 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 beeA 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 eNpecta-
ton 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 harmony; all things
better than yOu had anticipated-the
robe richer, the crown brighter, the
temple grander. the throng mightier.
Further. | remark, there will be no
pain or WEAKNESS. 1t may be many
hours since you quit work, but many
of YOU are unrested, some from over
work and some from dulncss Of trade,
the latter more exhausting than the
former. Yourankles ache, your spirits
flag. you want rest. Are these wheels
always to turn? these shuttles to fly?
these AXIS to hew; these shovels 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 taslImasters. No
more STOPPING until the back aches
No more calculation until the brain is
bewildercd. No more 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. Nomore
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. 1t is a hard thing to be
really poor; to have your coat wear
ont and no money to get another; tC
have YOUR flour barrel empIy, and
nothing to buy bread with for youl
children. to live in an unhealthy row
and no means to chance your habita
ton. TO have vour child sick with
some mvsterious disease. and not he
able to secure eminent medical ability
to have son or daupbter beoin the
world and Won not have ANYTHING f
helm them in starting. with minc
carable of research and HIGH contem
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