Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-11-22
VICTORY OVER PAIN
Subject Of a Discourse by Rev. DR.
Talmage.
The Ease of Heaven and the Pangs OF
Earth-When Once Past the Portals
of the Eternal City All
Worries Cease.

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LEGATION this week, the text chosen
being Revelation xxi, 4: 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
placeP Is it shaken of terrible disor-
ders? What are the bills of mortality?
What is the death rate? How high
rises the Thermometer? And am not
reasonable in asking what are the sani-
tary conditions of the heavenly city
into which we all hope to moye2 My
text answers it by saying: Neither
shall their be any more pain"
First, | remark, there win be no pain
of disappointment in Heaven. If 1
could put the picture of what you am
lcipated Of life when You began it be-
side the picture of what You have real
lied, ] would find a great difference.
fon have stumbled upon great disap-
pointments Perhaps You expected
riches, and Won have worked hard
enough 70 gain them; you have planned
and worried and persisted until your
hands were worn and your brain was
racked and your heart tainted and at
the end of this long strife with mis-
fortune you find that If you have not
been positively defeated it has been
drawn battle II Is still tug and tussle
this year losing what your gained
last, financial uncertainties pulling
down faster than you build. For per-
haps twenty or thirty years you have
been running your craft straight into
the teeth of the wind.
Perhaps you have had domestic dis
appoin tment. Your children, upon
whose education you lavished your
hard-earned dollars, have not turned
out as expected. Notwithstanding all
your counsels and prayers and pains
taking, they will not do right Many
a good father has had bad boy Alb
salon trod on David's heart. That
mother never imagined all this as TWEEN
ty or thirty years ago she sat by that
child's cradle.
Your life has been a chapter of disap-
pointments. But, come with me, and
will show you different scene. BY
Gods grace, entering the other city you
will meyer 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 viii but lift
you to higher anthems; the sweetest
choral but a prelude to more tremend-
GUS harmony; all things better than you
bqH MT iai Tod hA ,l,a al,
crown brighter the temple grander,
the throng mighticr.
Further, ! remark, there win be no
no pain of WEAKNESS. II 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 llore exhausted than the |
former. 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?
Ali the great holiday approaches |
No more curse of taskmasters No I
more STOPPING until the back aches
No more calculation until the brain is
bewildered. No more pain. No more
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
No more agriculture, for
the harvests are spontaneous.
Further, there will be no more pain
Of poverty. II is hard thing to be
'eally poor; to have your coat wear out
md no money to get another; to have
your flour barrel empty, and nothing
20 buy bread with for your children; to
i've in an unhealthy row, and no means
% change your habitation; to have
your child sick with some mysterious
disease, and not be able to secure emf
tent medical ability; to have son or
laughter begin the world, and you not
rave anything to help them in starting;
With a mind capable of research and
Ugh contemplation, to be perpetually
liked ON questions of mere livelihood
Poets try to throw a romance about
he poor mans cot; but but there is no
omance about il. Poverty is hard,
ruel, unrelenting. But Lazarus walked
Ip without his rags and his diseases.
nd so ali of Christ's poor wake up at
asst without any OF their disadvantages
no almshosses, for they are all
rinces; no rents to pay, for the resi-
ence IS gratuitous; no garments to
NY, for the robes are divinely fash
oned: no seats in church for poor
oizs, but equality among temple wor
hipers. No novels. no hard crusts, no
lsuiiicient apparel They shall hun
er no more, neither thirst any more
either shall the sun light on them nor
ny heat" No more pain!
Further. there viii be no pain of part
~. All these associations must some
me break up. We clasp hands and
ak together, and talk and laugh and {
-eep together; but we must after
while separate. Your grave viii be in I
ne place. mine in another We look !
sch other full in the face for the last |
me. We viii be sitting together some
-eniug or walking together some day,