Democratic messenger., 1894-11-10

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city Consolation of the Truth OF Reve-
lation.
BROOKLYN. Nov. REV DIR. Tai
mage. who is now nearing the close of
his globe circling tour and will shortly
reach American shores, has selected as
the subject of today's sermon through
the press Victory Over Pain. :" the text
chosen being Revelation xxi, 4, "Nei-
ther 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 disorders:
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 sanitary condi-
tions of the heavenly city into which
we all hope to move? My text answers
it by saying. Neither shall there he
any more pain"
No Pain In Heaven.
First, / remark, there will be no pain
of disappointment i'll heaven. If could
put the picture of what you anticipated
of life when YOU began it beside the
picture of what you have realized.
would find 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 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 misfortune you
find that if you have not been positive
" defeated il has been drawn battle
II is still tug and tussle. this year los
ing what you gained last, financial un-
certainties. pulling down faster than
You build. For perhaps 20 or 80 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 lavished your hard earn
ed dollars, have not turned out as ex-
pected. Notwithstanding all your coun-
sells 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 20 or 30 years age
she sat by that child's cradle
Your life has been chapter of disap-
R,,t. xr.,t
will show you u different scene. BY
Gods grace entering the other city, you
will never again have blasted hope
The most jubilant of expectations will
not reach the realization. Coming tc
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 har.
mony. all things better than you had
anticipated-the robe richer, the crown
brighter, the temple grander. the throne
mightier.
Further, remark, there will be nc
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 dullness of trade,
the latter more exhausting than the for
mer. Your ankles ache, your spirits
flag. you want rest. Are these wheels
always to turn, these shuttles to fly,
these axes 10 hew. these shovels to
delve, these pens to fly, these books to
be posted, these goods to be sold?
No Work and No Poverty.
All, the great holiday approaches. No
more curse of taskmakers. 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
sire all set. No more gold beating, for
the crowns are all completed. No more
agriculture, for the harvests are sponta-
neous
Further. there will be no more pain
of poverty. 1t is hard thing to be real
ly poor; to have your coat wear out and
no money to get another: to have yonr
flour barrel empty and nothing to buy
bread with for your children: TO live in
an unhealthy row and no means TO
change your habitation: TO have your
child sick with some mysterious disease
and not be able to secure eminent med
ical ability; to have son or daughter be-
gin the world and You not have any
thing to help them i'll starting. with y
mind capable of research and high con
temptation to be perpetually fixed on
questions of mere livelihood
Poets try to throw romance about
the poor mans cot, but there is no ro-
nance about il. Poverty is hard. cruel.
unrelenting But Lazarus walked up
without his rags and his diseases, and
so all of Christ's poor wake up ut last
without any of their disadvantages-no
almshouses, for they are all princes; no
rents to pay. for the residence is gratu-
itous; no garments to buy, for the robes
are divinely fashioned; no seats in
church for poor folks, but equality
among temple worshipers; 10 novels,
no hard crIsts, no insufficient apparel.
They shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more. neither shall the sun
light OH them nor any heat :" No more
pain
No More Parting.
Further, there will he no pain If part
ing 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 i'll one
place. mine i'll another. We look each
other full in the face for the last time.
We will be sitting together some even
ing or walking together some day. and
nothing will be unusual i'll our appear
ance or our conversation, but God knows
that il is the last time. aud messengers
from eternity on their err:.nd to take
Joseph j. Devereaux,
REAL ESTATE AGENT.