Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-11-10
HERE AND In HEAVEN.
REV. Or. rkLslAos ON LIFE HERE
fANo HEREAFTER.

REV. OR. TkLhiAGE ON LIFE HERE
tAN0 HEREAFTER.
The woes of limo aac tho Joys of Etcr-
nity-A Glimpse CT Life In the Heavenly
city-Consolation of tho Truth Of Rese-
1 lation.
BRooKLYN, Nov. A.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage, who is row nearing the close Of
his globe circling tour aud will shortly
reach American shores, has selected as
the subject CT today's sermon through
tine press Victory Over Pain. " the text
chosen being Revelation xxi, 4, Mel
Their shall there be any moro 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? Ny text answers
it by saying, Neither shall there be
any more pain.
No Pain In Heaven.
First remark, there will be no pain
of disappointment in heaven. Ii could
put tho picture of what you anticipated
of life when you began it beside the
picture Of what you have realized, !
would find great difference. Yol
have stumbled upon great disappoint-
mepts. 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,
aud your heart tainted, and at the end
of this long strife with misfortune yog
find that if you have not been positive
" defeated it has been drawn battle
/ II is still tug and tussle, this year los
ing what yoa gained last, financial I'M
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 laviahed 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 a bad boy. Absalom trod Ola
Dayid's heart That mother never
imagined all this as 20 Of 30 years ago
she sat by that child's cradle.
Your life has been chapter of disap-
pointments. But come With me, and
will show you a different scene: By
Gods grace entering the other city. you
will never again have blasted hope.
The most jubilant Of expectations viii
not reach the realization. Coming to
the teg af one hill of joy, there will be
other heights rising up i'll the vision.
This song of transport will eut lift yen
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 grauder, the throng
miahtiay.
Further, i r6merk, there will be no
pain of weariness. 1t may be many
hours since you quit work, but many
of you are unrested, some from over
weak, and some from dullness of trade,
the latter news axhausting than the for
mer. Your ankles a9l;a, your spirits
flag, you want rest. Are these wLeels
always to turn, these shuttles to fly,
these axes to hew, these shovels to
delve these pens to fly, these books to
bs posted, these goods to be sold?
No ~orI, and 80 Poverty.
All, the g,sat holiday approaches Ma
more curse of taskmakers No moro
stopping until the back aches. No more
calculation until the brain is bewiidered.
No more pain. No more carpentry, for
the mansions are all built. No more
masonry. for the walls are 81 Fonrad
No more diamond cutting. for the gems
are all set No more gold beating, for
the crowns are ali completed. No more
agriculture, for the haryests are sponta-
lepEs.
Fnrtheg. there will be no more pain
of poverty. 1t is 8 hard thing to be real
ly poor; to have your coat wear out and
no money to get another; to have yonr
-four 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
r,5 III Cipl-
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 in starting, with
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 TO-
mace about it. Poverty is hard cruel,
unreleRting. But Lazarus walked up
without his rags and his diseases, and
SO all of Christ's poor wake mp at last
without any of their disGdyantases--no
almshouses, for they are all princes; 10
rents to pay. for the residence is gratu
itous; 10 garments to buy, for the robes
ase diyinely fashioned; no seats in
church Cor poor folks, but equality
among temple worshipers; no novels,
no hard crGsts, $50 insufficient apparel
They shall hunger no more, peitLer
thirst any more, neither shall the sen
light on them nor any heat. No moro
rain!
No More Parting.
Further, there will be 10 pain of part
ing All these associations must some
time break up. We clasp hands ana
walk together, and talk and laugh aud
weep together, but we must after awhile
separate. Your grave viii be in one
place, mine in another. We look each
other full i'll the face for the last time.
We will be sitting together some eycl-
ing or walking together some day, and
nothing will be unusual in cur appear
ance or our conversation, but God knows
that it is the last time, aud messengers
from eternity on their errand to take
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