The Sussex Republican., 1894-11-10
HERE AND In VEN,
REV. DR.. TALMAGE ON LIFE HERE
AND HEREAFTER.

FNi'o FlEnt-FNF EN-
The Woes of Time and the Joys of Eter
nity--A Glimpse of Life In the Heavenly
City Consolation Of the Truth Of Reye
Istion.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 4.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage. who is now nearing the close Of
his globe ciroling tour and will shortly
reach American shores, has selected as
the subject of today's sermon through
the press "Viotory Over Pain, the text
chosen being Revelation xxi, A, "Nei,
tber 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
placer Is it shaken of terrible disordersi
What are the bills of mortality? What
is the death rate? How high rises the
thermometer" And am l not reasonable
in asking, What are the sanitary condi-
tions Of the heavenly city into which
we all hope to mover My 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. If could
put the picture of what you anticipated
of life when you began 1t 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 raoked,
and your heart tainted, aud at the end
of this long strife with misfortune you
find that if you have not been positive
ly defeated it has been drawn battle.
1t is still tug and tussle, this year los
ing what you gained last, financial un-
pulling down faster, than
you build. For perhaps go or 80 years
you have been running your craft
straight into the teeth of the wind.
Perhaps you have had domestic dis
Your children, upon whose
education you lavished your hard earn
ed dollars, have not turned out as ex-
peoted. Notwithstanding all your ooun-
sells and prayers and painstaking, they
will not do right Many a good father
has had bad boy. Absalom trod ON
Davids heart That mother never
imagined all this as 90 or 80 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 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 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 har:
nony, all things better than you had
snticipated-the robe richer, the crown
brighter, the temple grander, the throng
nightier.
Further, remark, there will be no
lain of weariness. It may be many
hours since you quit work, but many
II you are unrested, some from over
work, and some from dullness of trade,
he latter more exhausting than the for
ner. Your ankles ache, your spirits
lag, you want rest Are these wheels
'lways to turn, these shuttles to fly,
hese axes to hew, these shovels to
lelve, these pens to fly, these books to
10 po.ted these goods to be sold?
No Work and No Poverty.
All, the great holiday approaches No
more curse of taskmakers No more
topping until tho back aches. No more
alculation until the brain is bewildered.
70 more pain. No more carpentry, for
he mansions are all built No more
Masonry, for the walls are all reared
70 more diamond cutting. for the gems.
re all set No more gold beating, for1S
he crowns are all completed. No more
grioulture, for the harvests are sponta-
eous
Further. there will be no more pain
poverty. 1t is hard thing to be real
7 poor; to have your coat wear out and
o money to get another; to have your
our barrel empty aud nothing to buy
read with for your children; to live in
II unhealthy row and no means to
hange your habitation; to have your
hild sick with some mysterious disease
nd not be able to secure eminent med
,al ability; to have son or daughter be
in the world and you not have any
hing to help them in starting, with
lind capable of research and high con-
smplation to be perpetually fixed on
uestions of mere livelihood.
Poets try to throw romance about
lie poor mans cot, but there is no ro-
lance about it. Poverty is hard, cruel,
nrelenting. But Lazarus walked up
ithout his rags and his diseases. and
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