Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-11-09
HEREAND IN HEAVEN.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE ON LIFE HERE
AND HEREAFTER.


The Woes of Time and the Joys OF Etcr-
nity-A Glimpse of Life In the Heavenly
Characterization of tho Truth OF Rcve-
lation.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 4.-Rev. DR.. 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 todays sermon through
the press Victory Over Pan, the text
chosen being Revelation y !, 1, "Nei-
Their shall there be any more p:.!n. "
The first question that yon a. ( when
about to change yo~r residence to any
city is: "What is the health Of the
place? Is it shaken of terrible disorders?
What arc 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 DO
any more pain. "
No Pain In Heaven.
First, l remark, there will be no pain
Of disappointment in heaven. If l could
put the picture of what you anticipated
of life when you began it beside the
picture of what you have realized, l
would find q 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 rackod,
and your heart tainted, and at the end
of this long strife with misfortune you
find that if you have not been positive
lvNlefeated it has been q drawn battle.
II is still tug and tussle. this year los
ing what you gained last, financial I'M
certainties, pulling down faster than
you build. For perhaps 90 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 a good father
has had bad boy. Absalom trod ON
Dayid's heart. That mother never
imagined all this as 20 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 q different scene. By
Gods grace entering the other city, you
will never 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 up in the vision.
This song of transport will but lift you
to higher anthems the sweetest choral
but a prelude to more tremendous har-
mony, all things better than you had
anticipated-the robe richer, the crown
brighter, the temple grander. the throng
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 dizziness Of trade,
the latter moro 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 to hew, these shovels TO
delvo, these pens to fly, these books to
be po3ted, these goods to be sold?
No Work and No Poverty.
All. the grsat holiday approaches No
moro curse Of taskmakers. No moro
STOPPING until the back aches. No more
calculation until the brain is be17ildered.
No moro pain. No more carpentry, for
the mansions are all built. No more
masonry, for tho walls are all reared.
No moro diamond cutting. Tor tho gems
are all set No more gold beating, for
the Gowns arc al 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 Aavo your coat wear ont and
40 money to got another; to have your
-four barrel empty and nothing to buy
bread with for yoar children; to live in
al unhealthy row and no means 10
change your habitation; to have your
child sick with Some mysterious disease
and not be able to secure eminent med
ical ability; to have SOL On daughter be-
gin tho world and yCu not have any
thing to help them fl starting with
mind capable of research and high con-
tomplation to BE- pcrpctually hXod on
questions of mtrJ livelihood.
Poets try to throw a romance about
tho poor man s cot but there is no rO'
nance about it, Poverty is hard, cruel,
unrelenting. But Lazarus walked up
without his rags and his diseases, and
so all Of ChTist's poor wake up at last
without any Of their disndyantages-no
almshouses, for they arc all princes; no
rents to pay for tho residence IS gratn-
itous; 10 garments to buy, for tho robes
are diYincly fashioned; no seats In
church for poor folks, but equality
among temple worshipors; no novels,
no hard crusts, 10 insufficient apparel.
"They shall hunger 10 moro, neither
thirst amy more neither shall the sun
light On them nor any heat " No moro
painl
NJ More Parting.
Further, there viii be 10 pain Of part
ing All these associations must some
time break up. We clasp hands and
walk together, and talk and laugh and
weep together, bu: VIC must after awhile
separate. Your grave will be in one
place, mino il another. We look each
other full in the face for the last time.
We will be sitting together some even
ing or walking together s0aio day, and
nothing will be unusual IN our appear
ance or our conversation, but God knows
that it is the last time, aud messengers |
from eternity on their enand to take
Us away know it is the last time, and !
In heaven. whore they make ready for |