The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-11-08
OR. TALMAGES SERMON.
THE WORLDS PAIN.
q Affections Of this Life are Legion
In Numbers.


20 change your residence TO any city 10.
"what il the health OF tho place2 IL it
| shaken OF terrible disordersp What are the
Mills OF mortality What Is the death rate?
now high rises the thermometer2" And am
not reasonable in asking, What are the
sanitary conditions OF the heavenly city into
which we all hope to move2 NY text an
swers ii by saying, Neither shall there be
| arv more pain"
First. remark. there will be no pain OF
disappointment in heaven. III could put
the picture OF whnt you anticipated OF lie
when you began Il beside the picture OF
what YOU have realized, would Ind great
difference. You have stumbled upon great
disappointments Perhaps you expected
riches. and you have worked hard enough
10 gain them you have planned and
worried aud persisted until your hands were
worn, and your brain was racked. and your
heart tainted. aud nj tho end OF this long
strife with misfortune you find that II you
have not been positively defeated Il has been
n drawn hattie. It's still tug aud tussle,
This year losing what you gained last,
financial uncertainties. pulling down faster
than you build. For perhaps twenty or
thirty years YOU have been running your
craft straight into the teeth OF the wind.
Perhaps you have had domestic dlsappont.
ment. Your children, upon whose educa.
f0n YOU lavished your hard earned dollars,
have not turned out rs expected. Notwlth-
standing all your counsels and prayers and
pains,aking. 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 twenty or thirty years
ago she sat by that childs cradle.
Your life has been chapter OF disap-
continents. But come with me and will
show you n different scene. By Gods grace
entering the other city. you will never again
have n blaste hope. The most iubilant of
urtn ha
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 harmony, all
things better than you had an,icipated-the
robe richer, the crown brighter, the temple
sranier. the throng mightier.
Further. | remark, there will be no pain
Of WEAKNESS. IL may be many hours since
you quit work, hut many OF you are unrested,
some from ovorwork, and some from dull
ness OF trade. tho latter more exhausting
than the former. 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 10 delve, these,
pens TO fly, these books TO be posted, these
goods TO he sold?
All. the great holiday approaches. No
more curse Of taskmakers. No more stoop-
ing until the back aches. No more calcula-
ton until tile brain is hewi.dered No moro
pain. No more carpentry. for the mansions
are nil built. No more mnsonry for ,ha
walls are all reared. No more diamond cut.
ting. for the gems are all set. No more gold
beating, for ths crowns are all completed.
No more agriculture, for the harvests are
spontaneous.
Further. there will be no more nnin of
poverty. Ii is n hard thing 10 he really
moor; 10 have vonr cont wear out and M
money TO get another. 10 have vour nour
barrel empty and nothing TO buy bread with
for YOUR children. 10 live In nm unheaIthv
row and no means 10 change vour habIta
tion 10 have YOUR child Sick with some
mysterious disease ana nof be allie no secur re
eminent medical ability, 10 have son or
daughter begin the world and Won NOT have
snythino IN heln them In stnrtina yI,h !,
mind cnnable Of research and hiyh ,ontam-
plation 10 be pernetually f,xsd on onestions
~ rnera UvaIibonl
Poets trv 10 throw n romonco ohor, ,ho
moor mans cor bnt thera is No rononno
,bout n Poverty ia hard crpaI nnraIan,- :
lng But Lazarus walked IN without his
tags and his diseases and so all OF Christ 3
poor wake up at last without any OF their
iisadyantages-no almshouses. for they ara
all princes no rents 10 pay, for tho resi-
ience Is grntuitous no garments 10 huy for
he robes are divinely fashioned no seats in
'hurch for poor folks, bur equality among
.emple worshipers no novels, no hard
,rusts, no insufficient apparel. "They shall
hunger no more. neither shall the sun light
IN them nor any heat" No more pain
Further there will bs no pain OF parting
All these associations must some time hrsnk
up. We clasp hands and walk together,
and talk and laugh and weep together. but
we must after awhile separate. Your grave
will be in one place mine In 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
nothinp will be unusu,u In our ,n,aar,
ance. or our conversation. but Col
knows that IL is the last time. and
messengers from eternity on their errani "a
take us AWAY know il is the last time. and in
heaven, where they make ready ior our de-
parting spirits, they know il is the last time
Oh, the long agony OF earthly separation
II is awful 10 stand In your nursery fighting
death back from the couch OF YOUR child anC
try TO hold fast the little one. and see all tn,
time that he is getting weaker, and IN
breath is shorter, aud make outcry 10 Coo
.fo min us ,nd 10 tho do,,o-s % s,,., hi,
and ssa IL is oi po .r,i mt ,bs,, 70 ~,