The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-11-14
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DEVINRS SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject esvictory Over Palms.

me first question that you ASK when ABOUT
20 change your residence TO any city is3
''What is the health of the place? Is IL
shaken of terrible disorders? What are the
hills of mortality? What is the death rate?
How high rises the thermometerY And am
not reasonable in asking What are the
sanitary conditions of the heavenly city into
which we all hope to move? Ny text an
swers II by saying, "Neither shall there be
aDv more pain.
First, I remark. there will be no pain Of
disappointment in heaven. If L could put
the picture or what you anticipated OF life
when you began it beside the picture OF
what you have realized, would find a CREST
difference, You have stumbled upon great
disappointments. 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 ut the end of this long
strife with misfortune you find that If you
have NOT been positively defeated it has been
8 drawn battle It's still tug and tTIssle,
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 disappoint~
ment. Your children, upon whose educa-
tion you layished your hard earned dollars,
nave HOC tNIHGU OUT as cXpStA6Us NOlWllH@
standing all your counsels and prayers and
painstaking, they will not do right. Many
good father has had bad hoy. Absalom
trod on DaVld's heart That mother never
imagined all this as twenty or thirty years
ago she sat by that child's cradle.
Your life has been q chapter of disap-
pontmentss 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 iubilant of
expectations will NOT reach the realization.
Coming 10 the top of one hill of Joy, there
will be other heights rising up in the vision.
This song Of transport will bat Lift you to
higher anthems. the sweetest choral but
prelude to more tremendous harmony, all
things better than you had anticipated-the
robe richer the crown brighter, the temple
grander, the throng mightier.
Farther, remark, there will be no pain
OF WEAKNESS. 1t may be many hours since
you quit work, but many of you are unrested,
some from Oyerwork, and some from dull
ness of trade, the 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 to heW, these shoTels to delve, these
pens to fly, these books to be posted, these
goods TO DO soldP
All, the great holiday approaches. No
more curse of taskmakers. No more stoop-
ton untia the brain is bewildered. No more
pain. NO more carpentry, for the mansions
are all bnlts No more masonry, for the
walls are an reared. No more diamond cut
ting, for the gems are all set. No more gold
beating. for the crowns are all completed.
No more agriculture, for the harvests are
spontaneous.
Further, there will be no more pain OF
poverty Il is a hard thing to be really
poor; tn have your coat wear out and no
money to get another to have your flour
barrel empty and nothing to buy bread with
for your children; to live in an unhealthy
row and no mems TO change your habita-
ton; to have your child sick with some
mysterious disease and not be able to secure
eminent medical ability to have son or
daughter begin the world and you not have
anything 20 help them in starting, with a
mind capable of research and high contem-
plation TO bs perpetually fixed on questions
of mere livelihood.
Poets try to throw romance about the
poor mans cot, but there is no romance
about it. Poverty is hard, cruel, unrelent-
Ing. But Lazarus walked up without his
rags and his diseases, and so all OF Christ's
poor wake Up at last without any of their
disadvantAges-no almshouses, for they ara
all princess no rents to pay, for the resi-
dence is gEataitous no garments to buy for
the robes are divinely fashioned no seats in
church for poor folks, but equality among
temple wershipers; no novels, no hard
crusts. no insufficient apparel. "Ihey shall
hungerno more, neither shall the sun light
on them nor any heat" No moro pain!
Further, there will be no pain of parting.
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 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
nothing will be unusual in our appear
ance, or our conversation, but God
knows that it is the last time, and
messengers from eternity on their errand to
take usaWay know ii is the last time, and in
heaven, where they make ready for our de-
parting spirits, they know it Is the last time.
Oh, lifelong agony OF earthly separation
1t is awful TO stand In your nursery fighting
death back from the couch of your child, and
try TO hold fast the little one, and see all the
time that he is getting weaker, and the
breath Is shorter, and make outcry to God
20 help ms and to the doctors to save him,
and see it is OF no avail, and then to know
that his spirit is gone and that you have
nothing left but the casket that held the
Jewel, and that In two or three days you
must even put that away and walk around
about the house and find it desolate, some
times feeling rebellious, and then to
resolve to feel differently and to re-
solve on self control, and just as you
have come TO what you think is perfect self
control 10 Suddenly come upon some little
coat or picture or shoe half worn out and
how all the foods OF the soul burst in one
wild wall OF agony Oh, my God, how hard
II is TO part, to close the eyes that never can
look merry at our coming. to kiss the hand
that will never again do US q kindness. I
know religion gives great consolation in
bRHF and Vua RI hp
but anyhow and anyway you MAKE it it is
awful.
On steamboat wharf and at rail car win
dow we may smile when we say farewell but