The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-11-14
VICTORY OVER PAIN.
Rev. Dr.. Talmage Describes the
Life in Heaven.

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Physical Pain and Suffering VIII Find No
Place There, and the Weary nnd
Heavy-Laden VIII Find Album
dant Rest.
The following discourse on the sub
ject. Victory Over Pain, was selected
by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage for publi-
cation this week. 1t is based on the
text:
Neither shalt there be any more pain.-Rev-
elation, xxi.,4
The first question that you ask
when about to change your residence
to any city is: ssWhat is the health of
: the place? is it shaken of terrible dis
orders? what are the bills Of mortality?
what is the death rate? how high rises
the thermometas32" And am I not rea-
sonable in askiNs, What are the sani-
taTy conditions of the heavenly city
into which we all hope to move? My
I text answers it by saying: Neither
sshall there by any more pain"
First, I remark, there will no pain
OF disappointment in heaven. 1t 1
could put the picture of what you an
ticipated Of life when you began it, be-
side the picture of what you have re-
allied, I would find a great difference.
You have stumbled upon great disap-
pointments. Perhaps you have ex-
pecte6 riches, and you have worked
hard enough to gain them: you have
Splai1ne1 and worried and persisted un-
TIL your hands were worn and your
brain was racked and your heart
/, tainted, and at the end of this long
Il strife with misfortune you find that
h 5you have not been positively defeated,
1t has been a drawn battle. tits still
ting and tusslethis year losing what
..you gained last, financial uncertainties
ssdpulling down faster than you build.
For perhaps twenty or thirty years.
you have been running your craft
straight into the teeth of the wind.
Z Perhaps yon have had domestic dis.
b appointment. Your children, upon
whose education you have lavislscd
J your hard-earned dollars, have not
3 turned opttns you expected. Notwith-
standing all your counsels and prayers
& and painstaking, they will not do right.
!: Manya good father has had a bad boy.
iAbsalom trod on David's heart. That
( mother never imagined all this as
twenty or thirty yrars ago she sat by,
I that child cradle.
S9ls ~. Your life has been a chapter Of dis
i appointments. But, come with ME,
and Il will show youa different scene.
. BY Gods grace, entering the other city
s Syou;will never again have a blasted
hope, The most jubilant of expecta-
tions will not reach the realization.
Coming to the top IT one hill of joy,
there will be other heights rising upon
Ethe vision. This song Of transport will
ibntlift you to higher anthems; the
sweetest choral but a prelude to more
harmony; all things better
than you had anticipated--the robe
richer, the crown brighter, the temple
t:grander. the throng mightier.
Further, ! remark, there will be no
pain of weariness. 1t may be many
hours since you quit work, but many
:of you are nnrested, some from over
/; work and some from dullness of trade,
the latter more exhausting than the
former. Your ankles ache, your spir-
its flag, you want rest. Are these
wheels always to turn? these shuttles
fly? these axes to hew? these shovels
ito adelve? these pens to fly? these
books to:be posted? these goods to be
sold?
,Ah.t the great holiday approaches.
mo more curse of taskmasters. No
more calculation until the brain is be-
.wildered. No more pain. No more
carpentry, for the mansions are all
ii1,built. No more masonry, for.the walls
ARE all 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. It is hard thing to be
really poor; to have your coat wear
ont and no money to get another; to
have your flour barrel empty, and
nothingto buy bread with for your chill.
.,dren; to live in an unhealthy row, and
s,have. no means to change your habita-
tion; to have your child sick with
some mysterious disease, and not be
able to secure eminent medical ability;
tohave son or daughter begin the
world, and you not have anything to
:help them in starting; with mind
capable of research and high con-
templation, to be perpetually fixed on
questions of mere livelihood
s Poets try to throw a romance about
:the,poo mans cot; but there is no ro-
nance about it. Poverty is hard,
cruel, unrelenting. But Lazarus
walked up without his rags and his dis
leases, and so all of Christ's poor wake
up at last without any of their disad-
Tantages--no alrnshouses, for they are
ALI princes; no rents to pay, for the
residence is gratuisous; no garments to
huv for the robes are diyiuely fash