The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-09
VICTORY OVER PAIN.
DR.. Talmage Draws a Graphic Pic
ture of the Life in Heaven.
The Perplexities of This World Arc On
known and Unfelt There, but to
Gain This Reward One
Must Repent.

Lne PUBIC through the prcsS was upoh
the subject of Victory Over Pain"
the text chosen being Revelation xxi
4: Neither shall there be any more
pain" Following is the sermon:
The first question that you ask when
about to change your residence to any
city is: What is the health of the
place? is it shaken of terrible disorders?
what are the bills of mortality? what
is the death-rate? how high rises the
thermometer And am / not reason
able in asking, what are the sanitary
conditions of the Heavenly City into
which we all hope to move? My text
answers it by saying: Neither shall
there be any more pain
First, / remark, there will be no
pain of disappointment in Heaven. If
could put the picture of what you an
ticipated of life when you began it.
beside the picture of what you have
realized. / would find a great differ
ence. You have stumbled upon great
disappointments. Perhaps you have
expected riches. and you have worked
hard enough to gain them: you have
planned and worried and persisted I'M
| til your hands were worn and your
brain was racked and your heart faint
ed. and at the end of this long strife
with misfortune you find that you have
not been positively defeated, it has
been a drawn battle. 1t is still tug
and tussle-this year losing what
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 dis
/ appointment Your children, upon
whose education you lavished your
hard-earned dollars, have not turned
out as expected. Notwithstanding all
your counsels and prayers and pains
taking. they will not do right. Many
| a 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 ehild's cradle.
Your life has been a chapter of dis
appointments. But, come with me, and
| | will show you different scene. By
thC OehNA lily
| you will never again have blasted
hope. The most jubilant of expecta-
! tions will not reach the realization.
Coming to the top of one hill of joy,
there will be other heights rising upon
| the vision. This song of transport will
I but 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.
Further, / 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 overwork,
and some from dizziness of trade, the
latter more exhausting than the for
mer. Your ankles ache, your spirits
| flag. you want rest. Are these wheels
| always to turn? these shuttles fly?
these axes to hew? these shovels to
delve? these pens to fly? these books to
be posed? these goods to be sold?
All. the great holiday approaches.
| No more curse of taskmasters. No
more STOPPING till the back aches. No
IRE calculation until the brain is be-
wildered. No more pain. No more
carpentry, for the mansions are all
| built. No more masonry, for the walls
| are all reared. No more diamond cut
ting, for the gems are.an 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. 1t is a hard thing to be
/ really poor; to have your coat wear out
/ and no money to get another; to have
your -four barrel empty, and nothing
/ to buy bread with for your children;
| to live in an unhealthy row, and have
no means to change your habitatiou;
to have your child sick with some mys-
terious disease, and not be able to
secure eminent medical ability; to have
son or daughter begin the world, and
you not have anything to help them in
| starting; with a mind capable of re-
search and high contemplation, to be
perpetually fixed on questions of mere
/ livelihood.
Poets try to throw a romance about
/ lAC HOOI man GU, out - III
romance about it. Poverty is hard,
cruel, unrelent ting. But Lazarus walked
up without his rags and his disco ses,
/ and so all of Christ's poor wake up at
last without any of their disadvantages
no almshouses, for they are all
princes: no rents to pay, for the resi-
dence is gratuitous; no garments to
| buy, for the robes are divinely fash
/ toned; no seats in church for poor
folks, but equality among temple wor-
shippers. No novels, no hard crusts, no
insufficient apparel. They shall hun
ger no more. neither thirst any more,
neither shall the sun light on them nor
any heat" No more 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
one place, mine in another. We
! look each other full in the face for the
l last time. We will be sitting together
/ some evening, or walking together
/ some day. and nothing will be I'M
usual in our appearance, or our con-
versation: but God knows that it is the
! last time; and messengers from eter-
nifty. on their errand to take US away,
lno:V it is the last time, and in Heaven,
where they make ready for our de-
parting spirits, they know it is the last
{ time.
Oh, the long agony of earthly separa-
ton, 1t is awful to stand in your
nursery fighting death back from the
couch of your child, and try to hold