Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-11-21
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
TIE BROOKLYN DIVINE,S sun.
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT Victory Over Pam"
Tr1r. .Npithar shall there be any nor
pain. .''-Hsyelation XXI l.


shaken OF terrible Disorders? Wr4f a-r thu
bills of mortality? What is tn. 9rat n rair:
How high rises the thermometnr?" Ani am
not reasonable in asking, Wat are the
sanitary conditions OF the heavenly city in-o
which we all hope to NOV? Ny text an
swers it by saying, ''Neither shall there be
anv more pain
First, remark, there will Re no pain %
disappointment in heaven. If [ could rnt
the picture OF what you an:icirat 81 % lie
when you began it beside the pis'I-a o
what you have realized, would fin q ere #
difference. You have stumbled upon -rra'
disappointments. Perhaps you exop,;eI
riches, and you have worked hard elonsh
to gain them; you have planned and
Worried and pers!ste until your han Is wsre
worn, and your brain was rack-d. AMI vOur
heart tainted, and at the end OF this long
strife with misfortune You fnl that II you
have not been positively defeated it has heen
drawn battle. It is still tug and tussle,
this year losing what you gained last.
financial uncertainties, pu lag 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 disappoies-
ment. Your children, upon whose educ.
tlon you lavished your hard earned dollars,
have not turned out as expected. Notwith-
standing all your coUnsels ami prayers and
painstaking. they will not DO right. Many
a good father has had a bad boy. Abs1lom
trod on David'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 a chapter of disqp-
Iointments. But coma with me and I will
show you different scofIn- By Coils grace
entering tine other city. YOU will n " again
have a blastsl hope. The most jubilant OF
expectations will not reach the r ai'zltion.
Coming TO the top OF ons hill OF JOY, there
will be oiher heights rising up in the vision.
This song of transport vii out lift you TO
higher anthems, the sweetest choral but
prelude to more trenen !ous harmony. all
things better than you had nticpltei-the
robe richer, the crown bri -hter, the temple
grander, the thrOng mightier.
Further. l remark. there will ba no pain
Of weariness. Ii may be many hours sines
you quit work. tut many OF you are Unrestei,
some from overwork. and some frOn dull
ness OF trade, the latter more eNhaustiug
than the former. Your ankles ache. your
spirits flag. YOU want r-st. Are these yheals
always to turn. these saU;tles TO fiy these
axes to hcw, these shovns 20 Ge.va these
pens to fly, thes- books 70 be posted, these
goods 10 be sold?
All. the great holiday approaches. No
moe curse OF taskmakers. No more stoop-
ing until the back aclss. NJ NOR ciicui -
tion until the brain is heWiI err. M T0rs
pain. No more carp n;ry, for the mansions
are all built No more mqsOnry for the
walls are all reared. No more diImonI -.
ting, for the gems are all set. No more aa55
beating. for the crowns are all corDlataI l.
No more agriculture. for the haryesis arc
Spontaneous.
Further, there will be no more pain OF
poverty. It is a h1rl ing 10 be- rally
poor; TO have your cont wssr ont anI no
money to get another; to have .u- sour
barrel empty and not hing - buy bra Il wftl
for your children; to liv. in m uIe44tly
0Ow md no means TO change Your h-LuItI-
hon to have your chili sick with some
Mysterious disease an not lie abb. TO secure
eminent medical ability; TO have son or
daughter begin the world AMI you not have
anything TO help tlem IN starting, with a
min capable OF research aui hi.h contsr-
plation to ne perpaiuaiiy liked ol questions
o. mere livelihood.
Poets try to throw a romance about the
poor mans cot. but ther. is 10 romanee
about it. Poverty is hnTd. cruel. unrelent-
ing. But Lazarus waSel NJ without MS
rags and his diseases. AMI so all OF Carist's
poor wake up at last without any o. their
disadvantaGes-no a.msIousas, for they are
all princes: no tents 10 pay. for the resi-
dence is gralutous :no garments to bay, or
the robes are diyinely fashioned no seats in
church iOr poor fo.zs, JUi equality among
temple worshipers; no hove.s. no hsrt
s-usts, no insufficient apparel. "ihey snail
hun-prnO more, neither shall TIE sun iiSlt
on them nor any heat" NJ .nore'p.iGi
Further, there Wi! b. no pam o. parting.
All these assocltIons mu5i - tim ''r-'lI
up. We clasp han4s AMI YAK toe; .Ier,
and talk and lau III an wen together. bat
We must alItr awhile It H. EIE EriNi
will be in one place, nine in GnOLncr. VS.
look each other iuli in t1e Is for the last
time. We W II be sizing o1et l-r sons even
ing, or walking TO -etner s0'ns day. AMI
nothing will be -unu-UHI in our aPpaar-
anrp or our conversation, tut Go
knows that it is t4e last tine, aud
messengers from eternity on tue I err;.n 10
take us away know Il Is the last time. a!i IN
heaven. where tCey make reG Y tor orr de-
parting spirits, they know il i jha last time.
ITr, or # q p lrsFt'
Ii is AWFUL to stand in your Nursery fig 1t n,
death back from the couch o. your chilli, and
try TO ho.i fast the little one, and see ali tn,
time that he is g. Gog wPrkar, an the
breath is shorter. ard make outcry to GOD
TO help US and TO the ~0etors TO save him,
and see it is of DO await. and then TO know
that his spirit is gone and that you have
nothing let bur the casi"t that neid the
va, AMI tnat in Two or three Gays You
II tist wen rut that away AMI walk around
out the housa an find it deSoate. some
tines feeling raoPl.iOus, an! then to
so.ve 10 eel 4 If arentiy ami to re-
solve on self confro'. and Just as you
have come 70 what you think is psrlect self
ccntro! to 81 i.teniv come upon some little
Gear or p.cture or sIOs half worn out an
ow I'll the foo 6 OF the soul burst in ono
4 wall OF aCOnyi Or: my Col, how hIrl
J. i TO part, 10 close tGe eyes talt 'v-f can
- merry at cur coming, 30 kiss the han
~ will never again DO us a kinnn-sN. L
know reli-ion gives great couso 1t on III
such an hour, III W. ouS Vt to be CON ortet,
bat anyhow and anyway you make 1t II IS
RT u.
On steamleat WAR IN at rail car win
Cow W. may smile WHEN we say farewell, hut
these ,oOdDys at the duUtHbe they Just
take hoI of the heart vita iron pinchers
and tear it out by the roots uht b. all the
fbers qu.ver ani curl in the iorlurt AMI
drop thick blool. These sepua''ons are
winl presses into wiIicl our hearts, like rel
clusters are thrown, and then trouole turns
the win lass round and round until We are
utterly crushed and have no more capacity
to sufsr. AMI we stop crying because We
have w. pt all our tears.
every couch. there have been plrtinSs, But
once past the heavenly porta :. and you are
through with such scenes forever. In that
land there are many hand ciaspinS5 anu EN-.
brac:ngs, but only in recognition. i ma,
great home circle never breais. once hhu
your comrades there, AMI you have tneh!
forever No Grape floats from the door OF
that blissful residence. No cleft, hl'lSi 20 20
where the deal sleep; All s,;m awase, ,,S We %
emiyrant ship for foreign shore. No tol!'nS
OF bell as the funeral passes. Whoieg IL n-r'-
tions in glory. Hand to hand, ne RI 10
heart, Joy to joy. No creep nE up the nm - ;
of the death chill the ieet col un'li hot
hannels cannot warm them. NO rdlt'e Vi
sepuchral gates. No parting, no pIln.
Further the heavenly city Will nav
pain OF boLy. The race Is pierce WIN
sharp distresses. The surgeons knlIe must
cut. The dentists pinchers must pull. ram
is fought with pain. The world Is ;,;,, nres res
I.THt. SrU!rs OF diseas"', Iks Tu'
cont 'iry for a carcass, Struggle as 10
whi.n wall have it. Oar naiures sre mn, M
pteIy srscep;ib!e TO SUFFERING. The eye, ,he 80
foo. the han', with immense capaeHS u
anu -.
The little e',ill mes IT the entrance , OF
lfp manifold d'sass 9 You h91r the shrii
CRY Of in ancv - % Igr.et strikes INTO tne
fy0i.rn gun. Yea Sc itS hei IN c~ohSuIn- ~
= lev rs that t"ke nor. tHan h8it OF then, !
mo the .ust. OIL age Pis52s' cilzy anu
" Ak AMI 5 ort braathed AMI din s's1ler'
On .yarv no-,as,.t wn 7 come down pleur-
sword