The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-11-14
VlCTORY OVER PAIN
Rev. DR.. Ts,mase Writes o;ths Heavenly

Rev. DR.. Ta)naSe Writes otths aesVeh'!
BROOKLYN, Nov, 4 Rev. D.. Tai
mage who is now nearing the close o.
his globe c!rcling tour ard will shortly
reach American snores, has selecteo 81
the suhioct OF today's sermon shsougr
this press "Victcry Over Pair" the
text chosen being Revelation XXI, 4.
sNeither shall there Re any more pala."
The first question that !cu ask when
about to change your residence to any
cisy is: "Wbst is the health Of the
place? Is 1t shaken of terrible disorders:
What are the bills of mortality? what
is the death rate: How high rises the
thermoneser?'' And ami not reason
able in asking, Wat are the sanitary
conditiors of the heavenly city Into
which We all hope to move? M7 text
answers it by saying, Neither shall
there be any more pain.
First, rensrk, that there Will De no
pain of disappointment IN heaven. LII
could put the picture of what you an
ticipated of life when you began j: beside
tn. picture Of what you have realzsd
Iwould find great difference. You
have stumbled upon great dlsappoins'
ments. Perhaps you expected rlcnes,
and YOU have worked hard enough to
gsin them. You have planned and
worried and persisted until your hands
were worn and your brain was racked
and your heart tainted, and at the end OF
this long strife with misfortune you Ind
that if you have not been positively de-
feated it has been drawn battle. 1t ls
still tug and tussle, this year losing
what you gained last, financial uocer'
tsinties pulling down faster than yo1
can build. For perhaps 20 or 80 years
YOU have peen running your craft
straight into the teeth Of the wind.
Perhaps you have had domestic disap.
pointnezt. Your children, upon whose
education you lavished your hard esrueo
dollars, have not turned cut IS expect
ed. n Notwithstanding sil your counsels
and prayers and paiastaking they VII!
not do right. Many goo3 father has
had bad boy. Absslom trod OF OaV.
ld's heart. That mother never imagined
all this as 20 or 80 years ago she sat by
that child's cradle.
Your life has been chapter OF dlssp-
continents, but come with me-, and
will show you different scene. By
Gods grscs. entering the other city you
viii never again have blasted hope.
The most iubiant Of expectations will
not reach the realz sticn. Coming to
the top of one hill OF joy, there will be
other heights rising upon tae vision.
This song of transport will but lit you
to higher anthems, the sweetest cto-al
but q prelude TO more tremendous har.
monY, all things better than you had an
ticipated-the robe richer, the crown
brighter, the temple grander, the
shrong mightier.
Further. I remark, there viii be no
pam of WEAKNESS. It may be many
hours since you quit work but many OF
you are unrested, some from overwork.
and some from 5ullness Of trade, the
latter more exhausting than the former.
Your ankles ache; your spirits flag; you
want rest. Are these wheels alTays
to tula, these shuttles to fly, these axes
to hew, these shovels to delye, these
pens to fig, these books to be posted,
these goods to be sold?
Ah, the great holiday approaches!
No more curse of taskmakers; no more
STOPPING until the back sches; no more
calculation until the brain Is bswlldered;
no nore pain; no more carpentry, tor
the mansions are all built; no moro ma.
sonry FOR the walls are sll reared; NO
more diamond cutting, for the gems are
all set; no more gold beating, for the
crowns are ali completed; no more agrl'
culture, for the harVests are spontane'
Gus.
Further, there will be no more pain
or poverty. It is s hard thing to be
really poor, to have your coat wear ou'
and no money to get another, to have
your aour barrel empty and nothing to
buy bread with for your children, to live
in an unhealthy row and no means
to change your habltstlon, tc
have your child sick with some myste
rious disease and not be able to secure
eminent medical ability, to have son OF
daughter begin the world and you moi
have anything to help them IN starting,
With q mind capable Of research ano
high contemplation to be perpetuslly
fixed on questions of mere livelihood.
Poets Try to throw romance about
the poor mans cot. but there is no ro'
nance about it. Poverty is hard, cruel,
unrelenting. But Lszsrus walked up
without his rags and MS diseases, and SO
all Of Christ's poor wake up at last
without any of their disadysntsses-nc
slmshouses, for they are all prlpces; nc
rent to pay, for the residence Is gratul'
toup; no garments to buy for the robes
are divinely fashioned; no seats in
church for poor folks, but equality
among temple worshippers; no novels;
no hard crusts; no insufficient apparel.
''They shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more, neither shall the sun
light on ;seu nor any heat" No more
pain.
Further, there will be no pain Of part
ing. AL 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, anc
nothing will be unusual in our appear
sncs or our conversation, but God knows
that il ls the last time, and messengers
from eternity on their errand to take us
away know it Is the last time. and ir
heaven, where they make resdy for oul
departing spirits, they know it is the last
time.
Oh, the long egony Of earthly separa-
ton! It is awful to stand in youl
nursery fighting death back from the
couch Of your child and try to hold tast
the little one aad see all the time thai
be Is getting weaker and the breath il
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