The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-11-07
VICTORY OVER PAIN"
Subject OF a Discourse by Rev. DR.
Talmage.
The Ease of Heaven and the Pangs of
Earth-When Once Past the Portals
of the Eternal City All
Worries Cease.


Worries Cease.
Rev. DR.. Talmage, who has COM
pleted his trip around the world,
selected the following sermon for pub
lication this week, the text chosen
being Revelation xxi, 4: Neither
shall there be any more pain"
The first question that you ask when
about to change your residence to any
city is: what is the health Of the
placer" Is it shaken of terrible disor-
ders2 What are the bills of mortality?
What is the death rate? How high
rises the thermometer? And am I not
reasonable in asking what are the sani-
tary conditions of the heavenly city
into which We all hope to movep My
text answers it by saying: Neither
shall their be any more pain"
First, l remark, there will be no pain
of disappointment in Heaven. If l
could put the picture of what you an
ticipated Of life when you began it be-
side the picture of what you have real
lied, l would find great difference.
You have stumbled upon great disap-
pointments. 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 at
the end of this long strife with mis-
fortune you find that if you have not
been positively defeated it has been a
drawn battle. 1t is still tug and tussle
this year losing what your gained
last, financial uncertainties pulling
down faster than you build, For per-
haps twenty or thirty years you have
been running your craft straight into
the teeth of the wind.
Perhaps you have had domestic dis
appoin tment. 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
good father has had bad boy. Alb
salon trod on Davids heart That
mother never imagined all this as TWEEN
ty or thirty years ago she sat by that
child's cradle.
Your life has been chapter of disap-
pointments. 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 jubilant of expectations will
not reach the realization. Coming tc
the top Of one hill of joy, there will be
other heights rising upon the vision
This song of transport will but lift
you to higher anthems; the sweetest
choral but prelude to more tremend
GUS 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 ne
no pain of WEAKNESS. 1t may be many
hours since you quit work, but many
of you are unrested, some from over
work, and some from dullness of trade
the latter more exhausted than the
former. Your ankles ache, your spirit:
flag, you want rest Are these wheels
always to turn? These shuttles to fly;
these axes to hew; these shovels tc
delve? these pens to fly? these book:
to be posted? these goods to be sold?
All! the great holiday approaches
No more curse of taskmasters NJ
more STOPPING until the back aches
No more calculation until the brain il
bewildered. No more pain. No more
carpentry, for the mansions are al
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 al
completed. No more agriculture, fol
the harvests are spontaneous.
Further, there will be no more pair
of poverty. 1t is hard thing to b.
really poor; to have your coat wear ou
and no money to get another; to have
your -four barrel empty, and nothing
to buy bread with for your children; tt
live in an unhealthy row, and no mean
to change your habitation; to hav,
your child sick with some mysteriou
disease, and not be able to secure emf
nent medical ability; to have son O
daughter begin the world, and you no
have anything to help them in starting
with a mind capable of research ant
high contemplation, to be perpetual,
fixed on questions of mere livelihood.
Poets try to throw romance abou
the poor mans cot; but but there is N,
romance about it. Poverty is hard
cruel, unrelenting. But Lazarus wal1et
up without his rags and his diseases
and so all of Christ's poor wake up a
last without any of their disadvantage
mo almshouses, for they are al
princes; no rents to pay, for the resi-
dence is gratuitous; no garments t,
buy, for the robes are divinely fash
ioned; no seats in church for poo
folks, but equality among temple wor
shippers. No novels, no hard crusts, n,
insufficient apparel. ''They shall hun
ger no more, neither thirst any more
neither shall the sun light on them no
any heat" No more painl
Further, there will be no pain of part
ing. All these associations must som,
time break up. We clasp hands ant
walk together, and talk and laugh ant
weep together; but we. must afte
awhile separate. Your grave will be il
one place, mine in another. We lool
each other full in the face for the las
time, We will be sitting together som,
evening or walking together some day
and nothing will be unusual in our ap
pearances, orour conversation; but Coz
knows that it is the last time; an,
messengers from eternity, on their er
rand to take us away, know 1t Is tn,