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HEAVEN FREE FROM PAIN.
Talmage Draws a Picture Of Life in
The Eternal Ctr.

Pain OF Poverty also TO be Unknown,
The Pain of Parting Never to Be Felt
in It's Limits.
Brooklyn. Nov. 4.-Rev. DR.. Talmage,
who is now nearing the close of his globe
circling tour and viii shortly reach Amer
lean shores, has selected as the subject
of to-day's sermon through the press:
Victory over Pain" the text chosen
being Revelation 21:4 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 place? Is
is shaken of terrible disorders? What
are the bills of mortality? What is the
death rate? How high rises the Their
mometer?" And am not reasonable in
asking. What are the sanitary condi-
tons 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, 1 remark. there will be no pain Of
disappointment in heaven. If I could put
the picture of what you anticipated of life
when you began it beside the picture of
y L
great difference. You have stumbled upon
great dsappointments. Perhaps you eX-
pected 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 misfortune
you find that if you have not been posi-
lively defeated it has been a drawn bat
tie. 1t is still tug and tussle-this year
losing what you gained last, financial I'M
certainties pulling down faster than you
build. For perhaps twenty years you
have been running your craft straight
into the teeth of the wind,
Perhaps you have had domestic disap-
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 painstaking, they will not do
right. Many a good father has had bad
boy. Absalom trod on Davids heart.
That mother never imagined all this as
twenty of thirty years ago she sat by
that child's cradle.
Your life has been a chapter Of disap-
pointments. But, come with me, and 1 will
show you a different scene. By Gods
grace, entering the other city you will
never again have a blasted hope. The
most jubilant Of expectations will not
H.
top of one hill of Joy, there will be other
nights rising upon the vision. This song
of transport will but lift you to higher
anthems; the sweetest choral but a pre-
lude to more tremendous harmony; all
things better than you had anticipated
the robe richer the crown brighter, the
temple grandeT, the throng mightier.
Further, / remark there will be no pain
of WEAKNESS. It may be many hours
since you quit work, but many of you
are unrested, some from overwork, and
some from dullness of trade, the latter
more exhausting than the former. Your
ankles ache, your spirits flag, you want
rest. Are these wheels always to turn
these shuttles to fly? these axes to hew2
these shovels to delve? these pens TO fly
these books to be posted? these goods to
be sold?
All! the great holiday approaches. No
more curse of taskmasters. No more
STOPPING until the back aches. No more
calculation until the brain is bewildered.
No more pain. No more carpentry, for
the mansions are all built. No more ma
sonry, for the walls are all reared. 40
more diamond-cutting, for the gems are
all set No more gold-beating for tho
crowns are all completed No more ag-
riculture, for the harvests are spontan-
eous.
Further there will be no more pain Of
poor; TO have your coat wear out and 10
money 10 get another; to have your flour
barrel empty and nothing to buy bread
with for your children; to live in an I'M
healthy row, and no means to change your
habitation; TO have your child sick with
some mysterious 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 start
ing; with a mind capable of research and
high contempla ion, to be perpetually
fixed on questions of mere livelihood
Poets try to throw a romance about the
poor mans cot; but there is no romance
about it, Poverty is hard. cruel, unrelent-
ing. But Lazarus walked up without his
rags and his diseases, 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 their
residence is gratutous; 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 them nor any heat" Nc
more pain.
Further, there will be no pain of part
ing. All these associations must some
time break up. We clasp hands and walk
together; but we must after awhile sepa.
rate. 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 evening or walk.
ing together some day, and nothing will
be unusual in our appearance, or our con
Versation; but God knows that it is the
last time; and messengers from eternity
on their errand to take us away know II
is the last time; and in heaven, where they
make ready for our departing spirits
they know 1t is the last time.
Oh, the long agony OF earthly separa
ton, II is awful to stand in your nur
sery lighting death back from the couc.
of your child, and try TO hold fast the lit
lie one, and see all the time that he /.
getting weaker. and the breath is shorter
and make cutlery to God 10 help us, anC
TO the doctors 20 save him, and see i
is Of no avail, and then to know that hi,
spirit is gone, and that you have nothini
left but the casket that held the Jewel
and that i'm two or three days you mus
even put that away. and walk arounl
about the house and find It desolate, some
times feeling rebellious, and then to re
solve to feel differently, and TO resolve OIL
self-control and just as you have com,
TO what you think Is perfect self-control
70 suddenly come upon some little coat
or picture or shoe half worn out, and how