The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-07

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tlons Of the heavenly city into which
we all hope to move? Ny text answers
1t by saying, 'tNeither shall there be
any more pain
No Pain In Heaven.
First, remark, there will be no pain
OF disappointment in heaven. If could
put the picture of what you anticipated
OF life when you began it beside the
picture Of what you have realized,
would find great difference You
have stumbled upon great disappoint-
ments. 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 misfortune you
find that if you have not been positive
~ defeated it has been drawn battle |
It is still tug and tussle, this year los
,hB|aNs hat Efh27as en@ncss5 un,
- sainties, pulling down fasrsrrt'fs
;ou build For perhaps 20 or so 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 laYished your hard earn
ed dollars, have not turned out as ex-
pected. Notwithstanding all your coun-
sells and prayers and painstaking, they
viii not do right. Many good father
has had bad boy. Absalom trod on
Oavid's heart. That mother never
imagined all this as 30 or 80 years ago
she sat by that child's cradle.
Your life has been chapter of disap-
pointments. But co, le with me, and l
will show you a 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 to
the top of one hill of joy, there will be
other heights rising up in the vision.
This song Of transport will but lift you
to higher anthems, the sweetest choral
but prelude to more tremendous har-
mony, all things better than you had
anticipated-the robe richer, the crown
brighter, the temple grander, the throng
mightier.
Further, I 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 over
work, and some from dullness of trade,
the latter more exhausting than the for
,-~sees Your ankles ache, your spirits
Hag, yor1>want rest. Are these wheels
always to turn, these shuttles to fly,
these axes to hew, these shovels to
de1ve, these pens to fly, these books to
be posted, these goods to be sold? s.
No Work and No Poverty.
All, the gysat holiday approaches. No
more curse Of taskmakers. 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
masonry, for the walls are all reared.
Nomore diamond cutting, for the gems
are all set. No more gold beating, for
the crowns are all completed No more
agriculture, for the harvests are sponta-
neous.
Further, there will be no more pain
of poverty. 1t is hard thing to be real
ly poor; to have your coat wear out and
no money to get another; to have your
flour barrel empty and nothing to buy
bread with for your children; to live in
an unhealthy row and no means to
change your habitation; to have your
child sick with some mysterious disease
and not be able to secure eminent med
ical ability; to have son or daughter be-
gin the world and you not have any
thing to help them in starting, with a
mind capable of research and high con-
temptation to be perpetually fixed on
questions of mere livelihood.
Z, Poets try to throw a romance about
the poor mans cot, but there is no TO-
nance about it. Poverty is hard, cruel,
unrelenting. 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 the residence is gratu-
itous; no garments to buy, for the robes
are divinely fashioned; no seats in
church for poor folks, but equality
among temple worshipers; no novels,
no hard crusts, no insufficient apparel
s'They shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more, neither shall the SUI
light on them nor any heat" No more
painl
No More Parting.
Further, there will be no pain Of part
inc. All these associations must some
time break up. We clasp hands anc
walk together, and talk and laugh and
weep together, but we must after awhile
separate. Your grave will be in one
place, mine ii 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, and
nothing will be unusual in our appear
ance or our conversation, but God GnowS
that it is the last time, and messengers
from eternity on their errand to take
US away know it IS the last time, and
in heaven, where they make ready for
our departing spirits, they know it is
the last time.
Oh, the long agony Of earthly separa-
ton! It is awful to stand in your nurs-
cry fighting death back from the couch
of your child, and try to hold fast the
little one, and see all the time that he is
getting weaker, and the breath is short
er, and make outcry to God te help Us
and to the doctors to save him, and see
it is Of no avail, and then to know that
his spirit is gone and that you have
nothing left but the casket that held the
jewel. and that in two or three days
= you must even put that away and walk
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