Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-28
USES OF ADVERSELY.
A TOUCHING SERMON BY THB RBY DR..
TALMAGB
To Al 0ysraowing Audience in the Brooklyn
Academy Of Musio-Ths Uses Of Trouble.
"Got Shall Wips Away all
Tears From Their Eyes"
Telegram 10 the RegIste,.


three churches since came to Brooklyn.
Fhst, the original Tabernacle. Soon afteI
that We made an enlargement that cost al.
most as much as church. A few years
sfJer it all burned down. Then we pm;
up the building recently destroyed, and
reared Il in time when the whole cOun-
try was in its worst financial distress.
L, was these repeated disasters that
left us in debt. My congregation
have done magnifciently, but any
church would be in debt after so many
cilsmities Now for the first time we sre
cut of debt Bot we need at least one
hundred thousand dollars 10 build a
church large enough, and We call on peO-
pie OF al creeds and all lands to help. Be-
fore / help dedicate a new church we mus,
have every dollar Of It paid. will never
again be pastor OF cbuTCh il debt. Il
has crippled rs in all our movements, al d
I shall never again wear the shacklss. ]
havs for the last sixteen years preached to
about hSe thousand people sitting enc
standing, twice q sabbath, but everybody
knows that We need place that will hold
eight thousand. l shall not be surprised
It some man of wealth SHALL say: Here
srs a bundled thousand dollars if you
vii put up a memorial structure, and call
10 after the name ofmy departed father OF
child whose memory I want put b, fore
ell nations aud for ali time.n Aud so il
would be done
De. Talmsge's text was; God shall
U.Tnu AWAY Arr -ru4pe
from their eyes" Rev. vii, Il. H,
said:
Riding across a Western prairie, wild
flowers up TO the hub OF the carriage
wheel, and while a loDg distance from ary
shelter, there came a sudden shower, and
while the rain was falling in torrents, the
sun was shining as brightly as l ever saw
10 shine; and l thought, what beautiful
spectacle this Is! 50 the tears cf the Bb'e
ars no. midnight storm, but a q on paO-
sled prairies in Gods sweet and golden
sunlight. You remember thst bottle which
David labeled as containing tears, ami
Mary's tears, and Pauls tears, aud Christ's
tears, aud the harvest of joy that ia to
spring from tie sowing OF tears. God
mixes them. God rounds them. God
shows them where to fall. God exhalss
them. 4 census is taken Of them, aud
there is a record as to the moment whea
they are born, aud as to the place Of their
grave. Tears Of bad men are not kent
Alexander, IN his sorrow, had the hair
clipped from his horses and mules, and
made a great ado about his grief but in
All the vases of heaven there is rot one OF
Algxsnder's tears Ispeak OF the tears Of
the good. Alas me they are falling ali
the time. In summer, you sometimes
bear the growing thunder, and you see
there is a storm miles away; but you know
from the drift of the clouds that il viii
NOT come anywhere near you. So, though
it may be all bright around about Us, there
~ q shower of trouble somewhere all the
time. Tearsl TeArs!
Whist is the use of them anyhOW? Why
not substitute laughter Why not make
this a world where all the psopls are well
and eternal strangers to pain and aches2
What is the use of an eastern storm wheu
We might have a perpetual nor westeI?
Why, when a family Is put together, not
have them all stay, or if they must be
transplanted to make other homes,
then have them sll live? the family record
telling a story Of marrisges and births, but
Of no deaths. Why not have the haTvesis
chase each other without fsiiguing tOi:
Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the
hard struggle? 1t is easy enough to ex.
plain a smile, or a success, or cOngratu
Iation; but, come nov, and bring all your
dictionaries and al your pbilosophies and
aH our religions, and help NE explain a
tear. A chemist will tell you that 1t Is
made mp OF salt snd lime and other compo-
nent parts: bat be misses the chief ingre-
dienis- he acid of soured life, the vi
perine sting OF bitter memory, the irag-
ments Of brGken heart. ! will tell yUu
What a tear is; il is sgony in solution.
Hear me, then, while l discourse TO you
Of
THE USES OF Trouble.
First-It is the design of trouble to
keep this world from being too attractive.
Something mast be done to mske Us vii
ling to quit this existence. fit were not
for trouble this world would be d eo1d
enough heaven for me. You and I would
be willing Go take s lease of THE life for 8
hundred million years II there were no
trouble. The earih cushioned snd up
holstered and pulared and chandelisrsd
with such expense, no story Of other
worlds could enchaut rs. We Tould say
"Let we'll enough alone. II you want to
die aud have your body disintegrated IL
,he dust, and your soul 70 cut on celes-
tial adventure, then you can goi but thn
world is good enough for me" Hor
mizht iust Gs well 20 to a man who has
lust entered the Louvre Rt Paris, and tell
MN 10 hasten eff to the picture galleries
of Venice or Florence "Why," be would
saw. what ia 10 use Of my going there
Ttere are r Rimbraad's aud Rabeas and
Rapbaels here that l haven't looked st
yet
No man wants to 90 out Of this world,
or out Of any house, until he has better
bouse. To cure this wish 20 stsy hsre,
God must somehow create a disgust fnr cur
surroundings. How shall he do l.? Hv
cannot lfYord 10 deface bis horizon, OF TO
tear oif 6ery panel from he sunset, or to
snbtrscs an anther from the water lilly, or
to bsnish the punIent aroma from the
miguonet.e, or 70 drag the robes OF the
morning in mirs You cannot expect a
Caris,opber Wren to mar his Own 81.
Psurs Cathedral OF s. Michael Angelo to
assn ont his own Last Judgment" >" or a
Handel to discOrd his l-rsel IN Egypi;'
and YOU mot expsc. God to spoil the
architecture and music of his own Torld
How then sre We to be msde willing to
leave? Here is where trouble comes II
Aitfra man has hsd 8 good deal OF
trouble. he ssys: "Well, AN ready to
90. II there is house somewhere Who's
roof DOESN'T leak, I wonld like to live
there. II there Is an atmosphere come
where that does not distress the luDgs, l
would ike TO breathe it. II there Is 8 So
eietv somewhere where there is no title
tattla. I would ike to live there
II there is q home circle somewhere
where I can find my lost friends, l would
like TO 20 there.
Il is the ministry of trouble to make
this world worth less and heaven worth
more.
rs
rEBL OUR COMPLETE DEPENDENCE
upon God. King Aphonso said that if he
had been present at the creation he could
have made q better world than this.
What pity he was rot present. l DO not
know That God will do when some men
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