The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-11-14

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| fifty years Of age, you lay on the coffin
| lid and Sobbed as though YOU were only
| i've or ten years of age. O, man, praise
God il you have in your memory the
picture of an honest, sympathetic, kind,
self-sacriticing, Christian mother. o.
it takes these people who have had
trouble to comfort othors in trouble.
Where did Paul get the ink with which
to write his comforting epistle? Where
did David get the ink to write his COM
iorting Psalms? Where did John get the
ink to write his comforting Revelations?
They got it out of their own tears. When
man has gone through the curriculum,
and has taken course of dungeons and
imDriSonmcnts and Shipwrecks, he is
qualified for the work OF sympathy.
When began to preach, my sermons
on the subject OF trouble wcro all poetic
and in semi-blank verse; but God
knocked Che blank verse out of me long
ago. and / have found that | can not
comfort people except as myself have
been troubled. God make me the son of
consolation to the people. l would
rather be the means of soothing one per-
turbed spirit to-day, than to play tune
that would set all the sons of mirth
reelin$ in the dance. ! am herb doc
tor. put into the caldron the Root out
of dry ground without form or comeli-
ness. Then 1 put in tho Rose Of Sharon
and the Lily of the Valley. Then put
into tho caldron some of the leaves of
the Tree of Life. and the Branch that
was thrown into the wilderness Marah.
Then pour in tho tears of Bethany and
Golgotha: then stir them up. Then /
kindle under tho caldron Il fire made out
of the wood of the cross, and one drop
of that potion will cure the worst sick
ness that ever afflicted human soul.
Mary and Martha shall receive their
Lazarus from the tomb. The damsel
shall rise. And on the darkness shall
break the morning, and Goodwill wipe
all tears from their eyes.
You know on we'll spread table the
food becomes more delicate at the last.
have fed you to-day with the bread of
consolation. Let the table now be
cleared, and lot us set on the chalice Of
Heaven. Let the Kings cup bearers
come in. Good morning, Heaven! "O,"
says some critic in the audience, "the
Bible contradicts itself. 1t intimates
again and again that there arc to be no
tears in Heaven, and il there be no tears
in Heaven nowis it possible that God
will wipe any away?" l answer have
you never seen a child crying one mo
mcnt and laughing the next: and while
she was laughing you saw the tears still
on her face? And perhaps you stopped
her in the very midst of her resumed
glee, and wiped off those delayed tears.
SO, think, after the heavenly raptures
have come upon US, there may be the
mark of some earthly grief, and while
those tears are glittcring in the light OF
the jasper sea, God will wipe them away.
How well He can do that.
Jesus had enough trial to make Him
sympathetic with all trian The shortest
wept." The scar on the back of either
hand, the scar on the arch of either foot,
tho row of scars along the line Of the
hair, will keep all Heaven thinking. o,
that great weeper i. just the one to ST.
lence all earthly trouble, wipe out all
stains of earthly grief. Gentle! Why,
His step Is softer than the step OF the
dew. 1t will not be tyrant bidding
you to hush up your crying. twill be
O father who will take you on His left
with the soft tips Of the fingers of the
right hand He shall wipe away all tears
from your eyes. Ihave noticed when the
children get hurt, and their mother is
away from homo, they always come to
have noticed that when the children get
hurt and their mother is at home they
go right past me and to her; l am OF no
account.
So, when the soul comes up into
Heaven out of the wounds Of this life, &c
will not stop to look for Paul, or Moses,
or David, or John. These did very well
once, but now the soul shall rush past,
crying: "Where is Jesus? Where Is
Jesus?" Dear Lord, what magnificent
thing to die if Thou shaltthus wipe away
our tears. MetEinks it will take us some
time to get used to Heaven; the fruits of
God without one speck; the fresh pas
lures without one nettle; the orchestra
without one snapped string; the river of
gladness without one torn bank; the
Solferinos and the saffron of sunrise and
sunset swallowed up the eternal day
that beams from Gods countenance.
Why should wish to lingcr in the wild,
When thou are waiting, Father, to receive thy
child?
Still, if we could get any appreciation
of what God has in reserve for us, it
would make US so homesick We would be
unfit for our every day work. Professor
Leonard, formerly Of Iowa University,
put in my hands q moteoric stone, q
stone. thrown off from some other world
to this. How suggestive 1t was to mo.
And have to toll you the best repre-
sentations we have of Heaven are only
erolites flung off from that world which
rolls on, bearing tho. multitudes of the
redeemed, We analyze these @rolites, |
and find. them orystallizations of tears.
No wonder, flung off from Heaven. "God
shall wipe away all tears arom their
ryos."
Have you any appreciation of tho great
Nd glorious times your friends are hav-
ing in Heaven? How different it is
wher. they getnews there of "a Christians
death from what it is here. 1t IS the
Inference between ombarkation and
;omlus into port. Every thing depends
upon which side of the river you stand
When you hear of Christians death.
If You stand on this side Of the riveF
you mourn that they go. If you stand
on the other sido of the river you re=
joice that they come. 0, the difference
between a funeral on earth and q jubilee
in IIcaven-betwecn requiem hero and
triumphal march there--parting here
and reunion there, Together. Have
you thought Of its They a:e together.
Not one of your departed friends in one
land and another in another land; but
together. in different rooms Of the same
housc-thc house Of many mansions.
Together!
never appreciated that thought so
much as when wo laid away.in her last
slumber my sister Sarah. Standing
there in the village cemetery, looked
around and said; ''Ihere Is father,
there is mother, there is grandfather,
tharn is. grandmother there are whole