The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-28


Again, it is the use of trouble to capaci-
tate US for the Office of sympathy. The
priests, under the old dispensation, were set
apart by having water sprinkled on their
hands, feet aud head; and by the sprinkling
or tears people are now set apart to the
office Of sympathy. When we are in pros
perity we like to have great many Young
people around us. and we laugh when they
laugh, and we roTnp when they romp, and
we sing when they sing; but when we have
trouble we like plenty Of old folks around
Why! They know how TO talk Take an
aged mother, 20 years of age, aud she is
almost omnipotent in comfort. Whya She
has been through 1t all. At o'clock in the
morning she goes over to comfort a young
mother who has just lost her babe.
GRANDMOTHER knows all about that
trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it. At IL
o'clock Of that day she goes over to CON-
fort widowed soul She knows all about
that. She has been walking in that dark
valley twenty years. At o'clock in the
afternoon some one knocks at the door
wanting bread. She knows all about that
Two or three times in her life she came to
her last loaf. At 10 o'clock that night she
goes over TO sit up with some one severely
SICK. She knows all about it, She
Knows all about fevers aud pleu-
risles and broken bones She has been
doctoring all her life, spreading plasters,
and pouring out bitter drops, and shaking
up hot pillows, and contriving things to
tempt poor appetite Doctors AbernethY
and Rush and Hosack aud Harvey were
great doctors, but the greatest doctor the
world ever saw is an old christian woman.
Dear mel Do we not remember her about
the room when we were sick in our boy
hoods Was there any one who could ever
SO touch sore without hurting its
And when she lifted her spectacles
against her wrinkled forehead, so she could
look closer at the wound, it was three
fourths healed. And when the Lord took
her home, although you may have been
men and women 80, 40, so years Of age. you
lay on the coffin lid and sobbed as though
you were only 5 or 10 years of age. Oman,
praise God if you have in your memory the
picture or an honest, sympathetic, kind,
self-sacri6cing Christ-like mother. O it
takes these people vino have had trouble to
comfort others in trouble. Where did Paul
get the ink with which to write his COM
forting epistle! Where did David get the
ink to write his comforting psalmsi Where
did John get the ink to write his comfort
ing Revelation! They got it out of their
own tears. When a man has gone through
the curriculum, and has taken course of
dungeons and imprisonments, and ship
wrecks, he is qualified for the work of sym
pathy.
When [ began to preach, my sermons on
the subject of trouble were all poetic and in
semi-blank verse; but God Knocked the
blank verse out of me long ago, I'd have
found out that | cannot comfort people ex-
cept as myself have been troubled. God
make me the son of consolation to the
people. | would rather be the means
OF soothing one perturbed spirit to-day,
than TO play tune that would set ali
the sons of mirth reeling in the dance 1
am an herb doctor. put into the caldron
the root out of dry ground without form or
comellness. Then i put in the Rose of
Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Then |
put into the caldrol some of the leaves
from the Tee of Life, and the Branch that
was thrown into the wilderness Marah.
Then ! pour in the tears of Bethany
and Golgotha; then | stir them up
Then / kindle under the caldron fire
made out of the wood of tue 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
God will wipe all tears from their eyes.
You know on Il well spread table the food
becomes more delicate at the last. / have
ton. Let the table now be cleared, aud lot
us set on the chalice of heaven. Let the
Kings cup bearers come in. Good morn
ing, Heaven! 60" says some critic in
the audience, "the Bible coDtradicts
itself. 1t intimates again and again
that there are TO be no tears in heaven.
and if there be no tears in heaven
how is it possible that God will wipe
any awayp | answer, have you never
seen a child crying one moment and laugh
ing the next; and while she was laughing
you saw the tears still on her facet And
perhaps you stopped her in the very midst
Of her resumed glee, and wiped of those
delayed tears. So, / think, after the
raptures have come upon us, there
may be the mark of some earthly grief,
and while those tears are glittering 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 trial. The shortest
verse in the Bible tells the story: Jesus
wept.n The scar on the back of either
hand, the scar on the arch of either foot,
the row of scars along the line Of the hair.
viii keep all heaven thinking. o that
great weeDer is just the one to silence all
earthly trouble, wipe out all stains OF
earthly grief. Gentlel Why, his step is
softer than the step of the dew. 1t will
not be tyrant bidding you to
hush up your crying. 1t will be a father,
who will take you on his left arm, his face
cleaning into yours, while with the soft
tips of the fingers of the right hand he
shall wipe away all tears from your eyes.
have noticed when the children get hurt,
and their mother is away from home,
they always come to Inc for comfort and
but have noticed that when
,he children get hurt, and their mother Is
1t home, they go right past me, and to her
am of no account.
So, when the soul comes up into heaven
,ut Of the wounds of this life, It will not stop
} look for Paul, or Moses, or David, or John.
hall rush past, crying: "Where is Jesus!
Where is Jesusl' Dear Lord, what magni-
fcent thing to die if thou shalt thus wipe
away our tears Methink it will take us some
ime 10 get used TO heaven; the fruits of
1od without one speck; the fresh pastures
without one nettle; the orchestra without
,ne snapped string; the river of gladness
without one torn bank; the solferinos and
he saffron of sunrise and sunset swallowed
ID in the eternal day that beams from Gods
Why should wish TO linRer in the wild,
Nhen thou art waiting, Father, to receive thy
childg
Sirs, If we could get any appreciation of
What God has iD reserve for US, it would
make US so homesick we would be unfit for
Jur every day work. Prof. Leonard, for
nerly Of Iowa university put ia my hands
mete0ric stone, a stone thrown or from
ome other world 10 this. How suggestive
/ was 70 me. And have 70 tell you the
pest representations we have OF heaven ars