Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-11-07


forty, fifty years of age, you lay on the
coffin lid and sobbed as though you were
only five or ten years Of age.
O, man, praise God if you have in your
memory the picture of an honest,
sympathetic, kind, self-sacrifcing,
Christ-like mother. O, it takes these
people who 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 Psalms?
Where did John get the ink to write his
comforting Revelation? They got it out
Of their own tears. When a man has
gone through the curriculum and has
taken a course of dungeons and i'm
prisonments and shipwrecks he is quail
fed for the work of sympathy.
When l 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 and l have found out that can not
comfort people except as I myself have
been troubled. God make me the son Of
L
rather be the means of soothing one per-
turbed spirit to-day than to play tune
that would set all the sons of mirth reel
ing in the dance. / am an herb doctor.
/ put into the caldron the root out of dry
ground without form or comeliness.
Then put in the Rose of Sharon and
the Lily of the Valley. Then put into
the caldrOn some of the leaves from the
Tree of Life, and the Branch that was
thrown into the wilderness Marah.
Then pour in the tears of Bethany and
then l stir them up. Then l
kindle under the caldron fire made out
of the wood of the cross, and one drop of
that portion will cure the worst sickness
that ever afflicted a human soul. Mary
and Martha shall recover their Lazarus
from the tomb. The damsel shall rise.
And on the darkness shall break the
and God will wipe all tears
from their eyes.
You know on q well spread table the
food becomes more delicate at the last.
l have fed you to-day with the bread of
consolation. Let the table now be
cleared and let US set on the chalice of
Heaven. Let the kings cup bearers
come in. Good morning, Heaven! "O,"
says some critic in the audience, 1.-The
Bible cOntradictS 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 away?" l answer,
have you never seen child crying one
and laughing the next; and
while she was laughing you saw the
tears still on her face? And perhaps
you have stopped her in the very midst
Of her resumed glee and wiped off those
delayed tears.
So, think, after the Heavenly rapt-
lreS have come upon us. there may be
he mark of some earthly grief. and
while those tears are glittering in the
light of the Jasper sea. God will wipe
hem away. How well He can do that.
Jesus had enough trial to make Him
with all trials. The short
st verse in the Bible tells the story:
Jesus wept." The scar on the back of
.ither hand, the scar on the arch of
-ither foot, the row of scars along the
inc of the hair, will keep all Heaven
linking. o, that great weeper is just
he one to silence all earthly trouble,
wipe out all stains of earthly grief.
ientle! Why, His step is softer than
he step of the dew. 1t will not be
yrant bidding you to hush up cry
ng. 1t will be a Father who will |
axe you on His left arm, His face
leaning into yours, while with the |
oft tips of the fingers of the right hand,
lie shall wipe away all tears from
our eyes. l have noticed when the |
hildren get hurt, and their mother is
way from home, they always come to |
ne for comfort and sympathy; but l |
ave noticed that when the children get |
urt and their mother is at home they |
o right past me and to her. I am of |
o account. So when the soul comes up
nto Heaven out of the wounds of this
Ife, it will not stop to look for Paul, or
loses, or David or John. These did
cry we'll once, but now the soul shall
ush past crying: Where is Jesus?"
Have you any appreciation of the
God and glorious times your friends
re having in Heaven? How different
: is when they get news there of a
hristian death from what it is here. 1t
) the difference between embarka ton
nd coming into port. Every thing de-
ends upon which side of the river you
tand when you hear of Christians
cath. If you stand on this side of the
Iver you mourn that they 60. II you
tand on the other side of the river you
ejoice that they come. o, the differ
nee between a funeral on earth and
lbilee in Heaven-between requiem
ere and triumphal march there-part-
lg here and reunion there. Together!
AVE you thought Of it! They are to-
ether.
In 1881 there was bill offered in the
nglish Parliame Mt proposing to change
he almanac so that March would come
after February IS. But o,
hat glorious change in the calander
hen all the years of your earthly ex-
tence are swallowed up in the eternal
ear of God.
My friends. take this good cheer home
it'll you. These tears of bereavement
lat course your cheeks, and of persecu.
on, and of trial, are not always to be
lere. The nOtherly hand of God will
ipe them all away. What is the use,
n the way to such a cOnsum-
is the use of
citing about any thing? o,
hat an exhilaration it ought to be in
hristian work! See you the pinnacles
yainst the sky? 1t is the cry of ouI
cd, and We are approaching it. Oh,
It US be busy in the few days that shall
,main for US. The Saxons and the
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