Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-11-08
oes over to comfort a young mother

goes over to comfort young mother
Who has Just lost her babe.
Granddaughter knows all about that
trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it. At
10 o'clock of that day she goes over to
comfort widowed soul. She knows
ali about that. She has been walking
in that dark valley twenty years. At 4
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 and pleurisies
and broken bones. She has been doc
toring all her life, spreading plasters,
and pouring out bitter drops, and shak-
ing up hot pillows, and contriving
things to tempt poor appetite. Doc
tors Abernethy and Rush and Hosack
and Harvey were great doctors, but the
greatest doctor the world ever saw is an
old Christian woman. Dear me! Do we
not remember her about the room when
we were sick in our boyhood? Was
there any one who could ever SO touch
sore without hurting it?
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, thirty, forty,
fifty years of age, you lay on the coffin
lid and sobbed as though you were only
five or ten years of age. man, praise
God if you have in your memory the
self sacrificing, Christ-like mother. Oh,
it takes these people who have had
trouble to comfort others in trouble.
Where did Paul get the ink with which to
write his comforting 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 course of
dungeons and imprisonments and ship
wrecks he is qualified for the work of
sympathy.
When I 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 have found out that cannot
comfort people except as l myself have
of consolation to the people. I would
rather be the means of soothing one
perturbed spirit to- day, than to play a
tune that would set all the sons of mirth
reeling i'll the dance. I am herb doc
tor. put into the caldron the Root out
of dry ground without form or comeli-
ness. Then put in the Rose of Sharon
and the Lilly 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
Golgotha; then l stir them up. Then
kindle under the caldron 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.
Lazarus from the tomb. The damsei
shall rise. And on the darkness shall
break the morning, and God will wipe
all tears from their eyes.
You know on we'll spread table
the food becomes more delicate at the
last. 1 have fed you to-day with the
bread CT consolation. Let the table
now be cleared, and let us set on the
chalice of heaven. Let the Kings CUP
bearer come in. Good morning,
Heaven! "Oh, says some critic in the
audience, the Bible contradicts itself.
1t lntimates again and again that there
are to be no tears in heaven, and if there
be notears i'll heaven how is it possible
that God will wipe any away" Ianswer,
have you never seen a child crying one
moment none 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 de-
layed tears. So. I think, after the
heavenly raptures have come upon us,
there may be the mark of some earthly
grief. and while those tears are glitter
ing in the light of the jasper sea. God
will wipe them away. How we'll he can
do that.
Jesus had enough trial to make him
sympathetic with all trial. The short
est verse in the Bible tells the story:
Jesus wept." The scar on the back o f
either hand, the scar on the arch of
either foot, the row of scars along the
line of the hair. will keep all heaven
thinking. Oh, that great weeper is just
the one to silence all earthly trouble,
Gentle! Why, his step is softer than
the step of the dew. it will not be a
tyrant bidding you to hush up your
crying. 1t will be a Father who will
take you on his left arm, his face gleam-
ing into yours. while with the soft tins
of ther right hand, he shall wipe away all
tears from your eyes. I have noticed
when the children get hurt, and their
mother is away from home, they go right
past me and to her; lam of no account.
So, when the soul comes up into
Heaven out of the wounds of this life.
it will not stop to look for Paul, or
Moses, or David, or John. These did
very we'll once, but now the soul shall
rush past, crying, Where is Jesus?
Where is Jesus?" Dear Lord, what a
magnificent thing to die if Thou shalt
thus wipe away our tears. Methink it
will take us some time to get used to
Heaven: the fruits of God without one
speck; the fresh pastures 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 in the eternal day that
beams from Gods countenance!
Why should wish to linger in the wild
When Thou art waiting, Father, to receive Thy
| child?
Sirs, if we could get any appreciation
OF what God has in reserve for us. il
would make us SO homesick we would
| be unfit for our eyerv-day ,vorl- DIV,