Milford chronicle., 1889-11-01

knows all about fevers and pleurlsies 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 Rdsh 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
boyhoodi Was there any one who could ever
50 touch a sore without hurting itl And
when she lifted her spectacles against her
wrinkled forehead, 50 she could look closer at
the wound it was three-fourths healed.
And when the Lord took her home, al
though you may have been men and women
80, 40, 90 years Of age, you lay on the coffin
lid and sobbed as though you were only or
10 years of age o man, praise God, il you
have in your memory the picture of an hon
est, sympathetic, kind, 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 epistlel Where
did David get the ink to write his comforting
psalmsl Where did John get the ink to
write his comforting Revelatioul They got
it out Of their own tears When a man has
gone through the curriculum, and has taken
a course of dungeons and imprisounents and
shipwrecks, he is qualified for the work Of
sympathy.
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, and l have found
out that | cannot comfort people except 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 today, than to play tune that would
set all the SONS of mirth reeling in the'dance
l am an herb doctor l put into the caldron
the root out Of dry ground without form OF
comeliness. Then Iput in the Rose Of Sharon
aud 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 Golgotha; then stir
them up. Then kindle under the cadron q
fire made out Of the wood Of the cross, and
one drop of that potion will cure the worst
sickness that ever afflicted a 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 viii wipe all tears from their eyes.
You know on well spread table, the food
becomes more delicate at the last. l have
fed you today 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
"Oh," says some critic in the audience, ''the
Bible contradicts itself It 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
awayF l answer, have you never seen a
child crying one moment and laughing the
next; and while sine 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 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
glittering in the light Of the jasper sea, God
will wipe them away How well he can dc
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, will keep all
heaven thinking. Oh, that great weeper Is
just the one to silence ali earthly trouble and
wipe out all stains of earthly grief Gentlel
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 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 go right past me and to her;
am 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, OF
David. or John. These did very well once.
but now the soul shall rush past crying;
"Where is Jesusl Where is Jesus" Dear
Lord, what a magnificent thing to die il
thou shalt thus wipe away our tears. Me
think 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 sun
set swallowed up in the eterpal day that
beams from Gods countenancei
Why should / wish to linger in the wild
When thou art waiting, Father, to receive thy
childf
Sirs, 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 everyday work. Professor Leonard,
formerly Of Iowa university, put in my
hands a meteoric stone-a stone thrown of
from some other world to this. How sugges-
tive it was to me And | have TO tell you
the best representations we have Of heaven
are only aerolites flung off from that world
which rolls on bearing the multitudes of the
redeemed We analyze these aerolites, and
find them crystallizations Of tears No won
der, flung off from heavenl ''God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes"
DO YOU UNDERSTAND HEAVENS GLoRIEsl
Have you any appreciation Of the good and
glorious times your frisNls are having "a
heavenl How different it is when they get
news there Of a Christians death from what
It is here. 1t is the difference between EN-
barkation and coming into port Everything
depends upon which side Of the river you
stand when you hear Of a Christians death.
II you stand on this side Of the river you
mourn that they go. II you stand on the
other side of the river you rejoice that they
come Oh, the difference between funeral
on earth aud a jubilee in heaven-between
requiem hece and triumphal march there
parting here and reunion there. Togetherl
Have you thought of it, They are together
Not one of your departed friends in one
land, and another in another land but to-
gether in different rooms Of the same house
the house of many mansions Together!
Inever appreciated that thought so much
as when we laid away in her last slumber my
sister Sarah Standing there in the village
cemetery, looked around and said; There
is father, there is mother, there is grand
father, there is grandmother, there are whole
circles Of kindred" :" and thought to myself;
Together in the grave-together in glory.
am so impressed with the thought that do
not think that it is any fanaticism when some
one is going from this world to the next if
you make them the bearer Of dispatches to
your friends who are gone saying; "Give
my love to my parents, give my love to my
children, give my love 70 my old comrades
who are in glory, and tell them l am trying
to fight the good fight of faith, and will join
them after awhile.n
believe the message will be delivered; and
| believe it viii increase the gladness Of those