Milford chronicle., 1889-11-01
THE USES OF TROUBLE.
SERMON PREAcHE9 BY DR.. TAL-
MAGE, SUNDAY, OCT. 27.

A Discourse Based Upon the Recent Ahiio-
tion Suffered by the Congregation Of the
Popular Brooklyn Divine-A Large Con-
gregation Present.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 27.-The Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage, D. D., preached to an overGowing
congregation at the Academy Of Music today.
THE COMING TABERNACLE.
Before preaching he said that mistaken
notion was abroad that the insurance on his
destroyed church was enough to rebuild. The
repetition Of disasters left US in debt. We
have practically built three churches since
came to Brooklyn. First, the original Taber-
nacle. Soon after that we made an enlarge
nlent that cost almost as much &c church.
A few years after it all burned Then we
put up the building recently destroyed, aud
reared it in a time when the whole country
was in its worst financial distress. It was
these repeated disasters that left us In debt.
Ny congregation have done magnifcentlyi
but any church would be in debt after SC
many calamities. Now for the first time we
are out of debt But we need at least one
hundred thousand dollars to build church
large enough, and we call on people Of all
creeds and all lands to help.
Before l help dedicate a new church We
must have every dollar Of It paid. will
never again be pastor of church in debt
It has crippled us in all our movements, and
I shall never again wear the shackles.
have for the last sixteen years preached tC
about five thousand people sitting and stand
ing, twice Sabbath, but everybody knows
that we need a place that will hold eight
A. -I.~n hse col eorrsr
man Of wealth shall say: "Here are a hun
dred thousand dollars if you will put up 6
memorial structure, and call it after the
name Of my departed father or child whos'
memory want put before all nations ant
for all timen And so it would be done.
ALL TEARS TO BE WIPED AWAY.
DIR. Talmages text was: God shall wip,
away all tears from their eyes. REV. vii, H.
He said;
Riding across a western prairie, wilC
flowers up to the hub of the carriage wheel
and while long distance from any shelter
there came a sudden shower, and while the
rain was falling in torrents, the sun wal
shining as brightly as ever l saw it shine
and l thought, what a beautiful spectacle
this isl So the tears of the Bible are not mid
night storm, but rain on pansied prairies il
member that bottle which David labeled a!
containing tears, and Mary's tears, anC
Paul's tears, and Christ's tears, and the har
vest of Joy that is to spring from the sowing
of tears. God mixes them. God round!
them. God shows them where to fall. Goo
exhales them. A census is taken of them
and there is a record as to the moment wheI
they are born, and as to the place of theil
grave
Tears of bad men are not kept. Alexander
in his sorrow, had the hair clipped from hi
horses and mules, and made great ado abou
his grief; but in all the vases of heaven ther
is not one of Alexander's tears. l speak o
the tears of the good. Alas, mol they ar
falling all the time. In summer you some
times hear the growing thunder, and you se
there is a storm miles away, but you know
from the drift Of the clouds that 1t will no
come anywhere near you. So, though it ma.
be all bright around about US, there is
shower Of trouble somewhere all the time
Tearsl Tearsl
What is the use of them anyhOwl VIII
not substitute laughteri Why not make thi
a world where all the people are well anC
eternal strangers to pain and aches' Wha
is the use of an eastern storm when we nigh
have perpetual nor'westerl Why, when
family is put together, not have them all stay
or if they must be transplanted to max
other homes, then have them all livel tn
family record telling a story of marriages ant
births, but of no deaths Why not have the haT
vests chase each other without fatiguing toll
Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the har'
struggled 1t is easy enough to explain smile
or a success, or a cOngratulation; but, com
now, and bring all your dictionaries and al
your PHILOSOPHERS and all your religions, ant
help me explain tear. A chemist viii tell yol
that it is made up Of salt and lime, and othe
component parts; but he misses the chief in
gredients-the acid of a sOured life, the viper
Inc sting Of bitter memory, the fragment
of a broken heart I will tell you what
tear is; it is agony in solution.
Hear me, then, while 1 discourse to you 0
the uses Of trouble.
WE MUST LEAVE THIS WORLD.
First-It is the design Of trouble to keeI
this world from being too attractive. Some
thing must be done to make us willing t
quit this existence. If it were not 70
trouble this world would be a good enoug
heaven for me. You and I would be willinl
to take a lease Of this life for a hundre
million years. if there were no trouble. Tn
earth cushioned and upholstered and pillare
and chandeliered with such expense, no stOr,
Of other worlds could enchant us. We woul
say: "Let well enough alone. II you wan
to die and have your body disintegrated Il
the dust, and your soul go out on a celestia
adventure, then you can go; but this worl
is good enough for men You might as wei
go to a man who has just entered the Louvr
at Paris and tell him to hasten off to tn
picture galleries of Venice or Florence.
why" he would say, ''what is the use o
my going therel There are Renbrandts ant
Rubens and Raphaels here that haven
looked at YETI No man wants TO go out o
this world or out Of any house, until he ha
a better house. To cue this wish to sta
here, God must somehow create disgust TO
our surroundings. How shall he do itl Fl
cannot afford to deface his horizon, or to tea
of fiery panel from the sunset, or to sui
tract an anther from the water lily, or +
Danish the pungent aroma from the mig
nonette, or to drag the robes Of the morning
in the mire. You cannot expect a Christie
pher Wren to mar his own st. Paul's eathe
dral, or a Michael Angelo TO dash out his owl
Last Judgment or a Handel to discord hi
''Israel in Egypt and you cannot expec
God to spoil the architecture and music of hi
own world How, then, are we to be mad
willing to leave. Here is where troubl
comes in After man has had a good dea
of trouble he says: ''Well, am ready to &c
II there is a house somewhere whose roo
doesn't leak, I would like to live there.
II there is an atmosphere somewhere tina
does not distress the lungs, / would like t
breathe it. If there is a society somewher
where there Is no tittle-tattle, would like t
I live there. If there is a home circle some
where where ] can find my lost friends,
would like to go there" He used to read tn
/ first part of the Bible chiefly, now ho read
the last part of the Bible chiefly. Why ha
he changed Genesis for Revelationi All. b
/ used to be anxious chiefly TO know how thi
world was made, and all about its geological
4 construction. Now be is chiefly anxious L
/ know how the next world was made, aud hos
( It looks, and who live there, and how the.
dress. He reads Revelation ten times nov
where he reads Genesis once. The old story
'In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth,n does not thrill him half al
much as the other story, Il saw a new