The Iola register., 1889-11-08

tacles against her wrinkled forehesd, q
she could look closer at the wound. i,
was three-fourths healed. And wher
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 wers
only five or ten years ct age.
o. man, praise God if you have in your
memory the picture Of an honest,
sympathetic, kind, self-sacrificing,
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 di6 John get the ink to write his
comforting Revelation? They got it out
OF their own tears. When q man has
gone through the curriculum and has
taken a course of dungeons and i'm
prisonments and shipwrecks he is quail
fled 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 have found out that can not
comfort people except as myself have
been troubled. God make me the son Of
consolation to the people. 1 would
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.
l 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 1 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 a fire made out
Of the wood of the cross, and one drop Of
that portion will cure the worst sickness
that ever afflicted human soul. Mary
and Martha shall recover 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 we'll spread table the
food becomes more delicate at the last.
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! co."
says some critic in the audience, "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
moment 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-
ures 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 trials. The short
est verse in the Bible tells the story:
"Jesus wept." 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. o, that great weeper is Just
the one to silence all earthly trouble,
wipe out all stains of earthly grief.
Gentle! Why, His step is softer than
the step of the dew. 1t will not be a
tyrant bidding you to hush up cry
ing. 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. l have noticed when the
children get hurt, and their mother is
away from home, they always come to
me for comfort and sympathy; but I
have noticed that when the children get
hurt and their mother is at home they
90 right past me and to her. l 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, or David or John. These did
very we'll once, but now the soul shall
'ush past crying: "Where is Jesus?"
Have you any appreciation Of the
rood and glorious times your friends |
ire having in Heaven? How different |
t is when they get news there Of a
Christian death from what it is here. 1t |
s the difference between embarka ton |
md coming into port. Every thing de-
,ends upon which side of the river you |
tand when you hear of a Christians |
leath. If you stand on this side of the |
liver you mourn that they go. If you
tand on the other side of the river you
ejoice that they come. o, the differ
nee between funeral on earth and q |
ubilee in Heaven-between requiem
lere and triumphal march there-part-
ng here and reunion there. Together!
lave you thought of it! They are to-
ether.
In 1751 there was bill offered in the
English Parliame mt proposing to change
he almanac so that March would come
after February Is. But o,
THAT a glorious change in the calander
7hen all the years Of your earthly ex-
stence are swallowed up in the eternal
ear of God.
My friends, take this good cheer home
nth you. These tears of bereavement
hat course your cheeks, and Of persecu.
ion, and of trial, are not always to be
here. The motherly hand of God will
'ipe them all away. What is the use,
n the way to such a consum-
is the use of
retting about any thing? o,
that an exhilaration it ought to be in