The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1889-12-20
REV. DIR. TAAMAGE.
The ESrooklyn Nlvine,sS Sun.
day Sermon.
suiJeo, . "wbat Trouplo is For.'

day Sermon.
Subject "What Trouble is For.''
,r gas ae e T T; De osor %iss Ta1msge, p E;ol ?:
sks Brooklyn Academy Of Music. Sl8tI
Before prenchtng no said that a mistskea
potion was abroad that the insurance on his
!epstition Of disa sters loft us in debt. Wd
hdyo practically built throo churches since j
same to brooklyn. First, tho original Taber-
aacle Soon after that wo made an enlhrge1
nent that cost almost as much as q church.
A few Years after it all burned. Then ve
put np the building recently destroyed. and
reared it IN = time when tho whole country
vas in its worst financial distress.
isft y, Vas /. 'nsSs f'P as ,o-ns alsss5ioS h sass
aonc n,agniHcently, but any church would be
Y debt after SO many calan,ities. Now for
tho FIRST time wo are out OF debt. But wo
ep p,opleo all crceds and all lands to help.
{ Hoforo | help dedicate a now church wo must
have every dollar Of it paid. will never
crippled us in al orr movements. and ]
shall lever again wear Che shacltlos. ! have
Tor tl,, last sixteen years preached to
shout 5000 people sitting and stand
Fiat NO nesd " pl,cs chat will hold 5000 i
shall not be surprised IL somo maj Of wealth
shall say: Hero aro a $100, 900 IL you will
. put up a memorial structure, and call it after
Whose memory ! want put before all nations
n for all time" And so it will be done.
TEXT: "God shah ,oipe away all Tears
From their eues."-Rcv. vii, II.
Riding across n western prairie, wild
flowers up to the hub Of tho carriage wheel,
and while a long distance from any shelter,
u kr 80 .,.Tx., = sudden, SIN, Az and Cvhija tina
Rim. was falling III torrents, the sun was
aiming as brightly as / over saw it shine;
sgd thought, what a beautiful spectacle
fa.s Isl! So the tears Of tho Bible ara
ySairies in Gods sweet and golden sunlight.
you remember that bottle which David
!Ns',iei rs containing tears, aud NIary's
fears and I'aMps tears, and Christie
NSring from tho sowing Of tears. God
pdxes them. God rounds them. God shows
f.eni where to fall. God exhales thom. A
os rus is taken Of thom, and thcro is a record
MS TO the moment whom they arc born. and
ast, ths placs OF their grave, Tears Of bad
Iie:i are not kept. Alexander, in his sorrow.
hnA the hair clipped from his horses and
!!Mhlet, and mado q great ado about his grief;
q hicxandcr,s tears. J speak of the tears OF
$40 good. .AlasI mel they are falling Ill. the
FSSpas., In summon, you sometimes hoar the
MoStTlMg, thunder, and you SEQ there is n
esEsofIn piles away; but you know from tho
Ariftof the clouds that it will not como any
Where near you. So, though it may be all
ptlRht around us, there IS n shower Of trouble
s9ffSstyhere all tho timo. Tears! Tcarsl
5yStVha i tho usc Of thom anyhow Why
Hhbt substitute laughter? Why not mako this
Syworld where all tho people arc well and
eternal strangers TO pain aud aches. What
q tho u&e Of IN eastern storm when wo might
Aayc a perpetual nor'wester? Why, when Il
.amily is put together, not have them nh
Il StIy. or If tnay Jll1ISt Ina ii.u1,st,lnr fnJ n ,noJ,
other homes, then have them all live? tho fam.
ny record telling a story Of marriages and
births, but Of no deaths. why not have Che
4 aai = t shss0 7S SaSh tho ot'e 6a,, w hi;IoM
the hard crust, tho hard STRUGGLED
1t is easy enough to explain n smile, OF a
success. or q congratulation: but, come now,
and bring all your dictionaries mid all your:
que explain q teal. A chemist viii tell yoi,
that it is made up Of salt and lime and other
component parts; but ho misses tho chief
sngredients-the acid Of q soured life, tho
m1sents Of a broken heart. I will tell yo,
what q tear is: it is agony in solution.
the uSss Of trouble.
FirseIit is the design Of trouble to keep
thing must be done to mako us willing ia
quit this existence. If it were not for trouble
THIS .wor would be a good enough heaven
Tor me. You and ! would, DO willing IS take
II there wore no trouble. Tho earth cust
1oned and upholstered and pillared and chan
deliered with slch expense, no story Of Other
ffgy1rids could onchant us. We would say
~ L G'a a we1l ha enough n. alone alone. # you want
EEA1e dust, and your soul go out on a ~celestia
adventure, then you can 60; but this world
!aggood enough for me-" You might as well
Hot to a man who has just entered tho Louvre
n. AZ PlriS 0p1 foil hin, RI hoet,,, .Cp 1 - ~
picture galleries Of Venice or Florence,
uT:tVhy," ho would say, what is the use OF
tny going there? There are Rembrandts and
4tubens and Raphaels hero TINT l haven't
ooked at yet"
No man wants to go out Of this world. or
out Of any house, until he has n better house.
10 euro this wish to stay hcre, God must
soniehow create a disgust for our surround.
,,ngs; How shall He do it? Ho cannot afford
10 defaco His horizon, or to tear OFF a fiery
panel from the sunset, or to subtract an M
THEY from tho water lily, or to Danish the
punsent aroma from tho mignonette, or to
drag the robes Of the morning in tho mire.
t44ou cannot expect a Christopher Wren to
NAV bis own st. Paul's cathedral or a Mich.
nel Angelo to dash out his own s,I,ost
Judgment" orr Handel to discord his s.Isracl
IN Egypt" y you Cannot expect God to
s!poi! tho architecture and music OF His own
world. How then arc we to be made Willing
to leaveP Hero is where trouble comes in,
After a man has had a good deal OF trouble
no says: well, | am ready to go. If there
is II house somewhere whose roof doesn't leak.
I would like to live there. II thoro is an at.
mosphere somewhere that does not distress
the lungs, would like to breathe it. If there
Is nsociety somewhere where there Is no little.
tattle, I would like to 1.-Two thore. IF
there is a homo circle somewhere where
| can find my lost friends, I
you'd iike to so there He used to read
tho first part of the Bible chiefly. now ho
reads thu last part Of tho Bible chiefly. WHY
has no changed Genesis for Revelation? Ali
ae nsed TO DO anxious chiefly to know how
thias$ world was made, and all about its geo.
logical construction. Now he Is chiefly anx-
1ons to know how the next world was made,
anu pow it looks, and who live there, and
h1QW they dress. He reads Revelation ten
times pow where he reads Genesis once. THE
&C story, I'm tho beginning, God created the
Hsnvens and tho aarth,n does not thrill
Aln half as much as tho other story.
u saw a new heaven and a new EARTH
The old mans hand tremblos as he turns
ovor this apocalyptic leaf, and he has to take
ont his hnndkernlicf to wilma his aanntaolon