Telegram-herald., 1889-10-28
TALMACE'S SERMON
He Takes for HIS Theme the Uses
OF Trouble.
TIE BURNING OF TIE TABERNACLE
A Dlse0arss Based Ipoa TIE EeeSnt
Amlctton suffered - TIE CouSxS-
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nos.ou vas aaroad that me insurance ~ his
Destroyed church was sBsash u rs5uild Ths
rsDetitlon u disasters sslt - Ia debt Va
nays practically olLt thFee churches since l
cane u Brooklya Flrst, the original Iater-
na-le. soon zlseF that we m-as zD enlarge
mant that est almost - nuch - church
A few years after II al buroed Thsn Ne
put up the building recently destroyed znd
reared u IL a TINE wh ten ths whole country
~as ia It's worst financial distress. II wa
these Fepsatsd disasters thai Jeff u Ia debt
Ny congregation have doae maguidoeatly,
but any church would be in debt after -
rlany c4LaalilieS Now for the frss tlms Ne
are out u dsbt Bur We nsed At least ons
hundred thousand dollars % build church
larEe enough, and we call on people Of al
ereeds aud al lands 10 help.
Before / help dedicate q new church We
must have every dollar q it paid / viii
never again b. pastor II church IN debt
l. has crippled u Ia al our movements, aud
l shall never again wear the shackles. !
have for the lasG sixteen years preached u
about five thousand people sitting and stand
mg, twice Sabbath, but everybody knows
that We need a place that VIII hold eight
thousand | shall not be surprised II some
II
drod thousand dollars II you viii put up a
memorial structure, and call IL after the
name OF my departed father or child whose
memory want put before al nations and
for all time" And SO IL would be done.
ALL TEARs TO BIZ WIPED AWAY.
DR.. Talmage's text was: God shall wipe
away ell tears from their eyes. Rev. wi, II.
lie said:
Riding across a western prairie, wild
flowers up 20 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 was
shining as brightly as ever | saw 1t shirR;
and l thought, what beautiful spectacle
this Isl 50 the tears Of the Bible are not mid
night storm, but rain on pansied prairies in
Gods sweet and golden sunlight You re-
member that bottle which David labeled as
containing tears, and Mary's tears, and
Pauls tears, and Christ's tears, and the har-
vest of JOY that is 10 spring from the sowing
OF tears God mixes them. God rounds
them. God shows them where 70 fall. God
exhales them. \ census Is taken Of them,
and there is q record as % tho moment when
they are born, and as 20 the place Of their
grave.
Tears Of bad men are not kept. Alexander,
In his sorrow, had the hair clipped from his
horses and mules, aud made great ado about
his grief; but in ali the vases of heaven there
Is not one Of Alexanders tears. speak of
the tears of the good. Alas, no! they are
falling all the time. In summer you some
times hear the growing thunder, and you see
there is a storm miles away, but you know
from the drift OF the clouds that il viii not
come anywhere near you. So, though it may
be all bright around about US, there is a
shower Of trouble somewhere all the time.
Tears Tears
What is the Use of them anyhowl Why
not substitute laughterl Why not make this
a world where all the people are well and
eternal strangers 10 pain and achesl What
is the use Of an eastern storm when we might
have perpetual nor'westerl Why, when a
family is put together, not have them all stay,
or if they must be transplanted 10 make
other homes then have them all ivei the
family record telling a story Of marriages and
births, but OF no deaths. Why not have the har-
vests chase each other without fatiguing toll
Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard
struggled 1t Is easy enough 70 explain smile,
or q success, or a congratulatont but come
now, and bring all your dictionaries and all
your philosophers and all your religions, and
help me explain q tear. A chemist Will tell you
that it is made up OF salt and lime and other
component parts; but he misses the chief in
gredients-the acid Of a soured life. the viper
ine sting Of bitter memory, the fragments
OF a broken heart. will tell you what a
tear is; it is agony in solution.
Hear me, then, while l discourse TO you Of
the uses Of trouble.
WE MUST LEAVE THIS WORLD.
First-It is the design Of trouble to keep
this world from being too attractive Some
tSing must be done to make US willing to
quit this existence. If it were not for
trouble this world would be a good enough
heaven for me. You and l would be willing
70 take lease Of this life for a hundred
million years, if there were no trouble. The
earth cushioned and upholstered and pillared
aud chandeiered with such expense, no story
Of other worlds could enchant US We would
say: "Let well enough alone II you want
TO die and have your body disintegrated in
the dust, and your soul 90 out on celestial
adventure, then you can go; but this world
is good enough for me" You might as we'll
20 to a man who has just entered the Louvre
at Paris and tell him 70 hasten off to the
picture galleries Of Venice or Florence.
Why be would say, what Is the use Of
my going therei There are Rembrandts and
Ruheus and Raphaels here that / haven't
looked at yeti No man wants 70 20 out Of
this world. or out Of any house, until he has
q better house. To cure this wish to stay
here. God must somehow create a disgust for
our surroundings. How shall he do iti lie
cannot afford 10 deface bis horizon, or % tear
Of a fiery panel from the sunset, or TO sub
tract an anther from the water lily, or To
bauish tho pungent aroma from the mig
nonette, OF 20 drag the robes II the morning
in the mire You cannot expect "a Christie
pher Wren % mar bis own 81 Pauls cathe-
dral or a Michael Angelo b dash out his own
Last judgment o. a Handel - discord bis
Israel ia Egypt" and you cannot expect
God 10 spoil the architecture and music q his
own world How, then, are We % be made
willing q leave Here Is where trouble
comes IN. After a man has bad good deal
a trouble be SAYS Nen, ] am ready % go.
If there is q house somewhere whose roof
doesn't leak. I would lie % live there.
n there IL an atmosphere somewhere that
does not distress tia lungs, / would Ike 10
Ireathe IT, II there f. a sCcietY sonewhers
where there Is uo tttle-tattle, ] would Ike 20
live there. II there Is a home circle some
where where / can fnd nay lost friends,
would Ike e. 60 there He used % read the
first part n the Bible chiefly. now he reads
the last rart ~ the Bible chiefly. Way hss
he changed Genesis for Revelationi An, be
used 30 be anxious chiefly % know how this
world was u1ade. and al about is geological
construction Now hs d chiefly anxious q
know how the next world vas made, an bow
~ looss. ana who I've there and how they
dress FL reads Revelation ten times now
Were he reads Genesis oncs. The oid story
+ I'm the beginning Col created she hesveus
anl the earth. does Dot thrill him half ss
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