The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13


| fifty wears of age, YOU lay on tho coffin
| lid and sobbed as though YOU were only
| five or ten years OF age. 0, man, praise
God if you have in your memory the
picture of an honest, sympathetic. kind,
| self-sacriacing, Christian mother. .,
| 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 epistle? Where
| did David get the ink to write his com
| fortinc Psalms2 Where did John get the
| ink to write his comforting Revelations?
| They got it out of their own tears. When
| a man has gone through the curriculum,
and has taken course of dungeons and
| imprisonments and Shipwrccks, he IS
qualified for the work Of sympathy.
When | began to preach, my sermons
on the subject of trcuhle were all poetic
and in scmi-blank verse: but God
| knocked the blank verse out of me long
ago. and | have found that | can not
| comfort people except as I myself have
| been troubled God make me the son of
! consolation to the people. l would
! rather be the means of soothing one per-
turbcd spirit to-day. than to play tune
| that would set ali the sons of mlrth
| reelir- in the dance. am 4 herb doc
! tor. l put into the caldron the Root out
| of dry ground without form or comell-
| ness. Then put in the Rose OF Sharon
and the Lily of the Valley. Then put
| into the caldron some of the leaves Of
| the Tree of Life. and the Branch that
| was thrown into the wilderness llarah.
! Then pour in the tears of Bethany and
| Golgotha: then stir them up. Then |
| kindle under the caldron fire made out
of the wood of the cross. and one drcp
of that potion will cure the worst sick
ness that ever afflicted 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 will wipe
| all tears from their eyes.
You know on well spread table the
| food becomes more delicate at the last
| have fed YOU to-day with the bread OF
consolation. Let the table now DE
| cleared, and let us set on the challce OF
| Heaven. Let the Kings cup bearers
come in. Good morning, Heaven. 20,
saws some critic in the audience. "thc
Bible contradicts itself. 1t intlmates
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 no
| ment and laughing the next; and while
she was laughing you saw the tears still
on her face? And perhaps you stopped
her in the very midst Of her resumed
| glee, and wiped of those delayed tears.
So, think, after the heavenly raptures
| have come upon us, there may be the
mark of some earthly grief, and while
~, "a 1rh NJ
| the Jasper sea, God will wipe them away
| How well He can do that.
Jesus had enough trial to make him
sympathetic with all trial. The shortest
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. ..
that great weeper i. just the one to 81
lence 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 your crying. 1t will be
| a father who will take you on His lef,
arm, his face cleaning into yours. while
| with the soft tips of the fingers of the
right hand He shall wipe away all tears
lTOLi Your SSSS. IciNC AlOoASSSA " -iNiA VA
children get hurt, and their mother is
away from home, they always come to
me for comfort and sympathy: but /
have noticed that when the children get
hurt and their mother is at home they
90 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.
or David, or John. These did very well
once, but now the soul shall rush past,
crying: ''Where is Jesus? Where is
Jesus?" Dear Lord, what a magnificent
| thing to die if Thou shalt thus wipe away
| our tears. Methinks it will take us some
time to get used to Heaven; the fruits OF
| God without one speck: the fresh pas
/ lures 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
sunset swallowed up the eternal day
| that beams from Gods countenance.
WHY should wish to linger in the wild,
When thou are waiting, Father, to receive thy
child:
Still, if we could get any appreciation
| of what God has in reserve for us, 1t
would make US so homesick we would be
| unfit for our every day work. Professor
| Leonard, formerly of Iowa University,
put in my hands meteoric stone,
stone thrown OIL from some other world
to this How suggestive it was to me.
And l have to tell you the best repre-
sentations we have of Heaven are only
| ,eroliteS flung off from that world which
rolls on. bearing the multitudes of the
| redeemed. We analyze these 9rolites,
and find them crystallizations of tears.
No wonder, flung off from Heaven. God
! shall wipe away all tears frcm their
! eyes
Have YOU any appreciation of the great
| nd glorious times your friends are hav-
tng in Heaven? How different it is
when they getnews there Of Christians
| death from what it is here. 1t is tho
| Inference between embarkation and
,onllus into port. Every thing depends
| upon which side Of the river you stand
shen you hear of Christians death.
If YOU stand on this side of the river
yoE mourn that they go. If you stand
| on the other side of the river you re-
ioicc that they come. 0, the difference
| between funeral on earth and jubilee
| in Heaven-between requiem here ana
! triu1nphal march Incorporating here
and reunion there. Together Have
YOU thought OF it? They a:e together,
Not one of your departed friends In one
land and another in another land; but
together, in different rooms OF the same
| house-the house Of many mansions.
| Together!
never appreciated that thought so
much as when we laid away in her last
| slumbcr my sister Sarah. Standing
| there in the village cemetery, looked
| around and said: ''There is father,
| there is mother, there is grandfather,
| there is grandmother, there are whole
circles of kindrcd;" and thought to my
self. Together in the grave-together
in glory" am so impressed with the
thought that l 90 not think 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