The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-10-31

tAheS MIN nome, ana gets MIN well
very soon.
Now, some of you treat God just as
that young man treated his mother.
When you get into financial per-
plexity, you call on the banker, you
call on the broker, you call on your
creditors, you call on your lawyer for
legal counsel; you call upon every
body, and when YOU cannot get any
help, then you go tcGod. You say:
20 Lord / come to Thee. Help me
now out of my perplexity." And the
Lord comes, though it is the eleventh
hour. He says: why did you not
send for me before2 AS one whom
his mother comforteth, SO will COM
fort you.n 1t is to throw us back
upon an all comforting God that we
have this ministry of tears.
IT MAKES Us SYMPATHETIC.
Again, 1t is the use of trouble to
capacitate us for the office of sym
pathy. The priests, under the old dis
pensation, were set apart by having
water sprinkled on their hands feet
and heads; and by the sprinkling of
tears people are now set apart to the
office Of sympathy. When we are in
prosperity Wo 1IiAc W nave great
many young people around us, and
we laugh when they laugh, and we
romp when they romp, and we sing
when they sing; but when we have
trouble we like plenty Of old folks
around. Whyf They know how to
talk. Take an aged mother, 70 years
of age, and she is almost omnipotent
In comfort. Whyi She has been
through 1t all. At o'clock in the
morning she goes over to comfort
young mother who has just lost her
babe.
Grandmother knows all about that
trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it.
AT IL o'clock of that day she goes over
to comfort a widowed soul. She knows
all about that. She has been walking
in that dark valley twenty years. At
A o'clock in the afternoon some one
knocks at the door wanting bread.
She knows all about that. Two or
three times in her life she came to her
last loaf. AT 10 o'clock that night she
goes over to sit up with some one Sc
verely sick. She knows all about it.
She knows all about fevers and pleu-
risies and broken bones. She has been
doctoring all her life, spreading plas-
ters, and pouring out bitter drops, and
shaking up hot pillows, and contriv-
ing things to tempt poor appetite.
Doctors Abernethy and Rush and Ho-
sack and Harvey were great doctors,
but the greatest doctor the world ever
saw is an old Christian woman. Dear
mel Do we not remember her about
the room when we were sick in our
boyhOod2 Was there any one who
could ever so touch sore without
hurting ita
| And when she lifted her spectacles
| against her wrinkled forehead, so she
could look closer at the wound, it was
three-fourths healed. And when the
Lord took her home, although you
may have been men and women 80,
40, 80 years of age, you lay ON the
coffin lid and sobbed as though you
were only or 10 years of age. o
man, praise God if you have in your
memory the picture of an honest, sym
pathetic, kind, self sacrificing, Christ
like mother. Oh, it takes these people
who have had trouble to comfort others
in trouble. Where did Paul get the
ing epistlef Where did David get the
|
Where did John get the ink to write
his comforting Revelation2 They got
it out of their own tears. When a
man has gone through the curriculum,
and has taken a course of dungeons
and imprisonments and shipwrecks, he
is qualified for the work Of sympathy.
When / began to preach, my SER
mons 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 I have found out
that cannot comfort people except as
l myself have been troubled. God
make me the son of consolation to the
people. / would rather be the means
of soothing one perturbed spirit today,
than to play tune that would set all
the sons of mirth reeling in the dance.
| am an herb doctor. / put into the
without form or colneliness. Then !
Lily of the Valley. Then l 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 | stir them up.
Then / kindle under the caldron O fire
made out of the wood Of the cross, and
one drop Of that potion will cure the
worst sickness 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 a well spread table
the food becomes more delicate at the
last / have fed you today 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,
Heavenl "Oh," says some critic in
the audience, ''the Bible contradicts
itself. It 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 win wipe
any awaya' / answer, have you never
seen child crying one moment and
laughing the next; apd while she was
laughing, you saw the tears still on
her facet And perhaps you stopped
her in the very midst Of her resumed
glee, and wiped off those delayed
tears. So. I think, after the heavenly
raptues have como upon Us, there
may DO the mark Of some earthly
grief, and while those tears are gilt
tering 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 trial The short
est verse in the Bible tells the story:
"Jesus wept.n 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. viii keep all heaven
thinking. Oh, that great weeper is
just the one to silence all earthly
trouble, wipe out all stains OF earthly
grief. Gentlei Why, his step Is
softer than the step o3 the dew. 1t
will not be tyrans bidding you TO
hush up your crying. It will be a
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 shali wipe away
ell tears from yqT eyes. have no,
their mother is away fron home, they
go right past me and to heri ! am OF
no account
So, when the soul comes up into
heaven out of the wounds Of this life,
twill not stop to look for Paul, Ql
Moses, or David or John. These did
very well once, but now the soul shall
rush past, crying; saWhere Is Jesus
! Where is JesusfS Dear Lord, what q
magnificent thing TO die II thou shall
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