The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-01

while those tears are glittering In the
light Of the Jasper ca, 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
i 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 .
tyrant bidding you to hush up cry
ing. 1t will be a Father who will
take you OF 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 10
me for comfort and sympathy: but l
have noticed that when the children get
hurt and their mother is at home they
GO right past mi and to her. l am of
10 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 o 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 the tears. Methink it
will take us some time to get used to
Heaven: the fruits of God without one
speck: the fresh pastures 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 sunse
swallowed up in the eternal day that
beams from Gods cOuntenance!
Why should 1 wish to linSer in the wild.
When Thou art waiting, Father, to receive Thy
child:
Sure. if we could get any appreciation
Of what God has in reserve for us. it
would make us so hOmesick We would
be unfit for our every day work.
Prof. Leonard. formerly of Iowa uni
v~ersity, put in my hands a meteOric
stone, a stone thrown off from some
other world to this. How suggestive it
was to me. And have to tell you the
best representations We have of Heaven
are only areOlites flung of from that
world which rolls on. bearing the multi
tudes of the redeemed. We analyzc
these areolytcs and find them crystal
Ia, ~ 800, . ay~.p III
from Heaven. God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes,
Have you any appreciation of the
good and glorious times your friends
are having in Heaven? How different
it is when they get news there of a
Christian death from what it is here. 1t
is the difference between embarkatiOn
and coming into port. Every thing de-
ponds upon which side of the river you
stand when you hear of a Christians
death. Ii you stand on this side of the
river you mourn that they go. If you
stand on the other side of the river you
rejoice that they come. o, the differ
nee between a funeral on earth and .
jubilee in Heaven-between requiem
here and triumphal march there-part-
ing here and reunion there. Together!
Have you thought of it! They are to-
gether.
1 never appreciated that thought so
much as when we laid away in her last
slumber my sister Sarah. Standing
there in the village cemetery. Hooked
around and said: There is father. there
is mother. there is grandfather, there is
grandmother, there are whole circles OF
kindred and / thought to myself. ITO
gether in the grave-tOgether in glory"
1 am so impressed with the thought that
/ do not think it is any fanaticism when
some n 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 my parents,
give my love to my children, give my
love to my old comrades who are in
glory. and tell them / Am trying to fight
the good fight of faith. and I will join
them after awhile 1 believe the mes
sage will be delivered; and I believe it
will increase the gladness of those who
are before the throne. Together are
they. all their tears gone. No trouble
getting good society for them. All kings,
queens. princesses.
In 1851 there was a bill Oaered in the
English Parliament proposing to change
the almanac so that March 1 would come
Immediately after February IS. But O.
what a glorious change in the calander
when all the years of your earthly ex-
istence are swallowed up in the eternal
year of God.
My friends, take this good cheer home
with you. These tears of bereavement
that course your cheeks, and of persecu-
ton. and of trial, are not always to be
there. The motherly hand Of God will
wipe them all away. What Is the use,
IN the way to such . consum-
matiOn-what is the use of
fretting about any thing? O.
what an exhilaration it ought to be in
Christian work! See you the p~innacles
against the sky? 1t is the cry of our
God. and We are approaching it. Oh,
let us be busy in the few days that shall
remain for US. The SaxOns and the
BritOns went out to battle. The Saxons
were all armed. The Britons had no
arms at all: and yet history tells US the
Britons got the victory. Why? They