The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-10-30

age, and she is almost omnipotent in
comfort. Why? She has been through
1t all. AT seven O'Clock In the morning
she goes over to comfort young mother
who has Just lost her babe. li
Grandmother knows all about that
trouble. Fifty years ago she feltit. At
twelve o'clock OF that day she goes over
to comfort widowed soul. She has been
walking in that dark valley twenty
years. At four 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 ten o'clock that night
she goes over to sit up with some one se-
verely sick. She Knows all about 1t.
She knows all about fevers and pleuri-
sizes and broken bones. She has been
doctoring all her life, spreading plasters
and pouring out bitter drops, and shak-
ing up hotpillows, and contriving things
to tempt poor appetite. Doctors Aber-
nethy and Rush and Hosack and Harvey
were great doctors, but the greatest doc
tor the world ever saw is an old Chris
tian woman. Dear mel Dove not re-
member her about the room when we
were sick in our boyhood? Was there
any one who could ever SO touch sore
without hurting 1t?
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 thirty, forty,
ffty years Of age, you lay on the coffin
lid and sobbed as though YOU were only
five or ten years Of age. o, man, praise
God II you have in your memory the
picture Of an honest, sympathetic, kind,
self-sacrincing, Christian mother. 0,
1t takes these people who have had
trouble to comfort others in trouble.
Where did Paul get the ink with which
TO write his comforting epistle2 Where
lid David get the ink to write his COM
forting Psalms? Where did John get the
ink to write his comforting Revelations?
They got 1t out Of their own tears When
man has gone through the curriculum,
and has taken course Of dungeons and
imprisonments and shipwrecks, he is
qualified for the work Of sympathy.
When began to preach, my sermons
on the subject Of trouble we're all poetic
and in semi-blank verse; but God
knocked the blank verse out Of me long
ago, and have found that / can not
comfort people except as myself have
been troubled. God make me the son OF
consolation to the people. would
rather be the means Of soothing one per-
turbed spirit to-day, thap to play tune
that would set all the sons OF mirth
reeling in the dance. am herb doc
tor. put into the caldron the Root out
Of dry ground without form or comeG-
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 Marah.
Then pour in the tears Of Bethany and
Golgotha; then / stir them up. Then !
kindle under the caldron fire made out
Of lthe,wood Of the cross, and one drop
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
4 I'll tears from their eyes.
! You know on we'll spread table the
3 tood becomes more delicate at the last.
! have fed you to-day 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 90"
says some critic in the audience, "the
Z Bible contradicts itself. It intimates
/ again and again that there are TO be no
tears in Heaven, and II there be no tears
in Heaven how Is IL possible that God
will wipe any away2" | answer have
you never seen child crying one mo-
ment and laughing the next; and while
( she was laughing you saw the tears still
/ on her face? And perhaps you stopped
Ger 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
those tears are glittering In the light OF
the jasper sea, God will wipe them away.
How we'll 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. o,
that great weeper is just the one 10 81.
lence all earthly trouble, wipe out all
stains Of earthly grief. Gentle! Why,
4 His step is softer than the step Of the
lew. II wfll not be q tyrant bidding
you 10 hush up your crying. twill be
father who will take you on His left
arm, his face cleaning into yours, while
with the soft tips of the fingers OF the
light hand He shall wipe away all tears
from your eyes. Ihave noticed when the
,hildren get hurt, and their mother h
lway from home, they always come 10
me for comfort and sympathy; but
have noticed that when the children get
nurt and their mother is at home they
20 right past me and to her; am Of no
account sAc,iaat..
So, when the soul comes up into
Heaven ont Of the wounds OF this life, II
will not stop 70 look for Paul, or Moses,
Or David, or John. These did very we'll
once, but now the soul shall rush past,
,rying: "Where is Jesus2 Wheru Is
Jesus?n Dear Lord, what magnificent
thing to die II Thou shalt thus wipe away
Dur tears. Methinks II will take us some
time to get used TO Heaven; the fruits oi
God without one speck; the fresh pas.
lures without one nettle; the orchestra
without one snapped string; the river Of
Eladness Without one torn bank; the
Iolferinos and the saffron of sunrise and
sunset swallowed up the eternal day
hat beams from Gods countenance,
| Why should wish TO iinger in the wild,
When thou are waiting, Father, 70 receive tiny
Still, II we could get any appreciation