Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-07
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
WHAT TROUBLE IS FOR.
Dr.. Talmage's Discourse Oct. 27.

The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, d. d
preached to an overlooking congregation j
j the Acadamy of Music.
Before preaching he said that a mistake
notion was abroad that the insurance on hi
destroyed church was enough to rebuild
The repetition Of disasters left us in debt
We have practically built three churche
since came to Brooklyn. First, the origin
al Tabernacle. Soon after that we made a,
enlargement that cost almost as much as
church. A few years after 1t all burned
Then we put up the building recently destroy
ca, ana reared II in time when the whOlt
country was In its worst financial distress
IL was these repeated disasters that
left us In debt. Ny congregation
have done magnifeently, but any
church would be IN debt after SO many
caiamltes. Now for the first time we are
| out OF debt. But we need at least enc
hundred thousand dollars 70 build q church
large enough, and we call on people OF all
creeds and lands to help. Before / help
dedicate new church we must have every
aeliar OF 1t paid. / will never again be
pastor Of church In debt. 1t has crippled
US ID al our movements. and / shall never
again wear shackles. / have for the last six
teen years preached to about five thousand
people sitting and standing, twice q Sabbath.
but everybody knows that we need a place
that Will hold eight thousand. shall not be
surprised II some man OF wealth shall saw:
"Here are hundred thousand dollars il you
VIII put up memorial structure, and cali Il
AFTER the name OF my departed father or
child whose memory | want put before all
nations and for all time" And so it would
be done.
DIR. Talmage's text was: "God shall wine
away All tears from their eyes" Rev. vii, IL.
He said:
Riding across western prairie, wild flow
I'm off
while long distance from any shelter,
There came sudden shower. and while the
rain was falling In torrents, the sun was
shining rs brightly rs | ever saw 1t shine: |
and thought, what beautiful spectacle this |
Is so the tears OF, the Bible are not mid
night storm, but rain on pansied prairies in
Gods sweet and golden sunlight. You re-
that bottle which David labeled as
containing tears, and Mary's tears, and Paups
tears, and Christs tears, and the harvest of
10Y that is 10 spring from the sowing of tears.
liod mixes them. God rounds them. God
shows them where to fall. God exhales them.
A census Is taken Of them and there is record
Is 70 the moment when they are born, and
" to the place OF their grave Tears of had
men are not kept. Alexander, in his sorrow.
lad the hair clipped from his horses and
nuies, and made great ado about his grief;
'ut IN all the vases of heaven there Is not one
4 Alexanders tears. speak OF the tears of /
ne good. Alas mel they are falling all the |
lme. In summer, you sometimes hear the
rowling thunder, and you see there Is a /
torn miles away; but you know from the |
rift Of the clouds that It will not come any- !
here near you. So, though 1t may he all r
right about us, there is = shower Of trouble /
'mewhere all the time. Tears tearsl b
what Is the use Of them anyhowy WHY o
OF substitute laughterl Why not make this n
world where all the people are well and o
ernal strangers 10 pains and aches? What il
the use of an eastern storm when we might I
I'VE perpetual nor'westery why, when I,
mily is put together, not have them all
ay, or II they must be transplanted to make ii
her homes, then have them all liyey The 1,
mlly record telling the story of marriages n,
"a births, but OF no deaths. Why not have II
z narvests chase each other without iii
llgulng tour Why the hard pillow, the te
rd crust, the hard struggle? II Is easy hi
ough to explain smle or success. or n G.
ngratulation; but, come now, and bring til
your dictionaries and all your philosopher III
all your religions, and help me explain a a
II. A chemist will tell you that IL is made to
OF SAT- and lime and other component at
rts but he misses the chief ingredients pr
aclu OF a soured NE, the viperine sting of
litter memory, the fragments Of a broken m;
lrt. will tell you what tear is; it h FIR,
my In solution. wi
lear me, then. while discourse to you of sh
uses Of trouble his
irst-It Is the design of trouble to keen sic
world from being too attractive. Some hot
~ must be done to make us willing to len
TINS existence. II IL were not for dol
lble, this world would be a good enough mo
ven Tor me. You and would be willing sen
take lease OF this life for hundred No
ION years II there were no trouble. The frit
a cushioned and upholstered and pillared wri
chanuenered with such expense, no Sat
y Of other worlds could enchant us. the
would say: "Let well enough alone. IN G
want to die and have your body disinte- and
ed In the dust, and your soul 20 out on age
stlal adventure, then you can go; but hon
world Is good enough for me.b You dea
1t as well go to man who has lust en- DEL,
4 the Louvre at Paris, and tell him TO DEL,
en- of to the picture galleries of Venice fror
lorenzo. Why he would say, ''what hav,
: use on my gong therey There are the why
p,anuts ana tne hubens and Raphaels cam
that haven't looked at yet" into
man wants to go out Of this world. or does
II any house, until he has better ho,lse. mel
ure this wish 10 stay here, God must kneN
now create disgust for our surround the
How shall he do II? He cannot afford alwa
face his horizon, or to tear of 6ery hom
from the sunset, or to subtract an No
II from the water lily, or TO hanish the y0un
ent aroma from the mignonette. or to get i
the robes of the morning In mire, You the b
y expect Christopher Wren TO mar his ON y6
st. PauPs cathedral, or Michael Angelo for Il
ID out his own "Last Judgment.v or and '
ell to diseord his "Israel in Egypt !. and 60 to
annot expect God to spoil the architects Thee
I'd music OF his own world. How theu And
to be made willing to leaveY Here Is hour.
trouble comes In. After a man has a me b.
deal Of trouble, he says: swell. I am fortet
to go. II there Is house somewhere throw
roof doesn't leak, would like TO live that '
II there Is an atmosphere somewhere Agi
oes not distress the lungs, would like US for
athe it. II there Is a society somewhere under
there IS no tittle-tattle, would like 10 havin
ere. III there is home circle some and b
where / can find my lost friends people
like to 90 there" He used TO read tbe symps
lrt of the Bible chiefly, now be reads like I,
part Of the Bible chiefly. WHY has aroun
nged Genesis for Revelations All he and W
be anxious chiefly to know how This when
was made, aud all about its geological we lik
iction- Now he his chiefly anxious 70 They
low the next world was made. and mothe
looks, and who live there, and how omnip
'ess. He reads Revelation ten times been I
here he reads Genesis once. The old mornil
In the beginning God created fhe mother
s.' anu tne eaTth," does not thrill him Ora
inucn as the other story, 81 saw a that
safen and a new earth- The old fell II
land trembles as he turns over This goes az
ptlc leaf, and he has To tai-o o,,t r. ! I,.a,,-