The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-10-31
WHAT TROUBLE Is FOR.
SERMON PREACHED BY DR.. TALMAoE
SUNDAY, OCT. 27.
Gods Hand Shall Wipe Away All Tears.
Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity--The
Giories Of Heaven Glowingly Portrayed.
The Love of God.

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Giories Of Heaven Glowingly Portrayed.
The Love of God.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 27.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, d. D., preached to an
overhowing congregation at the Acad-
emy of Music today.
Before preaching be said that mis-
taken notion was abroad that the in
surance on his destroyed church was
enough to rebuild. The repetition of
disasters left us in debt We have
practically built three churches since
came to Brooklyn. First, the orig
inal Tabernacle. Soon after that we
made an enlargement that cost almost
as much as a church. A few years
after it all burned. Then we put up
the building recently destroyed, and
reared it in q time when the whole
country was in its worst financial dis
tress. 1t was these repeated disasters
that left us in debt. My congregation
have done magnificently, but any
church would be in debt after SO many
calamities. Now for the first time we
are out of debt. But we need at least
one hundred thousand dollars to build
church large enough, and we call
on people Of all creeds and ali lands
to help. Before / help dedicate new
church we must have every dollar of
it paid. viii never again be pastor
Of q church In debt. II has crippled
us IN all our movements, and shall
never again wear the shackies. / have
for the last sixteen years preached 10
about five thousand people sitting and
standing, twice Sabbath. but every-
body knows that we need place that
will hold eight thousand. [ shall not
be surprised il some man of wealth
shall say: Here are a hundred thou
sand dollars if you will put up me-
mortal structure, and call it 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.
SWEET ARE THE USES OF ADVERSELY.
DIR. Talmage's text was: "God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes. {"
Rev. vii, IL. He said:
Riding across western prairie,
wild howers up to the hub Of the car
riage wheel, and while long distance
from any shelter, there came sudden
shower, and while the rain was fall
ing In torrents, the sun was shining as
brightly as l ever saw it shine; and
thought, what beautiful spectacle
this isl So the tears of the Bible are
not midnight storm, but rain on pam
sled prairies in Gods sweet and golden
sunlight. You remember that bottle
which David labeled as containing
tears, and Mary's tears, and Pauls
4ua 4 .,gfi I,
vest OF JOY that is to spring from the
sowing of tears. God mixes them.
God rounds them. God shows them
where to fall. God exhales them. A
census is taken of them, and there is
record as to the moment when they
are born, and as to the place of their
grave. Tears Of bad men are not kept
Alexander, in his sorrow, had the hair
clipped from his horses and mules,
and made a great ado about his grief;
but in all the vases Of heaven there is
not one OF Alexander's tears. speak
of the tears of the good. Alas me
they are falling all the time. In sum-
mer, you sometimes hear the growl-
ing thunder, and you see there is
storm miles away; but you know from
the drift of the clouds that IL will not
come anywhere near you. SO, though
it may be all bright around about us,
there Is a shower of trouble some
where all the time. Tearsl Tearsl
What Is the use of them anyhow2
Why not substitute laughterl Why
not make this world where all the
people are well and eternal strangers
to pain and achesi What is the use
of an eastern storm when we might
have perpetual nor'wester2 Why,
when family is put together, not
have them all stay, or if they must
be transplanted to make other homes,
then have them all liver the family
record telling a story of marriages and
births, but of no deaths. Why not
have the harvests chase each other
without fatiguing toill Why the hard
pillow, the hard crust, the hard strug
gle1 1t is easy enough to explain a
smile, or a success, or a congratula-
ton; but, come now, and bring all
your dictionaries and all your phi
losophies and all your religions, and
help me explain a tear. A chemist
will tell you that 1t is made up of salt
and lime and other component parts;
but he misses the chief ingredients
the acid of soured life, the viperine
sting of bitter memory, the frag-
salents of q broken heart. l will tell
yysSl what tear is; it is agony in solu-
Jtion.
.HeSr me, then, while I discourse to
you of the uses of trouble.
IT FITS FOR HEAVEN.
First-It is the design of trouble to
keep this world from being too at
tractive. Something must be done to
make us willing to quit this existence.
II it were not for trouble this world
would be a good enough heaven for
me. You and would be willing to
million years IL there were no trouble.
The earth cushioned and upholstered
and pillared and chandeliered with
such expense, no story OF other worlds
could enchant us. We would say
let well enough alone. If you want
10 die and have your body distnte-
grated in the dust, and your soul go
out on celestial adventure, then you
can go; but this world is good enough
for me-" You might as well go to q
man who has just entered the Louvre
at Paris, and tell him to hasten off 20
the picture galleries Of Venice or
Florence. why" he would say,
''what Is the use of my going therei
There are Rembraudts and Rubens
and Raphaels here that haven't look
Cd at yet"
No man wants to 60 out of this
world, or out Of any house, until he
has better house. Tt cure this wish
10 stay here, God must somehow create
q disgust for our surroundings. How
shall he do iti He canpot afford to
iefaee his horizon, or 10 tear off fiery
oanel from the sunset, or to subtrac1
an anther from the water lily, or Il
banish the pungent aroma from thu
,mignonette, or to drag the robes o
the morning In mire. You cannot ex
pect Christopher Wren to mar hi
own ST. Pauls cathedral, or a Michae
Angelo TO dash out his own II as
Judgment, or Handel to discord hi
Israel in Egypt," and you cannot ez
pect God to spoil the architecture ant
music of his own world How then ar
we TO be made willing 20 leavef Here
where trouble comes in After a MAJ
has had good deal Of trouble, he says
well, am ready to go. III there
a house somewhere whose roof doesn
leak, / would like TO live there.
there is an atmosphere somewhere tha
does not distress the lungs, / woul
like to breathe it. II there is societ
somewhere where there is no TITLE
tattle, l would like 10 live ther'
If there is home circle somewher
where / can find my lost friends,
would like 10 go there" He used
read the first part of the Bible chiefly