The Penn's Grove record., 1889-11-09
Rev. DIR. TALMAGE.
Tho Brooklyn Divine's Sum
day Sermon.


Su !JeCt : " nat lTOuDIt Is FoTs
Az ne.. =. 10 Witt TaImags, D. D..
yrc.chsd to an overiowing congregation at
he Brooklyn Academy Of Music
Before preaching he said that Q mistaken
,otion was abroad that the insurance on his
destroyed church was enough to rebuild. The
repetition Of disasters left US In debt. We
have practically built three churches since I
same TO Brooklyn. First, the original Tabor
ascle- Soon after that we made an enlarge
ment that cost almost as much as Q church,
4 few years after it all burned. Then we
put up the building recently destroyed. and
reared u 10 . time when the whole country
vas In its worst financial distress.
i was thess repeated disasters that
eft NJ In debt. Ny congregation have
lone magriicently, but any church would be
q debt after 50 many calami9es, Nov for
he first time we are out Of debt. But we
aeed At least one hundred thousand dollars to
build . church large enough, and we call
On people Of all creeds and all lands to help.
Before I help dedicate a new church we must
have every dollar of It paid. / will never
again be pastor Of . church in debt. 1t has
crippled us In all our movements, and !
shall never again wear the shackles. / have
Tor the last sixteen years preached to
about 5000 people sitting and stand
ing. twice q Sabbath, but everybody knows
chat we need a place that will hold 5000 I
hall not be surprised IL some man Of wealth
shall sey: Here are a 800, 600 If you will
put up . memorial structure, and cali it after
the nam Of my departed father or child
whose memory / want put before all nations
and for all time" And so if will be done.
TEXT. "God shall Uipe a,ony all tears
from their eyes."-Rsv. vii, II.
Riding across q western prairie, wild
iowers up to tho hub Of the carriage wheel,
and while . long distance from any shelter,
there came a sudden shower, and while the
rain was falling in torrents, the sun was
shining as brightly as l ever saw 1t shine;
md I thought, what a beautiful spectacle
his vi SO the tears Of the Bible are
ct midnight storm, but rain on pansied
r~airies in Gods sweet and golden sunlight:
on remember that bottle which David
,beled as containing tears and Msry's
sars, and PauIs tears, and Christ's
ara and the harvest Of joy that is to
pring from tho sowing of tears. God
nixes them. God rounds them, God shows
! EN- where to fall. Sod exhales them. A
cs isus Is taken Of them, and there is a record
as % the moment when they are born, and
asf the place of their grave, Tears Of bad
men are not kept. Alexander, In his sorrow.
had The hair clipped from his horses and
mule. and made q great ado about his grief;
but IN all the vases Of heaven there is not one
Of Alexander's tears. Ispeak Of the tears Of
ne good Alasi me! they are falling all the
ytns. In summer, you sometimes hear the
srowling thunder, and you see there is a
storm miles away; but you know from the
drift Of the clouds that it will not come y
where near you. So, though it may be all
bright around US there Is a shower of trouble
somewhere all the time. FsaFsf' Fears,
What Is the use of them anyhow Why
not substitute laughter Why not make this
= world where all the people are well and
sternai strangers to pain and aches? What
5 the use Of an eastern storm when we might
aye perpetual nor'wester? Why, when a
stay, or Il thsJ must BE- trausplapted to make
other homes, then have them all Liver the lam
ily record telling Q story Of marriages and
birthA but Of no deaths. Why not have the
s ssssss.s t sas's we ssSa tho Sths sspd without pllis%'
the hard crust, the hard struggle:
II Il easy enough to explain . smile, or a
success, or reorganization: but, come now,
and bring all your dictionaries and all your
PHILOSOPHERS and all your religions, and help
mo explain q tear. A chemist will tell you
that 1t is made up of salt and lime and other
component parts; but he misses the chief
ingredtents-the acid of q soured life, the
viperine sting Of q bitter memory, the frag-
ments Of a broken heart. ! will tell you
what a tear is: il is agony in solution.
Hear me-, then, while I discourse to you of
the uses Of trouble.
Frst-It is the design of trouble to keep
this world from being too attractive. Some
quit this existence. II it were not for trouble
this world would be q good enough heaven
for me. You and l would be willing to take
q leass of this life for q hundred million years
il there were no trouble. The earth cush-
Toned and upholstered and pillared and chan
deliered with such expense, no story Of other
worlds could enchant us. We would say:
to die and have your body disintegrated in
the dust, and your soul 60 out on . celestial
is good enough for me.n You might as well
go to a man who has just entered the Louvre
At Paris, and tell him to hasten Of to the
picture galleries of Venice or Florence.
"Why be would say, what is the use Of
RubenS and Raphaels here that I haven't
looked ut yet"
No man wants to 60 out Of this world. or
out OF any house, until he has . better house.
To cure this wish to stay here, God must
somehow create . disgust for our surround
ings. How shall He do its He cannot afford
70 deface His horizon, or to tear on q fiery
panel from the sunset, or to subtract an an
ther from the water lily, On to Danish the
pungent aroma from tho ~mignonette, or to
drag the robes of the morning in the mire,
You cannot expect q Christopher Wren to
mar his own st. Paul's cathedral or . Mich
gel Angelo to dash out his OWL Last
Judgment y or Handel to discord his 'Israel
spoil hf tSe sro sns s9s 's sna music ases Ct H SsS owl so
world. How then are we to b made willing
TO- leayer Here is whore trouble comes in.
After q man has had . good deal Of trouble,
he says: well, / am ready to 60. II there
= house somewhere whose roof doesn't leak,
! would like to live there. II there Is an at
mcsphere somewhere that does not distress
the lungs, ! would like to breathe 1t. If there
Is society somewhere whore there is no title
tattls, I would like to live there. If
there Is . home circle somewhere where
would Ike to 20 there" he used to read
the first part Of the Bible chiefly, now he
reads the last part Of the Bible chiefly. Why
he used to be anxious chiefly to know how
this world was made, and an about its geo.
logical construction. Now he is chiefly anx-
ious to know how the next world was made,
and how it looks, and who live there, n
how they dress. He reads Revelation ten
times nov where he reads Genesis once. The
old story, SIN the beginning, God created the
heavens and the earth" does not thrill
him halt as much as the other story,
u saw a new heaven n a new earth"
The old mans hand trembles as he turns
over this ap~ocalyptic leaf, and he has to take
out his handkerchief to wipe his spectacles.
That book Of Revelations is a prospectus now
of the country into which he is 10 soon immi-
CRATE; the country into which 10 has lots al
ready laid out, M avenues opened, and trees
planted and mansions built.
The thought of that blessed place ome
over me nightly, and I declare that II this
house were a great ship. and you all were
passengers on board ii, and one hand could
launch that ship into the glories OF heaven, l
should be tempted to a the response
biity and launch you all into glory
with one stroke, holding on to the side Of the
boat until l could get in myself. And yet
there are people here to whom this world Is
brighter than heaven We'll. dear souls, /
do mot blame you. 1t Is natural. But after
. while you viii be ready to go. It was not
until job had been worn out with bereaye-
ments and carbuncles and . pest OF . wife
that be wanted to see God. 1t was MT until
the prodfkAi got tired Of living among the
hogs that be wanted to 60 to his Fathers
kpcss. Il d the ministry Of trouble to make
III world worth less and heaven worth
mora.
Again, It d the use Of trouble to make Us
fssI our complete dependence upon o
King Alphonso said that II he had been pres
ent ct the creation he could have made . bet
IT, world than thisL What . pity he was not
presenti ! do NOT know what God Will 90