Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-08

and Martha shall receive their Lazarus from
the tomb. The damsel shall rise. And on
the darkness shall break the morning, and
God viii wipe all tears from their ewes.
You know on a well spread table the food
becomes more delicate at the last l 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. Hea-
veni ooh, says some critic in the audience,
''the Bible contradicts itself. 1t intimates
again and again that there are to be no tears
in heaven, and il there be no tears in heaven,
how is it possible that God will wipe
any awayW L answer, have YOU never
seen child crying one moment and laughing
the next; and while she was laughing, you
saw the tears still ON her face And perhaps
you stopped her in the very midst of her re-
sumed glee, and wiped off those delayed
tears. So, / think, after the heavenly rap
lures 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 well He
IAN do that.
Jesus had enough trial to make Him
sympathetic with all trial. The short
sst verse in the Bible tells the story:
"Jesus wept." The scar on the back
IF either hand, the scar on the arch Of
sither foot the row of scars along the line of
the hair, win keep all heaven thinking. Oh,
silence all earthly trouble, wipe out
I'll stains of earthly grief, Gentlel Why,
His step is softer than the step of the
lew. 1t will not be tyrant bidding you to
lush up your crying It will be a Father
who will take you on His left arm, His face
cleaning into yours, while with the soft tips
If the fingers of the right hand, He shall wipe
lway all tears from your eyes. / have no.
iced when the children get hurt, and their
mother is away from home, they come to me
or comfort and sympathy; but | have no.
iced that when the children get hurt and
heir mother is at home, they go right past
ne and to her; am of no account.
So, when the soul comes up into heaven out
If the wounds of this life, it will not stop to
ook for Paul, or Moses, or David or John.
These did very well once, but now the soul
hall rush past, crying. Where is Jesus?
Where is Jesusp Dear Lord, what magni-
icent thing to die if Thou shalt thus wipe
Iway our tears. Methink it will take us
iome time to get used to heaven: the fruits
If 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
iaffron of sunrise and sunset swallowed up in
The eternal day that beams from Gods
Why should wish to linger in the wild,
Hhen Thou art waiting, Father to receive Thy
childl
II we could get any appreciation of what
sod has in reserve for US, it would make us
10 homesick we would be unfit for every day
work. Professor Leonard, formerly of Iowa
University, put in my hand meteoric stone,
stone thrown off from some other world to
this. How suggestive it was to me- And
fn foil fha hecf too
have of heaven are only aerolites flung off
from that world which rolls on. bearing the
multitudes of the redeemed. We &nalyze
these aerolites, and find them crystalizations
Of tears. No wonder, flung off from heaven.
"God shall wipe away all tears from their
Yes."
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 Christians death from what
it is here. 1t is the difference between en-
barkation and coming into port. Everything
depends upon which side of the river you
stand when you hear of Christians death.
If 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. Oh, the difference between a funeral
on earth and a jubilee in heaven-between
requiem here and triumphial march there
parting here and reunion there Togetherl
Have you thought of it? They are together
Not one of your departed friends in one land
and another in another land; but together,
IN different rooms of the same house-the
house of many mansions. Together!
never appreciated that thought so much
as when we laid away in her last slumber
my sister Sarah. Standing there in the viii
lage cemetery, | looked around and said
There is father, there is mother there is
grandfather, there is grandmother there are
whole circles of kindred;n and l thought to
myself: Together in the grave--together in
glory" am so impressed with the thought
that do not think it any fanaticism when
some one is going from this world to the
next if you make them the bearer of dis
patches to your friends who are gone, say
ing: "Glve 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 viii join them after awhile.n
| believe the message will be delivered; and
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,
Princes, and Princesses In 1851 there was a
bill offered in the English parliament pro-
posing to change the almanac SO that the LIST
of March should come Immediately after the
18th Of February But, OH, what glorious
change in the calendar when all the wears of
your earthly existence 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 cheek, and of persecution, and
OF trial, are not always to be there. The
motherly hand of God will wipe them all
away. What is the use, on the way to such
a commandments is the use of fretting
about anything? Oh, what an exhilaration
it ought to be III Christian work
See you the pinnacles against the
sky? 1t is the city of our God
and we are approaching it, Oh,
let us be busy in the few days that shall re-
main for us. The Saxons and the Britons
went out to battle The Saxons were all
armed. The Britons had no weapons at all
and yet history tells us the Britons got the
victory. Why? They went into battle
shouting three times, "Hallelujahp' and at
the third shout of "Hallelujah," their enc.
mics fed panic struck; and so the Billions got
the victory
And, my friends, if we could only appre-
ciate the glories that are to come we would
be so filled with enthusiasm that no power OF
earth or hell could stand before us; and at
our first shout the opposing forces would be-
gin to tremble, and at our second shout they
would begin to fall back. and at our third
ihout they would be routed forever. There
no power ON earth or in hell that could
stand before three such volleys OF halle
lujah.
put this balsam on the wounds Of your
heart. Rejoice at the thought OF what your
departed friends have got rid of, and that
you have prospect Of so soon making your
own escape. Bear cheerfully the ministry of
fears and exuIt aft the Thought that soon it is