Dodge City times., 1889-11-14

, | kindle under the caldron . IRE made Gu
of the wood of the Cross, and one drol
of that potion will cure the worst sick
: ness that ever afflicted human soul
Mary and Martha shall receive theil
Lazarus from the tomb. The damse
, shall rise. And on the darkness shal
| break the morning, and God will wipt
, all tears from their eyes.
, You know on well spread table
the food becomes more delicate at the
last. I have fed you to-day with thl
bread cf consolation. Let the table
now be cleared, and let us set on the
chalice of heaven. Let the Kings cur
bearer come in. Good morning.
Heaven, -Oh, says some critic in the
audience, athe Bible contradicts itself.
It intimates again and again that there
are to be no tears in heaven, and if there
be no tears in heaven how is it possible
that God will wipe any away2" Ianswer.
have you never seen q 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
layed tears. So. l think, after the
heavenly raptures have come upon us,
there may be the mark of some earthly
grief. and while those tears are glitter
ing 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 short
est verse in the Bible tells the story:
Jesus wept." The scar on the back o
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. Oh, that great weeper is just
the one to silence all earthly trouble,
wipe out all stains of earthly grief.
Gentle. Why, his step is softer than
the step of the dew. 1t will not be a
tyrant bidding you to hush up your
! crying. 1t will be Father who will
take you on his left arm, his face gleam-
| ing into yours, while with the soft tips
of ther right hand, he shall wipe away all
tears from your eyes. I have noticed
when the children get hurt, and their
| past me and to her; am of no account.
So, when the soul comes up into
Heaven out of the wounds of this life,
| it will not stop to look for Paul, or
Moses, or David, or John. These did
very we'll once, but now the soul shall
! rush past, crying, Where is Jesus?
Where is Jesus?" Dear Lord, what o
magnificent thing to die if Thou shalt
thus wipe away our tears. Methink it
will take us some time to get used to
Heaven; the fruits of God without one
speck; the fresh pastures without one
nettles the orchestra without one
snapped string; the river of gladness
without one torn bank; the solferinos
and the saffron of sunrise and sunset
swallowed up in the eternal day that
beams from Gods countenance!
Why should wish to inger in the wild,
When Thou art waiting, Father, to receive Thy
child?
sirsA if We could get any appreciation
of what God has in reserve for us, it
would make us SO homesick We would
be unfit for our everyday work. Pro-
fessor Leonard, formerly of Iowa Uni
versity, put in my hand meteoric
stone, stone thrown off from some
other world to this. How suggestive it
was to me. And l have to tell you the
are only aerolites flung off from that orld
which rolls on, bearing the muItitudes of
the redeemed. We analyze these aero
I.tes, and find them crystallizations of
tears. No wonder, flung off from Hea-
ven. God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes,"
Have you any appreciation of the good
and glorious times your friends are hay-
ing in Heaveni How different it is
when they get news there of Chris
tian's death from what it is here. 1t is
the difference between embarkation 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 be-
tween q funeral on earth and a jubilee
in Heaven between requiem here and
triumphal march there-parting here
and reunion there. Together! Have
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!
l never appreciated that thought so
much as when We laid away in her last
slumber my sister Sarah. Standing there
in the village cemetery, I looked around
and said: There is father. there is
mother, there is grandfather, there is
grandmoth there are whole circles of
kindred" and l thought TO myself, ITO.
gether in the grave-together in glory"
l nm SO impressed with the thought that
do not think 1t is any fanaticism when
some one is going from this world to the
next if you make them the bearer of
dispatches to your friends who are gone,
saying: Give 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 I am trying to fight
the good fight of faith, and will join
them after a while"
believe the message will be deliv-
cred; and believe it will increase the
gladness of those who are before the
throne. Together, are they, all their
tears gone. Ne trouble getting good
society for them. All kings, queens,
princes and princesses. In 1851 there
was bill offered in the English par
Lament proposing to change the alma
nae so that the Ist of March should
come Immediately after the 18th of
February. But, oh, what q glorious
change in the calendar when all the
years 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 pefsecu-
tion, 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 q contamination
what is the use of fretting about any
thing? oh, what an exhilaration it
ought to be in 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 remain to us. The Saxons
and tine Britons went out to battle. The
Sa1ons were all armed. The Britons
had no Weapons at all; and yet history
tells us the Britons got the victory. |
Whyf They went into battle shouting
three times, -Hallelujah!" and at the
third shout of "Hallelujah," their ene-
mics fed panic struck; and SO the Brit.
ons got the victory.
And, my friends if We could only ap-
preciate the glories that are to come, We
would be SO filed with enthusiasm that
no power on earth or hell could stand |