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| JTe QdrRneSS Snail DTeaR Gue uOruluS, duu
God will wipe all tears from their eyes.
J You know on we'll spread table the food
| becomes more delicate at the last. I 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. Lete the Kings
cup bearers come in. Good morning Hea-
ven! "Oh," 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 if there be no tears in heaven,
how is it possible that God will wipe
any away% I 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 tine 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
can do that.
Jesus had enough trial to make Him
sympathetic with all trial. The short
"Jesus wept" The scar on the back
of 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. It will not be tyrant bidding you to
hush up your crying 1t wi VIII be aiS Father ther
| cleaning into yours, while with the soft tips
Or Uue myers OF vne r7gnJ nand, ne saan wlpe
| away all tears from your eyes. have no
| ticed when the children get hurt, and their
mother is away from home, they come to me
| for comfort and sympathy; but have mo-
| ticed that when the children get hurt and
their mother is at home, they go right 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 well once, but now the soul
shall rush past, crying: Where is Jesus?
Where is Jesus?" Dear Lord, what magni-
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 nettle; 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 lInser in the wild,
| When Thou art waiting, Father, to receive Thy
child?
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 every day
work Professor Leonard, formerly of Iowa
University, put in my hand meteoric stone,
| a stone thrown off from some other world to
| this. How suggestive it was to me. And
| have to tell you the best representations we
have Of heaven are only aerolites flung off
| from that world which rolls on. bearing the
| multitudes Of the redeemed. We analyze
| these aeroites and find them crystaliZations
of tears No wonder, flung OFF from heaven.
''God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes,"
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 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. II you stand on the
other side of the river you rejoice that they
come Oh, the difference between funeral
on earth and jubilee in heaven-between
requiem here and triumphial march there
parting here and reunion there. Together!
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. Togetherl
never appreciated that thought so much
as when we laid away in her last slumber
my sister Sarah. Standing there in the vii
lage cemetery, looked around and said:
There is father, there is mother, there is
grandfather, there is grandmother, there are
whole circles of kindred" and I thought to
myself: Together in the grave-togetRer in
glory" am so impressed with the thought
that do not think it is 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: "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
am trying to fight the good fight Of faith,
and will join them after awhile"
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 1151 there was
bill offered in the English parliament pro-
posing to change the almanac so that the 1st
of March should come Immediately after the
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 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
consummation-whati is the use of fretting
about anything? Oh, what an exhilaration
it ought to be in Christian work
See you the pinuacles against the
skys It is ths city Of our G9d,
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 ali
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, "Hallelujahm and at
the third shout of 'Hallelujah," their enc
mics fled panic struck; and so the Bfitons go.
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 thirF
ihout they wouli be routed forever. There
no power on Garth or in hell that could
stand before three such volleys OF halle
luiah.
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 q prospect Of so soon making your
own escape. Bear cheerfully the ministry Of
tears, and exult at the thought that soon 1t Is
to be ended.
There we shall march up the heavenly street.
And ground Our arms ar Jesuss feet.