Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-11-03

sweet are the Uses OF AdSersity-The
Glories Of Heaven Glowingly Portrayed.
The Love of God
BROOKLYN, Oct 27.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, d, d., preached to an
Overlooking congregation at the Acad-
envy of Music today.
Before preaching he said that a 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
lcame TO Brooklyn. First, the orig.
inal Tabernacle. Soon after that we
made an enlargement that cost almost
as much as q church. y few years
after it all burned. Then we put up
the building recently DESTROYED, and
reared IL in a time when the whole
country was in its worst financial dis
treSs. IL was these repeated disasters
that left us in debt. My congregation
have done magnificently, bat any
church would be- N debt afters Sc many
calamIties. Now for the first time we
are out of debt But we need al least
one hundred thousand dollars 10 build
a church large enough, and we call
on people of all creedS and all lands
10 help Before | help dedicate a new
church we must have every dollar Of
it paid will never again be pastor
of a church in debt. Il has crippled
us in all our movements, aud | shall
never again wear the shackles. | have
. for the last sixteen years preached to
about five thousand people sitting and
standing. twice a Sabbath. but every
body knows that we need a place that
will hold eight thousand. / shall not
be surprised if some man Of wealth
shall say: Here are hundred thou.
sand dollars if you will put up a me.
moral structure, and call it after the
name of my departed father or child
whose memory / want put before all
nations and for al time" And so it
would be done.
SWEET IRE THE USES OF ADVERSELY.
DR.. Talmage's text was: God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes"
Rev. vii, IL. he said:
Riding across a western prairie,
wild flowers up to the hub Of the car
rage wheel, and whilea long distance
from any shelter. there came a sudden
shower, and while the rain was fall.
ing in torrents, the sun was shining as
brightly as | ever saw it shine; and |
thought, what a beautiful spectacle
this isl So the tears of the Bible are
not midnight storm, but rain on pan.
sled prairies in God'ssweet and golden
sunlight. You remember that bottle
which David labeled as containing
tears. and Mary's tears, and Pauls
tears, and Christ's tears, and the bar.
vest OF JOY that is to spring from the
sowing of tears. God mixes them.
9 God rounds them. God shows them
where to fall. God exhales them. A
census is taken Of them, and there is a
record as 10 the moment when they
are born, and as 10 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
~ oAlN vi -AltAdilAfI y ItuTN. Il hDtaih
of the tears of the good. Alasl met
they are falling all the time. In sum.
mer, you sometimes hear the growl.
ing thunder, and YOU see there is q
storm miles away but you know from
the drift of the clouds that il will not
come anywhere near you. So, though
1t may be all bright around about US,
there is a shower of trouble some.
where all the time. Tears. Tearsl
What is the use of them anyhowl
Why not substitute laugbterl Why
not make this a world where all the
people are well and eternal strangers
TO pain and ache! What is the use
OF an eastern storm when we might
have a perpetual uor'westerl Why,
when "A family is put together. not
have them all stay, or il tacy must
be transplanted 10 make other homes,
then have them al live! the family
record telling a story OF marriages and
births. but Of 40 deaths. Why not
have tie harvcsts chase each other
without iatiguiug toili Why the hard
pillow, the hard crust, the hard strug.
glei Ii 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 it is made up of salt
and lime and other component parts;
but he misses the chief ingredients
the acid Of a soured life, the yiperine
sting of a bitter memory, the frag-
ments Of a broken heart. | will tell
you what a tear is; it is agony in solu-
ton.
Hear me, then, while | discourse to
you of the uses Of trouble.
r. FITS FOR HEAVEN.
First-lt 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.
III II were not for trouble this world
would be a good enough heaven for
me. You and / would be willing to
take a lease Of this life for a hundred
million years if 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. II you want
70 die and have your body disinte-
grated in the dust, and your soul 90
cut ON a celestial adventure, then you
csn go; but this world is good enough
for me-" You might as well go 10 a