Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-09
WHAT IS TROUBLE
The Dark Side and the Bright
Side of Life.
DR.. Taimage Says If It Were Not for
Trouble This World Would BE
aHeaven-What Trouble
Is For.

BROOKLYN, Oct. 27.-The Rev. L. De-
Witt Talmage, d. D., preached TO an
overfowing congregation at theacademy
Of music today.
Before preaching he said that a mis-
taken notion was abroad that the insur-
ance on his destroyed church was
enough to rebuild. The repetition of
disasters left us in debt. We have prac-
tically built three churches since I came
to Brooklyn. First, the original Taber-
nacle. Soon after that we made an en-
largement that cost almost as much as q
church. A few years after 1t all burned.
Then we put up the building recently
destroyed, and reared II IN a time when
the whole country was in its worst finan-
cial distress. 1t was these repeated dis
asters that left US in debt. My congre-
CATION have done magnihcently, but any
church would be in debt after 30 many
calamities. Now for the first time We
are out OF debt. But we need at least
500, 900 to build a church large enough,
and we call on people OF all creeds and
all lands to help. Before l help dedi-
cate a new church we must have every
dollar Of 1t paid. / will never again be
pastor of a church in debt. 1t has Grip
pied us in all our movements, and L
shall never again wear the shackles. /
have for the last sixteen years preached
to about 5000 people sitting and stand
ing, twice a Sabbath, but everybody
knows that we need a place that will
hold 5000. shall not be surprised IL
some man Of wealth shall say: "Here
are 500, 0oO il you will put up a memor-
ial structure, and call it after the name
of my departed father or child whose
memory 1 want put before all nations
and for all time" And SO it would be
done.
DIR, Talmage's text was: ''Gcd shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes,
Rev. vii:17. He said:
Riding across a western prairie, wild
flowers up TO the hub of the carriage
wheel, and while a 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 / ever saw it shine, and /
thought, what a beautiful spectacle this
Is. So the tears of the Bible are not
midnight storm, but rain on pansied
prairies in Gods sweet and golden sun
light. You remember that bottle which
David labeled as containing tears, and
Mary's tears, and Paul's tears, and
Christ's tears, and the harvest Of Joy
that is to spring from the sowing OF
tears. God mikes them. Tod rounds
them. God shows them where to fall.
God exhales them. A census Is taken
Of them, and there Is q record as to the
momen 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 not n of A~lexSnder's
tears. speak Of the tears of the good.
Alas! met they are falling all the time.
In summer you sometimes hear the
growing of thunder, and you see there
Is q storm miles away; but you know
from the drift OF the clouds that it will
not come anywhere near you. So,
though it may be all right around about
us, there is a shower of trouble some-
where all the time. Tears! Tears!
What Is the use of them anyhow?
Why not substitute laughter? Why
not make this a world where all the
people are well and eternal strangers
to pain and aches? What Is the use Of
an eastern storm when we might have
o perpetual nor'wester? Why, when .
family is put together, not have them
all stay, or il they must be transplanted
to make other homes, then have them
ell live? the family record telling \
story Of marriages and births, but ofno
deaths. Why not have the harvests
chase each other without fatiguiag toll?
Why the hard pillow. the hard crust,
the hard struggle? IL Is easy enough
20 explain . smile, or q success, or .
congratulation; but come now. and
bring al your dictionaries and all your
philosophers and all your religions. and
help nae explain 3 e a A chemist will
tel! yon that 1t Ii made up Of salt and
lime and other component parts; but he
misses the chief ingredients-the acid
Of . soured life, the viperine sting OF .
bitter memory, the fragments OF .
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you 81 the uses Of trouble.
Eirst--It Is the design of trouble to
keep this world from being too at
tracHve- Something must be done to
mako ~ willing to quit this existence.
II IL werc not for trouble this world
would be q good enough heaven for me.
You and / would be willing To take q
lease OF this life for 100, 0O0, 900
years II there were no trouble.
The earth cushioned and upholstered
and pillared and c~handeliered with
such expense. no story of other worlds
could enchant MS. We would say: 'sLet
well enough alone. II you want to die
and have your body disintegrated in the
dust, and your soul SO out on q celestial
adventure, then you q 60; but this
world il good enough for me-" You
might " well 90 TO . man who has just
entered the Louvre st Paris, and tell
him to hasten OF to the picture CALLER
les Of Venice or Florence. why" he
would say, what IL the use of my going
there? There are Rembrandts and
Rubens and Raphaels here that /
haven't looked 1t yet
No man wants IA 20 out Of this world,
or out of amy house. until he hes . bot
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