The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-01-17

OF the fingers Of the right hand, He shall wipe
away all tears from your eyes. have no
tieed when the children get hurt. and their
mother Is away from home, they come to me
for comfort and sympathy; but 1 have no
liced that when the children get hurt and
their mother is at home they 20 right past
me and to her; I 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 JesusF Dear Lord, what magni-
iceut thing to die if Thou shalt thus wipe
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 hank; the solferinos and the
saffron of sunrise and sunset swallowed up in
The eternal day that beams from Gods
eountenancel
wl-y should wish to linger in the wild.
When Thou art waiting Father, to reeSive Thy
childi
IF we could get any appreciation of what
God has IN reserve for US, it would make US
50 homeSica, we would be unfit for every day
work. Professor Leonard, formerly of Iowa
University. put in my hand a meteoric stone,
a stone thrown off from some other world to
L
have to tell you the best representations we
have Of heaven are only aerolites flung of
from that world which rolls on. bearing the
multitudes of the redeemed. We analvze
these aerolites, and find them crystaiizations
Of tears. No wonder, flung off from heaven
God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes"
Have you any appreciation Of the goSn ana
glorious times Your friends are having in
heaveny How different it is when they get
news there of a Christians death from what
it is here. 1t is the difference between en-
barkatiUn and coming into port Everything
depends upon which side Of the river you
stand when you hear of a Christians death.
II 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 funeral
on earth and a jubilee in heaven-between
requiem here and triumphial march there
parting nUTs and reunion there ether
Have you thought Of it2 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
ss when we laid away in her last slumber
my sister Sarah. Standing there in the vii
lage cemetery. I looked around and said:
There is father. there is mother, there is
grandfather, there is grandmother. there are
whole Circles OF kindred and 1 thought to
myself: Together in the grave-together in
glory am 50 impressed with the thought
that l 30 not think It'll 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
all 7
am trying to fight the good fight Of faith,
and ! win Join them after awhile"
believe the message viii be delivered; and
I 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 1751 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, ON. what a glorious
change IN the calendar when all the years of
your earthly existence are swallowed up II
the eternal year of God
Ny friends. take this good cheer home
with Won, 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 VIII wipe them all
away. What Is the use, on the way TO such
a consunmation-what Is the use of fretting
about anything? Oh, what an exhilaration
it ought 10 be in Christian work.
See you the pinnacles against the
sky It 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 SaNons and the Britons
went out to battle. The Saxons were all
armed The Britons mad no weapons at all:
and vet history tells US the Brit0ns got the
victory Why? They went into battle
shouting three times ''Hallelujahn' and at
the third shout of '-Hallelujah," their enc
mics led panic struck; and 50 the Billions got
the victory.
And, my friends, if we could only appre-
ciate the glOries that are to come we would
be so filed with enthusiasm that no power of
earth or he'll could stand before US; and at
our first shout the opposing forces would be
gin 70 tremble, and at our second shout they
would begin to fall back, and at our thiT
ihout they would be routed forever. There
S no power on earth or in he'll that could
stand before three such voIleys 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
tears, and exult at the thought that soonit is
to be ended.
There we shall march up the heavenly street.
And ground our arms at Jesus's feet.