Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-10


arc more portcntous than Salvador or
Claude ever painted-clouds 81 poverty
or persecution OF bereavement. IheV
hover over us, and get darker ara
blackcr. and after while tear starts,
and we think by an extra pressure OF t.4e
cyelid to stop it. Others follow, ana
after while there is a shower OF tear.
ful emotion. Yea, there is RAIN OF
tears. 'Hath that rain father?
ssOh," YOU say, "a tear is nothing out
drop of limpid fluid secreted by the
lachrymal glands only sign OF weak
ewes" Great mistake. 1t is one OF the
Lords richest benedictions to the world.
There ARK, people in Blackwell's Island
insane asylum, and at Unica, and at all
the asylu31s of this land, who were de-
manted ly the fact that they could not
crv at thu right time. Said maniac In
cna of on. public institutions, under
| Gospel sarmon that started the tears:
"l;o YOU sae that tear? That is the first
! have wept for twelve years. l think
it will hei:o my BRAIN"
There ;.re great many in the grave
whe coule not stand any longer under
the glacier of trouble. If that glacier
lad only melted into weeping they could
/ have endured it. There have been times
| in your lie when you would have given
the world if you had possessed it, fol
one tear. You could Shrek, you could
blasrheme. but you could not cry. Have
you never seen man holding the hand
| of dead wife, who had been all the
world to him? The temples livid With
excitement, the eye dry and frantic, nc
moisture on the upper or lower lid. You
saw there were bolts of anger in the
cloud but no rain.
To your Christian comfort he said,
"Don't talk to me about God: there is nc
God; or if there is l hate Him: don't
talk to me about God; would He have
left me and these motherless children?
But few hours or days after, coming
across some lead pencil that she owned in
life, or some letters which she wrote
when he was away from home, with an
cutlery that appeals there bursts the
fountain of tears, and as the sunligh,
of Gods consolation strikes that foun-
tain of tears you find out that it is a
tender hearted, merciful, pitful and ali
compassionate God who was the Father
Of that rain.
con-" you say, sits absurd to think
that God is going to watch over tears
No, my friends. There are three OF
IOuI Minus VI CIlcil tLdt 1OO COullt Us
bottles and ctcrnizes. First, there are
all parental tears, and there are more o.
these than of any other kind. because
the most OF the race die in infancy, ant
that keeps parents mourning all around
the world They never get over it
They may live to sho1t and sing after
ward, but there is always corridor il
the soul that is SILENT though it once
resounded.
Little oaildren s.ln get over the los
Of parents. They are easily diverted
with new toy. But where is the MAJ
who has come to thirty or forty or fit.
years of age who can think of the oil
people without having all the fountain
of his soul stirred up? You may hav
had to take care of her a good man
years, but you never can forget how sh
used to take care of you. There hav
, been many sea captains converted in on
church and the popularity OF them wa
that they were nearly all prayed ashor
by their mothers, though the mother
went into the dust soon after they wen
to sea. Have you never heard an old ma
in delirium OF some sickness call for hi
mother?
The fact is we get so used to calling fo
+ her the first ten years OF our life W
, never get over it, and when she GOO
away from us it makes deep sorrow
, You sometimes, perhaps, in days {
: trouble and darkness, when the worl
: would say, "You ought to be able to tai,
: care of YOURSELF" you wake up fro1
/ your dreams finding yourself saying
$ ooh, mother! mother" Have those teal
n no divine origin? Why, take all I'll
@ warm hearts that ever beat in all lane
g and in all ages, and put them togethe
O and their united throb would be wea
q compared with the throb of Gods etern;
:. sympathy. Yes, God also is Father
t all that rain of repentance.
h Did you ever see rain of repentance
Do you know what it is that makes
4 man repent? l see people going aroun
+. can repent until God helps him to r.
q pent? How do know? BY this pa
d sage, "Him hath God exalted to be
q prince and a Saviour to give repentance
d Oh. it is tremendous hour when or
d wakes up and says: 81 am bad MAJ
q l haven not sinned against the laws of tt
: land, but l have wasted my life. &C
d asked me for my services and haven
q given those services. Oh! my sins, &c
l. forgive me.
d When that tear starts it thrills a
IS Heaven. An angel cannot keep his e,
,e off it, and the church of God assemble
,e around, and there is commingling
It tears, and God is the Father of that raj
% the Lord, long suffering, merciful al
e. gracious. In ~ religious assemblage
is man arose and said: Il have been a We
ID wicked man; broke my mothers heal
s. l became an intidel: but have seen
IN evil way; and I have surrendered n
D. heart to God. But it is grief, l new
re can get over that my parents shou
I'd never have heard of my salvation
if don't know whether they are living
>, dead" While yet he was standing
G. the audience, voice from the gale
re said, "Oh, my son, my son!''
is he looked up and he recognized he
q, 1t was his old mother. She had be,
It, praying for him for great many yeal
and when at the foot of the cross t
lg prcdiSal son and the praying moth
81 embraced each other, there was rain
Ii, tremendous rain, of tears, and God W
tx the Father of those tears. Oh. that G
e. would break US down with sense of o
or SIM and then lift us up with an appre
lll alton OF His mercy. Tears over O