Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-06


Heaven is the place for explanation.
Earth is the place for trust. II you
cannot understand so minute thing as
rain-drop, how can you expect to I'M
derstand Gods dealings? Hath the
rain father?"
THE RAIN OF TEARS.
Again my text makes me think that
the rain OF tears is OF devine origin.
Great clouds of trouble sometimes hover
over US. They are black and they are
gorged, and they are thunderous. They
are more portentous than Salvador or
Claude ever painted-clouds OF poverty.
or persecution, or bereavement. They
hover over US, and they get darker
and blacker, and after awhile tear
starts, and we think by an extra press
IRE of the eyelid to stop it. Others
follow, and after awhile there Is
d shower Of fearful emotion. Yea, there
is rain of tears. Hath that rain
father?"
"O," you say, 'a tear is nothing but
drop of limpid fluid secreted by the
lachrymal gland-it is only sign OF
weak eyes" Great mistake. 1t is one
of the Lords richest benedictions to
the world. There are people in Black
wells Island insane asylum, and at
Utica, and at all the asylumS OF this
land, who were demented by the fact
they could not cry at the right time.
Said maniac in one OF our public In
situations, under a Gospel sermon that
started the tears: ''Do you see that
tear? That is the first have wept for
twelve years. l think it will help my
BRAIN" There are great many in
the grave who could not stand
any longer under the glacier
of trouble. If that glacier had only
melted into weeping, they could have
endured it. There have been times in
your life when you would have given
the world, if you had possessed it, for
tear. You could shrek, you could
blaspheme, 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 llvid
with excitement, the eye dry and fran
tic, no 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 no 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 a
few hours Of days after, coming across
some lead pencils 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 sunlight
of Gods consolation strikes that foun-
tain Of tears, you find out that it is
tender-hearted merciful, pitful, and all
compassionate God who was the father
of the rain. co." you say, sit is absurd
to think that God is going to watch
over tears" No, my friends. There
are three or four kinds of them that
God counts, bottles, and eternizes.
First, there are all parental tears, and
there are more of these than of any
other kind, because the most of the
race die in infancy, and that keeps |
parents mourning all around the world. |
They never get over it. They may live |
to shout and sing afterwards, but there |
is always a corridor in the soul that is |
silent, though it once resounded. Ny |
parents never mentioned the death of |
child who died fifty years before, without
a tremOr in the voice and sigh, Oh! |
how deep-fetched. 1t was better she
should die. 1t was mercy she should |
die. She would have oeen lifelong
invalid. But you cannot argue away
psrent's grief How often you hear the
moan; 20 my child, my Child J"
Then there are the tiial tears. Little
children soon get over the loss of parents
They are easily diverted with a new toy.
But where is the man who has come to
thirty, or forty, or fifty years of age, who
can think of the old people without hav-
ing all the fountains of his soul stirred |
up? You may have had to take care Of |
her good many years, but you never |
can forget how she used to take care of |
you. There have been many sea cap |
tains converted in our church, and the |
popularity of them was that they were
nearly all prayed ashore by their
mothers, though the mothers went into
dust soon after they went to sea. Have
you never heard an old man in delirium
Of some sickness, call for his mother?
Inc ldCU IL, we ScJ 81 uSeu w Cdlliub lOI
her the first ten years OF our life We
never get over it, and when she goes
away from US IL makes deep sorrow.
You sometimes, perhaps, in days of
trouble and darkness, when the world
would say: "You ought to be
able to take care of yourself"-
you wake up from your dreams, finding
yourself saying: 80, motherl mother!''
Have these tears no divine origin? Why,
take all the warm hearts that ever beat
in all lands, and in all ages, and put
them together, and their united throb
would be weak compared with the thrOb
of Gods eternal sympathy. Yes, God
also is Father of all that rain OF repent
ance?
THE RAIN OF REPENTANCE.
Did you ever see a rain of repentance?
Do You know what it is that makes a
man repent? see people going around
trying to repent. They cannot repent.
Do you know, no man can repent until
God helps him to repent? How do l
know? BY this passage: Him hath
God exalted to be a prince and Savior
to give repentance. o! it is a tremen-
done hour vhan ono wakes nm and saws.