Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-09

"ic more pofJentouS than Salvador or
o'auoe ever painJed-clouds Of poverty
OF persecution or bereavement They
i noNIr over us, and get darker and
o'"1Nor' ana after while d tear starts,
ana we think by an extra pressure of tho
eyelid to stop it. Others follow and
after while there is a shower IF too
tul emotion. Yea, there is q rain az
tears. Hath that rain q fatherpo
''Oh, you say, "a tear is nothing but
a drop Of limpid fluid secreted bv tho
lachrymal glands only q sign of weak
eyes" Great mistake. 1t is one of the
Lords richest benediCtions to the world.
There are people in Blackwell's Island
insane asylum, and at Unica, and at all
the asylums of this land, who were de-
mcnted by the fact that they could not
cry at the right time Said maniac in
one of our public institutions, under q
Gospel sermon that started the tears:
''Do you see that tear? That is the first
] have wept for twelve years. / 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
one tear. You could shrek, you could
blasphemc, but you could not cry. Have
you never seen a 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, no
moisture on the upper or lower lid. Gou
saw there were bolts of anger in the
cloud but no rain.
To your Christian comfort he SAD,
Don't talk to me about God; there is no
God; or If there is | hate HIM; don't
talk to me about God; would lie have
left me and these mothcrlcSS 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 tho
fountain of tears, and as the sunlight
Of Gods consolation strikes that toun-
tain Of tears YOU find out that it is d
tender hearted, merciful, pitful and all
compassionate God who was the Father
of that rain.
con-" you say, tits 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 cternizes. First, there are
all parental tears, and there are moro 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 after
ward but there is always Il corridor in
the soul that is silent, though it once
resounded.
Little children soon get over the loss
Of parents. They are easily diverted
with II new toy. But whore is the man
who has come to thirty or forty or fifty
years of age who can think of the old
people without having all the fountains
of his soul stirred up? You may have
had to take care of her n good many
years, but you never can forget how She
used to take care Of you. There have
been many sea captains 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 the dust soon after they went
to sea. Have you never heard an old man
in delirium of some sickness call for his
mother?
The fact is we get so used to calling FOR
her the first ten years OF our life we
never get over it, and when she goes
away from us it 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,
sob, mother! mother" Have those 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
Sym nj 10 nj
all that rain of repentance
Did you ever see u rain OF repentance?
Do you know what it is that makes
man repent? l see people going around
trying TO repent. DO you know no man
can repent until God helps him to re-
pent? How do l know? BY this pas
sage, ''IIim hath God exalted to be
prince and Saviour to give repentance"
Oh! it is a tremendous hour when ono
wakes up and says: 81 am bad man;
/ have not sinned against the laws of tho
land, but have wasted my life. God
asked me for my services and haven't
given those services. Oh! my sins, God
forgive me.
When that tear starts it thrills all
Heaven. An angel cannot keep his eye
off it, and the church of God assemblies
around and there is Il commingling of
tears, and God is the Father of that rain,
the Lord, long suffering, mercful and
gracious. In religious assemblage
man arose and said: II have been a very
wicked man; / broke my mothers heart;
| became an infidel; but l have seen my
evil way; and l have surrendered my
heart to God. But it is grief | never
can get over that my parents should
never have heard of my salvation.
don't know whether they are living or
dead" While yet he was standing in
the audience, voice from the gallery
said, "Oh, my son, my son!'
He looked up and he recognized her.
1t was his old mother. She had been
praying for him for a great many years,
and when at the foot of the cross the
prcdigal son and the praying mother
embraced each other, there was rain,
Tremendous rnin. of tenrS. and God was