The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-07-08

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world, add the world sick Of him, live
on while here is man in mid-life, con-
secrated to God, hard working, useful
in every respect, who dies? Why does
that old gossip, gadding along the street
about every body's business but her
own, have such good health, while the
Christian mother, with flock OF little
ones about her whom she is preparing
for usefulness and for Heaven-the
mother who you think could not pe
spared an hour from that household
why does she lie down and die with
cancer? Why does that man, selfish 70
the core, go on adding fortune to for-
tune, consuming everything on himself
continue to prosper, while that man,
who has been given ten per cent. OF al
his income to God and the church, goes
into bankruptcy? Before we make stark
fools of ourselves, let us stop pressing
this everlasting "why." Let us worship
where we can not understand Let
man take that one question, Why
and follow II far enough, and push IL,
and he will land in wretchedness ana
perdition. We want in our theology
fewer interrogation marks and more
exclamation points. Heaven isthe place
for explanation. Earth is the place for
trust. If you can not understand so
minute thing as a rain-drop, how can
you expect to understand Gods deal
ings? "Hath the rain fatherP"
Again my text makes me think that
the rain OF tears is Of divine 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
or Claudeever painted-clouds OF power
ty, or persecution, or bereavement
They hover over us, and they get
darker and blacker, and after while
tear starts, and we think by an extra
pressure Of the eyelid to stopit- Others
follow, and after while there Is
shower of fearful emotion. Yea, there
Is rain of tears. Hath that rain
father?"
"O," you say, "a tear is nothing but
a drop Of limpid fluid secreted by the
lachrymal glands only a sign OF weak
ewes" Great mistake. II is one OF the
Lords richest benedictions to the world.
There are people In Blackwelrs Island
insane asylum, at Utica, and at all the
asylums Of this land, who were de-
mented by the fact that they could not
cry at the right time. Said maniac in
one Of our public institutions, under a
gospel sermon that started the tears;
UDo YOU see that tear? that is the first
! have wept for twelve years. think
Il will help my BRAIN There are
great many in the grave who could moi
| stand any longer under the glacier o.
5 trouble. II that glacier had only
4 melted into weeping, they could have
Q endured 1t. There have been times
Q in your life when you woulC
Il have given the world, II you hat
= possessed It, for one tear. foi
y could shrek, you could blaspheme, bu
n YOU could not cry. Have you ever seei
s a man holding the hand Of dead wife
Il who had been all the world TO him
n The temples livid with excitement tn
a eve dry and frantic, no moisture on tn
II upper or lower lid. You saw there wer
y bolts Of anger In the cloud, but no rain
e To your Christian comfort he said
T. Don't talk TO me about God, there
!? no God; or II there Is hate Him; don
d talk to me about God; would he hav
T. left me and these motherless children?
!? But few hours or days after, comm
q across some lead pencil that she owne
is In life, or some letters which she wrot
70 when he. waa away from home, with a
T. outcry that appals, there burst
o the fountain Of tears, and as the sur
e. light of Gods consolation strikes tha
g. fountain Of tears you find out that II is
re tender-hearted, merciful, pitiful, and al
rs compassionate God who was the fail
le er of that rain. TO-" you say ut is al
8, surd to think that God is going to watc
at over tears" No, my friends. Thei
OF are three or four kinds OF them TIL
X God counts, bottles, and eternize
,ir First, there are all parental tears, an
it there are more Of these than any oth'
sh kind, because most Of the race die
tn infancy, and that keeps parents mourI
nd ing all around the world. They new,
nd get over II. They may live TO shol
k, and sing afterwards, but there is 9
er ways corridor In the soul that Is
Ia lent, though II once resounded. N
et- parents never mentioned the death Of
Of child who died fifty years before, wit
ie, out tremor in the voice and a sigh, @
he how deep-fetched. II was better S
la should die. 1t was morcy she shou
ad die Sho would have 'oeen life-lo
invalid. But you car. not argue awaI
an parents grief How often you hear
IT. moan: 20, my c,nild, my childp' TIL
M there are the dllal tears Little cf
n. dren soon g. a over the loss Of paren
rs, They are easily diverted with p n
I'M toy. ~ Awhere is the man that
on come % thirty, or forty, or fifty ye
N, OF 4ee, who can think Of the old peo
OF vhthout having all the fountains OF
no soul stirred up2 You may have had
~ take care Of her good many years,
,de you never can forget how she used
ais take care of you There have b
By many sea captains converted Ia
church, and the popularity Of them
hat | that they were nearly all prayed ash
BILE. by their mothers, though the mt
VA. ers went into tho dust soon a
'the they went TO sea. Have you
now heard an old man In delirium
and some siclness, call for his mott
end The fact is we get so used to calling