Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-07-11

blacker, and after awhile tear starts,
and we think by an extra pressure OF
the evelid TO stop 1t. Others follow,
ond after awhile there Is shower Of tear
ful emotion. Yes, there Is rain OF tours
'.Hath that rain father"
"O.n YOU say, "a tear is nothing but
n drop Of limpid fluid secreted by the
lachrymal gland lis only sign OF weak
eyes" Great mistake. 1t Ii one oil the
Lords richest benedictions to the world:
| There are people in Blackwelrs island
insane asylum. and at Utica, and at all
the asylums OF this land who were dc,
mented IRON the fact that they could
not cry at the right time. Said ma
MAC IN one of our public institutions,
under a gospel sermon that started the
tears: SDo you see that tear? That Is
the first have wept for twelve year.
| think it will help my brain" There
are a great many in the grave who
could not stand any longer the glacier
of trouble. II that glacier had only
melted into weeping they would have
endured it. There have been times In
your life when you would have given
the world, il you possessed II, LOT
one 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 livid with
excitement, the eye dry and frantic, no
moisture on the upper or lower ha.
You saw there were bolts OF anSe" IN
the cloud, but no rain. To your chris
tian comfort, he said: Don't talk TO
me about God, there is no God; or II
there is | hate him: don't talk to me
about God; would He have LETT me ana
these motherless children?"
But q few hours or days after, COM
ing 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 appals, There bursts
the fountain OF tears, and as the sum
light of Gods consolation strikes that
fountain OF tears, you find out that II Is
a tender hearted, merciful, pitltul ano
all compassionate God who was the
father OF the rain.
90" you say. lit is absurd to think
that God Is going to watch over tears. "
No. nv friends there are three or four
kinds OF them that God counts, bottles
and eternalizes First. there are all pa
rental 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 1t.
They NAV live to shout and sing after
ward but there is always a corridor in
the soul that is silent, though 1t once
| Ill NI,,
toned the death OF child who died
fifty years before without q tremor in
the voice and sigh, o. how deep
fetched. 1t was better she should die.
She would have been lifelong invalid.
Bnt YOU cannot argue away parents
grief. How often you hear the moan
20. my child, my child.
Then there are the iilial tears. Little
children soon get overthe loss OF parents
They are easily diverted with a new
TOW. But where is the man that has
come to 30 or 40 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 good many years, but you
can never forget how she took care Of
you. There have been many sea captains
converted in our church and the pc
culiarity of them was that they were
nearly all prayed ashore by thei" moth
ers, though the mothers went into the
dust soon after they went to sea.
Have you never heard an old man IL
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 1t, aud when
she goes away from us 1t makes deep
sorrow. You sometimes, perhaps. i'll
days of trouble and darkness, when the
world would say: You ought to be able
to take care of yourself'-yOu wake lin
from your dreams finding yourself say
ing: "Oh. mother, mother. Have
these tears no divine origin? why
take all the warm hearts TINT 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.
The king of Carthage was dethroned.
His people rebelleG against him. he
was driven into Punishment. His wife
and children were outrageously abused.
Years went by and the king OF Car.
thage made many friends. He gathered
up great army, He marched again
toward Carthage. Reaching the gates
of Carthage. the best men OF the place
came out bare footed and bare headed,
and with ropes around their necks, cry.
ing for mercy. They said: I'VE abused
YOU and we abused your family, but we
cry for mercy" The king OF Carthage
looked down upon the people from his
chariot and said: Il came to bless; l
didn't come to destroy. You drove me
out, but this DAY pronounce pardon
for all the people. Open the gate and
let the army come in" The king
marched in and took the throne, and
the people all shouted: Long live the
king"
My friend, you have driven the Lord
Nh-faf kha Kinr nf the church