The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-06

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 III Infancy, and that keeps
parents mourning all around the world.
They never get over it. They may 1--we 70
shout and sing after ward, but there IS al
WAYS a corridor in the soul that IS silent,
| though it once resOunded. My parents
never mentioned the death Of child VINO
/ died fifty years before, without tremor III
the voice and sigh, o. how deep-tetcheu'
| IL was better she should die. IL was
mercy she should die. She would nave
! been a lifelong invalid. But you cannot
| argue away a parents grief. How often
Won hear the moan, "Oi my child, my
! childW Then there are the hllal tears;
| Little children soon get over the loss OF
parents They are easily diverted Win a
! new toy. But where Is the man tuat mas
| come to 30, or 70, OF 80 years OF age, VINO
can think of the old people without having
| all the fountains Of his soul stirred
| up7 You may have haG to take care OF her
! a GOOD many years, but you never can for
| get how she used 10 take care Of you. There
| have been many sea-captaius 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 dell
rum 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 1t
makes deep sorrow. You sometimes, per-
haps, in days of trouble and darkness, when
the world would say: "NCu ought to be
able to take care of yourself'-you wake
up from your dreams finding yourself
saying go, mother, motherH Have
these tears no divine origln9 Why.
take all the warm hearts that ever beat IN
all lands, and in all ages, and put them to-
getber, and their united t1rob would be
weak compared with the throb of Gods
eternal sympathy. Yes, God also is father
of all that rain OF repentance. Did you
ever see a rain of repentance! Do you know
what il is that makes man repent | see
people going around trying to repent. They
cannot repent. Do yon know, no man can
repent until Col helps him to repent, How
do / know By this passage: Him hath
God exalted to be prince and a Savior to
give repentance" 0! it is a tremendous
hour when one wakes up and says: II am
a bad man, | have not slnned against the
laws of the land, but have wasted my life;
God asked me for my services, and |
haven't given those services o, my
sins, God forgive me.n When that tear
starts it thrills all heaven. An angel can
not keep his eve Off il, and the church of
God assemblies around and there is a CON-
minglng Of tears, and God Is the father Of
that rain. the Lord. long suffering, merciful
and gracious. In religious assenblage a
man arose and said: 81 have been a very
wicked man; broke my mothers heart,
became an intidel; but l have sen my evil
way, and l have surrendered my heart to
God but 1t is a grief that | can never 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 a voice
from The gallery said: 20! my son, my
sonM 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 prOdlgal son and the praying mother
embraced each other, there was a rain, a
tremendous rain, of tears, and God was the
father Of those tears. o! that God would
break US down with a sense of our sin, and
then lift us with an appreciation of his
mercy. Tears over our wasted life. Tears
over grieyed spirit. Tears over an in
jured father. O! that God wonld move
upon this audience with a great wave of re-
ligious emotionl
The King Of Carthage was dethroned. His
people rebelled against him. He was driven
into Punishment HIS wife and children
were outrageously abused Years went
by, and the King Of Carthage 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, crying 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 al came
to bless, didn't come to destroy You
drove me out, but this day pronounce par
don for all The people. Open the gate and
let the army come i'm The king marched
in and took the throne, and the people all
shouted: Long live the king" My friends,
you have driven the Lord Jesus Christ, the
King Of the Church, away from your heart
you have been maltreating hin all these
years; but he comes back to-day. He
stands in front of the gates of your soul If
you will only pray for his pardon he will
meet you with his gracious spirit. and he
viii say Thy sins aud thine iuiquities l
Will remember no more. Open wide the
gate; Will take the throne. My peace |
give unto you And then, all through this
audience, from the young and from the old,
there will be a rain of tears, and God viii
be the Fatcer of that rain