Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-16


rvnlal glald-i. IS only Z sign Of weak
ewes" Great mistake. 1t is one of the
Lords richest benedctions to the world
There are people in Biackwell's Island in
sane asylum, and at Utica. and at all the
asvlums Of thu land. who were demented
by the fact that they could not err at the
right time Said a maniac ln one of our
public institutions, under Gospel sermon
that started the tears. DO you see that
tearY that is the first | have wept for
twelve years think it will help my
brain"
There are a great many in the grave who
could not stand any longer under the
glacier OF trouble. II that glacier had only
melted into weeping they could have en-
dured it. There have been times in your
life when you would have given the world,
If you had possessed it, for 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 10 himS The temples
livid with excitement, the eye dry and
frantic, 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 hate
him. don't talk 10 me about Cod would
he have left me and these motherless chill
drengn
But 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 thar appAls, there bursts the foun-
tain Of tears, and as the sunlight of Gods
consolation strikes that fountain of tears,
YOU find out that il is "A tender hearted.
mereiful. pitifui and all compassionate
God Is h0 was the father Of that rain. oh"
you say, lit is absurd to think that God
is going 10 watch over tears No. my
friends There are three or four kinds Of
them that God counts. bottles and eter
nizes. First, there ARE all parental tears,
aud there are more Of these than Of any
other kind. bpcause the most OF the race die
in infancy. aud that keeps parents mourn
lug all around the world They never get
over IT, They may live to shout and sing
aftefward, but there is always corridor
10 the soul that is sileat, though it once re
sounded.
Ny parents never mentioned the death
Of child who died iifty years before with.
RHA "a tEFtINNA Al AltF AN4ir ANA n lt-t4s hlls
how deep fetched Il was better she should
die. Il was mercy she should die She
would have been a lifelong Invalid But
you cannot argue away parents grief
How often sou bear the moan, oh my
child. my chidN Then there are the fiiial
tears Little children soon get over the
loss Of parents They are easily diverted
with new toy. BUT where is the man
that 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 ups You may have had 20
take care Of her a good many years but
you never can forget how she used to take
care Of You
There have been many sea captains con
verified ia our church. and the peculiarly
OF them was that they were nearly all
prayed ashore by their mothers. though !
the mothers went into the dnsi soon after
they went 70 sen Have you never heard |
an old man in delirium OF some sickness |
cali for his mother, The fact is we get |
50 used 70 calling for her the first ten years |
OF our life we never yet over It, and when |
she goes awHy from Us il makes deep sor
row. You sometimes, perhaps. in days Of
trouble and darkness, when the world /
would say. You Ought to be able 20 take /
care OF rourselfn-you wake mp from your 1
dreams binding Yourself saving, "Oh, moth /
err. mother" Have these tears no divine |
1riginf Why. take all the warm hearts I
that ever beat mall lands and ia all ages,
and put them together aud their united /
throb would De weak compared with the
throb 81 Gods eternal sympathy Yes,
God also is father Of all that rain Of re
pentance
Did you ever see rain of repentance' Do
you know what il is that makes a man re-
1ents ! see people going around trying 20
repent They cannot repent DO you
xuow no mau can repent until God helps
lim 10 repent How do I know BY this
passage, "liim hath God exalted 10 be a
prince aud a saviour 10 give repentance
Din. it is tremendous hour when one
wakes up and says: Il am bad man.
awe not sinned against the laws Of the
and. but ! have wasted my life; God
lsked me for my services and I haven't
given those services. On, my sins, God
orgive me- When that tear starts il
thrills all heaven. An angel cannot keep
iis eye of IL, and the church Of God assem-
lies around, and there is acommingling OF
ears and God is the Father Of that rain,
he Lord, long suffering. merciful aud IRA
ious.
THE CRY or MOTHERS HEART.
In religious assemhlNe q man arose
nd said: u have been q very wicked man,
broke my mothers heart. bceaiie an
niidel, hui ! have ssen my evil way.
nd have surreuaered my heart to
;od but r. IS grirf that ! never can
.et over that my parents should never
AVE heard Of my salvation; ! don't know
whether they are liviug or dead While
ct he Was standing ia the audience 3
dice from the gallery said. "Oa. my son,
ny son!n lie looked up aud he recognized
er Ii was his old mother she had been
raying for him great many years, and
shen az the foot NJ tbs cross the prodgal
on and the praying mother embraced each
Their, there was a rail-, "a tremendous r;iin,
I tears. aud God was the Father Of those
ears. Oh, that God would break US down
nth a sense Of our sin, aud then lift US
nth an appreciation Of his mercy. rears
yer our wasted life. Tears over a grieTed
pirit Tears over an injured father. Oh,
hat God would move upon this audience