Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-01

have a weak side, or hEct, or are sub
ject to headaches, or faintnesses, or
| lungs easily distressed. 1t would not
take a very strong blow to shiver the
golden bowl of life, or break the pitcher
at the fountain. Many of you have
kept on in life through sheer force of
will. You think no one can understand
your diseases. Perhaps you look strong,
! and it is supposed that you are
hypochondriac. They say you are ner-
| vous-as IL that were nothing! God
= have mercy upon any man or woman
J that is nervous! At times you sit alone
| il your room. Friends DO not come.
You feel an Undesirable loneliness in
your sufferings; but God knows; God
feels; God companionates. He coult
the sleepless nights; he regards the
acuteness of the pain: he estimates
the hardness of the breathing. While
you pour out the medicine from the
bottle, and count the drops, God
counts all your falling tears. AS you
look at the Walls, filed with nauseous
draughts, and at the bottles of dis
tasteful tonic that stand on the shelf,
remember that there is a larger bottle
than these, which is filled with no
mixture by earthly apothecaries, but
IL Is NfOu DOlA4C, III AlC NUN
gathered all our tears.
Again: God remembers all the sor-
rows of poverty. There is much want
that never comes TO inspection. The
deacons of the church never see it.
The comptrollers of almshouses never
report il. 1t comes not TO church,
for it has no appropriate apparel. 1t
makes no appeal for help, but chooses
rather to suffer than expose its bitter
ness. Fathers who fail to gain a liveli-
hood. so that they and their children
submit to constant privation; sewing
women, who cannot ply the needle
quickly enough TO earn them shelter
and bread. But whether reported or
ACCOMMODATING. whether in seemingly
comfortable parlar, or in damp cellar,
or in hot garnet, Gods angels of mercy
are on the watch. This moment those
griefs are being collected. Down on
the back streets, in all the alleys, amid
shanties and log-cabins, the work
goes on. Tears of want-seething in
summers heat, or freezing in cold
they fall not UNDECIDED. They are
Jewels for heavens casket. They are
pledges of Divine sympathy. They
are tears for God's bottle.
Again the Lord preserves the remem-
brance of all paternal anXieties. You
see a man from The most infamous
surroundings step out into the king
dom of God. lie has heard no sermon.
lie has received no startling provi-
Dental warning. What brought him
to his new mind? This is the secret:
God looked over the bottle in which
he gathers the tears of his people, and
he saw parental tear in that bottle
which has been for forty years unan-
swered lie said "Go TO, now: and let
me answer that tear and forthwith
the wander is brought home to God.
Oh, this work of training children for
God! 1t is a tremendous work. Some
people think it easy. They have never
tried it. A child is placed in the arms
of the young parent 1t is beautiful
plaything. Nou look into the laugh
ing eyes. You examine the dimples
! in the feet. You wonder at its ex-
! quisite organism. Beautiful play
thing But on some nightfall, as You
: sit rocking that little one, voice
: seems TO fall straight from the throne
of God, saying: THAT child is inn
, mortal! The stars shall die, but that
l is an immortal! Suns shall grow old
: with age but that is an immortal
: Now / know with many of you this
is the chief anxiety. You earnestly
t wish your children TO G ow up rightly,
, but you find it hard work to make
? them dc as you wish. You check their
= temp r. You correct their hayward
t ness; in the midnight your pillow is
wet with weeping. You have wrestlcC
with God in agony for the salvation o.
: your children You ask me if all that
, anxiety has been Intellectual / an
! swer: No. God understands youl
e heart He understands how hard you
have tried to make that daughter dc
: right, though she is 20 very petulan'
: and restless; and what pains you have
: bestowed in teaching that son to WALL
4 in the path of uprightncss, though h'
S has such strong procllvities for dissipa
{ ton. / speak a cheering word. Goo
e heard every counsel you ever
= offered him. God has known al
|. the sleepless nights you have
+. passed. God has seen every
c sinking of your distressed spirit
: God remembers your prayers. H'
5 keeps eternal record of your anxieties
1 and in his lachrymatory, not such a.
Y stood in ancient tomb, but in one tina
1 glows and glitters beside the throne
S of God, he holds all those eXhaustinG
tears. The grass may be rank upoI
t your graves, and the letters upon you
s tombstone defaced with the elements
S before the divine response will come
S but he who hath declared, 81 will bt
= IL God to thee, and to thy seed aftel
: thee" will not forget; and some day
! in heaven, while you are ranging the
I fields of light the gates of pearl viii
J; swing back, and garlanded witt
1 glory, that long hayward one vii
S rush into your outstretched arms o
welcome and triumph. The hills may
4 depart and the earth may burn, anC
o The stars fall and time perish, bu
S God will break his oath and trampl'
t upon his promises-never! never!
f Again, God keeps a perpetual re
S mem brance'of all bereavements. Thes'
r are the trials that cleave the soul, anC
3 throw the red hearts of men to b'
: crushed in the wine-press. Trouble
e at the store you may leave at the store
s Misrepresentation and abuse of thu
: world you may leave on the stree
o where you found them. The lawsuit
: that would swallow your honest accu
c mutations NAV be left in the court
t room. But bereavements are home
S troubles, and there is no escape from
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