Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-09-06
A BOTTLE OF TEARS.
Smiles May Hide Your Sorrows. But
God Counts the Tears.
And sweeps the Peariy Drops Into His
bottle - Only Worthy Tears Enter
Gods i.achrvtnntory Il nitnagc's
sermon on Unique subject.

And sweeps the rearly Drops Into Ris
Bottle - Only Worthy Tears Enter
Gods i.achrvtnatory Tt,imsgcs
sermo" on Unique subject.
Rev. r. Dewitt Talmarc chose \
unique theme as his sub jcct Tor sunday.
vi: "A Bottle OF Tears. the text
selected being Psalms wi. 8. Put thou
my tears into thy bottle"
Hardly mail has come 10 me for
twenty years that has not contained
letters saying that my sermons had
comforted the writers OF those letters
have not this summer nor for twenty
years spoken ON the platform OF any
outdoor meeting, but coming down /
have been told 10y hundreds OF people
the same thing. SO think | will keep
on trying 20 be son OF Consolation -
The prayer OF my text was pressed
out OF David's soul by innumerable
calamitics; but il Is just as appropriate
for the distressed of all ages. Within
the past century travellers aud anti
quurians have explored the ruins OF
many OF the ancient cities. and from
the very heart Of those buried SPLEEN
doris OF other days have been brought
up evidences of customs that long ago
vanished from the world. From among
tombs of those ages have been brought
mp lachrymn tories or lachrymals,
which are vials made OF carthcnwarc.
1t was the custom for the ancicnts 10
catch the tears that they wept over
their dead in a bottle, and To place that
bottle in the graves of the departed:
and we have many specimens of the
ancient lachrymatorics, or tear-bottles.
in our museums.
When ON the way from the Holy Land
our ship touched at Cyprus, we went
back into the hills of that island and
bought tear bottles which the natives
had dug out OF the ruins OF the old city.
There is nothing more suggestive 20 me
than the tear bottles which brought
home and put among my curiositics
That was the kind OF bottle that my
text alludcs %, when David cries. Put
thou my tears into thy bottle"
he text intimatcs that God has an
intimate acquaintance and perpetual
remembrance OF all our gricfs. and n
VIA or lachrymatory, or bottle. in
which he catches and saves our tears.
and bring 20 You the coincidence OF
this Christian sentiment Why talk
about gricf2 Alas the world has it's
pauCs, and now, while speak. there
are thick durllnesseS of soul that need
20 Oe lifted. There arc many who are
about 10 break under the assault of
temptation and pcrchaucc. II no words
appropriate To their ease be uttered,
they perish
come ON NO FOOLS GRAND. Put upon
your wound no salvo compounded
10y human quackcry, but, pressing
straight to the mark, l hail YOU as n
vessel mid-sca cries 20 n passing craft,
"Ship nhoy" and invite YOU on board
vessel which has Faith for a rudder.
and Prayer for sails and Christ for
captain and Heaven for an eternal
harbor Catherine Rheinfclt Prus-
sian. keeps "A boat with which she
rescues the drowning. When "A
storm comes ON the coast. and
other people go 10 their beds
To rest she puts ont in her boat
FOR The rcl!ef OF the distressed, and hun
drcdS of the drowning has she brought
safely to the beach. In this Incl ont
OF the Gospel l put out to-day. hoping,
10y Gods help, 20 bring ashore at least
one soul that may now be sinbiu.-
in the pillows Of temptation and
trouble. The tears that were once
caught in the lachrymntories brought
mp from Hcrculaucum and Pompei are
NIL gone, and the bottle is dry rs the
scoria OF the volcano that submerged
them. but not 50 with the bottle in
which God gathers all our tears
First j remark that God keeps per
petunlty the tcorS of repentance. MANY
man has awakened in the morning so
wrctchcd from the nights debauch Tint
he has sobhed and wept Pains in the
head. aching IN the eyes sicl, ut heart,
and unfit 20 step into the light lie
gricvcS. not ahout his miSdoings. but
only about its consequences God
makes no record of such weeping. OF
Ill HE million tears that have guShed
as the result of such misdemcanoi,
not one ever got into Gods bottle
They dried ON the fcvcrcd cheek. or
were dashed down by the bloated hand.
or fell into the rcd wine cup as il came
again 70 the lips, fcaning with still
worse INVESTIGATION. But when a man
Is sorry Tor his past and tries 90 do
octter-whcu he mourus his wasted add
vautoCcS and bcmoanS his rejection IT
God $ mercy, and cries amid the laccra-
ton> of IN aroused conscience for help
ont nf this Terrible prcdicnmcnt, then
God listens. thcn Heaven bows down;
then sccptcr~ Of pardon are extcuded
from The throne; then HIS crying rends
She heart 81 Heavenly compassion:
,hCu his tears are caught i'm Gods
uott'c
Nou know thc story Of Paradise aud
thc Ner thiri &c might Pee uut TO
HIGHER adaptation. IN angel starts
FROM thc throne OF God 90 FIND what
thing 30 can ON she earth worthy uf l.o-
Ing crrric5 bacl, 60 Heaven. Dc goes
down Through the gold and silver mines
of c1r,H. but anjs nothing worth, of
trau~r ortatlou On the Celestial City
90 goes down through thc depths oi
che $500. whore thc pearls 6e. end tnde
nothing worthy of taKu- Cltk tu
Heaven. Eut coming 60 thc foot of "a
mountain 10 ~ccs wandcrer weeping
over hi, cvir ways The tcnr- ~ tle
rroa rai start tut $50 not fall tc he
ground. for the angels wing catcEr-
th,m. nud with that treasure speeds
aa.' tH Heaven. God sees thc angel
.or.r-. and -.rs EcheIl The bright.
--. rem ot cirth and She brightest
iev nf Heaven the tear Of sinner ,
rsr,rt.ule.
IH. ..rrrr .c. che Heavenly ~.rr-