Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-31
ATTHE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAcE SPEAKS OF THE USES
OF ADVERSELY.

"A Consoling Interpretation CT the Psalm
lists Words, "Put Thou My Tears Into
Thy Bottle"- God's Acquaintance with
Our Griefs-Comrort For the Afflicted.
BROOKLYN, Aug 27.-Rev. 7. De Witt
ramage chose unique theme as his sub
ect for today-viz, "a Bottle of Tears"
the text selected being Psalms wi, s, Put
fhou my tears into thy bottle"
/ Hardly mail has come to me for 90 years
| hat has not contained letters saying that
my sermons have comforted the writers ot
I hose letters. ! have not this sun.uier nor
or 20 years spoken on the platform of any
outdoor meeting, but coming down have
been told by hundreds of people the same
hing So think | will keep on trying to
Je son of consolation
. The prayer of my text was pressed out of
pavid's soul by innumerable calamities,
put it is just as appropriate for the dis
ressed of all ages. Within the past cen
ury travellers and antiquarans have ex-
plored the ruins of many Of the ancient
tities, and from the very heart of those
buried splendors of other days have been
brought up evidences of customs that long
ago vanished from the world. From among
ornbs of those o0es hnve hppn brought mn
achrvmatories or lachrvmals. which are
,ials made of eartheuware. 1t was the Gus
ON for the ancients TO catch the tears that
hey went over their dead in A bottle. and
n nloce that bottle in the graves of the de-
,arted and we have many snerinens of he
ncient lachrvmat cries. or tear bottle. in
bur museums
When ON the way from, the HOLY Land
brn shin touched Mt Cyprus. we went back
uto the hills of thar island and bought
ear bottles which the natives had ding ont
# the ruins of the old CITY There i Moth
uq more suprcstiyr to me than the tear
hotties which I brouoht home and mt
hmong my curiositirs That WAS the X ind
If bottle that my text alludes to when Da-
l,in cries "put tbou NV tenr, into thv lsot
lnu
GOD KNOWS OUR GRIEFs.
The text intimates that God has an init
nate acquaintance and perpetual remem-
)rapce of all orr erriefs and n vial. or lach-
vmatorv. or bottle in which he catches
nd saves our tears. and | bring to Won the
coincidence of this Christian sentiment
lVhv talk about griefY Alas. the world
ms its panrs. and now while sneak there
re thick darknesses Of soul that need TO br
flied. There are many who are ahout TO
Freak under the assault of temptation and
,erchauce if no words appropriate TO their
ase be uttered their nerish come on no
ool's GRAND put unon vour wounds M
alive compounded bv human ouackerv:
mr. nressing STRAIGHT to the mari, I hail
on as a vessel midsca cries to ? nas.iup
raft "Sbin oboyr, and invite Won on
hoard a vessel which has faith for n rud-
er. and nraver for sails and Christ for
antain and heaven for an eternal barbur
Catherine Bheinfellt n prussian. keens
boat with which she rescues the drown
ne When a storm comes on the coast
nd other neonle 90 to their beds + a rest
he nuts ont il, her boat for he relief of rba
distressed and hundreds of the drovI,ine,
as she brought safely 10 the heach In
his lifeboat of the OosneI mt ont todov
oDinc. by Gods helm. to bring ashore at
east one soul that may novv I've sinl,ine, in
he billovs Of ten7ntution and tro,,hle lba
ears that were once caught in the lachrv-
oatories brought mn from Uerculaneum
nd ponneii are all gone. and the hottie *
9 drv AS the scoria of the volcano that. sub-
Merged them. but not so with the hottie
n which God gathers all our tears.
First. remark that God keeps perpetu-
Nv the tears of repentance. Many man
as awakened in the morning SO wretched
rom the nights debauch that he has
obbed and went. Pain. in the head. ach-
no in the eyes sicll Mt bpart and unfit to
ton into the lipht lie g,ieves. NOT ahout
is nisdoinp but only about its conse-
uencas God makes no record of sucb
-eeninr Ofall million tears that have
usbed as the result of such misdemcauor.