The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-31

| when we were sick In our boyhoodr
| Was there any one who could ever 20
touch sore without hurting It?
Where did Paul get the ink with which
to write his comforting epistle? Where
did David get the ink to write his
comforting Psalms? Where did John
get the ink to write his comforting
Revelation? They got 1t out OF their
own tears. When a man has gone
through the curriculum, and has taken
course of dungeons and imprison-
ments and shipwrecls, he is qualified
for the work of sympathy.
When began to preach, my sermons
on the subject of trouble were all
poetic and in semi-blank verse; but God
knocked the blank verse out of me
| long ago, and have found out that
can not comfort people except as my
self have been troubled. God make me
the son OF consolation to the peoplel
would rather be the means of soothing
one perturbed spirit to-day than to
play tune that would set all the sons
of mirth Keeling in the dance.
am an herb doctor. put into the
caldron the root out Of dry ground,
without form of comeliness. Then I
put in the rose of Sharon and the lily
of the valley. Then I put into the
caldron some of the leaves from the
tree of life, and the branch that was
thrown into the wilderness marah.
Then I pour in the tears of
Bethany and Galgotha; then / stir
them up. Then l kindle under the
caldron fire made out of the wood OF
the cross, and one drop Of that potion
will cure the worst sickness that ever
afflicted human soul. Mary and
Martha shall receive their Lazarus
from the tomb. The damsel shall rise.
And on the darkness shall break the
morning, and God will wipe all tears
from their eyes.
Jesus had enough trial to make him
sympathetic with all trial. The shortest
verse in the Bible tells the story:
"Jesus wept." The scar on the back
of His either hand, the scar on the arch
of either foot, the row of scars along
the line of the hair, will keep all
Heaven thinking. Oh, that Great
Weeper is just the one to silence all
earthly trouble, wipe out all stains OF
earthly grief. Gentle! Why His step
is softer than the step of the
devil 1t will not be a tyrant bidding
you hush up your crying. 1t will be
father who will take you on His left
arm, His face beaming into yours,
while with the soft tips of the fingers
of the right hand He shall wipe away
all tears from your eyes.
Friends, If we could get any appreci-
alton of what God has in preserve for
us, it would make us SO homesick
we would be unfit for our everyday
work. Prof. Leonard. formerly OF
Iowa university, put in my hands
me teoric stone, a stone thrown Off
from some other world to this. How
suggestive it was to me! And have
to tell you the best Representations we
have of Heaven are only aerolites
flung off from that world which rolls
on, bearing the multitudes of the re-
deemed. We analyze these aerolites,
and find the crystalizations of tears.
No wonder, flung off from Heaven!
God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes"
Have you any appreciation Of the
good and glorious times your friends
are having in Heaven? How different
it is when they get 1ews there OF
Christians death from what it is here!
1t is the difference between EN- barlSa-
ton and coming into port Every
thing depends upon which side of the
river you stand when you hear Of
Christians death. II You stand on
this side of the river, you
mourn that they go. If you
stand on the other side Of the river,
you rejoice that they come. Oh, the
difference between funeral on earth
and a jubilee in Heaven-between
requiem here and triumph there
parting here and reunion therel To
gether! Have you thought Of it? They
are together. Not one of your depart
ed friends in one land and another in
another landi but together, in differ
eut rooms Of the same house-the
house of many mansions. Together!
/ never more appreciated that
thought than when we laid away in
her last slumber my sister Sarah.
Standing there in the village ceme-
terry, looked around and said: "There
is father, there is mother, there is
there are whole circles of kindred;"
and thought to myself: Together
in the grave-together in glory" am
so impressed with the thought that
do not think it is any fanaticism
when some one is going from this
world to the next if you make them
the bearer of dispatches to your
friends who are gone, saying: "Give
my love to my parents, give my love
to my children, give my love to my old
comrades who are in glory. and tell
them am trying to fight the good
fight of faith, and i will join them af-
ter awhile" / believe the message
will be dclivered; and believe it will
increase the gladness of those who are
before the throne. Together are they,
all their tears gone.
My friends, take this good-cheer
home with you. These tears of bereave-
ment that course your cheek, and of
persecution, and of trial, are not Ill
ways to be there. The motherly
hand Of God will wipe them all
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