The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-23
THE BORROWING.
God Shall Wipe Away An Tears
from Their Eyes.
DIR. TaImags Disoourses on the Goodness OF
the Heavenly Comforter Benefits
of Earthly TrOubles-Depend-
ence Upon God.

by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage after the
death of his wife was upon the subject.
Comfort" the text being from Rev.
vii II: And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes" The sermon is
as follows:
Riding across western prairie, wild
flowers up to the hub of the carriage
wheel, and while q long distance from
any shelter, there came a sudden show
er, and while the rain was falling in
torrents, the sun was shining as bright
" as / ever saw it shine: and 1 thought
what beautiful spectacle this isl So
the tears of the Bible are not midnight
storm, but rain on pansied prairies in
Gods sweet and golden sunlight You
remember that bottle which David
labeled as containing tears. and Mary's
tears, and PauPs tears, and Christ's tears
and the harvest of joy that is to spring
from the sowing of tears God mixes
them. God rounds them. God shows
them where to fall God exhales them.
A census is taken of them. and there is
a record as to the moment when they
are born, and as to the place of their
grave.
Tears of bad men are not kept.
Alexander, in his sorrow, had the hair
clipped from his horses and mules, and
made a great ado about his grief; but
in all the vases of Heaven there is not
one of Alexander's tears. l speak of
the tears of Gods children. Alas! mel
they are falling all the time. In sum-
mer, you sometimes hear the growing
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miles away; but you know from the
drift of the clouds that it will not
come anywhere near you. So, though
it may be all bright around about you.
there is a shower of trouble somewhere
all the time. Tears! Tears What is the
use of them, anyhow? Why not sub
stitute laughter? Why not make this
world where all the people are we'll,
and eternal strangers to pain and
aches? What is the use
of an eastern storm when
we might have perpetual
nor'wester? Why, when a family is
put together, not have them all stay,
or if they must be transplanted to
make other homes, then have them all
liye?-the family record telling a story
of marriages and births. but of no
deaths. Why not have the har-
vests chase each other without
fatiguing toll? Why the hard pillow,
the hard crust, the hard struggle? 1t
rs easy enough to explain smile, or a
success, or congratulation; but, come
now, and bring all your dictionaries
and all your PHILOSOPHERS and all your
religions, and help me eXplaina tear. A
chemist will tell you that it is made up
of salt and lime and other component
parts; but he misses the chief ingre-
dients-the acid of a soured life, the
viperine sting of bitter memory, the
fragments of broken heart l will
tell you what a tear is: 1t is agony in
solution. Hear, then, while discourse
of the uses of trouble.
First, it is the design of trouble to
keep this world from being too attract
i've. Something must be done to make
US willing to quit this existence. If it
were not for trouble this world would
be good enough heaven for me. You
and l would be willing to take lease
of this life for hundred million years
if there were no trouble. The earth
cushioned and upholstered and pillared
a nd chandeliered with s=ch expense,
no story of other worlds could enchant
us. We would say Let well enough
alone. If you want to die and have
your body disintegrated in the dust,
and your soul so out on celestial adj
venture, then you can go, but this
world is good enough for mer'
- H.
has Just entered the Louvre at Paris,
and tell him to hasten off to the pic
ture galleries of Venice or Florence.
''Why," he would say, What is the
use of my going theree There are
Rembrandts and Rubens and Raphaels
here that l haven't looked at yet" No
man wants to go out of this world, or
or out of any house, until he has bet
ties house. To cure this wish to stay
here, God must somehow create a dis
gust for our surroundings. How shall
He do it? He cannot afford to deface
His horizon, or to tear off a fiery panel
from the sunset, or to subtract an
anther from the water lily, or to ban
ish the pungent aroma from the
mignonette, or to drag the robes of the
morning in mire. You cannot expect
a Christopher Wren to mar his own St
Pauls Cathedral, or a Michael Angelo
to dash out his own Last Judgment"
or Handel to discord his Israel in
Egypt" and you cannot expect God to
spoil the architecture and music of his
own world. How. then, are we to be
made willing to leave? Here is where
from HE pOrnaS in
After man has had good deal of
trouble, he says: well, l am ready
to go. If there is house somewhere
whose roof doesn't leak, would like
to live there. If there is an atmos-
phere somewhere that does not distress
the lungs, 1 would like to breathe it.
II there is a society somewhere where
there is no tittle-tattle. would like to
live there. If there Is a home circle
somewhere where ! can find my lost
friends, l would like to 90 there" He
used to read the first part of the Bible
chiefly, now he reads the last part of
the Bible chiefly. Why has he
changed Genesis for Revelation? All,
he used to be anxious chiefly to know
how this world was made, and all about
its geological construction. Now he is
chiefly anxious to know how the next
world was made, and how it looks, and
who live there, and how they dress.
He reads Revelation ten times now
where he reads Genesis once. The old
story: SIN the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth, does not
thrill him half so much as the other