The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-30
DIVINE COMFORT.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Discourses Upon
pendence on God.
The Ever-Prcsent Help OF the Human
Family Whom They Call Upon
Him In Time of Trial
or Amiction.

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Comfort" is selected for publicatio
This week 1t is based on the text:
And God shall wipe all tears from their eye
Rev. vii, II
Riding across western prairie, viii
Covers up to the hub of the carriag
wheel. and while long distance fror
any shelter, there came sudde
shower. and while the rain was falling
In torrents, the sun was shining a
brightly as ever saw it shine; and
thought what a beautiful spectacl,
this is! So the tears of the Bible arr
not midnight storm, but rain Oh
pansied prairies in Gods sweet aac
golden sunlight. You remember thai
bottle which David labeled as contain
ing tears, and Mary's tears, and Paul's
tears. and Christ's tears, and the har-
vest 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 great ado about his grief; but
in all the vases of Heaven there is not
one of Alexander's tears. speak of
the tears of Gods children. Alas! me-!
they are falling all the time. In sum-
naer you sometimes hear the growing
thunder, and You see there is a storm
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 substitute laughter? Why
not make this world where
alt the people are well and
eternal strangers to pain and
aches? What is the use of an eastern
storm when we might have perpetual
nor'wester? Why. when family is put
together, not have them, all stay. or if
they must be transplanted to make
other homes, then have them all live?
the family record telling story of
marriages and births but of no deaths.
Why not have the harvests chase each
other without fatiguing toll? Why
the hard pillow, the hard crust.
the hard struggle? 1t is easy
enough to explain smile, or
a success, or con CALCULATIONS;
but, come now. and bring all your
and all your PHILOSOPHERS
and all your religions. and help me
explain a tear. A chemist will tell
you that it is made up of salt and lime
and other component parts; but he
misses the chief ingredients-the acid
Of a soured life, the viperine sting of
a bitter memory. the fragments of a |
broken heart / will tell YOU what q !
ear is; it is agony in solution. Hear,
then, while l discourse of the uses of |
trouble.
1. 1t is the design of troubl to keep |
his world from being too attractive.
must be done to make us |
Wiling to quit this existence. II it |
we're not for trouble this world would |
Ne good enough Heaven for me. You
md would be willing to take lease
II this life for hundred million years
I there were no trouble. The earth |
and upholstered and pill
AIRED and chandeliered with such ex-
'ense, no story of other worlds could
us.
We would say: "Let well enough
lone. If you want to die and have
Tocr body disintegrated in the dust,
I'D your soul go out on a celestial adj
enture, then you can go, but this
'orld is good enough for mer' You
aieht as well go to a man who has
ust entered the Louvre at Paris, and
ell him to hasten off to the picture
alieries of Venice or Florence.
Why" he would say, what is the
sc of my going there? There are
.embrandts and Reubens and Ra-
haels here that / haven't looked at
ct" No man wants to go out of this
Torld, or out of any house. until he
as better house. To cure this wish
, stay here, God must somehow
lc@S 7uiseusI lor our Surrouud-
lgs- How shall He do it? He
an not afford to deface His
ORION, or to- tear off a fiery
znel from the sunset. or to subtract
n anther from the water lily, OF to
anish the pungent aroma from the
lignonette, or to drag the robes of
he morning in mire. You can not ex-
ect Christopher Wren to mar his
wD St Paul's cathedral, or Michael
ngelo tn dash out his own Last
or Handel to discord his
Israel in Egypt" and you can not ex-
ect God to spoil the architecture and
Iusic of His own world. How. then,
re we to be made willing to leave?
ere is where trouble comes in.
After man has had a good deal of
-ou BILE, he SAYS: well, / am ready