The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-19
HEALING THE HEARTS WOUNDS
Or. TALMAGE's BEAUTIFUL AND
AFPROPRIATE SERMON YES
TERDAY.

the sons OF Mirth Keeling ia the
Dance"-After Man Has Trouble
Prayer Is with Him.
New York, Aug 1S-Rev. DR.. Talmage
could not have selected more appropri-
ate subject than the one OF to-day. consid-
ering the bereavement that has come upon
him ana his household. He had already
prepared his sermon for to-day. selecting
as a topic: Comfort" and taking as his
text. And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes.''-Rev. 7:lZ
Riding across a western prairie, wild
flowers up TO the hub OF the carriage wheel,
and while long distance from any shell
ter. there came a sudden shower. and while
the rain was falling in torrents. the sun
was shining as brightly as l ever saw it
shine. and l thought. What beautiful
spectacle this is, SO the tears Of the BIZ
bic are not midnight storm. but rain on
pansied prairies in Gods sweet and golden
sunlight You remember that battle which
David labeled as containing tears, ana
Mary's tears, and Paul's 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. Alex
ander. 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 Alex
ander's tears. 1 speak of the tears OF
Gods children. Alas! me, they are fall
ing all the time. In summer, you some
times hear the growing thunder, and yon
see there is a storm miles away; but
you know from the drift of the clouds THAI
1t will not come anywhere near you. So
though it may be all bright around about
you, there is a shower of trouble some
where all the time. Tears, Tears.
What is the use of them, anyhow? Why
not substitute laughter Why not make
this a world where all the people are well,
and eternal strangers to pain and aches2
What is the use of an eastern storm when
we might have a perpetual nor western
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 tell
ing a story of marriages and births, but
of no deaths. Why not have the harvests
chase each other without fatiguing toilF
Why the hard pillow. the hard crust, the
hard struggle? II is easy enough TO explain
a smile, or a success, or a cOngratulauOn;
but, come now, and bring all your dicton-
aries and all your PHILOSOPHERS and all
your religions, and help me explain tear.
A chemist will tell you that il is made mp
- arrA nor aaFaT "a ~
parts; but he misses the chief ingredients
the acid of a soured life, the viperine
sting of a bitter memory, the fragments
of broken heart. / will tell you what a
tear is; it is agony in solution. Hear, then,
while discourse on the uses of trouble.
First 1t is the design of trouble to keep
this world from. being too attractive.
Some thing must be done to make US
willing to quit this existence. II ii We're
not for trouble this world would be good
enough heaven for me. You and ] would
be willing to take lease of this life for
a hundred million years if there were no
trouble. The earth cushioned and up
holstered and pilared and chandeliered
with such 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
go out on a celestial adventure, then you
can go. but this world is good enough for
met You might as well go to a man
who has just entered the Louvre at Paris
and tell him to hasten off to the picture
galleries of Venice and Florence. why
he would say, what is the use of my
going there? 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 out of any house, until
he has a better house. To cure this
wish to stay here. God must somehow
create a disgust 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-lly, or to Danish
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 a Handel to discord
his Israel in Egypt" and you cannot ex-
pect God TO spoil the architecture and
music of his own world. How. then. are
we to be made willing to leave? Here is
where trouble comes in.
After a man has had a good deal of
trouble. ne says: We'll. I am ready TO
GO If there is a house somewhere whose
roof doesn't leak. l would like to live
there. If there is an atmosphere some
where that does not distress the lungs. 1
there is a society somewhere where
there is no tittle-tattle, / would like to
live there. If there is a home circle some
where where l can find my lost friends,
] would like to go 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 Revela-
tion2 An he used to DE anxious chiefly
to know how this world was made, and
all about it's 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 Revela ton ten times now where he
reads Genesis once. The old story ''In
the beginning God created the heavens
and the EARTH" does not thrill him half
as much as the other story, Il saw a new
heaven and a new earth" The old mans
hand trembles as he turns over this apo
calyptic leaf. and he has TO take out his
handkerchief to wipe his spectacles. That
book of Revelation is a prospectus now of
the country into which he is soon to i'm
migrate; the country into which he has
lots already laid out, and avenues opened,
and mansions built.
Yet there are people here TO whom this
world is brighter than heaven. Well, dear
souls. / do not blame Won II is natural