Milford chronicle., 1895-08-23

SHOWS tuciu where TO liill. God cNhalcs
them. A census is taken of them, ant
there is record as to the moment wher
they are born and as to the place Of theil
grave.
Tears of bad men are not kept Alex.
ander 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 Aloxan-
der's tears. ] speak of the tears of God s
children. Alas, me, they are falling all
the timel In summer 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 at the time
Tearsl Tears
The Uses of 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 achesg
What is the use Of an eastern storm when
we might have a perpetual 'wester?
/ Why, when n 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
I ing story of marriages and births, but Of
no deathsY Why not have the harvests
chase each other without fatiguing toll?
Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, tho
hard struggle? 1t is easy enough TO ex-
plain a smile, or a success, OF congratu-
lation; but, come now, and bring all your
dictionaries and all your philosophers ana
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 COM
ponent parts; but he misses the chief in
gredients-the acid of soured life, the
viperne sting of bitter memory, the
fragments Of a broken heart l will tell
you what tear is; it 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 attractive
Something must be done to make us will
ing to quit this existence. If it We're not
for trouble this world would be a good
enough heaven for me. You and 1 would
be willing to take lease of this life for
hundred million years If there were no
trouble The earth cushioned and up
holstered and pillared 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 dis !
integrated in the dust and your soul 20
out on a celestial adventure, then you can !
CO. but this world is good enough for meP'
You might as well go to a man who has |
just entered the Louvre at Paris, and tell |
him to hasten of to the picture galleries /
of Venice or Florence. "Why," he would |
say, "what is the use of my going theref |
There are Rembrandts and Rubensos and |
AT,rN I i
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 lily,
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.
Paul's cathedral, or a Michael Angelo to
dash out his own "Last Judgment" or a
Handel to discord his Israel In Egypt"
and you cannot expect God to spoil the ar
chitecture 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 good deal Of trou-
BILE he says, "Well l am ready to go. If
there is a house somewhere whose roof
doesn't leak, would like to live there.
If there is an atmosphere somewhere that
does not distress the lungs I would like
to breathe it. If there is a society some
where where there is no little tattle, l
would like to live there. If there is a home
circle somewhere where 1 can find my lost
Il 70, -
From Genesis to Revelation.
He used to read the first part Of the BIZ
BILE chiefly, now he reads the last part of
the Bible chiefly Why has he changed
Genesis for Revelation? Ali he used to
be anxious chiefly to know how this world
was made and all about its geological con
struetion. Now he is chiefly anxious to I
know how the next world was made, and
how it looks, and who lives there and
how they dress. He reads Revelation ten
times now where he read Genesis once
The old story, In the beginning God ere
lted the heavens and tho earth, does not
thrill him half as much as tho other stO- ,
~, 81 saw new heaven and a new earth. ,
The old mans hand trcmbles as he turns
over this apOcalyptio leaf, and he has to
take out his handkerchief to wipe his spec
iacles. That book Of Revelation is pro- !
;pectus now of the country into which he
IS soon to immigrate, the country in which
ne 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 you. 1t is natural
But after awhile you will be ready to 90.
It was not until Job had been worn out
with boreayenents that he wanted to see
Sod. 1t was not until the prodigal got
fred Of living among the hogs that he :
wanted to go to his fathers house. 1t is
he ministry Of trouble to make this world
worth less and heaven worth moro =
Again, it is the use Of trouble to make I
rs feel our dependence upon God. Men /,
ihink that they can do anything until /
Sod shows them them can do nothing at n
ILL., We lay our great. plans, and we like /
20 execute them. 1t looks big God comes u
md takes us down. AS Prometheus was q
assaulted by his enomy, when the lance 0
struck him it opened a great swelling that s.
lad threatened his death, and he got well. \
so it is the arrow Of trouble that lets cut a
great swellines Of pride. We never feel our r
upon God until we get trou- n
)lo. / was riding with my little child d
dong the road, and she asked If she might
lrive. 1 said, Certainly" / handed s,
,ver the reins to her, and ! had to admire v
he glee with which she drove. But after v
while We met team, and we had TO turn b