The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-10-12
TALMAGE,S SERMON.
sand God Shall Wipe Away Al
Tears From Their Eyes.
The Heavenly Comforter Who 10 always
Near and Rrady to Aid tho Al
fIicted-.The Benefits OF
Earthly Trouble

pcv. r. Dewitt Talmage selected as
the subject of his sermon Tor puoiica
tion this week, Comfort" baslng IL
on the text:
And God shall wipe all tears from their eyes
Rev. viii, IL -
Riding across a western prairie, wiio
flowers up TO the hub of the carriage
wheel. and while long distance from
any shelter. there came suuuen
shower. and while the rain was 'aiiipS
in torrents, the sun was SHINING a"
brightly as ever saw it shine; ana l
tbonoht what beautiful spectecie
,b;s isl So the tears of the Biote are
not midnight storm, but rain On
pansied prairies in Gods SWEEP ant
Golden sunlight. You remember tna'
bottle which David labeled as contain
inc tears, and Mary's tears, ana fa"i
taors and Christ's tears, and the mar
v.st of ;ov that is to spring from the
sowing of tears. God mixes 'nem.
God rounds them. God shows 'hein
| where to fall God exhales them.
census is taken of them, and there Is
racord as to the moment when tney
.ro horn. and as to the place OF their
grave. bent
Tears of bad men are not keP@
Alexander, in his sorrow, had the mar
elipped from his horses and mules anu
made n great ado about his grief; OUT
IN all the vases of Heaven there is not
go % Alexauder's tears. speak OF
the tears of Gods children. Alas' nie.
thew are falling all the time. In SUN
mer you sometimes hear the growing
thunder. and you see there is a storm
miles away; but you know from tne
drift of the clouds that it VIII not
come anywhere near you. So, though
II NAV be all bright around about you,
there is a sho wer of trouble somewhere
all the time. Tears! Tears!
What is the use of them, anyhow!
Whv not substitute laughter? why
not make this world where
all the people are we'll aho
eternal strangers to pain ana
: aches? What is the use OF an eastern
! storm when we might have perpetual
harvester? Why. when family Is pn'
touether. not have them all stay, or II
: thew must be transplanted to MAKE
other homes, then have them all i've
the family record telling story o
marriages and births, but OF no dea'ns
l Why not have the harvests chase eaci
c other without fatiguing toll? WI:
the hard pillow, the hard crust
: the hard struggle? 1t Is cas-
2 enough to explain SMILE
q success. or gratulatlon
:. bpt. come now, and bring all you
d dictionaries and all your philosophie
v and all your religions, and help m
explain n tear. A chemist will te
d you that it is made up of salt and lin
II and other component parts; but
D. misses the chief ingredients-the acl
N of a soured life, the viperlne sting
a bitter memory, the fragments OF
lie broken heart. will tell you wna'
tear is; it is agony in solution. Hea
n. then, while l discourse OF the uses
ig trouble.
,g I. It is the design of trouble to ket
e. this world from being too attractlv
er Something must be done to make
lie willing to quit this existence. II
he were not for trouble this world won
be good enough Heaven for me. u
he and / would be willing to take lea
he of this life for hundred million yea
EN- e there were no trouble. The ear
7al cushioned and upholstered and
he Jared and chandeliered with such
ith pense. no story of other worlds cou
In enchant us.
to we would say: LET well enou
alone. If you want to die and Ia
op your body disintegrated in the du
and your soul 60 out on celestial
zee. venture, then you can 60, but !
world i. good enough for mel J
W." might as well go to man who
on lust entered the Louvre at Paris,
tell him to hasten OFT to the pict
the galleries of Venice or Florer
HWhy," he would say, what is
the use Of my going there? There
'e@ Rembrandts and Reubens and
lus- phaels here that haven't looked
ght vet" No man wants to go out OF
world, or ont of any house, until
IS has a better house. To cure this
sud. to stay here, God must somel
cad. create a disgust for our surrou
,rry ipps. How shall He do it?
AIRY can not afford to deface
rev horizon. or to tear off
) &C panel from the sunset. or to subj
e. an anther from the water lily. 0
oice Danish the pungent aroma from
mer- mignonette, or to drag the robe
ing the morning in mire. You can no
aud: pect a Christopher Wren to mar
said. own st. Paul's cathedral, or Mic
aided AnreIo to dash out his own :
Ib,cs Judgment" or Handel TO discord
Israel in Egypt" and you can no
'ead. pect God to spoil the architecture
d to music of His own world. How.
,uth. are we to be made willing to lie
in a Here is where trouble comes IN.
un- After a man has had good del
rgive trou Bile. he says: We'll. am +
,test, to 20. IL there is house somev
with whose roof doesn't leak, / would
said: to live there. If there is an al
meet phere somewhere that does moi
don't tress the lungs, would like to br'
Il. If there is society somev
said where there is no tittle-tattle,
Jared like to live there. IL there Is
.but circle somewhere where ! can fn'
lost friends, would like to go u
Wet" He used to read the first part o.
Bible chiefly, now he reads The
ted" mart of the Bible chiefly. Why
olors, he changed Genesis for Revel'
loved A., he used to be anxious c