The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-03-15

vast audience crowded the Acad- /
envy OF Music in tins city to-day to /
hear DR.. Talmage. Discoursing on /
''rhe Ministry of Tears" he put the /
misfortunes of life in cheerful
light. showing that if they were borne
IN the right spirit they might prove
10 be advantages. His text was Rev.
vii. II: And God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes"
What a spectacle a few weeks ago
when the nations were in tears.
Queen Victoria assembled from the
highest throne on earth to a throne
In Heaven. The prayer more often
offered than any prayer for the last
G. years had been answered, and God
did save the queen. All round the
world the bells were tolling, and the
minute guns were booming at the
obsequies of the most honored wom-
an Of many centuries. As near four
years ago the English and American
nations shook hands IN congratula-
ton at the queens jubilee, so in
these times two nations shook hands
IN uournful sympathy at The queens
departure. No people outside Great
britain so deeply felt that mighty
grief as orr people The cradles of
many of our ancestors were rocked
in Great Britain. Those ancestors
PLAYED in childhood on the banks of
the Tweed or the Thames or the
shannon Take from our veins the
English blood or the Welsh blood
or the Irish blood or the Scotch
blood and the stream of our life
would be mere shallow. They are
over there bone of our bone and
flesh of our flesh. 1t is our WILDER
force. our Colerdge. our DE Quincy,
our Robert Burns. our John Wesley,
our John Knox. our Thomas Chal-
merS, our Walter Scott, our Bishop
Charnock. our Latimer, our Ridley,
our Robert Emmett, our Daniel
O'Connell. our Havelock, our Ruskin,
our Gladstone. our good and great
and glorious Victoria.
The language in which we offered
the English nation our coincidence is
the same language in which~John
Gunyan dreamed and Milton sang
and Shakespeare dramatized and
Richard Baxter prayed and George
Whjtefeld Numbered. The prince %
Wales, now king, paid reverential Wis
it 10 Washington's tomb at MSInt
Vernon. and LongfeIows statue
sdorns Westminster abbey. and Abra-
ham Lincoln in bronze looks down
vIp01 Scotland's capital. II was nat
Ural that these two nations be in
OF national tears. but OF Individual
tears and Bible tears.
Riding across a western prairie,
wild flowers up 10 the hub of the
carriage wheel. and while long dis
tance from any shelter. there came
n sudden shower. and. while the rain
was falling in torrents, the sun was
shining as brightly as ! ever saw
II shine. aud J thought: What a
beautiful spectacle is this. SO the
tear, of the Bible are not midnight
sto- but rain OF pansied prairies
IN C.j's sweet and golden sunlight.
remember that bottle which
ia abeled as containing tears, and
Nur., tears and Paul's tears and
CHI : tears. and the harvest of JOY
thai 5 TO spring from the sowing of
tear God mixes them; God rounds
them; tod shows them where TO fall;
God exhales them. y census is taken
of them, and there is record as TO
the moment when they were borr
and as to the place of their grave.
Tears of bad men are not kept. Al
exander in his sorrow had the hair
nd los
and made a 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, Ia summer YOU sometimes
hear the growing thunder. and you
see there is storm miles away. but
YOU know from the drift of the
clouds that it will not come any
where near you. $50, though it 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 all the people
are we'll and eternal strangers 10 pains
an aches? What Is the use OF an east
err torn when we might have per
pcisfai nor'wester? Why. when fam
ally put together. not have them all
sta. or. IL they must be transpianted
10 axe other homes. then have them
al I've. the family record telling a
story of marriages and births. but OF
no deaths? Why not have the harvest.s
chase each other without fatiguiBg
toll? Why the hard pillow the hard
crust, the hard struggle? 1t is easy
enough to explain smile or success
or congratulation, but come now and
bring all your dictionaries and all your
PHILOSOPHERS and all your religions and
help me explain tear. \ chemist will
tell YOU that IL i made up OF salt and
lime and other component parts. but be
misses the chief ingreGients-the acid
of a soureG life. the viperine sting OF
bitter memory. the fragments of d
broken heart. ! will tell you what {
tear j.. 1t is agony in solution. Hear
then. while ] discourse of the ministry
o. tears or the practical use OF sorrow:
First. it is the design or trouble Il
keep this world from being TOO at.