The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-03-16
MINISTRY OF TEARS.
DR.. Talmage Puts Misfortunes of
Life in a Cheerful Light.
Shows That If They Were Borne in
the Right Spirit They Might
Prove to lie Advantages
sympathy of Jesus.

New York.
A vast audience crowded the Acad-
emy of Music in this city to-day To
hear DIR. Talmage. Discoursing on
"The Ministry of Tears" he put the
msfortunes of life in a cheerful
| light, showing that if they were borne
in the right spirit they might prove
to 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 ascended from the
highest throne on earth to throne
In Heaven. The prayer more often
offered than any prayer for the last
64 years had been answered, and God
did save the queen. All round the
world the bells were tollng. 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 mournful sympathy at the queens
departure. No people outside Great
Britain so deeply felt that mighty
grief as our 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 Wilber-
force. our Coleridge, our De Quincey,
our Robert Burns, our John Wesley,
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.
l->.The language in which we offered
the English nation our coincidence is
the same language in which Johr
Runyan dreamed and Milton sang
and Shakespeare dramatized anG
Richard Baxter prayed and George
Whitefield thundered The prince OF
Wales, now king, paid reverential Wis
it to Washington's tomb at Mount
Vernon, and Longfellow's statue
adorns Westminster abbey. and Abra'
ham Lincoln in bronze looks down
upon Scotland's capital. 1t was nat
ural that these two nations be in
tears. But I am not going to speak
of national tears, but of individual
tears and Bible tears.
Riding across western prairie
wild flowers up to the hub of the
carriage wheel, and while long dis
tance from any shelter. there came
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 a
beautiful spectacle is this! So the
tears of the Bible are not midnight
storm, but rain on pansied prairies
, in Gods sweet and golden sunlight.
You remember that bottle which
David labeled as containing tears, an6
Mary's tears and Paurs tears anG
, 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 taker
of them, and there is record as tc
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 hail
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 Alexander's tears.
speak of the tears of Gods children
Alas, me! they are falling all the
time! In summer you sometimes
hear the growing thunder, and yor
see there is a storm miles away, but
YOU know from the drift of the
clouds that it will not come any
where near you. So, though it be al
bright around about you. there is 6
shower of trouble somewhere all the
time. Tears, tears!
What is the use of them. anyhow
Why not substitute laughter? Why no
make this world where all the people
are we'll and eternal strangers to pain!
and aches? What is the use of an east
ern storm when we might have per
petual nor'wester? Why, when fam
lily is put together, not have them al
stay, or, if they mas. be transplantet
to make other homes, then have then
all live, the family record telling ;
story of marriages and births, but o
no deaths? Why not have the harves, i.
chase each other without fatiguins
toll? Why the hard pillow, the hare
crust, the hard struggle? 1t is cas-!
enough to explain smile OF success
or a congratulation, but come now ant
bring all your dictionaries and all you
PHILOSOPHERS and all your religions an'
help me explain tear. chemist vii
tell you that it is made up of salt anC
lime and other eomponentpa parts, but h'