The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-03-16
MINISTRY OF TEARS,
Dr. Taimage Puts MisfOrtunes Of
Life In q Cheerful Light
Oows TAst n TAsy were Bsrss iA
Tie Right spirit rAey Aish'
Prove 70 Ne Advantage
Sympathy of Sssus.
Copyright. lsa. BY LOuls KiopseA :; r.

tcorrisht. IN. BY Loui. KlopseA N;rl
New York March "
A vast audience crowded the Aead-
emy OF Music in this city to-day 10
hear DR.. Talmage. Diseoursing on
"rhe Ministry of Tears" he put the
misfortnnes Of life in a cheerful
light. showing that u they were borne
IN the right spirit they might prove
to be advantages. His text was Rev.
viii, II: "And God shall wipe away
oil tears from their eyes"
What q spectacle q few weeks ago
when the nations were in tears
Queen Victoria assembled o the
highest throne on earth 10 a throne
In Heaven. The prayer more oiten
offered than any prayer for the as.
Ga years had been answered. and Q
did save the queen. All round the
world the bells were tolling, and the
minute runs were booming 81 the
~obsequies Of the most honored wom-
an of many centuries. As near o
years ago the English and American
nations shook hands in eongratuia-
tion at the queens jubilee, so in
these times two nations shook HANDS
in m%ournful sympathy at the queens
departure. No people outside Great
Britain so deeply felt that mighty
grief as our people. The cradles OF
many Of II ancestors were rocked
IN Great Britain. Those ancestors
nl.vea In childhood on the banks OF
the Tweed or the Thames or the
shannon. Take from u veins the
| English blood or the Welsh blood
or abe Irish blood 81 the sootch
blood and the stream Of our life
would be . mere shallov. They are
over there bone Of n bone y
flesh Of our nesh. II Is our WILDER
force. our cole-idge, our De Quincy
our Robert Burns. our John Wesley,
our John Knox. our Thomas Chsl'
mers, our Walter Scott, wi Bishop
ChArnock, our Lstimer. u Ridley,
our Robert Emmett, u Daniel
o'Connell, u HGveloek, u Ruskin'
our Gladstone. u good and great
and glorious Victoria.
The language in which we offered
Tire English nation our coincidence Is
the same language in which John
Runvan dreamed and Milton sang
and Shakespeare drsmatized and
Richard Baxter prayed and George
whtteHeld Numbered. The prince OF
wales. new king. paid reverential VIC
81 to washington's tomb ct Mount
Vernon. and Longfelow's statue
adorns Westminster abbey, ana Ahra-
ham Lincoln in bronze looks down
upon Seotland's capital. II was nat
ural that these two nations be In
tears. But l am not going TO speak
Of national tears. hut Of individual
tears and Bible tears.
Riding across a western prairie.
wild flowers up TO the hub Of the
carriage wheel. and while a long dis
lance from any shelter. there came
. sudden shower, and, while the rain
was falling in torrents, the sun wal
shining as brightly as ! ever saw
It shine, and / thought; What 9
beautiful spectacle IL thisl So the
tears Of the Bible are not midnight
storm, but rain on pansied prairiei
In Gods sweet and golden sunlight.
You remember that bottle which
David labeled as containing tears, and
Mary's a and Paul's tears and
Christ's tear, and the harvest Of Joy
that Is 10 spring from rne SOWING u
tears God mixes them. God round
them; Tod shows them where to fall;
God exhAles them. A census Is taker
of them. and there is a record as &c
the moment when they were borr
and a. TO the place of their grave
Tears of bad men are not kept. Al
exander in his sorrow had the hal
clipped from his horses and mule
and made a great ado about his grief
but In all the vases Of Heaven Their
a not one Of Alexsnder's tears.
speak Of the tears Of Gods children
: Alas, me. they are falling all tn
time! In summer you sometime
hear the growing thunder, and yo'
see there il a storm miles away, bu
-, YOU know from the drift Of tn
. clouds that Il will not come any
where near you. So. though 1t be a
bright around about you, there IL
shower Of trouble somewhere all ID
time. Tears, tearsi
What Is the use Of them, anyhow
Why not substitute llughterf Why nc
make this a world where all the peopl
are well and eternal strangers TO pair
and aches? What is the use Of an cas-
err storm whep we might have a pc
petusl nor'wester? Why. when a fan
ily 10 put together, not have them q
T stss, or, II they must be t%ranIplant'
to make other homes, then have the,
al live, the family record telling
story Of marriages. and births. but
AZ no deathI7 Why not have the hsfveE
chase each other without ft.iguit
touq Why the hard pillow. the hai
= crust. the hard struggled Il 10 eaI
enough 10 explain . smile or a sucee
!. or q eoukTstulstles, but esns now al
' br,rg ell your dictionaries end an Js'
rhlosophiss and all your religions q,
help me expiaip . tear. A chemist y
tell you that Il 10 made up Of salt a
line and other component parts, but
N misses the eAisf ingrseielts-ths &C
~ Of . soured hts. the viperise sting
a bitter memory, the fragments Of
broken heart. ! viii tell you what
act tear L. Il 10 agony IN solution. He
then. while / discourse Of the mipist
Of ;ssrs or the prsctiesl use Of sorro'
&c First, It Is the design OF trouble
keen this world from being too
traetirs. Something must be done
make us williug 10 quit this sKisten,
II II we're rot for trouble, this VOL
u be q good enough Heaven for u. Y
end I would be willing 10 take = 10,
a. Of this life for 9 hundred million ys'
there were no trouble. The ear
cushioned and upholstered and
Jared and ehandelieree 81 such erpen
no story Of other worlds could eneh'
Us. We would ssyi LET well snou
alone. II you NsDt 10 die and h
q. your body disintegrsted in the duTts
as your soul 20 cut on 9 celestial adv
Ing turs, then you can 90, but this VIC
10 good enough for me-" You might
rty well 70 TO 6 mon who has Just ente
the Louvre at Paris and tell him
hasten OF to the picture galleries
ND Venice or Florence. why" be wo
cay, what 10 the use Of my go
there? There are Rsnbrandts and
bsnseB sud Titisns here that ! have
"A looked at yet" No nan wants to
Sc out Of this world OF out Of asy no
q. until he has q better house.
~ To cure this wish 10 stay here {
- must somehow create . disgust for
surroundings. How shall Hs DO
Ho cannon afford 70 sfface His hoTi
or % tear on . fiery panel from
spa. tuntet or 10 subtract an snthsr II
for the water lily or to Danish the puDg
we'll aroma from the mignopettt or 70 .
sub- the robes Of the nothing 10 mire.
bic, cannot expect q Christopher Wrei
mar his own 81. Paula cathedral
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