Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE MINISTRY OF TEARS" IS
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
And God Shall Wipe Away All Tears
from Their Eyes''-Rev. VII: 1.-THE
New Heaven and the New Earth-The
Covert of Last Resort


in this city today to hear DIR. Talmage.
Discoursing on THE Ministry OF
Tears" he put the misfortunes of life
IN a cheerful light, showing that II
they were borne in the right spirit
they might prove to be advantages
His text was Rev. vii, II, And God
shall wipe away ali tears from their
eyes,
What a spectacle a few weeks ago
when the nations were in tearsi Queen
Victoria ascended from the highest
throne on earth to a throne in heaven.
The prayer more often offered than
any prayer for the last sixty-four
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 woman of many CEN
turies. AS near four years ago the
English and American nations shook
hands in congratulation at the queens
jubilee So in these times two nations
shook hands in mournful sympathy at
the queens departure. No people out
side Great Britain SO deeply felt that
mighty grief as our people. The era
dies of many of our ancestors were
rocked in Great Britain. Those ances-
tors played in childhood on the banks
of the Tweed or the Thames or the
Shannon. Take from our veins our
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 Wilberforce, our Coleridge,
our De Quincy, our Robert Burns, our
John Wesley, our John Knox, our
Thomas Chalmers, our Walter Scott,
our Bishop Charnock, our Latimer,
our Ridley, our Robert Emmet, our
Daniel O'Connell, our Havelock, our
Ruskin. our Gladstone, our good and
great and glorious Victoria.
The Ministry of Tears.
You remember that bottle which Da-
vid labeled as containing tears, and
Mary's tears, and Paul's tears, and
Christ's tears, and the harvest of joy
that is to spring from the sowing of
tears. God exhales them. A census
is taken of them, and there is rec
ord as to the moment when they were
born and as to the place of their
grave. Tears of bad men are not kept.
Alexander 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 Alexander's tears. 1 speak of
the tears of Gods children Alas, me,
they are falling all the time. In sum-
mer 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 anywhere near you. So, though
it may be all bright around about you,
there is a shower of trouble some
where all the time. Tears, 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 pains and aches? What is the use
of an eastern storm when you might
have a perpetual nor'wester? Why
when a 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 telling story of marriages and
births, but OF no deaths? Why no
have the harvests chase each Other
without fatiguing toll? Why the har6
pillow the crust, the hard struggle.
1t is easy enough to explain smile o.
a success Or a congratulation, but
come now and bring all your diction
aries and all your PHILOSOPHERS and al
your religion and help me explain
tear. A chemist will tell you that it i.
made up of salt and lime and othel
component parts, but he misses ths
chief ingredients-the acid of a souree
life, the viperine sting of bittel
memory, the fragments of a broker
heart. 1 will ten you what tear is
1t is agony in solution. Hear, then
while j discourse of the ministry o
tears of the practical uses of sorrow:
New Heaven and New Earth.
After a man has had a good deal O
trouble he says. We'll, / am ready t,
60 If there is a house somewher
whose roof does not leak, would lik
to live there. If there is an atnos
phere somewhere that does not dis
tress the lungs, 1 would like 20 breath
it. If there is society somewher
where there is no title tattle, l woul
like to live there. If there is hom
circle somewhere where can find m
lost friends, 1 would like to go there
He used to read the first part of tn
Bible chiefly; now he reads the latte
part of the Bible chiefly. Why has h
changed Genesis for Revelation? Al
he used to be anxious chiefly to kno,
all about its geological construction
Now he is chiefly anxious to kno,
how the next world was made and a.
about its geological construction. Mo-