Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-14
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE MINISTRY OF TEARS" is
SUNDAYS subject.

sand God Shall Wipe Away All Tears
from Their Eyes'-Rev. VII: 1.-The
New Heaven and tho New Earth-rhe
Covert of Last Resort
Copyright. 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. "
New York. March 10.-A vast audi
ence crowded the Academy of Music
In this city today to hear DR.. Talmage.
Discoursing on The Ministry OF
Tears" he put the misfortunes of life
In 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 all tears from their
eyes"
What a spectacle a few weeks ago
shen the nations were in tears! Queen
victoria assembled from the highest
throne on earth to 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
turtles. 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 a
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 Emmett. our
Daniel 0Connell, our Havelock. our
Ruskin, our Gladstone. our good and
great and glorious Victoria.
The Ministry of Tears
You remember that bottle which Da-
lid labeled as containing tears. and
Mary's tears, and Pauls tears, and
Christ's tears, and the harvest of joy
that % IN cpripo fro,,, tho snw;no 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 great ado about his grief, but
In all the vases of heaven there is not
one of Alexanders tears. l 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
1t 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
'ua
when family Is put together. not
have them all stay. or, II they must
be transplanted to make other homes.
then have them all live. the family
record telling a story of marriages and
births, but of no deaths? Why not
have the harvests chase each other
without fatiguing toll? Why the hard
pillow. the crust, the hard struggle?
1t is easy enough to explain a smile or
success or a congratulation, but
come now and bring all your diction-
aries and all your philosophers and all
your religion and help me explain a
tear. A chemist will tell you that 1t is
made up Of salt and lime and other
component parts, but he misses the
chief ingredients-the acid of a soured
life, the viperine sting of bitter
memory, the fragments OF a broken
heart. | will tell you what a tear is.
It is agony in solution. Hear. then.
while I discourse of the ministry Of
tears Of the practical uses Of sorrow:
New Heaven and New Earth.
After man has had good deal OF
trouble he says: We'll. / em ready to
go. II there is house somewhere
whose roof does not leak, l would like
to live there. II there Is an atmos-
phere somewhere that does not dis
tress the lungs. would like to breathe
It, II there is a society somewhere
where there is no little tattle. would
like to live there. II there Is a home
circle somewhere where can find my
lost friends, would like to go there"
He used to read the first part of the
Bible chiefly: now he reads the latter
part OF the Bible chiefly. Why has he
changed Genesis for Revelation? All,
he used to be anxious chiefly to know
all about its geological construction.
Now he is chiefly anxious to know
how the next world was made and all
about its geological construction. Now
he is chiefly anxious to know how the
next world was made and how 1t looks
and who live there and how they
dress. He reads Revelation ten times
now where he reads Genesis once.
The old story. I'm the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth" "
does not thrill him half as much as
the other story. Il saw new heaven
and new earth" The old mans
hand trembles as he turns over this
apocalyptical leaf, and he has to take
out his handkerchief to wipe his spec
tacles. That book of Revelation is a