The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-03-20
MINISTRY OF TEARS.
Dr.. Talmage Puts Misfortunes OF
Life in q Cheerful Light.
Shows That II They Were Borne IN
ahe Right Spirit They Might
Prove to Be Advantage
Sympathy OF Jesus.
scopyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, n "
New York March 10.

gcopyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, n u
New York March 10.
4 vast audience crowded the Acad-
emy Of Music in this city today to
heur Dr.. Talmage. Discoursing on
"Tne Ministry OF Tears" he put the
misfortunes 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 kew.
vii, It: And Goo shall wipe away
al tears from their eyes
What spectacle few weeks ago
when the nations were IN tears
Queen Victoria ascended from the
highest throne on earth to a throne
In Heaven. The prayer more often
offered than any prayer for the Ias5
g. wears had been answered, and GOD
did save the queen. All round the
world the bells were tolGng, and the
minute guns were booming at the
obseouies Of the most honored wom-
an Of many centuries. AS near tour
wears ago the English and American
nations shook hands in congratula-
ton at the queens jubilee, SO IN
these times TWO nations shook hands
b nournful 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 lie
would be mere shallow. They are
over there bone Of our bone and
flesh of our flesh. 1t is our Wlloer-
force, our Coleridge, our De Quincy,
ou- Robert Burns, our John Wesley,
our John Knox, our Thomas Chal-
rners, our Walter Scott, our Bishop
Charnock, our Latimer, our Ridley,
our Robert Emmett, our Daniel
O'Connell, our davelock, our Ruskln'
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
Runyar dreamed and Milton sang
and Shakespeare dranatized and
Richard Baxter prayed and George
WhitefeId thun6ered. The prince Of
Wales, now king, paid reverential VS.
It to Washington's tomb at Mount
Vernon, and Longfellow's statue
a6orns Westminster abbey, and Abra-
ham Lincoln IN bronze looks down
upon Sootlard's capital. It was nat
ural that these two nations be IN
tears. But 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 ever saw
It shine, and I 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, 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 mixes them; God rounds
them; God shows them where to fall;
God exhaIes them. A census is taken
Of them, and there is a record as to
the moment when they were born
and as to the place Of their grave.
Tears Of bad men are not kept. Al
exander 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 Alexander's tears. I
speak OF the tears Of Gods children.
Alas, mel they are falling ell the
tinei In summer you sometimes
hear the growing thunder, and you
sec there IS g storm miles away, but
yoU know from the drift OF tbs
clouds that it will not come any
where near you. So, though it be all
bright around about you, there is
shower OF trouble somewhere all the
time. Tears, tears!
Whet Is the use Of them, anyhow?
Why not substituteIaughtec? Why not
make this world where ell the people
are we'll and eternal strangers 20 pains
and aches? What is the use Of an east
e-n storm when we might have 8 per
petual aor'wester? Why, when fam
ly is put together, not have them all
stay, or, il they must be transPlanteo
to make other homes, then have them
ell live, the family record telling q
story Of marriages and births, but OF
no deaths? Why not have the harTests
chase each other without fatiguiDg
eoil9 Why the hard pillow, the hard
crust, the hard struggle? It IS easy
enough to explain smile or a success
pr congratulatiou, but come now and
bring ell your dictionaries and all your
PHILOSOPHERS and ell your religions and
help me explain tear. A chemist will
tell you that It is made up OF salt and
lime end other component parts, but he
misses the chief ngredients-the eeid
Of q goured life, the yiperi1e sting Of
9 bitter memory, the fragments OF a
broken heart. I will tell you what
tear IS It is agony in solution. Hear,
then, while discourse Of the ministry
Of tears OF the practical use Of sorrow:
First, It is the design Of trouble to
keep this world from being too at
sractive. Something must be done 70
make us willing to quit this existence.
If it were not for trouble, this would
be good enough Heaven for US. You
and I would be willing to take lease
Of this life for hundred million years
G. there were no trouble. The earth,
Mysterious Murder.
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