Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-04-06

emT OF Music In this city to-day -
hear DIR. TRImaSe. Discoursing on
'''rne Ministry of Tears" he put the
nisfortunes of life in cheerful
light, showing that IL they were borne
an the right spirit they might prove
TO be advantages. His text was Rev
vii. II: And God shall wipe away
AL tears from their eyes"
What a spectacle a few weeks ago
when the nations were In tears.
Queen Victoria sscended from the
highest throne on earth TO throne
in Heaven. The prayer more often
offered than an- prayer for the last
o. 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 wom-
an of many centuries. As near four
years ago the English and American
nations shook hands in cOngratula-
tion at the queens Jubilee. so in
these times two nations shook hands
In mournful sympathy At the queens
departure. No people outside Great
britain 50 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 OF the Thames OF the
shannon Take from our veins the
English blood or the Welsh blood
or the Irish blood OF the Scotch
blood and the stream Of our lie
would be a mere shallow. They are
over there bone Of our bone and
hesh OF our flesh. IL Is our Wilber-
force. our Coleridge. our De Quincey.
cur Robert Burns. our John Wesley,
our John Knox. our Thomas Chat
ners. our Walter Scott. our Bishop
Charnock, our Latimer. our Ridley.
our Robert Emmett. our Daniel
O'Connen our Havelock. our Ruskin.
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
Runyzn dreamed and Milton SANG
and Shakespeare dranatiEed and
Richard Baxter prayed and Georg'
Whiteaeld thundered. The prince oi
Wales. now king, paid reverential Wis
it to Washington's tomb at Mount
Vernon, and Longfenow's statue
adcrns Westminster abbey. and Abra
ham Lincoln In bronze looks dow
upon SoOtland's capital. II was nat
ural that these two nations be il
tears But / an not going 20 speal
OF national tears. but OF individua
tears and Bible tears.
Riding across western prairie
wild flowers mp 10 the hub Of tn
carriage wheel, and while a long dis
tance from any shelter. there cam
q sudden shower, and. while the raj
was falling in torrents, the sun wa
shining as brightly as ] ever say
II shine. and / thought: What
beautiful spectacle is thisl SO IN
tears of the Bible are not midnigh
storm. bat rain on panSied prairie
in Gods sweet and golden sunlight.
You remenber that bottle whic
David labeled as containing tears, an
Mary's tears and Paurs tears an
Christ's tears. and the harvest of 10
that Is 70 spring from the sowing {
tears. God mixes them; God round
them; Tod shows them where TO fal
God exhsles them A census is take
OF them, and there Is a record as
the moment when they were boz
and as to the place of their grav
EesIs of bad men are not kept.
exander in his sorrow had the ha
edpPed from his horses and null
and made a great ado about his grie
but in all the vases Of Heaven the
Is not one OF Alexander's tears,
speak of the tears of Gods ehildre
Alas. met they are falling all Il
timst In summer you Sometim
hear the growing thunder. and "
see there Is a storm miles away, b
you know from the drift of &
clouds that IL will not come an
where near you. So. though IL be
II bright around shout you. there is
shower of trouble somewhere all I
time. Tears. teaTsi
what Is the use Of them. anyho'
Why net substitute lsughter7 Why Z
make this a world whsre all the peol
are well and eternal strangers to pa
aud aehesf what Is the use of an "a
ern storm when we might have p
petual nor'wester7 Why. when a ia
ily Is put together. not have them
stay, OF. II they must be transplan
TO make other homes, then have tn
all live. the family record telling
story OF marriages and births. but
no denths7 Why rot have the harye
chase each other without fstigu
toll? Why the hard pillow, the hl
crust. the hard struggle7 Il is e
enouUh TO explain a smile or a succ