Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-03-13


misfortuncs OF life in cheerful
light, showing that If they were borne
in the right spirit they might prove
to be advantages. His text was Rev.
vii, Il: And God shall wipe away
oil tears from their eyes"
What spectacle "a few weeks ago
when the nations were in tcarsi
Queen Victoria assembled from the
highest throne on earth to throne
in Heaven. The prayer more often
offered than any prayer for the last
"a 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-
ton at the queens jubilee, so in
these times two nations shook hands
in mournful 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 life
would be "A mere shallow. They are
over there bone of our bone and
flesh OF our flesh. Ii is our Wilber-
force, our Coleridge, our De Quincy,
our Robert Burns, our John Wesley,
our John Knox, our Thomas Chal-
mers, our Walter Scott, our Bishop
Charnock. our Lutimer, our Ridley,
our Robert Emmett, our Daniel
OConnel. 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
Runyan dreamed and Milton sang
and Shakespeare dramatized and
Richard Baxter prayed and George
Wbitetield Numbered. The prince OF
Wales. now king, paid reverential Wis
il to shington's tomb at Mount
Vernon, and Longfellow's statue
adorns Westminster abbey, and Abra-
ham Lincoln in bronze looks down
upon Scotland's capital. 1t 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 a western prairie.
wild flowers up TO the hub of the
carriage wheel. and while ii long dis
n Oh
sudden shower. and. while the rain
was falling in torrents, the sun was
shining as brightly as I ever saw
it shine, and | thought: What n
beautiful spectacle is this! So the
tears OF the Bible are not midnight
storm, but rain on pansied prairies
III Gods sweet and golden sunlight
You remember that bottle which
David labeled as containing tears. and
Mary's tears and Paurs tears and
Christs tears, and the harvest of ioy
that Is to spring from the sowing Of
tears. God mixes them; God rounds
them: tod shows them where to fall:
God eXhales them. \ census is taken
of them, and there is "A record as to
the moment when they were born
and as 10 the place of their grave.
Tears of bad men arc not kept. AL
cxander 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, me! they are falling all the
time' III summer YOU sometimes
hear the growing thunder. and Won
see there IL storm miles away. but
you know from the drift of the
clouds that il Will not come any
where near YOU SO, though IL be all
bright around about YOU. there il a
shower of trouble somewhere all the
time. Tears, tears!
What g. the use Of them. ANYHOW o
Why not substitute laughter? WHY not
make this world where all the pcopIe
are wei. and eternal strangers 10 pain,
and achc-" What j. the use OF au east
er1 storm WHOM wc might have "a per
prtu1l uor'Wc-ter? Why. when fan-
uE +. put .ogo.hfr. not have them aH
stay. or .f they must be- tran planted
10 make other bones. then have hem
all live. the family record telling .
story OF marriage, ard births. but o..
no deaths? WHY NOT have Che Lar.cet-
chase each o.hcr without fafrufrp
toll? Whr fhc narI pillow. tIc .h4r,
crus' tle hard -uprIr? % Is easy
enough t1 'NpII'u smile 0r success
or % cuH"ratu. alton. bat come now and
bring Hour dictionaries and OH your
Thi.rop.io- ana all your religion. and
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