The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-14

along the line of the hair. will keep
all heaven thinking. Oh, that Great
Weeper is just the one to silence all
earthly trouble. wipe out all stains Of
earthly grief! Gentle! Why, his step
is softer than the step of the dew.
1t will not be a tyrant bidding you
hush your crying. 1t will be father
who will take you on his left arm, his
face beaming into yours. while with
hand he shall wipe away all tears from
| your eyes.
| You have noticed when the children
get hurt and their mother is away from
home they always come to you, the
father. for comfort and sympathy. but
you have noticed when the children
| get hurt and their mother is at home
they go right past you and to her,
and you are of no account. So, when
the soul comes up into heaven out Of
| the wounds of this life, it will not stop
TO look for Paul or Moses or David
or John. These did very well once, but
now the soul shall rush past, crying:
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Methinks it will take us some time
to get used to heaven, the fruits of
God without one speck, the fresh pas
lures without one nettle, the orchestra
without one snapped string, the river
OF gladness without one torn bank,
the solferino and the saffron of the
sunrise of the eternal day that beami
from Gods face.
Friends, if we could get any appre-
citation of what God has in reserve for
us it would make US so homesick we
would be unfit for our everyday work
Professor Leonard, formerly Of Iowa
university. put in my hands me-
| teoric stone-a stone thrown off from
some other world to this. How sug-
gestive it was to me! And l have to
tell you the best representations we
have of heaven are only aerolites flung
Off from that world which rolls on.
hearing the multitude of the redeemed.
| we analyze these aerolites and find
the crystallizations of tears. No won
der, flung off from heaven! God shall
| wipe away all tears from their eyes,
Wipe Away the Tears.
| Take this good cheer home with
you. These tears of bereavement that
| course your cheek and of persecution
and of trial are not always to be there,
The motherly hand of God will wipa
them all away What is the use on
the way to such consummation-wha
is the use of freezing about anything?
Oh, what an eXhilaration it ought to be
in Christian work! See you the pima
cles against the sky? 1t is the city Of
our God, and we are approaching it,
Oh, let us be busy in the days tina,
remain for us!
The SaXons and the Britons went out
to battle. The Saxons We're all armed.
The Britons had no weapons at ALL
and yet history tells us that the Brit
ons got the victory. Why? They went
into battle shouting three times, Hal
lelujah!" and at the third shout OF
"Hallelujah!" their enemies fed panic
struck, and so the Britons got this
victory. And. my friends, if we could
only appreciate the glories that are
w SoAiO We Noulu ullSU WITH
enthusiasm that no power on earth
or hell could stand before us, and
at our first shout the opposing forces
would begin to tremble, anG at our
second shout they would begin to ralI
back. and at our third shout they
would be routed foreveA There is no
power on earth> or in hell that could
stand before three such volleys O.
halleluiah.
put this balm on the wounds Of
your heart: Rejoice at the thought OF
what your departed friends have got
rid of and that you have prospect OF
so soon making your own escape. Bear
cheerfully the ministry of tears and
exult at the thought that soon it /,
| to be ended.
There we shall march up the heavenly
street
And ground cur arms at Jesus feet