The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-14
TALMAGE'S SERMON.

| TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE MINISTRY OF TEARS" is
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
And God Shalt Wipe Away All Tears
from Their Eyes"-Rev VII: 1.-THE
New Heaven and the New Earth-The
Covert of Last Resort
copyright. 1901. by Louis Jllopsch. N. Y }
new York, March 10.-A vast audi
ehce crowded the Academy of Music
N thls city today to hear DR.. Talmage.
lDlscoursing on THE Ministry OF
iears," he put the misfortunes of life
IN a cheerful light. showing that If
ehey were borne in the right spirit
.ney might prove to be advantages.
his text was Rev. vii, II, And God
snail wipe away all tears from their
eyes,"
what spectacle few weeks ago
Shen the nations were in tears! Queen
victoria assembled from the highest
throne on earth to throne in heaven.
Inc 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
turles. AS near four years ago the
English and American nations shook
nands in congratulation at the queens
jubilee SO in these times two nations
SHOOK hands in mournful sympathy at
Tue queens departure. No people out
SIDE Great Britain SO deeply felt that
mighty grief as our people. The era
dles 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
pone OF our bone and flesh Of our flesh.
IL Is our Wilberforce, our Coleridge,
our DE Quincy, our Robert Burns, our
John Wesley, our John Knox, our
Ihomas Chalmers, our Walter Scott,
our Bishop Charnock, our Latimer,
our Ridley, our Robert Emmett, our
Daniel O'Connell, our Havelock, our
Ruskin, our Gladstone, our good and
| great ole
| The Ministry of Tears.
You remember that bottle which Da-
| Nd 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 exhales them. A census
is taken Of them, and there is rec
ora as to the moment when they were
porn 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 Alexander's tears. / 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 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 world where all the
people are we'll and eternal strangers
to pains and aches? What is the use
of an eastern storm when you might
have perpetual nor'wester? Why,
when family is put together, not
have them all stay, or, if they must
be transplanted to make other homes,
then have them all live, the family
record telling 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 smile or
success Or 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 it is
made up of salt and lime and other
component parts, but he misses the
chief ingredients-th acid Of a soured
life, the viperine sting of a bitter
memory. the fragments of broken
heart. I will tell you what tear is.
It is agony in solution. Hear, then,
while l 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: well, 1 an ready to
go. II there is house somewhere
whose roof does not leak, would like
to live there. If there is an atmos-
phere somewhere that does not dis
tress the lungs, would like to breathe
it. If there is a society somewhere
where there is no title tattle, l would
like to live there. If there is home
circle somewhere where l 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