The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-15

you lay on the coffin lid and sobbed
rs though you were only five or ten
| years of age.
Where did Paul get the ink with
which to write his comforting epis-
ties? Where did David get the ink
to write his comforting psalms?
Where did John get the ink to write
his comforting Revelation? They got
1t out of their own tears. When a
man has gone through the curricu-
lum and has taken a course of dun
geons and imprisonments, he is quail
fled for the work of sympathy.
Jesus had enough trial to make him
sympathetic with all trial. The
shortest verse in the Bible tells the
story, "Jesus wept." The scar on the
back of his either hand, the scar on
the arch of either foot, the row of
scars along the line of the hair, will
keep all Heaven thinking. Oh, that
Great Weeper is just the one to ST.
lence all earthly trouble, wipe out
all stains of earthly grief Gentlel
Why, His step is softer than the step
of the dew. 1t will not be tyrant
bidding you hush your crying. II
will be a Father who will take you
on His left arm, His face beaming
into yours, while with the soft tips
of the fingers of the right 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 SYM
pathy, 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 ac.
count 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:
where is Jesus? Where is Jesus"
Have you any appreciation of the
good and glorious times your friends
are having in Heaven? How different
it is when they get news there of
Christians death from what it is
here! 1t is the difference between
omharkation and coming into port.
Everything depends upon which side
of the river you stand when you hear
of Christians death. If you stand
on this side of the river you mourn
that they go. If you stand on the
other side of the river, you rejoice
that they come. Oh, the difference
between a funeral on earth and
jubilee in Heaven-between requiem
here and triumph there; parting here
and union there Together! Have
you ever thought of it? They are
together. Not one of your departed
friends in one land and another in
another, but together in different
rooms of the same house-the house
of many mansions! Together!
Take this good cheer home with
you. These tears of bereavement
that course your cheek and of perse-
cution and of trial are not always
to be there. The motherly hand of
God will wipe them all away. What
is the use on the way to such a con-
summation--what is the use of fret
ting about anything? Oh, what an
eXhilaration it ought to be in Chris
tian work! See you the pinnacles
against the sky? 1t is the city of our
God, and we are approaching it, Oh,
let us be busy in the days that re-
main for us!
The SaXons and the Britons went
out to battle. The Saxons were ali
armed. The Britons had no weapons
at all, and yet history tells us that
the Britons got the victory Why?
They went into battle shouting three
times, "Halleluiah!" and at the third
shout of "Halleuiah!" their enemies
fed panic struck, and so the Britons
got the victory. And, my friends,
if we could only appreciate the glo-
ries that are to come we would lie
so filed with enthusiasm that 40
power on earth or he'll could stand
before us, and az our first shout the
opposing forces would begin to trem-
Bile, and at our second shout they
would begin to fall back, and at our
third shout they would be routed for
ever. There is no power on earth ~
in hell that could stand before three
such volleys of halleluiah.
! put this balsam on the wounds
of your heart: Rejoice at the though
of what your departed friends have
got rid of and that you have pros
pect of so soon making your own
escape. Bear checrfully the minis
try of tears and eXult Mt the though;
that soon it is to be ended.
DO you not this moment catch
glimpse of the towers? Do You not
hear note of the eternal harmony?
Some of you may remember the old
Crystal palace in this city OF New
York. | came in from my country
home a verdnnt lad and heard in that
Crystal palace the first great music
I had ever heard. Julien gave Il con-
cert there, and there were 5000 voices
and 5000 players upon instruments.
and ] was nightly impressed with
the fact that Julien controlled the
harmony with the motion of his hand
and foot, beating time with the one
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