The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
 } DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON {  REV

r OS ANGELES, July I-1o all who are burdened with a sense of des-
 1 pondency on account of sickness, loss of friends a fortune or the fail-
 ure of worldly prospects this sermon
 comes as message of consolation and encouragement The text is Psalm xxx,
 Q, Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning."
 The Bible declares that it is better to
 go to the house of mourning than to
 join in the frolies of the merrymakers.
 But that does not mean that we should ta : to those in trouble with the ugubri- ous and sepulchral countenance of an
 undertaken officiating at, a funeral. If there is any time in life when we need
 the curtain up and the sunlight flood
 ins every room in the house, it is when
 tho dark clouds of bereavement have
 showered the hearststone of the home with bitter, scalding tears. If there is
 ever a time when a visitor should enter a room with smile upon the lip and with ringing note of joy in his saluta- tion and with hope and peace and com fort radiating from every feature of his counterance. that time Is when he is standing by a sickbed or Is extending
 the warm clasp of affection to who
 is bowed under the heavy burdens of grief. Yet the strange fact is that not one in fifty knows how to enter the house of mourning. Instead of going there with a message of comfort and peace and hope, the average man enter
 ing the house of trouble depresses the
 barometer of suffering and makes the
 gloomy days of trouble still more gloomy
 Like Jobs Comforters.
 Almost all of us hold in memory the recollection of the ..gonizing visits which some weeping Jeremiahs made to us when our cup of anguish was filled to
 the brim and oyerflowing. They camo
 to LIS with long tales of woe to tell us that if we had only gone to their phy
 sician and used his medicines our baby would not have died. Or they came 10 te.- us that perhaps God took away our dear ones because we are not living close enough to Him and had not fully consecrated our lives to his service. Or they came to us and said. My dear friend, you should thank God that he has taken away your boy, because your child might have lived to grow up a very Lad man, to be some day executed fo- the crime of murder. or he might have become a drunkard a libertine or a thief"
 Or they entered our sickrooms and homes of death as the miserable com forters of Job came to the patriarch after he had lost money children and health. Those men had the Idea that heavy trouble vas the result of heinous sin. They believed that God punished man in this way when he had done wrong. So when they saw Job suffering the loss of property and children and health they concluded that he had com mitted some serious crime. They hinted their belief to him and urged him to repent and confess, and when the poor harassed man insisted that he was in- nocent they warned him not to make his case worse by hypocrisy Thus they ag- gravated Jobs trouble, and he exclaimed, Miserable comforters are ye all'
 IQIit Eliphazes and zophars and Bildads thank God that the human race also has it's DaVids. It has the noble men and wo- men, who, in times of great trouble cal come into our lives and speak the sympathitic word in just the right way Ilese men may have a tear in the eye but they always have a smile beaming on the lip. They come to us in our dis tress and say: Brother, it may be dark f you now, but believe me, God Is good From my own personal experience I can testify that all things will come out right if we only trust him and live for him. Weeping may endure for nigAt, but joy cometh in the morning. Thank God the sunrise of gospel truth can always follow the darkest nights of despair"
 David could speak from experience about nights of weeping. He was no novice in sorrow. He had tasted the bitter cup of and had drunk it's l contents to the dregs. And as l portray l the sufferings of shepherd boy who | afterward became the king of Israel, I | want his experience to help you to find | the peace that passeth all understand inS which the sweet singer of Isreal en- joyed.
 David in the first place. knew all about the mental sufferings of an unhappy child. He knew what it was to have d little boys heart beat and throb with anguish He knew what it was to go sobbing night after night to bed He may have known what it was to crave for parental love and receive 1t not And of all a ehilds troubles I believe there Is not greater than to feel that father or a mother loves the rest of the children better than they love him. Oh
 the awful sufferings that come from parental favortism God pity the boys