Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-17

for us to consider for few moments
A world without tears. We can lard
~ understand what that would mean:
we are so familiar with tears. You
remember when we were children
Our mothers kissed the place 10 make
ii well, and sometimes we almost
wished to be injured to have mother
kiss the place. We read of other
visions, of land where God wipes
the tears from every eye. can hard
ly comprehend it, but it means some,
thing good for Gods people, if they
love and obey him. This world is full
OF tears. We shed tears OF sadness,
and bereavement among the crosses
and losses of life. Foes conspire and
friends f0rsake. and we shed tears OF
sorrow alone, and it is we'll, II we
have TO weep, that we weep alone:
Laugh and the world laughs with yon
Weep and you weep alone,
For this sad earth has TO borrow it's
mirth
BIT has trouble enough of its own
No Weeping.
"The book tells us that there is a
land where there is no weeping. There
are enough tears shed in the world to-.
day to float a navy, but blessed by
God, there is land where the inhabi-
tants do not weep. In that vision Of
Johns, we read further that there is
a land where righteousness abounds;
a new Heaven and new Earth, not
a new world where mountains rise
to kiss the sun and all that kind of
thing, but there is land where right
eousness abounds and where there is
no evil.
"There will be no death. can
hardly imagine what it means to be
living where the pulsat ions of eternal
life throb in every breast. You can go
from Maine to California, from one
end of the earth to the other, and you
will find no village, city or community
where there is not sleeping place
for the dead, but there is a land
where no. tears shall fall upon the new
made grave, ~. -,a ...,. arG,
1--WE read that in that land. there
will be no temple. | could not under
stand this, The temple stands for the
best. things. We know, OF here. The
best people that live belong to the
Christian church, OF one branch or
another. Then the thought came to
me of the world without any church.
| can see now how that can be, be-
cause our visions of truth are some
what obscure. For instance, take the
great Catholic church with it's spires
projecting toward the sky with it's
golden cross, emblematic of Christs
That great church reveals
God, but somewhat obscures the Wis
ion. The same is true Of the Presby-
terrain church, with its mighty creed.
They reveal God, but the vision is
Swallowed. So it is with
the Baptist church. God raised that
people up to give Monotheism to the
world. They reveal God, and yet the
vision is somewhat vague. So it is
with the Methodist church and all the
other churches. We cannot put Gods
truth into a creed. We can't get it in
to syllogism or definition. In fact,
the best things we know on this earth,
we cannot put into a syllogism. can
not give you a definition of my moth
er's love.
Cannot Be Defined.
you have no expression for moth
er's love. ] have one child living out
OF four; the rest have gone to be with
God would give my life for them.
Don't ask me to give you a definition
Of that. The best things of life can
not be defined. Different churches
and denominations give their vision
of God, and, yet, the vision is some
what limited. 1t takes all churches,
denominations, and great statements
of faith to give some idea of the great
ness and goodness of our God, but
there will be time when there will
be no temple, when We will need no
signs and symbols to comprehend the
truth.
Need of Hearts.
Our idea of Heaven is governed
largely by the need of our own
hearts. l now think of splendid
young fellow, six feet or more in his
stockings, with broad shoulders, who
in an awful accident lost both eyes.
He was a Christian man, and think
of him standing up in religious meet
ing with his face aglow, telling of the
goodness of God. His thought of
Heaven was a land where he will see
and know even as he is known. And
SO it is with man suffering from
pain and bowed under grief. His
conception of Heaven is a place where
there will be no suffering, pain or
grief. ] know of mother whose babe
was taken from her years ago, and
she went to the bureau drawer only
yesterday and pulled out the half
worn shoes, and her vision of Heaven
is place where she will meet her
babe and the babe will meet it's moth
er. God will crafty them. There is
a land where we will meet those from
whom we are separated by the cold
hand of death. One of my parishion-
ers lost beautiful child a short time
ago. wrote her letter quoting the
poem:
Quoted Poem.
Two little feet went pattering by,
years ago; u
They wandered off to the sunny sky,
years ago;
Again | shall hear those two little
feet passing by,
When music, thousand times more
sweet in the sky,
! love to think that fathers care,
Shall hold them safe till | meet there
by and by