The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 26, 1898, Image 5

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^ -t.. - ' ; pc ' y-'p* ■ mm THE LEDGER: GAFFKEY, S. C., MAY 26, 1898. TANTALIZING TALK. r JOB'S COMFORTERS THE SUBJECT OF DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. On tlie Other Side We Shull J.carn Why U<id Let Sin Ct:me Into the World. Thn.e Who Have Not Known Trouble La* k Sympathy—Preparation For Glory. [Copyright. IS'.ts, by American I'nts Assc- ! elation.] Washington, May US.—The awk ward and irritating mode of trying to comfort people in trouble is here sot forth by Dr. Talmage, and a better way of dealing with broken hearts i* recommended; text, Job r.vi, 2, "Mis erable comforters are ye all. ” The man of Uz had a great many trials—the loss of his family, tholo; s of his property, the loss of hi.s health— but the most exasperating thing that eame upon him was the tantali/ing talk of thoM* who ought to have rympathized with him. And, looking around upon them and weighing what they had said, he utters the words of my text. Why did God let sin come into the world? It is a question I often hear dis cussed, but never satisfactorily answer ed. God made the world fair and beau tiful at the start, if our lirst parents had not sinned in Eden, they might have gone out of that gar leu and found 60 paradises all around the earth—Eu rope, Asia, Africa, North and South America—so many flower gardens or orchards of fruit, redolent and luscious. I suppose that whe n God poured c>ut the Gikon and the Hiddekel he poun d out at the same time the Hudson and the* Susquehanna. The whole eartli was very fair and beautiful to look upon. Why did it not stay so? God had the power to keep back sin and woes. Why did he not keep them bae k? Why not every cloud roseate^ and t excry step v joy, and every sound music, and rll the agej* a long jubilee of sinless men and sinless women? God can make a rose* as easily as he can make a thorn. Why, then, the predominance of thorns? i.e can make good, fair, ripe frv.it as well as gnarled and sour fruit. Why so much, then, that is gnarled and sour? Ho can make men robu.t i .health. Why, then, are there so navy invalids? Why not have for our whole race i»erpetnul lei sure instead of this tug and toil and tussle for a livelihood? 1 will tell you why God lot sin come into the world— when I got on the other side of the riv er of death. That is the place where such questions will he am wi red and such mycteiics solved. He who this side that river attempts to answer the ques tion only illustrates Inn own igm tancc and iucompetcney. All I know is ore gnat fact, and that is that n herd of woes has << me in upon us, tram] ling down evgry.Liujf fair and beautnul. A sword at’t ho gate of Euen am 1 a sword at every gate. Cumfortli’iJ t.J** Troubled. More people und* r the ground than ?n it. The graveyards in vnt majority. The 0,000 winters have made more scars than the 0,C j0 summers can cover up. front!; has taken t!.'* tender heart < f this world in its two rough hands and Vinebcd it F.l.til the nations wai! wbii the agony. If all llio monuds of grave yards that have been rah-ed were put side by side, you might step on them and nothing else, going all around the iund again and mud t worl 1 and ur again. These are the facts. And now 1 have to say that, iu n world lik tins, the grandest occupation is that of giv ing condolence. The holy science of im parting comfort to the troubled we ought all of lift to study. There are many of vou who could look around upon s me • T of your v ry best IVu iuls, who wfrsh you well, and arcs very intelligent, and yet be able truthfully to say to them in your days of trouble, "Miserallj com forters are yo* all." 1 remark, in the first place, that very voluble people are incompetent for the work of giving comfort. Bildud and Eliphaz had the gift of language, and with their words almost bothered Job’s life out. Alas for these voluble people that go among the houses of the alliict- cd, and talk and tall; and talk and talk! They rehearse their own sorrows, and then they tell the poor Hiifferers that they feel badly now, but they will feci worse after awhile. Filenee! Do you ex- jiect with a thin court plaster of words to heal a wound deep as the sx>ul? Step very gently around about u broken heart. Talk very softly around those whom God has bereft. Then go your way. Deep sympathy has not much to say. A firm grasp of the hand, a compassionate look, just one word that means us much aa a whole dictionary, and you have given, perbapa, all the comfort that a soul needs. A man haa a terrible wound in his arm. The Burgeon comes and biuda it up. "Now." he says, "carry that arm in a aling and be very careful of it. Let no one touch it." but the neighbors have heard of tho accident, and they come in and they say, "Let ua nee it" And the bandage is pulled off, and this one and that one must fuel it and nee how much it ia swollen, and there are irritation and inflammation and exasperation where there ought to be healing and cooling. The surgeon comes in and aMfs: "What does all this mean? You havw\po buaineas to touch those bandages. That wound will never heal unless you let it alone." Ho there are souls broken down In sorrow. What they most want is rest, or very careful and,gentle treatment, but the neighbors have heard of the bereavement or of the loss, and they ootne in to sympa thise, and they say: "Show us now the wemnd. What wore his last words? Be- hcurse now the whole scene. How did you feel when you found you were an orphan?" Tearing off the bondages here end pulling them off there, leaving a ghostly wound that the balm of God*a grace had already begun to heal. Oh, let no loquacious people, with over rat tling tongue* go into the homes of the distressed! Weefcaess ef rtUlMoyty, 1 Again, I remark that all those per sons are Incompetent to girt any kind have come. Oh, no! Do yon not remem ber that passage of Scripture, "Whom the Lord lovcth hechasteneth?" A child come s in with a very ba 1 Bp!inter in its hand, and you try to extract it. It i.s a very painful operation. The child draws back from you, but you j^r.-i.-t. You are going to take that splinter out, so you take tho child with u gentle but firm grasp, for, although thure may lx* pain in it, the splinter must come out. And it is love that dictates it and male ; you persist. My friends, I really think that nearly all our sorrows in this world are only the hand cf our Father ex tracting some thorn. If all these s* r- rows were sent by enemies, I would say, Ann yourselves again, t them, and as in tropical climes when a tiger comes down from tho mountains and Cannes off a child from the village the neigh bors band together and go into the for est and liuut the monster so I would have you, if I thought these misfortunes were sent by an enemy, go out and bat- tlo against them. But, no, they come from a Father eo kind, so loving, so gentle, that tho prophet, speaking of hi.s tenderness and mercy, drops tho idea of a father and says, "As one v.Lcm his mother comforteth so will I comfort ! you.” Again, I remark there is comfort in ! the thought that God by all this process is going to make you useful. Do you know that tbo.se v. ho accomplish the most for God and heaven have all been under the harrow? Show mo a man thul has done anything for Chrirt in this day in a public or private place who has had no trouble and whose path has been smooth. Ah, no. 1 once went through en ax factory, and I raw thorn take the Kars of iron and thrust them into the terrible fur naces. Tucn besweated workmen with long tongs stirred the blr.xo. Then they brought out a bar of iron and put it iu | a crushing machine, and then they put ; it between jaws that bit it in twain, j Then they put it <u an anvil, and dure : were great hammers swung by muckiu- > cry—each one half a ton in weight— that went thump, thump, thump! if , that iron could have spoken, it would have said: "Why all this beating? Why must I be pounded any more than any 1 other iron?" The workmen would have said: "We want to make axes out of | you, keen, sharp axes—axes with which I to hew down the forest, and build the | ship, and erect houoeH, und carrv on a thousand enterprises cf civilization, i That is the reason we pound you." ! Now, God puts a soul into the furnace j of trial, and then it i.' brought out m l ; run through the crusiung machine, and | then it comes down on the anvil, and ; upon it, blow after LIjv.’, blow : t er [ blow, until the soul cries out, "uu, | Lord, what does all this mean?" God says: "1 want to make something very useful out of you. You shall be some- ! thing to hew with and something to i build with. It is a practical pnxess i through wdiich I tun putting you." Yes, I my Christian friends, we want mo.e tools iu the* church of God, not more j wedges to split with. We have enough | of these. Not mere bores w.;h which to drill. We have too many !>cr:;s. What i we really want is keen, slu rp, we ll tein- i pored axes, and if there bo any other | way of making them than iu the hot . furnace, and on the hard anvil, and un- j de*r the heavy hammer, 1 do not know ! what it is. Remember that if Gcd i brings any kind of cluu.themeut upon | you it is only to make yea ust ful. Do 1 not sit down discouraged and say: "I have* no more reason for living. I wish 1 were dead.” Ch, there never was so much reason for your living r.s now. Hy this ordeal you have been ccnnccrat- ed a priest ef the* moet high God. Go out and do your whole work for the Master. The ItebelliouN Urart. Again, there is comfort in the thought that all our troubles are a revelation. Have you ever thought cf it in that con nection? The man who has ne*ver been through chastisement is ignorant ab ut a thousand things in his soul he ought to know. For instance, here is a nun who prides himself on his cheerfulness of character. Hu has no patience wi.!i anybody who is depressed in spirit.:. Oh, it is easy for him to be ckotrful, with hi., line house, his filled wardrobe and well strung instruments of music und tapestried parlor and plenty of money iu the bank waiting for some permanent investment! It is easy for him to be cheerful But suppose his fortune goes to pieces, and his house goes down under the sheriff’s hammer, and the banks will not have anything to do with his paper. Suppose those jx-oplo who were once elegantly enter- tuiuod at his table get so shortsighted that they cannot recognize him upon the street. How then? Is it so easy to be chocrfnl? It is easy to be cheerful in the homo, after the day’s work is done, and the gss is tamed on, and the house is full of rouping little ones. But sup pose the piano is shut because the fin gers that played ou it will no more touch the keys, and the childish voice that asked so many questions will ask no more. Then is it so easy? When a man wakes up and finds that his re- purees are all gone, be begins to rebel, and he says: "God is hard; God is out rageous. He had no business to do this tome." My friends, those of as who have been throngh trouble know what a sinful and rebellions heart we have and how much God lias to put up with and bow much we need pardon. It is only iu the light of a flaming furnace that we can learn our own weakness and our own lack of moral resource. Ksmlljr Msstlags. There is also a great deal of comfort in the fact (hat there will be a family nooustrnction in a better place. From Scotland or England or Ireland a child emigrates to America. It is very hard parting, bat he comes, after awhile writing home as to what a good land it ia Another brother comes, a sister comes, and another, and after awhile the mother comes, and after awhile the father oomea, and now they are all here, and they have a time of great congrat ulation and a very pleasant reunion. of comfort who act merely as worldly philosophers. They come in and say: i "Why, this is what you ought to have expected. The lawsof nature must have their way." And then they get eloquent over something they have seen in i>OEt * mortem examinations. Now, away with nil human philo. ophy at such a time! What difference does it im.kot > that fa ther and mother what dn ease their son died of? He is dead, and it makes no difference whether tho trouble was in tho epigastric or hypogastric region. If the philosopher be of the stoical school, he will come and say: "You ought to control your feelin;You must not cry so. You must cultivate a cooler temper ament. You must have self reliance, self government, self control"—an ice- ; berg reproving a hyacinth for having a drop of dew in its eye. A violinist has | his instrument, and he sweeps his lin gers across the strings, now evoking strains of joy and now strains of sad- j ness. He cannot play all the tunes on one string. Tho human soul is an in strument of a thousand strings, and all sorts of emotions were made to play on it; now an anthem, now a dirge. It is no evidence of weakness when cnc is overcome of sorrow. Edmund Burke ■ was found in the pasture field with his arms around a horse’s u«!ck. caressing him, and seme one said, "Why, the great man has lost his mind." No, the horse belonged to his son who had re cently die d, and his great heart broke over the grief. It in no sign of weakness that men are overcome of their sorrow*. Thank God for the relief of tears! Have you never Itoeu in trouble when you could not weep and you would have given anything for a cry? David did well when kc mourned for Absalom, Abraham did well when he bemoaned Farah, Christ wept for Lazarus, and the last man that I want to see come any where near mo when I have any kind of trouble is a worldly philosopher. Again, *1 remark that those persons are iucompe; -nt for the work of comfort bearing who have nothing but cant to offer. There are those who have tho* idea that you must groan over the dis tressed and afflicted. There are times in grief when cue cheerful face, dawning upon a man's soul, is worth $1,000 to him. Do net whine over the afflicted. Take the promises of the gospel and ut ter them iu a manly tone. Do not be afraid to smile if you feel lite it. Do not drive any more hearses through that poor soul. Do not toll him the trouble was foreordained. It will not be any comfort to know it was 1,000,000 years coming. If you want to find splints for a broken Lone, do not take cast iron. Do not tell them it is God’s justice that weighs out grit f. They want to hear ef God’s tender mercy. In other words, do not give them aquafortis when they need valerian. God's Minister*. Again, I remark that those perrons are poor comforters who have never had any , trouble themselves. A larkspur cannot lecture on the nature cf a snowflake. It neve.* saw a snowflake, and these peo ple who have always lived in tiio* rum mer sf prosperity cannot talk to those who rrc frozen in disaster. Cod keeps i aged people in the world, I think, for thix iery wc -k of sympathy. They have been through all these trials. They know all that which irritates and all | that which soothes. If there are men i nnd women here who have old people ; in th*i house or near at hand so that they can easily reach them, I congratu- ! late you. life, and friends around about us wo have wish ed that father and mother were still alive that we might go and tell them. Perhaps they could not say much, but it would have been such a comfort to have them around. These aged ones who have been all through the trials of life know how to give condolence. Cher ish them, let them lean on your arm, . these aged people. If when you speal: : to them they cannot hear just what you sj.y the first time and you have to say i it a second time, when you say it a sec- ^ end time do not say it sharply. If you do, you will be sorry lor it on the day when you take the last look and brush back the si 1 . cry locks from the wriukiod brow just before they screw*Ike lid on. ■Blessed be God for the cld people! They may not have much strength to go around, but they are God’s appointed ministers of comfort to a broken heart. People who have not had trial them selves cannot give comfort to otlvcrs. They may talk very beautifully and they may give you a great deal of poetic sen timent, but while poetry is perfume that smells sweet, it makes a very poor salve. If yon have a grave in a pathway and somebody comes and covers it all over with flowers it is a grave yet. Those who have not had grief them selves know not the mystery of a broken heart. They know not the meaning cf childlessness, and tho having no one to put to bed at night or the standing in u room where every book and picture and door ore full of memories—the doormat where she sat, the cup oat of which she drunk, the place where she stood at the door and chipped her bauds, the odd figures that she scribbled, the blocks she built into a house. Ah, no, yon must have trouble yourself before you can comfort trouble in others. But come all ye who have been bereft, and ye who have been comforted in your sorrows, and stand around these afflicted souls and say to them, "I had that very sor row myself; God comforted me and he will comfort yon, right to the apot comfort others we must have faith iu God, practical experience and good, sound common sense. for the Sorrowful. But there are three or four considera tions that 1 will bring to those who are sorrowful and distressed and that we can always bring to them, knowing that they will effect a cure. And the first consideration ia that God sends our troubles In love. I often hear people in their troubles say, "Why, I wonder what God has against me?" They seem to think God has some grudge against them because trouble and misfortune Well, it is just so with our families. They an; emigrating toward a la tter land. Now one goes out. Oh, how hard it is to part with him. Anotln r goes. Oh, how hard it is to part with her. And arr Aier and another, and we our- solves will aft.r awhile go ov< \ and ‘ then wo will l e t-/,v;!ier. Oh, v. hr.t a reunion! Do yon believ«* that? "Yes. ’ you say. Oh, you do not. Yon do i:ot believe it as you believe other things. If you do, r.i.d with the same emphasis, why it would take nine-te: ths of your trouble off your heart. The fact is heaven tr many of us i.s a jrreat log. It is away ou' somewhere, filled with an uncertain and indefinite population. That is the kind of heaven that many of us dream about, hut it is tho most tremendous fact in all this universe— this heaven of tho gospel. Our departed Had Uoth Kind*. A brisk looking young man. with his bat tilted well bark on his head and a email satrlu l in hi* hand, st> pped inside a lawyer’s office and said: "I hope I am not intruding, sir. Yon are a man of bminess, and so am I, and 1 can ti ll you in one minute what I m hero for. My observation is that livo out of every six prof* ssional men iu tho lajge cities are addict* d to the tobacco habit in some form or other. A habit, once formed, becomes second uatuff*. "There are thousands of men who speud their substance and drain their vitality by incessant smoking who would bo glad to be released from tho slavery whose chains they have fasten* d upon themselves, and to Koch men I bring tbo means of deliverance. I guar antee that this preparation”—here he Chronic Dyspepsia Core!*. friends are not afloat. The residence i.: t0(J k a sma ii package from his valise— gome of ns have had trials in although we have had many which yon live is not eo real as tho res idenco in w hich they stay. You aro afloat—yon who do not know iu tho ' morning what will happen before night. They aro housed ami safe forever. Do not, therefore, pity your departed friends who have died in Christ. They do not need any of your pity. Yon might as well send a letter of condo lence to C^ucen Victoria on her obscurity or to the Rothschilds on their poverty as to pity those who have won the palm. Do not say of thoro who arc* departed: "Poor child!" "Poor father!’’ "Poor mother!" They arc not poor. You aro poor—you whose homes have been shat tered, not they. You do not dwell much with your families in this world. All day long yon are off to business. Will it not be pleasant when you can be to gether all the while? If you have had four children and one is gone, and any body asks how many children you have, do not be so infidel as to say three. Say four—one in heaven. Do not think tlait the grave i» unfriendly. You go into your room and dress for some grand en tertainment, and you come forth beau tifully appareled, and the grave* i.s only the piaee where we go to dress for the glorious resurrection, and we will come out radiant, mortality having become immortality. Oh, how much condolence there is in this thought. I expect to see my kindred in heaven. I expect to see them just as certainly as 1 expect to go home today. Aye, 1 thall more certain ly see them. Eight or ten will come up from the graveyard back cf Somerville, and one will come from the mountains back cf Amcy, China, and another will come up from the son off Cape Ilatteras, raid ”0 will come up from Greenwood, and 1 shall linow them better than I ev er knew them here. MoruiDg of the Resurrection. And ye ur friends—they may be across the sea, but the trumpet that sounds hero will sound there. Yon will come up oa just thcsKmeday. Pome morning yon have overslept yourself and you open your eyes and see that the sun is high in the heavens and you say, "I have overslept and 1 must be up and away." So you wTl open your eyes ou tho morning of tho resurrection, in the full blaze of God's light, and you will Kay, “I must be up and away.” Ob, yes, yon will come up, and there will be a reunion, a reconstruction cf your family! I like what Haliburton (I think it wan)—good old Mr. Haliburton —said in his last moments: "I thank God that I ever lived und that I have a father in heaven and a mother in heaven and brothers in heaven and sister.: iu Leaven, end I am now going up to see them. ’ ’ 1 remark oimo more, our troubles in this world are preparative for glory What a transition it was f« r Paul— from the slippery dock of a foundering ship to the calm presence of Jesus! What a transition it was for Latimer— from the stake to a throne! What a transition it was for Robert Hall—from insanity to glory! What a transition it was for Richard Baxter—from tho dropsy to tho "Saint’s Everlasting Rest!" And what a transition it will be for you—from a world of sorrow to a world of joy! John Holland, when ho was dying, said: "What means this brightness in the room? Have you light ed the candles?" "No," they replied, "we have not lighted any candles." Then said he, "Welcome, heaven!” tho light already beaming upon his pillow. Oh, ye who are persecuted iu this world, your enemies will get off the track after awhile and all will speak well of you among the thrones! Ho, ye who are si< k now! No medicines to take there. One breath of the eternal hills will thrill you with immortal vigor. And ye who ore lonesome now, there will be a million spirits to welcome you into their com panionship ! Oh, yc bereft souls, there will he no gravedigger's spade that will deuvo the side of tiiat hill, and there will be no dirge wailing from that tem ple ! The river of God, deep us the joy of heaven, will roll on between banks odorous with balm and over depths bright with jewels and under skies roseate with gladness, argosies of light going down the stream to the stroke of glittering oar and the song of angels! Not one sigh iu the wind; not one tear mingling with the waters. "which is called ‘Smokebane,’ will cere the craving for tobacco in every form, absolutely, in one mouth, or money refunded”— “Yonng man,"saidthe lawyer, "yon aro wasting your time on me. I am not a slave to the talacco habit. I have no craving whatever for tobacco, though once iu awhile I finoke a cigar, if it is a good one"— "Yes, sir,” interrupted the other, iu turn, quickly replacing the package iu bis valise and producing another one. "Let me sell yo*ua box of the celebrated ‘John Quincy Adams Perfectos, ’ $2.50, 25 in a box, couldn’t sell them any cheaper if you were to take 1,000, and warranted to be the best 10 cent smoke in tbe market." Before the lawyer fully recover'd from bis surprise be had bought the box and tbe brisk young man was up ou the next floor bunting another slave to the tobacco habit.—Youth’s Com panion., Success—Worth Knowing. 40 years* success in tin* Soutli. proves lliurlies' 'I onic a (frent remedy for CMI's •uid nil Malarial Fevers. Better than Quini n*. riiaennteed. try It. At Iiriuo-'ists. an I KM Bottles. FTER sufferic? fer nearly thirty yean from dyspepsia, Mrs. H. E. Dugdale, wife of a prominent business man of Warsaw, N. Y., writes: “For 28 years, I was a constant sufferer from dysoepsia and a weak stomach. The lightest food produced distress, causing severe pain and the forma tion of gas. No matter how careful of my diet I suffered agonizing pain after eating. 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