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PROPER COMFOKTISBB DR, TALMAGE TELLS HOW TO HELP ■ people in trouble. 5 I ' w A Better Way «rs »«*«“* With Broken Heart* -Wo Wf Cant and Mueh g y '~ «* p ”“ A «~- WASHINOTOH, May 33.—The awkward nd irritating mode of trying to comfort *T. n le in trouble is here set forth by Dr. and “ better way of dealing with broken hearts is recdmmended; text, Job "Lj g “Miserable comforters are ye all." The man of Us had a great many trials -the loss of his family, the Joss of hia Property, the loss ot hli health—but the ■ 'most exasperating thing that came upon him was the tantalising talk of those who ought to have sympathized with him. And looking around upon them, and weighing What they had said, ho utters L words of my text. 1 sPhy did Gdd let sin come into the world? It is a question I often hear dis oUgßed, but never satisfactorily answered. God made the world fair and beautiful at the start - K our flrßfc P arents had not ginned in Eden, they might have gone out | 0 ; that garden and found 60 paradises all | around the- earth—Europe, Asia, Africa, F North and South America —so many flow ’ er gardens or orchards of fruit, redolent and luscious. I suppose that -when God poured out the Gihon and the Hiddekel he poured out at the same time the Hudson and the Susquehanna. The whole earth was very fair and beautiful to look upon.- tny did it not stay so? God had the pow er to keep back sin and woe. Why did he not keep them back? Why not every cloud roseate, and every step a Joy, and every sound music, and all the ages a long jubl leqof sinless men and sinless women? God can make a rose as easily as he can make a thorn. Why, then, the predominance of thorns? He can piake good, fair, ripe fruit as well as gnarled and sour fruit. Why so much, then, that is gnarled jmd sour? He can make men robust in hi wuth. Why, then, are there so many invalids? Why not have for our whole race perpetual leisure instead of this tug and toil and tussle for a livelihood? I will tell sou why God let sin come into the world—when I get on the other side of the river of death. That is the place where such questions will be answered and such mysteries solved. He who this side that river at tempts to answer the question only illus trates his own ignorance and incompe tency. All I knotr is one great fact, and that is, that a herd of woes has come in upon us, trampling down everything fair and beautiful. A sword at the gate of Eden and a sword at every gate. More people under tho ground than on it. The graveyards in vast majority. The 6,000 winters have made more scars than the 6,000 summers can cover up. Trouble has taken the tender heart of this world in its two tough hands and pinched it un til the nations wail with the agony. If all the mounds of graveyards that have been raised were put side by side," you might step on them and nothing else, going all around the world, and around again, and around again. These are the facts. And now I have to say that in a world like this the grandest occupation is that of giv ing condolence. The holy science of im parting comfort to the troubled we ought all of us to study. There are many of you who could look around upon some of your very best friends, who wish you well and are very intelligent, and yet be able truth fully to say to them in your days of trou ble, "Miserable comforters are ye all.” No Comfort In Much Talking. I remark, in tho first place, that very voluble people are Incompetent for the work of giving comfort. Bildad and Eli phas had the gift of language, and with their words almost bothejkJob’s life out. Alas for these voluble people that go among the houses of the afflicted and talk and talk and talk and talk. They rehearse their own sorrows, and then they telj the poor sufferers that they feel badly now, but they will feel worse after awhile. Si lence! Do you expect with a thin court plaster of words to heal a wound deep as the soil? Step very gently around about a broken heart. Talk very softly around those whom God has bereft. Then go your vrtty. Deep sympathy has not much to ~~ say. A flrm. grasp of the hand, a compas sionate look, just one word that means as much as a whole dictionary, and you have given perhaps all the comfort that a soul needs. A man has a terrible wound in his arm. The surgeon comes and binds it up. “Now,” he says, “parry that arm in a sling and be very cartful of it. Let no one touch it. ” But the neighbors have heard of the accident, and they come in, and they say, “Let us see it. ” And the band age }s pulled aS, and this one and that one must feel it and see how much it is swol len, and there are irritation and inflamma > tion and exasperation where there ought to be healing and cooling. The surgeon I comes in and says: “What does all this men? You have no business to touch those bandages. That wound will never heal unless you let it alone.” So 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 come in to sympathize, and they say: "Show us now the wound- What were his last words? Rehearse now thq whole scene. How did you feel when you found you were an orphan?” Tearing off the band ages here and pulling than off there, leav- IngaghastjywdUndthat the balm of &od’« grace had already begun to heal. Oh, let no loquacious people, with ever rattling tongues, gd into the homes .of the dis tressed 1 Again, I remark that all those persons Are incompetent to give any kind of com- X fort who act merely as worldly philosor phers. They come in and say: “Why, this Is what yeu Ought to have expected. The laws of nature must have their way.” And then they get eloquent over some ‘i thing they have seen ’, tn postmortem ex amination!. Now, away with all human philosophy at such a time t What differ pqoe does it make to that father and moth erwhat disease their son diedtf? He is dead, and it makes no difference whether tho trouble was in the epigastric or hypo gastric region. If the philosopher be of the stoical school, he will come and say: "You ought to control your feelings. You gSFltaus* not cryse. You must cultivate a cooler temperament. You. must have self reliance, self government, self control"— an iceberg reproving a hyacinth for hav ing a drop of dew in it j eye. A violinist has his instrument, and he sweeps his fln across the strings,' .poiv; evoking t^2s^SnS S a * I Edmund Burke was found in the pasture I Held with his tfiiiis around a horse’s neck, caressing him, and some one said, ‘‘Why, the great man has lost his mind.” No; tho horse belonged to his son, who had re cently died, and hia great heart broke over the grief. It is no sign of weakness that men are overcome of their sorrows. Thank God for the relief of teas*. Have you never been In trouble whou you coGid not weep and you would have given anything for a cry? David did well when he mourned for Absalom, Abraham did well when he be moaned Sarah, Christ wept for Lazarus, and the last man that I want to see come anywhere near me when I liave any kind of trouble is a worldly philosopher. Again, I remark that those persons are Incompetent for the wotk of comfort bear ing who have nothing but cant to offer. There are those who hove the idea that you must groan over the distressed and afflicted. There are times in grief when, one cheerful face, dawning upon a man’s soul, is worth |l,ooo to him. Do not whine over the afflicted. Take the promises of the ..gospel and utter them in a manly I tone. Do not be afraid to smite if you feel like it. Do not drive any more hearses through that poor soul. Do not tell hirm the trouble was foreordained. It Will not be any comfort to know it was a million years doming. If you want to find splints for n broken bone, do not take cast iron. Do no#fell them it is God’s justice that weighs out grief. They want to hoar of God’s tapder mercy. In other words, do not gi votehem aquafortis when they need vaStianßi'V'- : 'o ; ■ Sympathy of Those Who Hits' Suffered. Again, I remark that those persons are poor comforters who have never had apy trouble themselves. A larkspur cannot lecture on the nature of a snowflake; it never saw a spowflake, and those people who have always lived in the summer of prosperity oaffhot talk to those who are frozen in disaster. God keeps aged people in the-world, I think, for this very work of sympathy. They have been through all these trials. They know all that which irritates and all , that which soothes. If there are men • and women here who have old people in the house or near at hand, so that they can easily reach them, I con gratulate you? Some of us have-had trials in life, and although wo have had man/ friends around about us wo have wished that father and mother were still alive that we might go and tell them. Perhaps they could nob say much, but it would have been sueh a comfort to have them around. These aged ones who have been all through the trials of life know how to give condolence. Cherish them; let they lean on your, arm, these aged people. If when you speak to them they cannot hear just What you say the first time, and you have to say it a second time, whefe you say it% second time do not say It'Sharply. ’lf you do, you will be sorry for it on the day when yon take the last look and brush back the silvery locks from the wrinkled brow just before they screw the lid on. Blessed be. God for the old, people! They tnay'ftbfhave much strength to go around, but they are God’s appointed ministers of cortifort to a broken heart: _ Peoplewho have not had trials them selves cannot give comfort to others. They may talk’Very beautifully, and they may give you a great deal of poetic sentiment; but, white poetry is perfume that smells sweet, it makes a very poor salve. If you’ have a grave in a pathway, and aomsbody comes and covers it all oyer with flowent It is a grave yet. Those who have not had grief themselves know not the mystery of a broken heart. They know not the meaning of childlessness, and the having no one to put to bed at night or the stand ing In a room where every book and pic ture and door is full of memories—-the doormat where she sat, the cup oat of which she drank, tile place where she stood at the door and clapped her hands, the odd figures that she scribbled, the.blocks she built into a house. Ah, oar/ you must have trouble yourself before you can com fort 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 sorrow myself. God comforted me, and he will comfort you.” And that will go right to the spot. In other words, to comfort others we must have faith in God, practical experience and good, sound common sense. But there are three or four considera tions th; t I will luring 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 consider ation is that God sends our troubles in love. I often £car peoplein their troubles say, “Why, I wonder whAt God has aganist me?” They seem to think God has some grudge aghinst them because trouble and misfortune have come. Oh, no! Do you not remember that passage of Scripture, “Whom tho Lord loveth he chasteneth?” A child comes In with a very bad splinter in Its hand, .And you try to extract it. It Is a very painful operation. The child draws back-from you, .but you persist. You are going to take that splinter out, so you taka the child with a gentle but firm grasp, for although there may be pain in it the splinter must, come out. And it is love that dictates it and makes you persist. My friends, I really think that nearly all our sorrows in this world are only the hand of our Father extracting some thorn. If all these sorrows were sent by enemies, I would say arm yourselves against them and as in tropical climes when a tiger comes down from the mountains and car ries off a child from the village the neigh bors baud together and go into the forest and hunt the monster so I would have you, if i thought these misfortunes ware sent by an enemy, go out and battie against them. But no, they come from a Father so kirfd, so loving, so gentle that the prophet, speaking of his tenderness and mercy, drops the idea of a father and says, “As one whom his mother comforteth, so Will I comfort you. Comfort In Usefulness. Again, I remark there is comfort in the thought that God by all this process is go ing to make you useful. Do you know that those who accomplish the most for God and heaven have all been under the harrow? Show me a man that has done, anything for Christ in this day in a public, or private place who has had no trouble and whose path has been smooth. Ah, no! x X once wefl» through an ax factory, and I saw them take the bars of iron and thrust them into the .terrible fufnaces. Then besweated workmen with long tongs stirred the blaze. Then they brought out a bar of iron and put It in a crushing ma chine, and, then they put it between jaws that bit it in twain. Then they put it on an anvil, and there were great hammers swung by machinery—each one half a ton in weight—that went thump, thump, thump! If that iron could lurte spoken, it would have said: “Why all tills beating? - Whv must I be pounded ady more than any other iron?” Tho workmen would have said, “We want to make axes out of you, kern, sharp axes- -axes with which to run through the crushing machine, and then it comes down on tho anvil and upon I it, blow after blow, blow after blow, until | tho soul cries out, “O Lot*, what does aU I this mean?" God says: “I want to make I something very useful out of you. Y«ni shall be something to hew with and soma-J thing to build with. It is a. practicakfWoaM ess through which Ism putting yow” Yes, my Christian friends, we want more tools lir the church of God; not more wedges to split with. We have enonglwtf these. Not more bores with to drill. We have too many bores. Whafrwo really want is keen, sharp, well tempered axes, and if there be any other way making them than in the hot furnace, and on tho hard anvil, and under tho heavy, hammer, Ido not know what it is. Re member that if God - brings any kind of chastisement upon you it is only to make' you useful. Do not sit down discourage* and say: “I have no more reason for Hr-, ing. I wish I were dead.”. Oh, there never was so much reason for your living as now t By this ordeal you have been con secrated a priest of the most high God. Go out and do your whole work thn Master. Again, there is comfort in the thought that all our troubles are • revelation.-, Have you ever thought of it,to that oom nection? » The man who has never been through chastisement is ignorant about a thousand things in his soul ,he ought to know. Fpr instance, hnre is, a man who prides himself on his cheerfulness of char acter. He has no patience wjth anybody who- is depressed to spirits, ©h, it is easy for him to be cheerful with his fine house, his filled wardrobe and well st rung, instru ments of music and tapestried parior and plenty of money in the bank waittag for some permanent.' investment! Ife iS easy for .>im::cto be chandui. But suppose hia-fortune goes to pieces , and ' goes dowh under the, sheriff’s hammer and the banks will not have anything to do with his paper. Suppose those people who were once elegantly entertained at his table get so shortsighted that they cannot recognize him -upstp , the n tfreet. How then? Is it so easy to be cheerful? It is easy to be cheerful in the home after the day’s work is done, and the gas is turned on, ani the house 1* full of rorep ing little ones. But suppose the piano is shut because the fingers that played on it will no more touch the keys, and tho child ish voice that asked sq many questions will ask no more. Then is it so easy? When a man wakes up and finds that hia resources are all gone, he begins to rebel, and he says: “God is hard; God is out rageous. He had no business to db this to zna” ..My friends, thosaof ua who .WK been through trouble-know what a sinful and rebellious heart we have, and how ; much God has to put up with, and how much we need pardon. It is only in the light of a flaming furnace that we can learn our own weakness and out of moral resource. ••• ■■ '• .“ ’ S . aiorles of Beunioa. There is also a great deal of co.nfort to the fact that there will be a family recon struction in abetter place. From Scotland or Englander Ireland, a ohildonaigxatos.to America. , Ibis WWthaM pnrttogt hutbe, nainaa. after ayhite wrtfciny homo w to whata good land it is. Another brother comes, a sister comes, and another, and after awhile the mother oomea, and after awhile the father comeai and nowtiwy are all here, and they have a time of great congratulation and a vegy pleasant re union. WeU, it is jwt «o wyjaagur fam ilies. They are emigx»tipg,toy r “«l_* ter land. Now one goes out. Off, now J hard it is to part with him 1 Another goes. Oh, how hard it ta toport with-berl And another and: another, And we ourselves will after awhile go over, and then we will be together. Oh, what a reunion! Do you believe that? “Yes,” you say. Oh, you dbnot! You do net belisve it as you ber lievo other things. If you do, and with the same emphasis, why it would take nine tenths of your trouble off your heart. The fact Is heaven to many of us is a great fog. It is away off somewhere, filled with an uncertain and indefinite population. That is the kind of heaven that many of us dream about, but it iq the most tremen dous fact in all this universe—this heaven of the gospel. Our departed fiends , are not afloat The residence in which you live is not so real as the residence in wMch they stay. You are afloat—you who do not know in the morning what will hap pen before night They are housed and safe forever. Do not therefore pity your departed friends who have died in Christ. They do not need any of your You might as well ecnd\& letter ol condolence to Queen Victoria op her obscurity qri to the Rothschilds on their poverty as to pity of those who are departed: "Poor child!” “Poor father!” “Pocr’ motfaerl” They are not poor. You are poor, yoq whose homes have been shattered, not they. You do not dwell much with your families in this world. All day long you are off to business. Will it not be pleasant when you can be together all the while? If you have had four children and quo is g<me, and anybody askshow many children you have, do not be so infidel as to say three. Say four—one in Do not think that the grave is unfriendly. You gq into your room and dress for some grand enter tainment, and you come forth beautifully appareled, and the grave is only the place where we go to dress for the glorious VPB urrection, and wo will come out radiant, .mortality having become immortality. Oh, how much condolence there Is to this thought I I expect to see kindred in heaven—l expect to see them just as cer tainly as I expect to go homp today. Aye, I shall more certainly see them. Eight or ten will come, up from the graveyard back of Somerville, and one will cd&e from the mountains baek of Amoy, China, and an other will come up from the sqa off Cape Hatteras, an* 30 Will come up from Green wood, and I shall know them better than I ever knew them here. . And your friends—they may be across the sea, but the trumpet that sounds here will sound there. You will come upon just the same day. Some morning you 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 I must be up and away.” So you will open your eyes on the morning at the res urrection in the full Maze of God’s light, and you will say, “I must be up and away.” Oh, yes, you will come up, and there will be a reunion, a reconstruction of your family! I like what Haliburton (I think it was)—good old Mr. Haliburton— said in hi« last momenta, “I thank God that I over lived, and tfiM I have a father in heaven, and a mother in heaven, and brothers in heaven, and sisters to heaven, and I am now going up to see them. ” I remark onqe more: Our troubles to this world are preparative for glory. What a transition it was*for Paul—from the "> 11 ’ e MaW ’ " w ’ ittoto far Letimer—from toe stake to a art Hato—ftom insanity to glory L What a teotn the dropsy to the “Saint’s Everlast tog Baatt',’ And what a transition it Will fer you-—upm a world of sorrow to a Holland, When he was to t&£m? ‘ Vito’’.tornhave not ■ MM*iff toirtln said be, ‘ Welcome hrnvyn l " The H<rhf alreadv beaming upon hia pillow. Oh, ye who are persecuted in this world, your enemies wiU gtf off ,thS tafototfter awtolemf a» will nrS » a take there- One breath of the etamal hilla will thrill you with immortal vigor. And yeertoeatotatusomenow. There win lx. a millton spirits toewetaotae yeti into theh ©h, .ye bereft souls! There wIIJ bq qo gravedigger’s spade that Will cleave the side of t hat hill, and there will be ne db«» wailing from tort The river,e< Go*, tosp as the joy of heaven, ; wiM roU on brtwqm bsnke odorous with balm, and over depths bright with jeweb, and under skies roseate with gladnees, t argQfliM <j£ ffnlng down the Mmaki to stroke oX qbt and the song of angels! Not one sigh to the wind; not ceML-toar mingling with the waters. everybody Says So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won derful, medical discovery of the age, pleas ant and refreshing to titejaste, act gently and positively on kidneys, Byer and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousaeM. Please buy and' try < box ■atC.C. C. to-day; JO, 25, M) cents. Bold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. ANNOUNCEMENTS. TorOonnty Surveyor, I hereby announce myself a candidate or County Surveyor, of Spalding county, subject to the democratic primary of June 23r0. A. B. IvELL. Tor County Oonsdadonor. Editor CxxX: Please announce that I am a candidate for re-election for County Commissioner, subject to the action of the democratic primary, and will be glad to have the support ot all the voters. J. A. J. TIDWELL. «■■■■■■» At the solicitation of many voters I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner, subject to the dem ocratic primary. If elected, I pledge my self to an bouest, business-like administra- 1 hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner, subject to the democratic primary to be held June 28, next If elected, I pledge myself to eco nomical and business methods in conduct ing the affairs ot the county. W.J. FUTRAL. I hereby announce myself a candidate lor County- Commissioner of Spalding county, subject to the Democratic primary June 23d.. W b W. CHAMPION. To the Voters pf Spalding County: hereby announoe'myaelf a candidate for re-election to the ofAceofCountyCommis sioner of Spalding county, subject to the democratic pytasery to be held on June 28, iB “ y pledg ® imitbiciloess. / D. L. PATRICK. Tor 3topreMUtatiye. To the Voters oi Spalding County: I. am a candidate for Representative to the legislature, subject to t£e primary ot the democratic party, and Will appreciate your support. J. PI HAMMOND. Editor Call -. Please announce my name as a candidate for Representative from Spalding county, subject to the action to to receive the support oi all the voters And if elected wIU Mdsevor to toprtaent the interests of the whole county. J. B. Bell. Tor Tax OoUootor- =1 respectfully announce to the citizens of Spalding county that I am a candidate for re-election to the office of Tax Collec tor of this county, subject to the choice pi the democratic primary, and shall be grateful for all votes given me. T. R. NUTT. For County Troaauror. To the Voters of Spalding County: I respectfully announce myself a candidate for election for toe office of County Treas urer, subject to the democratic primary, and if dected promise to attend faithfully to the performance of the duties of the office, and will appreciate the support o. my friends. ’ W. P. HORNE. To the Voters of Spalding County: I announce myaelf a candidate for re-elec tion for top office of County Treasurer, subject to democratic primary, and Select ed promise to be as faithful in the per forXianoeofmy dutiesin the fatubeasl have Wt to toe part. J. C. BROOKS. Tor Tax leodvar. Editor QamiL PleM* announce to the voters of. Spalding county that lam a can didate for toe office of Tax Receiver, sub jeet to the Democratic primary of June 23rd,"And naipectfiilly ask the support oi . ■I respectfully announce myself as a can didate for re-dect ion to the office of Tax Receiver of Spalding county .subject to the Tor Sheriff. 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