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Show TEARS. "Say what remains when hope is fled f She answered, ''Endless weeping." Tears indicate either physical pain, or mental sorrow, and unless they should be the result of a sudden outburst of passion, they invariably appeal to the sympathies of the heart. That is a natural foiling which is irresistible. They indicate physical pain. The infant in-fant in its cradle, unable to make known its pain, tells plainly of some secret trouble, by his tears which appeal more forcibly than words to the loving lov-ing and tender heart of the mother. If we ascend the ladder of humanity, in its varied and diversified forms, to manhood and old ape, the effects of tears shed will be more striking. The tears of a strong minded man innured to hardship, who knows not what danger is, and have risked his life in the i battle field, or the copious tears of old ige visibly vis-ibly affect those who witness them. To such the poet referred when he wrote: "Speak not of tears till you have seen the tears of warlike men." Ap- plying this law of natural instinct how measure i the gravity of the cause which overpowered Christ I when "seeing the city he wept over it." and what I effect should not these tears have upon humanity J who wrung from his sacred heart the tears that I indicated his inward sorrow. I lis mission was one I of love and mercy. From the broad expanse of his I lovfng heart no one was excluded. . All, saint and J sinner, he invited to share in the work of redemp- I tion. Because man refused to accept his invita- tion he wept. "If thou also hadst known," he said, I '"and that in this thy day, the things that are for thy ponce; but now they are hidden from thine eyes." I In this sorrowful farewell address to the inhabitants inhabi-tants of Jerusalem he intimates that their ingratitude ingrat-itude and obduracy were the cause of the tears shed on that occasion. They were not confined to Jerusalem and its inhabitants but extended to all the inhabitants of the earth and for all time. All. who refuse his invitation to the marriage feast, are included in that doleful lamentation, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killcst the prophets, proph-ets, end stonest them that are sent unto thee, how I often would I have gathered together thy children, i j as iho hen doth gather her chickens under her I wings, and thou wouldest not." The spirit of in- ! toJleranoc and persecution which were characteris tic of the past, is, in our age and country, supplanted sup-planted by that of indifference to religion a denial 4 of Christian ethics and future rewards and pun- '. ishment. God speaks to every soul, sometimes ihrough affliction, at olher times through death, and again through remorse of conscience. Like Jerusalem each soul lias its visitation and last call. On the use made of the last call of grace hp.v.m all hopes of future bliss. |