Danbury Times

From the Boston Recorder.

ALL TEARS WIPED AWAY.

They fall fast in this world. They are seen everywhere. There are so many causes for them, and in constant operation, that there is not a moment not marked by a tear.

We try to wipe them away. We struggle hard to prevent the eye from telling the sadness of the heart. Sometimes we do, for a while, seal up the fountain. But it is soon open again. Our strongest purpose will not prevent it.

Our friends try to wipe our tears away. Their words fall kindly on our ears. But sorrow is too deep for them. We thank them but still weep. Time tries to wipe our tears away. Many of them do disappear under his efforts. But he only poorly and partially accomplishes his work. Some new wave of trouble makes us mourn afresh. So it has ever been. All before us have known more or less of tears, till the eye was dim in death. All coming after us will also pay the tribute of their tears in testimony of the sorrows of human life.

But what a kingdom that, where there are no tears! "All tears shall be wiped away." It would be a glorious kingdom even if the work was not quite so complete. How happy would men count themselves if they were made to weep only once or twice in a life time! What a kingdom of this world that would be, only a few of whose inhabitants ever had sorrow enough to cause tears. But in the kingdom above the work is perfect. There shall not even be one weeper. There shall not be one tear.

It will not be in the power we may have over ourselves that shall cause our tears to cease—nor that of our friends over us—nor the laws of time shall do it. These agencies of relief have been tried and have failed. God shall wipe away all tears. This agency cannot fail. He can reach the deepest fountain of grief. The suffused eye is the sign of the soul in trouble. God will penetrate the soul itself with such influence as to make tears impossible. He will drive all the causes of sorrow out of it. As the last trace of sin is removed, then will be removed the grand agent of human woe. The fountain then is forever sealed.

What a sensation would be felt if it should be announced that in this world there should be no more tears. Men would lift themselves up, as if a heavy burden had been thrown off. They would shout to each other in exultation, and call on the floods to clap their hands. Why should they not rejoice that it shall be so in the kingdom above. And with far greater joy: as this world fades as a leaf, but that to come is everlasting.

All tears shall cease. The tears of pain—the tears of bereavement—the tears of remorse—the tears of despair: they are all wiped away. Go through all the heavenly realms and there shall not be found a tear. You will find millions that have wept; but the former things are passed away. Moses wept, and David, and Isaac, and Paul. Not a ransomed one of the myriads but once did weep. But the last tear has fallen!

Right views of that blessed world and deep meditation upon it, is suited to soothe our earthly sorrows, and chase away some at least of the tears that fall so fast now. God has revealed a tearless heaven to lighten, by the hope of it, the trials of mortality. Blessed is he who knows how to use aright so powerful and happy an agency.