As you come down the Old and the New Testaments you will be astonished and encouraged to find how prevailing a fountain of tears always is with God.

David with his swimming bed; Jeremiah with his head waters; Mary Magdalene over His feet with her welling eyes; Peter's bitter cry all his life long as often as he heard a cock crow, and so on.

So on through a multitude whose names are written in heaven, and who went up to heaven all the way with inconsolable sorrow because of their sins.

They took words and turned to the Lord; but,--better than the best words,--they took tears, or rather, their tears took them.

The best words, the words that the Holy Ghost Himself teacheth, if they are without tears, will avail nothing.