The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-06-22

H. hNDhEwH, OF PAW PAW. A. LEVI
Ae one whom his mother Or ..,,o lin
comfort you.--Isosoh, 60, - '"'o''S 80 WI"
ins scripture s.aro'. peer among thos
u.'erances o. the Eir'. 90 that seek to convey !,
S =. - .Aoa Of the Divine sympathy for tn
..nan family.
No one can comfort like mother eoldie
lies dying in one OF the hospitals Of the South
Word is sent to his home that II friends or
relatives wish to see him they must com
quickly. An unclo, a brother, a sister, and
many friends come He is pleased to sc al
these but one day, when the door OF the hos
pith opens and Mother enters the apartment
Of pain and dsath, and STOPPING, kisses the
pale lips Of her suffering boy, thrill OF com
fort heretofore inexperienced lights up the
gloomy apartment OF that soldiers heart, and
death 10 robbed Of much OF its terror. Mother
has come now
No love Is 80 constant and abiding as a
mothers love. The child can do no wrong that
the mother can not overlook. Over the childs
every transgression she throws the mantle OF
charity. A preacher IN Kentucky was once
called to VISIT a murderer in his cell. The
criminal was mere boy. Emerging from the
Jail the minister met the mother OF the boy.
She asked il he was the minister who had been
talking with her child. He replied in the affirm
alive. "Do you believe that my boy Is guilty."
she anxiously inquired. 81 rather not answer
that question" said the preacher. The woman
insisted that he should tell her the truth He
then said, Madame, have no doubt OF it for
he has just confessed it all to me-" The woman
stood for moment, pale as death, then the
tears filled her eyes and she looked up and said
Well, I suppose they will all be down on my
boy now, but Will LOVE HIM ANY Way" She
kept her word. She stood by the side of her
boy on the gallows, and when the minister
prayed God to have mercy on the youthful
criminal she Joined in pronouncing the "Amen'
in tone that was heard by all the bystanders.
That Is the consistency Of mothers love. II
stops not for prison walls but glides softly into
the damp, dark cell, where no ray OF sunlight
can gain admission, and speaks encouragingy
to the lost one: g | will love you any way
the words Of our text "As one whom his
mother comforts 80 will | comfort you"
This love Of God Is impartial IN its nantes
tation. All human love is limited in it's ex-
preston. The mother can love no other child
as we'll as her own. Ordinarily we think more
OF our native land than OF any other. But the
Divine love knows none OF these restrictions.
OF persons, but in every nation he that feareth
Him and worketh righteousness is accepted of
Him." The Divine love might be compared to
the shining Of the sun. The sun does not
shine for Paw Paw only, but for the county
1t does not shine for Van Buren, county only,
but for the state it does not shine for Michi-
gan only, but for the nation it does not shine
Tor America only, but for the world. Tue sun
n its shining needs none Of the boundary limos
hat nations have established. No grade of
society can boast of the suns especial light.
Rothschild may step out from his banking
at MONDAY, and looking up to
he sun say, "Suu, have you come all this far
% shine for me i'' " Yes,' replies the sun, "For
'ou." Away down on one Of the sugar planta-
tops for moment to rest his weary limbs
wipes the persperstion from his brow, looks up
o the same sun and says, "Sun, have you
ome all this far to shine for me ?" Yes
eplles the sun, :" for you" And away out in
be meadow little violet, nesting amid the |
all grass, opens its blue lips and looking up 10 |
he same sun Gays, "Sun, have you como all |
his far to shine for me ?" 20 Yes, replies the
un, :" for you" The grand old orb stands
har oapdipo fov IN to ~ lirrht al, %.
Webster in the senate, Digger Indian Of the
'lains, Rothschild Boosting OF his millions,
slave cringpg under the lash OF his master.
70 is the shining OF the natural sun, so ls the
Inning OF the Sun Of Righteousness. And
he Angel said unto them fear not, for behold
bring you glad tidipgs OF great JOY which
ball be to all people,"
Gods love can be thus impartial because he
ees merit where we do not. Hiram Powers,
yer there in Italy, sends for block of marble
he drayman brings il 10 his studio You or l
ould see no beauty in that rude, unseemly
lock- But Powers stands and looks at it in
snsely for some time, studies it carefully, and
xclaIms oh, yes see" His practiced eye
as discovered there the germ OF some beauti-
ngel lie takes pencil and hurrldy draws
rough outline, and a rude workman with
lallet and chisel is told to cut down to that
ne. Then Powers draws another line with
lore care than before, and more experienced
orkman told to clip off the marble down to
rat line Then line still finer is drawn and
more experienced workman is set at work At
st, Powers dismisses all the workmen and he ;
mself will finish the task thus begun. Deli
ltely he clips of little here and little there. {
0 carefully does he work the casual observer
Innot see that he is making any progress.
ut wait little, and you begin to see the fea-
Tres OF an gel,-here a wing, there another, 1
len the brow, until there stands for the adj
iratlon OF world the beautiful image that
IRAN Powers first saw in that block OF marble,
on or | could not have seen that images il 9
ok the eye Of a Powers to discover beauty : ,
mid apparent unseemhness. ALI, my friends,
we not look out upon society and cay of
any people, :" see nothing about them TO 6
lmire." But when God, the Divine sculptor, !
oks down from the throne, lie sees in every '
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