The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-06-04

Truth, mustard-seed, Thnt which we
could not have understood In the abstract
statement God, our mother, presents TO ~
In this Bible album of pictures God en'
graved. Ia not the Divine maternity ever
thus teaching usi
remark again that God has . mothers
favorttism. A father sometimes showss o
sort OF favoritism. Here 10 boy-strong,
well, OF high forehead and quick intellect.
The father says, ~ viii take that boy into
my firm yet;" or, ~ will give him the best
possible education.D There are instances
where, for the culture of the ono boy, all
the others have been robbed. Asad favor.
itism. But this is not the mothers favor.
Ito. will tell you her favorlto. There Il
q child who at two years OF ago had fall
He had never got over II. The scarlet fever
muiiied his hearing. He 10 not what he
once was, The child has caused the moth
or more anxious nights than all tho other
children. The last thing she does whom
going out Of tho house is to give charge
In regard TO him. The arst thing on com.
ing 10 10 ask In regard 10 him. Why, the
children OF the family oil know that he Ia
tho favorite, and says "hother, you Lei
him do just 40 he pleases, and you give
him great many things which you do not
give US. He Is your favorito." The moth
or smiles, She knows II IL so 80 he ought
TO be; for II there Is any one In tho world
who needs sympathy more than another 10
10 an invalid child, weary on the first mile
OF life's journey; carrying Gl aching
head, weak side, an irritated lung. 30
the mother ought TO mako him a favorlto.
God, our mother, has fayorites. Whom
tho Lord loyeth He chasteneth; that is,
one whom He especially loves ho chasten-
9th. God loves us all; but In there one
weak and sick, and sore and wounded aud
suffering and faint, that Is the ono who lies
nearest and moro peTpstually on tho great,
loving heart Of God. y
When see God especially busy In
troubling and trying Christian, know
that out Of that Christians character there
10 10 come somo especial good. A quarry
man goes down into the excavation, and
with strong -handed machinery bores Into
the rock. Tho rock Saysi "What do you
do that for" He puts powder In, no
lights a fuse. There 10 laundering
crash. The rock says "Why, the whole
mountain 10 going 10 pieces" The crow
bar is plunged, the rock is dragged out.
Aftor awhile II 10 taken into tho artists
studio. II says; "Woll, now have got to
q good, warm, comfortable place at last.n
But the sculptor takes the chisol and mall
let and he digs for tho eyes, and he cutS
for tho mouth, and no bores for the ears,
aud ho rubs II with sandpaper until the
rock says; "Whon will this torture be end
sdw A sheet ia thrown over H. ItStand0
In darkness. After awhile 10 10 taken out
The covering is removed. II stands In tho
sunlight In the presence Of ton thousand
applauding people as thoy greet the statue
OF the poet, or the Prince, or tho couquoror.
"Ab," says the stone, "now / understand
IL am great deal better of now,
standing as statue Of conqueror than
would have been down In tho quarry" 30
God ands q man down In the quarry Of lg-
noranco and sin. How TO got him upf He
must be bored and blasted and chiseled
and secured and stand sometimes In tho
darkness. But after awhile the mantle OF
afllletion win fall or, and his soul will bO
greeted by tho ono hundred and forty -four
thousand and the thousands OF thousands
as moro than conqueror. o, my friends,
God our mother, is just as kind In our AZ
nictions as In our properties. God never
touches US but for our good.
Iromark that God has mothers capa.
city for attending 10 little, hurts. The
father 10 shocked at the broken bono OF the
child or at tho sickness that sets the cradle
on FIRE with fever, but II takes the mother
10 sympathizo with all the little ailmontS
and all the llttlo bruises OF the child. II
tho child has splinter In its hand II wants
the mother 10 take II out, and not the
father. The father says "oh, that 10 MOTH
ingw but the mother knows ID 10 somo-
thing, aud that little hurt sometimes 10 =
very great hurt 10 with God, our mothers
All our annoyances are important enough
10 look at and sympathiEe with. Nothing
with God Ia something. There are no
ciphors In Gods arithmetic; and II ws
wore only good enough Of sight vo oouk
200 az much through q microscope
through q telescope. Those things N
may DO impAlpablo and innnitosslmai 10 N
may be pronounced and infinite 10 God.
remark further that God has o
mothers patience for the errinE, II one
does wrong, frst his associates In life cast
him OF. Tho goes on In tho wrong way,
his business partner cast him of. II ho
goes on, his best friends cast him ofr-hla
father casts him Of But after all othcrs
have cast him or, whore docs he goi Who
holds no grudgO and forgivoa tho last
tlno as we'll as the tlrstY Who sits by the
murdsrer's counsel all through tho long
trlalf Who tarnes the longeat Al the
windows OF q culp coll. Who, when
oil others thiuk IN OF a man, koeps on
thinking well OF himY II 10 his mother,
God bless her gray hairs, II she DO still
alivc and bless her grave II she bo goncl
And bloss tho rocklng-chair In which sho
used 10 slt, and bless the cradle that sho
usOd 10 rock, and bless tho Bible sho used
10 rcod 30 God, our mother, has patience
for all the erring. After everybody
else has cast man of, God, our
mothor, comes 10 tho rescue God
loaps 10 tako charge OF bad case.
After all the other doctors have 20,
through the Heavenly Physician comes In,
A mans sins may bo like continent, but
God's forgiveness 10 like the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, bounding II ON both sidcs
I want 70 say, finally, that God has I
mother's way OF putting child 10 nlcop
You know thcre 10 no cradle song like
mothm's Altar the excitement OF the
evening II Ia almost impossible 10 got The
child 10 plssp. II tho rocking. chair stop
moment, Tho eyes are wide open but we
mothers patience aud tho mothers sooth-
Ing manner keep on until, after q while,
tho angel Of slumbor puts his wing over
the pillow. Well, my dear brothers aud
hsters In Christ, the time will como when
We win bs wanting 70 bs put 10 slccp. Tho
day OF our life Will be done and the shad-
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