The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-06-04
PULPIT UTTERANCES.
The Scriptures Fun OF the Message
or Love;
nat Many note More tho Few Passages
Announcing tho wrath Of God THAI
the Many ProolAiming Ills Good
ness and Mercy.



fFrom Recent Sermon BY Rev T. Do via
TAImage, ID. Dl
The subject of tho sermon was Tho
Mother OF Us All, >" and the text was from
Isaiah Xvi, 33: "As one whom bis mother
comforteth, so will ! comfort you" Dr.
Taimage said;
The Bible 10 a warm letter OF Affection
from parent TO child, and yet thors arc
many who see chiefly the severer passages.
40 there may be fifty or sixty nights Of
gontlo dow In one summer that viii mot
oAuse as much remark 40 ono hail-utorm Of
half an hour, so there are those who are
more struck by those passages OF the Bible
that announce the indignation Of God than
by those that announce His affection.
There may come 10 household twenty or
1fty letters Of affection during the year,
and they will not make as much excite-
ment In that house as one sherIif's writ
and so there are people who are more at
tentiye 10 those passages which announce
the wrath of God than those which an
nounce His mercy and His favor God 10
. Lion, John says In the Book OF Rovela'
uon, God Is q Breaker. Micah announces
in his prophecy, God Ia a Rock. God Ia 0
King. But hear also that God 10 Love. A
father and his child are walking out In the
fields on summers day, and thore conner
up thunder storm, and there ia haah OF
lightning that startles tho child, and the
father says; "My dear, that is dod's oye."
There comes peal OF thunder, and tho
father saysi "My dear, that is Gods
voice." But the clouds 90 Off the sky, and
the storm Is gone, and light foods the
heavens and foods the landscape, and the
father forgets to say; "That iS Gods smile"
Tho text bonds with great gentleneSs and
love over all who are PROSTATE In sin and
trouble. II lights up with compassionj II
melts with tendernessj II breathos upon US
the hush OF an eternal lullaby for II an
nounceS that God 10 our mother. "Aa one
whom his mother comforteth, so will I
comfort you."
fremark, In the frat place, that God has
. mothers simplicity OF instruction. A
father does not know how TO teach child
the A b @. Men are not sklllful In tho
primary Department. but mother has 90
much patience that she will tell child for
the hundrodth time the difference between
II and q, and between | and J. Sometimes
II 10 by blocks; sometimes by worsted
work; sometimes by the slate; sometimes
by the book. She thus teaches the child,
and has no awltwardnes or condescenslon
In 10 doing. so God, our mother, stoops
down 10 our infantllo minds Though wo
are told a thing thousand times, and We
do not undertand II, our Heavenly mother
goes on, line upon line, procopt upon pre-.
cept, hore little and there little. God
has been teaching some OF US thirty years,
and Somo OF us sixty years, ono word OF
one syllable, and wo do not know hyet--
f-a.i-t-h. When we come 10 thatword wo
stumble, we halt, we lose our place, wo
pronounce II wrong, stll, Gods patience
IL not exhausted. God, our mother, puts
ua in tho school OF prosperity and the let
ters are In sunshine and we can not spoil
thom. God puts us In tho school OF nd
vorsity and tho letters are black, and wo
can not spell them. IfGod were merely
King He would punish us; II Ho woro
simply y father Ho would whip us, but
God Ia mother, and 10 we are borne with
and helped all tho way through.
A mother teaches her child chiefly by
pictures. II she wants 10 sot forth 10 her
child tho hideousneBa Of = quarrolsome
spirit, instead OF giving lecture upon that
subject she turns over leaf and shows tho
child two boys In wranglo and says,
"poos not that look horribleW II she
wants 10 teach hor child tho awfplnoss OF
war, she turns over tho picture.book and
shows Tho war charger, tho hoadlosh
trunks OF butchored men, the wild, agoniz-
iug, bloodshot oyo Of battle rolling under
lids Of namo, az she saybi "That is warp
The child understands H. Now God, our
mother, teaches up almost everything by
pictures. 10 the Divine goodness TO be set
forth, how docs God, our mother, toach usi
by an autumnal picture Tho barns arc
full. Tho whoat.staokp are rounded. Tho
cattls are chewing the cud laglly In tho
sun. Tho orchards arc dropping the rpo
pippinr into the lap OF tho farmer. Tho
natural world that has been busy all sum.
mer socms now 70 be resting In great
abundance. We look Al tho picture and
eayi "Thou crownoSt the year with Thy
goodneuu, aud Thy paths drop fatnoas.D
God wishes 10 not forth tho fact that In
The Judgment the good viii 10 divided
from Tho wicked, How In 10 dono2 by
picture; by n PARALLELS fishing scene. A
group NJ hardy mon, long g-bsarjed, goarod
for standing 10 the waist In watOr; sleeves
rolled up long oars sun-gilt, boat battered
as though II had beon q playmate OF the
ptormi full net humping about with the
nah, which have just discovered their
captivity, tho worthless mosa-bunkors
and tho useful founders all In tho Same
not The fisherman puts his hand down
amid the SquirmIng ilnS, takes out tho
moss.bunkers and throws thom Into Tho
water, and gathers tho good fish into the
pail. 10, says Christ, II shall bo Nd tho
end OF tho world, Tho bad Hs viii cast
away and the good nowlll koop, Another
pictures
God, our mother, wanted 10 aet forth ths
duty ofiaoighborly love, aud " 10 done by
y picture.
A traveller has been fighting . robbor.
The robbw stabbed him aud knocked him
down. Two ministers come along. They
lock AZ The poor follow, but do NOT help
hin. A traveller comes along-a Samaritan.
He dlsmounts. He examines the wounds;
he takea Out somo vino aud with II washes
the wounds, and then he takes some oil aud
puts that In 70 mako tho wounds stop
smarting, and then he tears on pieoo OF
his ows garment for bsndago Then ho
helps the wounded man upon the beast and
walks by tho side, holding him on till they
como W tavern. He psys 70 the land.
lordi Hero IL money 10 pay the mans
board for two days, take care OF him, ifab
coHts any thing more, charge 10 70 me and
I will pay H." ploturei The Good samar-
iiau, or Who's Your Neighborf
Does uod, our mother, want 10 pet forth