Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-23

the right, and how glad divine mercy
take back the wanderer2 How is it donef
BY picture, a good father, large farm
with fat sheep and oxen, @ fine house with
exquisite wardrobe, discontented boy goes
away, sharpers fleece him, feeds hogs gets
homesick, starts back, sees an old man
running, it is father, the hand torn OF the
busks, gets q ring, the foot in6amed and
bleeding get q sandal. The bare shoulders
showing through the tatters gets robe.
The stomach, gnawing itself with hunger
get full platter smoking with meat. The
father cannot eat for looking at the re-
turned adventurer. Tears running down
the face until they come to q smiie-tne
night dew melting into the morning. NO
work on the farm that day; for when bad
boy repents and comes back, promising to
do better, God knows that is enough Tor one
day. "Aud they began to be merry.
Picture-Prodigal son returned from the
wilderness.
So God, our mother, teaches US every
thing BY pictures. The sinner is lost
sheep. Jesus is the Bridegroom. The use
less man a barren 6g-tree. The Gospel Is
a great supper. Satan a sower OF tares.
Truth a mustard seed. That which We
could not have understood in the abstract
statement God, our mother, presents to as
in this Bible album of pictures God en-
graved. Is not the divine Maternity ever
thus teaching us2
/ remark again that
God Has Mothers Fayoritism.
A father sometimes shows tavoritlsm.
Here is boy-strong we'll, of high lore
head and quick intellect. The father says
Il will take that boy into my firm yet; or
81 will give him the very best possible edu-
cation" There are instances where, for
the culture of the one boy, all the others
have been robbed A sad favoritsm; but
that is not the mothers favorite. Twill tell
YOU her favorite. There is child who at
two years of age had fall. He has never
got over it. The scarlet fever mutfied his
hearing. He is not what he once was.
That child has caused the mother more
anxious nights than all the other children.
The last thing she does when going out OF
the house is to give charge in regard to
him. The first thing on coming IN IS to
ask in regard to him. Why, the children
of the family all know that he is favorlte
and say, mother, you let him do just as he
may, and you give him great many things
which you do not give us. He is your ia
yori,e. The mother smiles; she knows 1t Is
20; so be ought to be; for if there is any
one in this world who needs sympathy more
than another, 1t is an invalid child, weary
in tie first mile of life's journey; carrying
an aching head, weak side, an irrltated
limb so the mother ought to make him a
favorite. God, our Mother, has favorltes,
Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth. That
is, one whom He especially loves, He chas-
teneih. God loves US all but is there one
weak, sick, and sore, and wounded and suf-
tering, and faint2 That is the one who lies
nearest and more particularly on the great,
loving heart Of God Why, it never coughs
out our Mother God hears it. There is no
such watcher as God. The best nurse
nav be oyerborne by fatigue, or fall asleep
| in the chair; but God, our Mother after be-
ing up a year of nights with suffering
child, never slumbers nor sleeps.
"Oh," says one, Il can not understand all
that about afiliction > A refuer OF silver
once explained it to Christian lady. II
put the silver in the fire, and keep refining
| it and irving 1t till can see my face in it,
and then take it out" Just so it is that
God keeps His dear children in the furnace
| till the divine image may be seen in them;
then they are taken out of the fire. "Well,
saws some one, ''if that is the way that God
treats His favorites | do not want to be a
favcrite. There is barren field on an au,
tumu dsy Just wanting to be let alone. There
is barn at the bars, and rattle OF while
trees and clevices The field says:
"Wbat is the farmer going to
with me now?' The farmer puts
the pow in the ground shouts
to the horses, the coulter goes tearing
through the sod and the furrow reaches
from fence to fence. Next day there is q
bang at the bars and a rattle Of whitfle tree:
again. The field says: II wonder what the
farmer is going to do now" The farmer
bitches the horses to the harrow and it goes
bounding and tearing across the field. Next
day there is a rattle at the bars again and
the field says: "Whst is the farmer going tc
do now" He walks heavily across the
field, scattering seed as he walks. After a
while a cloud comes The field says
What, more trouble' 1t begins 10 rain
After a while the wind changes to the north
east and it begins to snow. Says the field
rs it not enough that have been torn and
trampled upon and drowned2 Must now
be showed under?' After while spring
comes out of the gates of the South and
warmth and gladness come with it. A greer
scarf bandsges the cash Of the wheat FIELD
and the July morning drops a crown o.
gold on the head Of the grain. "Oh," say
the field, now / know the use Of the plow
of the barrow, of the heavy foot, of thu
Ghower and of the snow storm. 1t is vel
| enough to be troddened and trampled ant
drGvned and showed under if.iu the end
can v;e,,IS such q glorious harvest" HI
that poeth forth and weepeth, bearing
nrecio1s seeds, sSSsll doubtless come sgair
With rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
him.
When see God especially busy il
troubling and trying Christian, | know
that out of that Christians character there i:
to come
Some Especial Good.
A quarryman goes down into the excava
ton and with strong-handed machinery
bores into the rock. The rock says: What
do you do that for?'' He puts powder in
he lights a fuse. There is laundering
crash. The rock says why, the whole
mountain Is going to pieces" The crow
bar is plunged; the rock is dragged out
After while it is taken into the artist
studio. 1t says: We'll, now have got to a
good, warm, comfortable place at last.
But the sculptor takes the chisel and mallet
and he digs for the eyes and he cuts fol
the mouth and he bores for the ear and he
rubs it with sand paper, until the rock says
When will this torture be endedT' A sheet
is thrown over it. 1t stands in darkness
After while it Is taken out. The covering
is removed 1t stands in the sunlight il
the presence OF ten thousand spplaudine
people as they greet the statue Of the poe
or the prince or the conquerer. "Ah,' says
the stone, nov ! understand it. am 6
great deal better of now standing as {
statue Of coneuerer than / would have
been down in the quarry" So God finds {