The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-01
PULPIT UTTERANCEs.
Tho Scriptures Full of the Message
of Love; =.
But Many Note Moro the Few Passages
Announcing the Wrath OF God Than
the Many ProclaiminG His Good.
ness and Mercy.

iFrom Recent Sermon by Rev. T. De VIII
Tamage, d. d.
! The subject OF the sermon was "The
Mother Of Us ALL" and the text was from
Isaiah Xvi, 80: "As one whom his mother
oomforteth, SO will comfort you." DR..
Talmage said; GH.tf.t. f.t..
The Bible is a warm letter Of affection
from parent to child, and yet there are
many who see chiefly the severer passages,
As there may be fifty or sixty nights Of
gentle dew in one summer that will not
cause as much remark as one hail storm 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 to household twenty or
fifty letters OF affection during the year,
and they will not make as much excite
ment in that house as one Sheriff's writ;
and so there are people who are more at
tentive to those passages which announce
the wrath of God than those which an
nounce His mercy and bis favor God is
Lion, John says in the Book Of Revela-
tion, God is Breaker. Micah announces
in his prophecy, God is Rock. God is
King. But hear also that God is Love.
father and his child are walking out in the
fields on summers day, and there comes
up thunder storm, and there is fash OF
lightning that startlos the child, and the
father says: "My dear, that is Gods eye."
There comes a peal OF thunder, and the
father says: "My dear, that Is Gods
voice." But the clouds go of the sky, and
She storm is gone, and light foods the
heavens and foods the landscape, and the
father forgets to say: "That is Gods SMILE"
The text bends with great gentleness and
love over all who are PROSTATE In sin and
trouble. It lights up with compassion; 1t
melts with tenderness; 1t breathes upon US
the hush Of an eternal lullaby for 1t an
nounces that God is our mother. "As one
whom his mother comforteth, 80 will !
comfort you"
Iremark, in the first place, that God has
. mothers simplicity Of instruction. A
father does not know how TO teach child
the A B G. Men are not skillful in the
primary department; but mother has so
much patience that she will tell child for
the hundredth time the difference between
r and g, and between and J. Sometimes
1t is by blocks; sometimes by worsted
work; sometimes by the slate; sometimes
by the book She thus teaches the child,
and has no awkwardness or condescension
In so doing. So God, our mother, stoops
down to our infantile minds. Though we
Are told thing thousand times, and we
10 not undertand it, our Heavenly mother
yoes on, line upon line, precept upon pre-
cept, here O little and there little. God
aas been teaching some Of us thirty years,
and some of us sixty years, one word OF
one syllable, and we do not know ityet-
faith. When we come TO that word we
stumble, we halt, We lose our place, VIC
pronounce IL wrong. Still, Gods patience
Is not exhausted. God, our mother, put;
rs In the school OF prosperity and the let
bers are in sunshine and we can not spell
them. God puts us in the school Of ad-
Tersity and the letters are black, and we
can not spell them. II God were merely a
King He would punish us; II He were
simply a father He would whip US, but
God Is q mother, and SO we are borne with
and helped all the way through.
A mother teaches her child chiefly by
pictures. II she vents 10 set forth to hel
child the hideousness OF q quarrelsomC
spirit, instead Of giving lecture upon thai
subject she turns over leaf and shows The
child two boys in q wrangle and says
"Does not that look horriblep II she
wants to teach her child the awfulness o.
war, she turns over the picture-book anC
shows tho war charger, the headlesi
trunks Of butchered men, the wild, agoniz
ing, bloodshot eye Of battle rolling undei
dds Of fame, as she says; THAT Is war
The child understands IL. Now God, oul
mother, teaches US almost everything by
pictures. Is the Divine goodness 10 be Sc
forth, how does God, our mother, teach US
By an autumnAl picture. Tho barns ar
full. The wheat stacks arc rounded. Tn
cattle are chewing the cud lazily In tn
sun. The orchards are dropping the rip
pippins into the lap Of the farmer. tn
natural world that has been busy all sum
mer seems now 10 be resting in grea
abundance. We look at tho picture an
say: "Thou crownest the year with TIL.
roodness, and Thy paths drop fatness."
God wishes 10 set forth the fact that 4
the Judgment the good will be divide
trom tho wicked. How Is it donef By
picture; by parable-a fishing scene.
group of hardy men, long bearded, geare
for standing to the waist In water; sleeve
rolled up; long oars sun gilt; boat battere
a though II had been . playmate OF th
storm; full net humping about with th
fsh, which have Just discovered the
captivity; the worthless moss-bunkei
and the useful founders all in the san
oct. The fisherman puts his hand dow
amid the squirming fms, takes out u
moss -bunkers and throws them into th
water, and gathers the good FISH into Il
pail. So, says Christ, II shall DO at Il
end OF the world. The bad He will ca
away and the good He will keep. Anoth'
f.. picture; IF
, God, our mother, wanted 10 set forth u
duty ofIneighborly love, and II is done B
. picture.
A traveller has been fighting . robbie
(, The robber stabbed him and knocked hi
- down. Two ministers come along. The
look at tho poor fellow, but do not he
him. A traveller comes along-a Samaiita
He disnounts. Ee examines the wound
he takes out some wine and with II wash
3 I, the wounds, aud then he takes someo oil al
puts that IN TO make the wounds st'
smarting; and thon he tears of piece
his own garment for bandage. Then
helpa tho wounded man upon the beast al