The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-29

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times in the darkness. Bat after a shile TIT
mantle OF sffiiction will fall of and his sou
will be greeted by the one hundred aud forty
four thousand rnd the thousands Of thou
sands as more than ~conoueror. U. my
friends. God, our mother, is us as kind IN
our Affections as In our properties. God
never touches us but for our good. IL q
field clean and cultured Is better of than q
barren field, IL q stone that has be
come q statue lie better of than q marble 10
the quarry, then that soul that God chastens
may be his favorite. Oh, the rocking of the
soul is not the rocking of IN earthquake,
bat the rocking of Gods cradle. "As one
whom his mother comtorteth so he will CON-
fort you" / have been told that the pearl
in an oyster is merely the result of q wound
or q sickness inflicted upon it. and | do not
will be found 10 have been the wounds OF
earth kindIed into the jeweled brightness OF
eternal glory.
| remark that God has q mothers capacity
far attending to little hurts. The father Is
shocked al the broken bone of the child, or
ut the sickness that sets the cradle on fire
with fesvsr, but 1t taxes the mother to sym.
pathizs with all the little ailments and little
bruises of the child. IL the child have q
splinter in the hand, it wants the mother to
take ID out and not the father. The father
says, 'Oh, that Is nothing" but the mother
knows il IL something and that O little hurt
sometimes Is o very great hurt So with God,
our mother, oil our annoyances are import
ant enough to look at and sy Elpathize with
Nothing with Coz is something. There are
no ciphers In Gods arithmetic. And IL We
were only good enough of sight We could see
as much through the microscope as through
Q telescope. Those things that may be inn.
palpeble and infnitesimal to us, may be pro
nounced and infinite to God. A mathemst
ical point 10 defined as having no parts. no
magnitude. 1t is so small you can not i'm
imagine IL and yet Q mathen atical point
may be O starting point for q great eternity
God surveyors carry Q very long chain. A
scale may be very delicate that can weigh q
grain, but Gods scale Is so delicate that he
can weigh with Ii that which IL so small
that O grain isa million times heavies. Whsn
John Kitto. Q poor.boy on q back street
of Plymouth, cut his foot with q piece If
glass, God bound 1t up so successfully that
he became the great Christian geographer,
and q commentator known among all Ia
tons. So every wound of the foul. however
Insignificant, God Is willing TO bind upi As
at the first cry of the child, the mother rusbes
10 kiss the wound; 90 God, our mother, takes
the smallest wound of the heart and presses
il to the lips Of divine 81 Or patny. AS one
whom his mother comfoItesn, 50 shall l com
fort you"
1 remark further, that God has a moth
er's
PATIENCE FOR THE ERRISG.
II one does wrong. first his associates In
way, his business partner casts him off; il be
goes on. his best friends cast hin otf-his
father casts him off But after all Others
have cast him him off, where does he go?
Who holds no grudge and forgives the last
time a. we'll as the first? Who sits by the
murderer's counse all through the long trisl?
Who tarries the longes. at The windows of q
calprit's cell? Who. when all others think
ill of q man, keeps on thinking well OF him?
1t is his mother. God bless her gray hairs,
if she be still alive; and bless her grave. if
she be gone? And bless the rocking chair in
which she used to sit, and bless The cradle
that she used 30 rock, aud bless the Bible she
used to read. So God. our mother. has pa
thence for all the erring. After every body
else has cast q man oH, God, our mother
comes to the rescue. God leaps to take
chsrge of . bad case. After all the
other doctors have got through, the
heavenly physician comes In. Human
sympathy at suc q time does not amount
to much. Even the sympathy of the church,
I am sorry to say, often does not amount TO
much. l have seen the most harsh and bit.
ter treatment on the part of those who pro.
fessed faith in Christ toward those who were
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wanderer sarcasm and billingsgate and car
feature, and they tried tittle-tattle. There
was one thing they did not try, and that
was forgiveness. A soldier in Enelaud was
brought by q sergesEt to the Colonel
What" says the Colonel. bringing the
man here again. We have tried ever vi hlDe
with him" 'Oh, no." says the Sergeant
there 10 one thing you have not tried. l
would like yeu to try that" What is
that?' said the Colonel. SAID the man, Fer
giveness." The case had not gone so far but
hat it might take that turn, aud so the
Colonel ssid: well. young map, you have
lone co and 30. What is your ~excuseP' Il
have no excuse, but l am very sorry" said
the man. We have made up our minds to
forgive you" said the Colonel. The tears
started. He had never been accostea in that
way before. His life wasreformed, and that
Was the starting point for a positively Chris
tan life. 0, church of G ID, quilt your SAL
C 4sm whsn . man falls! QUIT your irony,
quit your tittle-tattle and try forgiveness.
God. you mother, tries it all the time. A
mans sin may be like scontinent, but Gods
forgiveness is like the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans bounding it on both sides.
The Bible often talks about Gods hand.
wonder how 1t looks. You remember dis
tinctly o our mothers hand looked,
though thirty years ago it withered away.
Ii was different from your fathers hand.
When you had 20 De chastened you had
rather have mother punish you than father
1t did not hurt go much, and father
hand was different from mothers, partly
because 1t had outdoor toll, partly be
cause God intended it to be differ
ent. The knuckles were more
firmly set and the palm was cal
loused. But mothers hand was more deli
ca'e. There r'ere blue veins running through
the back OF il. Though the fingers, some o
them, we're pricked with q needle, the palm
OF 1t was very soft. Was there ever q poul
tice like that 10 take pain out of q wound
SO Gods hand is o mother hand. What i
touches it heals. IL it smite you ii does no
hurt - If it were another hand. Oh, 20,
poor. wandering soul in Sin. i. is not
bailif Q hand thst seizes you to-day. 1t I
not q hard hand. Its not an u~psympatheti
hand IL 10 not Q cold hand. 1t is not a.
enemy's hand. No, it is q gentle hand,
loving hand, . sympathetic hand, q sol
hand, o mothers hand. "As one whom hi
mother comforteth, 90 will / comfort you
want to say, finally, that God has
mothers way Of putting o child to SLEEP
You know there is no cradle song like
mothers. After the excilement of the ever
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