The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-29
The Tend rness, Love, FOrbear
ance OF the Creator TO
the Creature.
"As One Whom His Mother ComfOrteth,
SO VIII 1 Comfort You"
As . Little Child He Loves. Looks After
and Leads zach One-Dr. faimage's
sunday Talk to His Brooklyn
Congregation.

BRooKLYS, March 22.-After al absence
OF two weeks, during which time he spoke in
soue thirteen cities OF the West. Dr.. Talmsee
returned to his pulpit in the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle to day. Before the sermoa he ex.
pounded some consolatory passsgss Of Scrip
ture. The opening hymn was:
..Come. ye disc onsolate. where'er You lauguish,
Come TO the mercy seat; fervently kneel."
The subject of the sermon was: The
mother of MS all" and the text was fron
Isaiah xvi, 81: AS one whom bis mother
comforteth, so will comfort you" DIR.
Talmage said:
The Bible is a warm letter of sffe otion
from a parent to q child, and yet there are
many who see chiefly the ssverer passages.
As there may be fifty or sixty nights.p Of gen
tie dew in one summer that will not cause az
much remark as one hail storm of half an
hour, 30 there are those who are more struck
by those passages of the Bible that announce
the indignation of God than by those that
His affection. There may come
to . household twenty or fifty letters of af
lection during the year, and they will not
make as much excitement in that home as
one sherif's writ, and 90 there are people
who are more attentive to those passages
which the wrath of God han to
those which announce His mercy ana His
favor. God is q lion, John says In the Book
OF Revelation. God is q breaker. Micah al
nounces IN his prophecy. God is a
rock, God is q king but hear also
that God is Love. A father and his
child are walking out in the
fields on o summers day, and there c,mes
mp . thunder storm. and there isa flesh Of
lightning that ~stsrtles the child, and the
father says: my dear, that is Gods eye"
There comes q peal of thunder, and the fs
ther says: my dear. that is Gods voice."
But the clouds go of the sky and the storm
IL gone, and the light floods the heavens and
floods the landscape. and the father forgets
tosay: That is Gods smile" The text
bends with great gentleness ard love over
oil who are PROSTATE in sin and trouble. II
lifts up with compassion. 1t meIts with
tenderness 1t breathes upon us the hush
of an eternal lullaby. for it announces that
God sis or mother. AS one whom his
mother comforteth so will comfort you"
remark In the first place that God has
n ES . bihfL1Ili1
of instruction. A fatne does not know how
TO teach q child the A, B.. @. Men are not
skilled in the primary department. but q
mother has so much patience that she will
tell O child fer the huudredth time the diff
ference between + and G and aud ]. Some
times IL ia by blocks; sometimes by tie
worsted- work sometimes By the slate; some
times by the book. She thus teaches the
child AID has no sxk wsrdness of condescen-
sion In go doing So God, our mother, s'ooIs|
do wnsto our infantile minds. Though We
are told q thipg q thousand times and ~e do
not understand IL, our heavenly mother
goes on, line upon line, precept upon pre-
cspt, here q little and there a little. God
has been teaching 20 ne u Us thirty years
and some OF Us sixty years one word OF one
syllable, and We do dot know IL yet
faith. faith. When we come to that word
We stumble. we halt, We lose our place, We
pronounce 1t wrong. Still Geds patience is
not exhausted. God, our mother, puts ne
IN the school of prosperity. and the letters
are in sunshine and we can not spell them
God puts as in the school OF q adversely, aud
the letters are black and we can not spell
them. II God were merely q King. he would
punish rs; If he were simply q father, he
would who us; but God is a mother. and 30
We are borne with and helped ali the way
through
A mother teaches her child chiefly by pic
lures. If she wants to set forth TO her child
the hideoasness OF a quarreisome spirlt in
stead of giviog q lecture upon that subject
she turns over o leaf and shows the chi d
two boy in q wTa1gle and says: Does not
that look horriole?' IL she wants to teach
her child the awfulness of war she turns
over the picture book and shows the war
charger, the hea Hess trunks OF butchered
meE, the wild. agononizIng. btooshot eye OF
battle rolling under lids of 1sme, and she
says: THAT Is war;" The child understands
aL h hat DaR< -
the pictures. The style may De insipid. the
type poor, but q picture always sttrsc's a
child's attention. Now God. our mother,
teaches Us almost everything by pictures
Is the divine goodness to be set forth? How
does God our mother reach us? BE- IN au-
tumnal picture. The barns are full. The
wheat stacks are rounded. The cattle are
chewing the cud lazily in the sun. The or
chards are dropping the ripe pippir 9 into the
lap of the farmer The natuarl wori q. that
has been busy oil Summer, seems now 10
be resting in great abundance. We
Gro vines, the year with Thy goodness.
and Thy paths drop fatness.' Oar
family cones aro1nd the breakfast Ia
bic. II has been q very cold night, but the
children are al bright. because they Gle ri
upper thick coverlids, and they are nov IN
the warm blast OF the open register, at q
their arpetites make Injuries out 81 tn.
III eAt 49, ~
say: Bless the Lord. oh. my soul!'
God wishes 10 sst I rth the fact that in th'
JUDGMENT the good will he divided from tn
wicked. How is il done? By q picture. b,
. parade dshipg scene. A group of hard!
men, long bearded. geAred for standing 1
the waist IN water: sleeves rolled up Lons
car sun-gil-, boat battered as though il ha,
been . play mate Of the storm. A full ne;
humping about with the fish, which bav
Just discovered their captivity. the WORTHLESS
moss ounke,s and the USEFUL founders all IL
the same net The fisherman puts mis- ham
down amid the squirming ins. takes out th
moss bupkefs and throws them into I'd
water, and gathers the good 6sh into th
pail. So. says Christ. IL will be at the end {
the world. The bad He Will cast sway IN
the good he will keep Another picture.
GOD. oCs Z
wanted TO Ut forth The duty ct nsiehbozl