The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-08

sesmsd sstisfed at the result. But the
mother's love never filtered. She begged
for reprlsye; but that was denied. Alter
the execution she cTaVed for the body J
and this also was refused, According toI
Custom, It was buried in the prison yard.
A little while afterwards the mother her
sell died but, before she was taken away,
she expressed a. desire 70 DO
buried by the side oil her, boy,
She was not ashamed Of being known
Us The mother OF q murderer,
The story Is told Of young woman in
Scotland, who left her home, and became
an outcast in Glasgow, Her mother
sought her far and vide, but In vain; At
last she caused her picture TO be hung
upon the walls Of the Midnight Mission
rooms, where abandoned women Tesorted,
MANY gave the picture passing glance,
Ooe fingered by the picture, 1t is the
same dear face that looked down upon
her in her childhood. She has not tor'
getter nor cast of her shining child, or
her picture would never have been hung
upon those walls. Tho lips seemed to
oven, and whisper, "Come homsi for
give You, and love you still" The poor
Sirl sank down overwhelmed with her
feelings, Size was the prodigal daughter
Tho sight OF her mothers face had broken
her heart, She became truly penitent Tor
her sins, and with q heart full Of sorrow
and shame, returned to her toTasken
home; and mother and daughter were
once more united.
THE SUPREME LOVE.
But let me tell you that no mothers
love ia to be compared with the love Of
God L does not measure the height or
depth Of Gods love. No mother
In This world ever loved her child as God
loves you aud me. Think oil the love
that God must have had when lie gave
His Son to die for the world, uEed 70
think q good deal more Of Christ than |
ala Of the Father, Somehow or other l
had the idea that God was sstern Judge !
that Christ came between me RnI 200,
and appeased the anger Of God. but after
| / became father, and for years had an
only son, as looked at my boy l thought
OF the Father giving His Son 10 diei and
| ii seemed TO me az ii II required more love
for the Father to give His Son than iot
the Son to die. Oh, the love that God
must have had for the world when He
gave His Son 10 die for II! "God so loved
the world, that he gave His only begotten
Son, that whoBosvsr belieVeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting
life" John Ill, l6), | have never
been able to preach from that
text, have often thought !
would; but it Is 90 nigh that ]
can never climb to its height have lust
quoted ii and passed on. Who can faith
ON the depth Of those woFdsi God 50
loved the worldW We can never scale
the heighls OF His love or iathom its
depths, Paul prayed that be might know
the height, the depth, the length, and the
Iresdth, Of the love Of God but 1t was
rAst his finding out. 1t "passeth knowl'
edge" (Eph. Iii: 10y.
Nothing speaks to us Of the love Of God
like the CROSS OF Christ. Come with me
| to Calvary, and look upon the Son Of God
az He hangs there. Can you hear that
piercing cry from His dying lips; "Father
forgive them; for they know not what
they dol" and say that he does not love
YOU? "Greater love hath no man than this
that a man lay down his life for his
friends" John XIV. lS). But Jesus Christ
| laid down His life for his enemies.
Another thought is this: He loved u
long before we ever thoughtoi Him. The
idea that He does not loVe 9s until We
first love Him Ia not to DO found In the
Scripture. In John ". TO- 1t Is written
"Herein is love, not that We loved
| God, but that He loved us, and sem
| His Son to be propltiation FOL
our sins" He loved US before we evel
thought Of loving Him. You loved YOU
children before they knew anything abou
your love. And so, long before we eYel
thought OF God, we were In His thoughts
What brought the prodgal home? Il
was the thought that his father loved him
suppose the news had reached him tina
he was cast OF, and that his igtheF die
not care for him any more, would ne haY'
gone haCk9 Neverl But the though
dawned upon him that big fstheF loYet
him still; so he rose up, and went back Il
! his home. Dear reader, the love Of th'
Father ought to bring US back to Him. l
was ADAMS calamity and sin that re
yesled Gods loye. Whom Adam fell Got
name down aud dealt IN mercy With him
| any Que ID lost II will not be becGusl
God does not love HIM II will DO because
he has resisted the love Of God.
TIE ATTRACTIONS OF HEAVEN.
What vii make Heaven attractiye2 L
Il tho pearIy gates or the golden 1tEeets
No. Heaven will be attractive, becaus,
thoro we shall behold Him who loved III
,, so much as to give His only.begotten Sol
10 die for Us. What makes home attraC
liver Il 1t the beautiful furniture ant
, stately rooms2 No; some llomes Vith al
tiese are like Yhited sepulchres. II
Y Brooklyn . mother was dying; and 1t wa
, necessary to take her child ftom her, DO
cause the little child could not understand
the nature OF the sickness, and disturbed
her mother. Every night the chile
Ipobbed herself to sleep In a neighborl
house, BECAUSE aLe gGpted TO 20 back II
her mother'si bit tho n6thar gfeW Worys
and they could not take tho child home
At last the mother died; and alter hel
death they thought 1t best not TO let the
child SEQ her dead mother in her coffin
Alter the burial ttp philA ran into one
room crying "Mama! tnamal " aud theE
Into snYther crying "Mama mamal" and
so went over the whole house; and wher
the little creature tallVd 10 lnd
that loved one she cried to be taken
aaCk 10 the neighbours. So what makes
heaven SttraCiye Is the thought that We
shall see Christ who las Logged W and
given Himself for us.
il you ask me why God should loye us,
cannot tell. I suppose II 10 because lie
| Is true Father. I'll His nature TO love;
lust % tits the nature d the sun to slime.
lie wants yoD 70 phRre In that love. Do
not let unbellef keep you away from Elm.
Do not think that, because you are q Sin.
ner, God does not love you or care for
you. He doesl He wants 10 save you
bnl bloep you.