The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-07-31

1 better she should die. II was a mercy
she should die. She would have been
lifelong Invalid. But you can not
argue away parents grief How Of
ten you hear the moan: ''Ohl my child
my childr' Then there are the filial
tears Little children soon get over the
loss of parents They are easily di-
verted with a new toy. But where In
the man that has come to 80, or 40 or
so years of age. who can think of the
old people without having all the foun-
tains of his soul stirred up? You may
have had 10 take care of her good
many years. but you can never forget
how she used to take care of you. There
have been many sea captains
converted in our church, and
the REGULARITY of them was
that they were nearly all prayed ashore
by their mothers, though the mothers
went into the dust soon after they went
TO sea Have you never heard an old
man in delirium of some sickness call
for his mother? The fact is, we get so
used to calling for her the first ten
years of our life we never get over it,
and when she goes away from us it
makes deep sorrow. You sometimes,
perhaps, in days of trouble and dark
ness when the world would say. "You
ought TO be able to take care of your
self'-you wake up from your dreams
finding yourself saying: 80, mother!
mother Have these tears no divine
origin? Why, take all the warm hearts
that ever beat in all lands. and in all
ages and put them together, and their
united throb would be weak compared
with the throo of Gods eternal SYM
patty.
Yes, God is also Father of all that
rain of repentance. Did you ever see a
rain of repentance? Do you know
what il is that makes n man repent?
see people going arou nd trying to re-
pent They can not repent Do you
know no man can repent until God
helps him to repent? How do ! know?
BY this passage: Him hath God exalt-
ed to be Prince and Saviour to give
repentance" o! it is a tremendous
hour when one wakes up and says: II
am bad man. / have not sinned
against the laws of the land, but have
wasted my life; God asked me for nv SER
vices, and haven't given those services.
o. my sins! God forgive me-" When
that tear starts it thrills all Heaven. An
angel can not keep his eye of it. And
the Church of God assemblies around,
and there is a commingling of tears and
God is the Father of this rain, the Lord,
long suffering, merciful and gracious.
In a religious assem- blage a man arose
and said: 81 have been very wicked
man; broke my mothers heart: be-
came an infdel; but | have seen nv
evil way, and | have surrendered nv
heart to God; but it is grief ] never
can get over that my parents should
never have heard of my salvation;
don't know whether they are liv-
ing or dead" While vet he was
standing in the audience, n voice from
the gallery said: "Oh! my son, nv
son" He looked up and he recognized
her. 1t was his old mother. She had been
praying for him for "a great many years,
and when, at the foot of the cross. the
prodigal son and the praying mother
embraced each other there was a rain,
a tremendous rain, and God was the
Father of those tears.
o! that God would break us down
with a sense of our sin. and then lift us
up with an appreciation of His mercy.
Tears over our wasted life Tears over
a grieved Spirit Tears over an injured
father. o! that God would move upon
this audience with great wave of re-
ligious emotion!