Milford chronicle., 1892-12-16
THE MOTHER OF ALL.
DR.. TALMAeE PRESENTS A NOVEL
VIEW OF THE DIVINE LOVE.

- GIVING L0NEa
d The Old Standards in Grammar Have Leo
Too Many to Think Of God as PureI,
t Masoullne-Divine Attributes Are Fem,
inine Also and SIotherly.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 11.-Rev. DR.. Talmace
, today, in selecting a subject for his ser
mon, chose an aspect OF the divine charac-
ter which is seldom considered. Toan up-
usually large audience he discoursed on
God as 'The Mother Of ALL" the text be-
ing taken from Isaiah Xvi, 13, "As one
whom his mother cOmforteth, so will I
comfort you"
The Bible is a warm letter Of affection
from parent to a 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 hailstorm 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
I by those that announce his affection. There
may come to a household twenty or fftv
/ letters of affection during the year, and
they will not make as much excitement
in that home as one sheriff's writ, and so
{ eAANAN e@AU RItHAg " NJ aAG AlDEE dLLenNINH TO
those passages which announce the iudg-
ments of God than to those which an
nounce his mercy and his favor
God is lion, John says in the book of
Revelation. God is breaker, Micah an
nounces in his prophecy. God is a rock.
God is king. But hear also that God is
love. A father and his child are walking
out in the fields on n summers day, and |
there comes up a thunderstorm, and there l
is flash Of lightning that startles the |
child, and the father says, "My dear, that /
is Gods eye" There comes a peal of thun-
der, and the father says, my dear, that is
Gods voice" But the clouds go off the
sky, and the storm is gone, and light floods
the heavens and floods the landscape, and
the father forgets to say THAT is Gods
smile"
The text of this morning bends with great
gentleness and love over all who are pros
trate in sin and trouble 1t lights up with
compassion. It melts with tenderness. It
breathes upon us the hush of an eternal
lullaby, for it announces that God is our
Mother "As one whom his mother com
iorteth, so will I comfort you"
THE MATERNAL INSTINCT.
l remark, in the first place, that God has ,
! mothers simplicity of instruction. a {
iather does not know how to teach child /
he a B c. Men are not skillful in the {
primary department, but a mother has so I
much patience that she will tell child for I
he hundredth time the difference between q
and G and between 1 and J. Sometimes q
is by blocks; sometimes by the worsted f
york; sometimes by the slate; sometimes
y the book. She thus teaches the child {
nd has no awkwardness of condescension q
n en- d0inn Cod ot4r NFotl,,-
own to our infantile minds. il
Though we are told thing Thousand Il
ines and we do not understand it, our n
eavenly Mother goes on, line upon line Il
receipt upon precept, here little and il
lere little. God has been teaching some fl
us thirty years and some of us sixty ii
ears one word Of one syllable, and we do NJ
OF know 1t yet-faith, faithl When we
)me to that word we stumble, we halt. il
G lose our place, we pronounce it wrong. b,
I'LL God S patience is not exhausted. God, Il
Ir Mother, puts us in the school of pros il
.rity, and the letters are in sunshine, and r.
e cannot spell them. God puts us in the 81
e school of adversely. and the letters are in
ack, and we cannot spell them. If God fr
ere merely king he would punish us; if ba
were simply a father he would whip us, tr
It God is a mother, and 80 we are borne th
th and helped all the way through. er
a mother teaches her child chiefly bv 90
etures. If she wants to set forth to her
lid the hideousness of a quarrelsome az
irit, instead of giving lecture upon that fa
bject she turns over a leaf and shows the iIy
lid two boys in wrangle, and says, VIZ
)Oes not that look horrible?" If she fe
nts to teach her child the awfulness of p-i,
r she turns over the picture book and CHI
0ws the war charger, the headless trunks sn,
butchered men, tho wild, bloodshot eye thi
battle rolling under lids of flame, and an
, says, THAT is warp The child under AT
nds it. Of
n great many books the best parts are COZ
pictures. The style may be insipid. the ga,
,e poor, but a picture always attracts a ina
lds attention. Now God, our Mother. the
ches us almost everything by pictures. "
he divine goodness to be set forth? How use
8 God, our Mother, teach usg By an hea
umnal picture The barns are full. sto
, wheat stacks are rounded. The cattle and
chewing the cud lazily in the sun The nm,
nards are dropping the ripe pippins into glo
lap of the farmer. The natural world and
has been busy all summer seems now dou
'e resting in great abundance. We look brii
he picture and say, "Thou crownest the
r with thy goodness, and thy paths "
, fatness." HIN
PICTURED JUDGMENT. out
ur family comes around the breakfast tn ,
e. 1t has been a very cold night, but mar
children are all bright because they VIII
t under thick coverlets, and they are the
in the warm blast Of the open register, do t
their appetites make luxuries out of a fu
plainest fare, and we look at the pic rock
and say, BLESS the Lord. o my soulP' goin
ID wishes to set forth the fact that in the
Judgment the good viii be divided from is IA
wicked. How is it done2 BY a picture, "W,
parable-a fishing scene. A group of com
y men, long bearded, geared for stand Ht
@ the waist in water, sleeves rolled up. mall
: oar, sun gilt; boat battered as though cu.s
I'd been playmate of the storm. A ear
net humping about with the fish, the :
h have just discovered their captivity, eu,le
mossbunkers and the useful stan,
ders all In the same net. The fisher fakel
puts his hand down amid the squirm- stan,
fns, takes out the mossbunkers and ten Z
VS. them into the water and gathers greet
oOd fish into the pail. SO, says Christ, or tn
Ill be at the end of the world. The "a
le will cast away, and the good he will II I
Another picture. inc n
], our Mother, wanted to set forth the have
OF leighborly love, and it is done bya fpds