Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

it had been q playmate of the storm. A
full net humping about with the fish,
which have just discovered their captivity,
the worthless moss-bunkers and the useful
| founders all in the same net The fisher
man puts his hand down amid the squirm-
ing fms, takes out the moss-bunkers and
throws them into the water, and gathers
the good fish into the pail So, says Christ,
it shall be at the end of the world. The bad
He will cast away, and the good He will
keep.
Does God, our Mother, want to set forth
what foolish thing it is to go away from
the right. and how glad divine mercy is to
take back the wanderer? How is it done?
By a picture. A good father. Large
farm, with fat sheep and oxen. Fine house.
with exquisite wardrobe. Discontinued
boy. Goes away. Sharpers fleece him.
Feeds hogs Gets homesick. Starts back.
Sees an old man running It is father!
The hand, torn of the husks, gets q ring.
The foot infamed and bleeding. gets san
dal. The bare shoulder, showing through
the tatters, gets q robe. The stomach,
gnawing itself with hunger, gets full
platter smoking with meat The father
cannot eat for looking at the returned
adventurer. Tears running down the
face until they come to a smile-the night
dew melting into the morning. No work,
on the farm that day; for when bad boy
repents, and comes back, promising to do
better, God knows that is enough for one
day. "And they began to be merry"
Picture-Prodigal son returned from the
wilderness. So God, our Mother, teaches
us everything by pictures. The sinner is
lost sheep. Jesus is a bridegroom. The
useless man barren fig tree. The gospel
is a great supper. Satan, sower of tares.
Truth, a mustard seed. That which we
could not have understood in the abstract
statement, God, our Mother, presents to us
in this Bible-album of pictures, God-en-
graved. Is not the divine Maternity ever
thus teaching US? -
Has Mothers Favoritism.
I remark again, that God has a mothers
favoritism A father sometimes shows a
sort of fovoritism. Here is a boy-strong,
we'll, of high forehead and quick intellect
The father says, Il will take that boy into
my firm yeti" or, 81 will give him the very
best possible education" There are in
stances where. for the culture of the one
boy, all the others have been robbed. A
sad tavoritism; but that is not the mothers
favorite. There is child who at years of
age had a fall He has never got over it.
The scarlet fever muffied his hearing. He
is not what he once was That child has
caused the mother more anxious nights
than all the other children. If he coughs
in the night she springs out of q sound |
sleep and goes to him. The last thing she
does when going out of the house is to give
a charge liz regard to him. The first thing |
on coming in is to ask in regard to him. |
Why, the children of the fomily all |
know that he is the favorite, and say, |
Mother, you let him do just as he pleases.
and you give him a great many things |
which you do not give us He is you favor
te. The mother smiles; she knows it is
so. So he ought to be; tor if there is any
one in the world that needs sympathy more
han another, it is an invalid child, weary
IN the first mile of life's journey; carrying
IN aching head, weak side, an irritated
ung. So the mother ought to make him a
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth."
That is, one whom he especially loves he
,hasteneth. God loves US all; but is there
me weak, and sick, and sore, and wounded,
md suffering, and faint? That is the one
yho lies nearest and more perpetually on
he great, loving heart of God. Why it
lever coughs but eur Mother, God, hears
t. 1t never stirs a weary limb in the bed
tut our Mother, God, knows of it There
S no such a watcher as God. The best nurse
nay be overborne by fatigue. and fall
sleep in chair; but God, our Mother, after
eing up year of nights with suffering
hid, never slumbers nor sleeps.
Refined by Affiiction.
"Or' says one, ~ cannot understand all !
hat about affiiction." A refner of silver
nee explained it to a Christian LADY, 81
ut the silver in fire, and keep refining !
and trying it till can see my face in it,
nd then take it out" Just so it is that
rod keeps His dear children in the furnace
i'll the divine image may be seen in them;
hen they are taken out of the fire. When
see God especially busy in troubling and |
-ying Christian, L know that out of that /
christians character there is to come some ,
special good. But after awhile the mantle
aff1iction will fall Off and has soul will
e greeted by the one hundred and forty /
,ur thousand, and the thousands of thou
lnds, as more than conqueror. Oh, my
lends, God, our Mother, is just as Kind in
ur Affections as in our properties. God J
ever touches us but for our good. I
l remark that God has mothers capacity
,r attending to little hurts. The father is
hooked at the broken bone of the child, or
the sickness that sets the cradle on fire
ith fever, but it takes the mother to SYM !
athize with all the little ailments and
tile bruises of the child. So every wound
the soul, however insignificant, God is
illing to bind up. As at the first cry of
le child the mother rushes to kiss the ]