The Globe-republican., 1892-12-30


|, Rev. DR. Talmage discoursed on &c
as ''The Mother of ALL The text beiu
taken from Isaiah Xvi. Is. LAS one who
his mother comfOrteth, so will comfol
. YOU"
!, The Bible is warm letter of affectio
from a parent to child, and yet thel
are manv who see chiefly the severe
passages. AS there may be fifty or sixt
nights OF gentle dew in one summer tha
will not cause as much remark as on
hailstorm of half an hour, so there ar
those who are more struck by thos
passages Of the Bible that announce tn
indignation of God than by those tha
announce His affection. There may com
to household twenty or fifty letters O
affection during the year. and they viii
not make as much excitement in tha
home as one Sheriff's writ, and so Their
are people who arc more attentive I,
those passages which announce the judg
meuts of God than to those which an
noUnce his mercy and his favor.
God Is lion, JohE says in the book O.
Revelation. God is a breaker. Micah an
nounces in his prophecy. God is a rock
God Is king. But hear also that Goo
is love. A rather and his child are
walking out in the fields on q summers
day. and there comes up a thunderstorm,
and there is flash Of lightning that
startles the child, and the father says,
MY dear. that is Gods eye." There
comes peal of thunder, and the father
says. 'My dear, that is Gods voice. -
But the clouds 60 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 ali who
are PROSTATE in sin and trouble. 1t
Iishts up with compassion, 1t melts
with tenderness. 1t breathes upon US
the hush OF an eternal lullaby. for it an
nounces that God is our mother. "As
one whom his mother comforteth, so will
comfort you
remark, in the first place, that God
has mothers simplicity of instruction.
A father does not know how to teach a
child the A &. Men are not skillful in
the primary department, but mother
has so much patience that she will tell a
child for the hundredth time the differ.
ence between + and G and between and
j. Sometimes it is bv blocks; sometimes
by the worsted work; sometimes by the
slate; sometimes by the book. She thus
teaches the child and has no awkward
ness OF condescension in so doing. So
God, our Mother, stoopS down to our in
fantile minds.
Though we are told thing thousand
times and we do not understand it, our
Mother goes on, line upon line,
precept upon precept here little and
there little. God has been teaching
some OF us thirty years and some of us
sixty years one word of one syllable, and
we do not know it vet - faith, faith.
When we come to that word we stumble,
We halt, we lose our place, we pronounce
It wrong.
; Still Gods patience Is not exhausted.
iod. our Mother, puts us in the school of |
prosperity, and the letters are in sun |
'hlne, and We cannot spell them. God |
puts US In the school of adversity, and |
he letters are black, and we cannot spell |
hem. Ii God were merely king He |
would punish US; if He were simply |
ather He would whip US; but God is a |
mother. and so we are borne with and |
lelped all the way through.
A mother teaches her child chiefly by
pictures. II she wants so set forth to
Ter child the hideousness of a quarrel.
ONE spirit, instead Of giving a lecture
lpon that subject she turns over a leaf
nd shows the child two boys i'm a wran-
lie. and says, docs not that look hor-
loie?" Ii she wants to teach her child
ne awfulness OF war she turns over the
lcture book and shows the war charger.
nj Nf h,,A |
ne wild, bloooshot eye OF battle rolling
nder lids OF flame. and she says. THAT
war;! The child understands it.
In great many books the best parts
re the pictures. The style may be in
pid, the typo poor. but a picture al.
'ays attracts child's attention. Now
od. our Mother, teaches US almost
VerythinR by pictures Is the divine
oodness to be set forth? How does God,
lr Mother. teach US? BY an autumnaI
lcture. The barns are full The wheat
acks are rounded. The cattle are
lewing the cud lazilv in the sun. The
'chards are dropping the ripe pippins
to the lap Of the farmer. The natural
ORD that has been busy all summer !
ems now to be resting in great abup- I
snce !
we look at the picture and say, Thou
ownest the year with Thy goodness.
I'd Thy paths drop fatness" Our fam
comes around the breakfast table. 1t S
IS been a very cold night. but the chill n
en- are all bright because they slept t
lder thick coverletS, and they are row 9
the warm blast of the open register, t
ID their appetiteS make luxuries out of t
g plalnest fare, and We look at the pic 3
re and say, ''BIess the Lord, O nv S
ul.'
God wishes to set forth the fact that t
the judgment the good will be divided g
,m the wicked. How is it done? By I,
picture; by parable-a fishing scene. q
group of hardy men. long bearded, n
ared for standing to the waist in X
tier: sleeves rolled up Long oar p
n gilt: boat battered as though it had o
en- PLAYMATE Of the storm. A full is
humping about with the fish. 81
lich have just discovered their captiv. o.
, the worthless mossbunkers and the Il
eless founders all in the same net I;
70 fisherman puts his hands down amid
sqnirming fms takes out the moss. rt
mixers and throws them into the water in
d gathers the good fish into the pail. m
says Christ it shall be at the end Of "
world. The bad He will cast away, al