Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-12-16


sumbsrs or sleeps =,
"Oh.n saws one, 81 cannot understand all
that about affection A refner OF silver
once explained it to a Clristain lady: Il pat
the silver in the fire, and | keep refining u
and trying it till can see my face In IT, anu
1 then take it out" Just so it Is that God
keeps His dear children in the furnace TILL
tde divine image may be seen II mem;
then they are taken out OF the fire. wen,
saws some one, 'if that is this way that TOD
treats His favorites, | do not want to he
faVorite.'
There is A barren field on an autu nn day
Just wanting to be let alone. Iaere Is
bang at the bar ami a rattle OF wdlfh strees
and clevises. Toe field says, whit is the
farmer going to do with me now Tue
farmer puts the pillow in the grouni, SHOUTS
to the horses. the Golfer goes tearing through
the sol. and the furroY reaches from tence
TO fenc,. Next day there IS bang at the
bars an a rattle of wnifiistrees again. the
field saws, II wonder what the farmer is 60
ing 10 do now?7 The farmer bitches tne
horses to the harrow, and it goes bouui'nS
aud tearing across the held.
Next day there is a rattle az the bars
again. and the field says, "Nnat is the FAR
msr going - do nowY He walks heavily
across the field, scattering seed as he walks.
After awhile a c.oul comes The field says,
Xnat. more trouble" 1t begins to rain.
After awhile the wind changes TO the north
east and it be gins to snow. Says the field:
rs it not euou % that | have been torn ami
trlmplei upon and drOwne1s Must / now
be s1o,vst IN iere' After awhile sDrlns
.omes out OF tbs gates OF the south, AMI
warmth and gadness come with II. green
scarf ban iages tine gash OF the wheat held,
an I the July morning drops crown o. Soi'
.,rr f,a rrt-of in
.Oh" SAYS tine field now know the use
If the pillow. of thu harrow, OF the heavy
foot. OF the shower and OF th' snowstornl;
Ii is well enough TO be trotden and
tr,molei and drowned and showed under It
in the end ! can yield such a glorious hsr-
vest" de that goeth forth AMI wespeth'
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless coms
again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaVe'
with him.
When 1 see God especially busy ia trou'
bling an / trying Christian, know taat CUT
Of that Christians character there IS 10
come some especial gaoi. A quarryman
ooss down into the excavation, and with
Strong handed machinery bores into the
rocS The rock says What do you do
that fors' He puts powder in; he lights
fuse. There is n laundering crash. InS
rock saws why, the whole mountain is
ooiny to pieces" rhe crowDar is plunged'
the rock is dragged out. After awhile 1t Is
taken into the artists studio. IL say,
''Nell. nowI have got COOL, warm COM
Portable place at last.
BIT the sculptor takes the chisel an ma
let and he digs for the eyes, AMI he cuts for
the mouth. ANA he bores for the ear and he
rubs it with sandpsper. until the rock says,
"Vben will this torture be ende1:' A sheet
i thrown over it. 1t stands in darkness.
After awhile Il is taken out. The covering
is removed. 1t stands in the sunlight, IN the
presence of ten thousand applauding people.
as they greet The statute OF thu poet or the
prince, or the conqueror.
All says the stone now understand
it. I am q great deal better oil now stan J,
jnr as a statue Of conqueror than wouid
have been down in the quarry so Coz
finds man down in the quarry OF Ignorance
and sin. How to get him up: he must os
bored and blasted and chise,e1 aud secured
and stand sometimes in the darkness.
But after awhile the mantle OF aif1ction
will fail of. aud his soul will be greetei by
the one hundred and torty-tour thousand
ANA the thousands Of thousands as more than
conousror. On. my friends, Goa. our
Mother. is lust as kini in our ait ctlons as
in our pros oerities. COL never touches Us
but for our good. II a fell clean and Gu
tured is better of tlan barren field, and II
than the marble in the quarry, tlen that
.ou, that Col chastens may be His favor't'.
Oh. [ 10 rocking o. the soul Is not the
rocking of all earthquake, but the rocking OF
COTS cradle. LAS one whom his mother
comfortetb. so will comfort YOU have
been told that the pearl In an oyste. Is
merely the result Of a wOunt on Sickness
inli te upon it, AMI DO not know ous t1at
the brightest gems Of heaven will be ioun
10 have been t1e wounds Vi elrtd Sin lie
into the jewele1 bri ;h.n9s5 o. eternll
glory.
Ir.mlrS that Go hasa m)sh. 5 caCac'-
~ for attendin. to little hurts. Toe father
* shocked at the broken b>no o. tla chill OF
NJ the sic mess that sets tn crltl9 III mr.
with fever but 1t taxes thu m0tlar 90 sy.n'
pathize with all the little ailments an h't'e
bruises of the child. /, the chill have Il
splinter in its han it vans TIA m )tAsr -
take it out and not the father Tia tathe'
saws. 500. that Is nothing" but the mother
knows it is something, aui that little huro
sometimes is very great 50 vita CO. onr
Mother. all our annOyauces are important
enough to look at and symT .thize with.
Nothing with God Is sOmetalny' lhers
are no ciphers in Co.'s arithmetic. AM IL
we were only goo enough Of sight we coul
see as much through a microscope a,
through a telescope. Those thtnSs thAC
may he palpable and ininitesima' 70 US may
be pronounced and infinite TO Col. 4
mathematical point "a defined as having Il }
n,rfs no magnitude. IL is 50 small you eau
not imagine it, AMI yet mathematlct Il
polnt may be starting point tor great
eternity. Gods surveyors carry very long
eaain. scale must be very delicate that
can weigh a grain, but Gods scale Is so de!l'
cate that He can weigh vita 1t t1at VAIL
is 50 small that a grain Is million umeS
heavier -
When John Kitto, - po0r boy on O1cS
street Of Plymouth, CIT his loot WItI
niece of glass. God bound it no so success
fully that he became the great Christian
oeographer and a commentator kno "n
among all nations. So every wound oil t1a
soul however Insignificant, God is willing
10 bind up As at the first cry OF the can
the mother rushes 70 kiss the wouni' :
God. our Mother takes the smallest woan
Of the heart aud presses 1t to tho hP' o.
divine sympathy "As one whom his mother
comfortetb, so will | comfort you
remark further that God has mothers
patience for the erring Ii one Goes wrong
first his associates in life cast him off if he
goes 10 the wrong way his business partner
casts him of, if he goes on his best friends
! cast him off-his father casts him off. But
after al Others have cast him of, where
does he 20, Who holds no grudge and for
gives the last time as well as the firsts Who
sits by the murderer's counsel all through
the long trial: Who tarr.es the longest at
the windows OF a culprits cell. Who, when
all others think i'll OF a man. keeps on think.
ing we'll Of him Ii is his mother God
bless her gray hairs if she be still alive AM
( bless her graveif she be gone And bless
the rocking chair in which she used to sit,
and bless the cradle that she used 10 rock.
and bless the Bible shs usei to read
So God, our Mother. has patience for all
the erring. After everybody else has cast a
man of God our Mother, comes TO the res
,ue. God leaps TO take charge Of bad clss
After all the other doctors have got through
the heavenly Physician comes ia. Human
sympatby at such a time does not amount 10
much Even the sympathy Of the church,
| am sorry to say, often does not amount to
nuch have seen the most harsh and Bit
ter treatment on the part Of those who pro.
feSsed faith in Christ toward those VINO were
wavering and erring. They tried on the
wanderer sarcasm and billingsgate and c1ri-
citure. and they tried little tattle There
was one thing they did not try, and that was
forgiveness.