Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-12-15
THE MOTHER OF ALL.
SALMAGE PREACHES FROM THE
GOSPEL OF ISAIAH.
'As Ono whom His Mother Cpmrortcth
OWN Comfort fou"-6o;l3 The
BibIs is "a Letter OF Affection from
God.

SO VIII Comfort You -oo'l' Inc
Bibis is Letter of Affection from
God
BROOKLYN. y. Y, Dec. II: 1892 The Rev.
DR. Talmago to-day, in selecting subject for
ais sermon CHEESE an aspect OF The lnyihe char-
Acter which Is seldom considered TO an Gn,
Usually large audience he discoursed on God
- The Mother OF All the text being taken
rom Isaiah 66I3: As one whom his mother
comforielh SO win comfort you
The Bible is warm letter of aHec-
ton from parent to 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 hail-storm 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 by those that announce
his affection. There may come
to household twenty or fifty letters
of affection during the year, and they
will not make as much excitement i'm
that home AS one sheriff writ; and SO
there are people who are more attcn.
tive to those passages which announce
the judgments of God, than to those
which announce his mercy and his
favor God is lion, John says in the
Book of Revelation. God is a breaker,
! Micah announces in his prophecy. God
is a rock. God is "a king. But hear also
| that God is love. A father and his
, child arc walking out in the fields on
a summers day, and there comes up a
| thunderstorm, aud there is "A flash of
! lightning that startlcs the child, and
the father says, My dear, that is
Gods eve There comes peal of
. thunder, and the father says, My
dear. that is Gods voice But the
Slouds go off the sky, and the storm is
gone and light floods the heavens and
floods the landscape, and the father
forgetS 10 say. That is God smile. "
The text of this morning bends with
great genticneSs and love over all who
are PROSTATE in sin aud trouble. 1t
lights up with compassion. 1t melts
with tenderness. 1t breathcs upon us
the hush of an eternal lullaby, for it
announces that God Is our Mother.
'As one whom his mother comforteth,
so will comfort you"
remark, in the first place, that
God has a mothers simplicity of in
struction. \ father does not know
how to teach a child the A, b, c. Men
are not sllilful in the primary depart
mcnt; but mother has so much pa
thence that she will tell child for the
hundredth time the difference between
F-and g, and between and J. Some
times IL is by Blocks; sometimes by the
worsted-worl1; something by the slate;
sometimes by the bo>lv She thus
awl5wardness of condesccnsion in
So doing. SO God, our
mother, stoops down to our infantile
minds. Though we are told tn ng a
thousand times, and we do not under
stand it, our heavenly mother goes on,
line upon line, prccept upon precept,
here little and there u 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 yet---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. God, our mother,
puts us IN the school of prosperity,
and the letters are in sunshine, and
we cannot spell them, God puts us in
the school of adversely, aud the letters
are black, and we cannot spell them.
II God were merely king, he would
punish us; If he were simply father,
he would whip Us: but God is II
mother and 50 we are borne with and
helped all the way through.
4 mother teaches her child chiefly by
pictures. Ii She wants to set forth to
her child the hideou>ncss of a quarrel
some spirit, i:iStCad of giving Il lecture
upon that subject, she turns over II
leaf and shows the child two boys in a
wrangle, and SAYS. Does not that look
horrible?' II size wants to teach her
child the awfutneSs of war, she turns
over the picture book and shows the
war-chargcr, the headless trunks of
butchcrcd men, the wild, boodshot
eve of battle rolling under lids
of flame, aud She says, That is
war" The child understands it. In
great many books the best part are
the pictures. The Style may be in
sipid, the type poor, but picture al
ways attracts u child's attention, Now
God, our mother, teaches us almost
everything by pictures. Is the divine
goodness To be set forth? How does
God. our mother. teach us? BY an
autumnaI picture. The barns are full.
The wheat-staclls are rounded, The
cattle are chewing the cud lazily
in the sun. The orchards are dropping
the ripe pippins into the lap of
the farmer. The natural world, that
has been busy all summer, seems now
! to be resting in great abundance. We
look ut the picture and say, "Thou
crownest the year with thy goodness
and thy paths drop fairness. Our
family comes around the breakfast
table 1t has been very cold night,
but the children are all bright, because
they slept under thick coverlids, and
they are now in the warm blast of the
open register, and their appetitcs make
luXurics out of the plainest fare, and
we look at the picture and say, Bless
the Lord, o my Soul,'
God wishes to set forth the fact that
in the Judgment the good will be di-
vided from the wicked How is it
done? BY picture; by parablc-a
fishing scene. A group of hardy men.
long-bearded, geared for standing to
the waist in water; sleeves rolled up.
Long oar sungilt: boat battered as
though il had been playmate to the
STORM. y lull net humping dbOul
with the fish, which have just dis
covered their captivity, the worthless
moss bunkers aud the useful founders
all in the same net The fisherman
puts his hand down amidst the squirm-
ing fins takes ont the bunkers
and throws them into the water, and
gathers the good fish into the pail so.
| says Christ, it shall be at the end nf
| the world. The bad he will east away.
and the good he will keep Another
/ picture.
God, our mother, wanted to set forth
! the duty of ncighboriy love, and il is
| done by picture. A heap of wounds
on the road to Jericho. Atraveler has
been fighting robber The robber
| stabbed him and knocked him down
Two ministers come along. They look
at the poor fellow, but do not help
him. \ traveller comes along-a
Samaritan. He says whoa" to the
beast he is riding, and dismounts.
He examines the wounds; he takes
out some wine, and with it washes
the wounds, and then he takes
some oil and puts that in to make the
wounds stop smarting; and then he
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