The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-12-14
cast away, and the good He win keep.

on the road TO Jericho. A traveller has
been fighting q robber. The robber
stabbed him and knocked him down.
Two ministers come along. They look
at the poor fellow, but do not help him.
A traveller comes along--a Samaritan!
He says whoa" to the beast he is rid
ing, and dismounts. He examines the
wounds; he takes out some wine, and
with II washes the wounds, and then
he takes some oil, and puts that in to
make the wounds stop smarting; and
then he tears off piece Of his own gar
ment for baudage. Then he helps the
wounded man upon the beast, and walks
by the side, holding him on until they
come to a tavern. He says to the land
lord, Here is money to pay the mans
board for two days; take care of him, If
1t costs anything more charge it to me,
and will pay it." Picture-the Good
Samaritan, or Who is Your Neighbor?
Does God, our Mother, want to set
forth what a foolish thing it is to go
away from the right, and how glad di-
vine mercy is to take back the wander
or? How is it dine? By a picture. A
good father. Large farm, with fat
sheep and oxen. Fine house, with ex-
quisite wardrobe. Disconnected boy.
Goes away. Sharpers fleece him. Feeds
hogs. Gets homesick. Starts back
Sees an old man running 1t is father!
The hand, torn Of the huslss, gets ring.
The foot, infamed and bleeding, gets a
sandal The bare shoulder, showing
through the tatters, gets a robe. The
stomach, gnawing itself with hun
ger, gets full platter smok-
ing with meat The father can
not 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 q bad boy repents, and comes
back, promising to do better, God
knows that is enough for one day.
"And they began to be merry" Pict-
ure-Prodigal son returned from the
wilderness. So God, our Mother,
teaches US everything by pictures. The
sinner is lost sheep. Jesus is tho
bridegroom. The useless man barren
fig tree. The gospel is 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-engraved. Is not the divine ma
ternity ever thus teaching us?"
remark again, that God has moth
er's favoritism A father sometimes
shows n ort of favoritism. Here is a
boy-strong, well, of high forehead and
quick intellect The father says: 81
will take that boy into my firm YETI" or,
twill give him the very best possible
education" There are instances where,
for the culture OF the one boy, all the
others have been robbed. A sad favor.
itism; but that is not the mothers fa-
vorite. l will tell you her favorite.
There isa child who at two years Of age
had q fall He has never got over it. The
scarlet fever mufiled his hearing. He is
not what he once was That child has
caused the mother more anxious
nights than all the other chill
dren. II he coughs in the night
she springs out OF sound sleeI
and goes to him. The last thing she
does when going out Of the house is Il
give charge in regard to him. The
first thing on coming in is to ask in re
gard to him. Why, the children Of the
family all know that he is the favorite
and say: "Mother, you let him do just
as he pleases, and you give him grea'
many things which you do not give us
He Is your favorite" The mother
smiles; she knows II is so. So he oughI
to be; for II there is any one in the
world that needs sympathy more thar
another It is IN invalid child, weary OIL
the first mile Of life's journey; carrying
an aching head, a weak side, an irri
tated lung. SO the mother ough
TO make him 'favorite. God
our mother, has favorites. "Whon
the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
That is, one whom he especiall,
loves he chasteneth. God Low es us all
but is there one weak, and sick, ant
sore, and wounded, and suffering, sn'
faint? That Is the one who lies near
est and more perpetually on the great
loving heart of God. Why 1t neve
coughs but our Mother, God, hears II
1t never stirs weary limb in the be-
but our Mother, G cd, knows it Their
is no such watcher as God The bes
nurse may be overdone by fatigue, an,
fall asleep in the chair; but God, on
Mother, after being up year Of night
with suffering child, never slumber
nor sleeps. It-r
"ohf" SAYS one, 81 cannot understand
all that about affiiction." A refner o
silver once explained II TO n Christian
lady: ~ put the silver in the fire, an,
l keep refining it and trying II until
can see my face in II, and then take
out" Just so 1t is that God keeps Iii
dear children In the furnace till tn
divine image may be seen in them; thei
they are taken out Of the fire. well, ;
says someone, ~ that is the way tina
God treats His fayorites, do not wan
TO be a favorite" There Is bar
rem Aeld on an autumn day Jus
wanting to be let alone. There is
bang at the bars, and a rattle of whiffl
trees and cleviees The field says
"What is the farmer going TO do will
me now?'' The farmer puts the plov
in the ground, shouts 10 the horses, th'