Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-12-14

OOu, our NOGner, all our annOVanCeS are
! important enough to look at and sympa-
thize with.
Nothing with God is something There
are no clphers in Gods arithmetic. And
if we were only good enough of sight
we could see as much through a micro
scope as through q telescope. Those
things that may be palpable and inini-
tesimal to us may be pronounced and in
finite to God. A mathematical point is
defined as having no parts, no magni-
tude. 1t is so small you cannot imagine
it, and yet mathematical point may be
starting point for q great eternity.
Gods surveyors carry very long chain.
scale must be very delicate that can
weigh grain, but Gods scale is so deli
cate shat he can weigh with it that which
is so small that a grain is q million times
heavier.
When John KittO, q poor boy on back
street of Plymouth, cut his foot with a
piece OF glass, GOD bound it up so sue
ceSSfullY that he became the great Chris
tlan geOgrapher and a commentator
known among all nations SO every
wound OF the soul, however insignificant,
God is willing to bind I'D. As at the first
cry of the child the mother rushes to kiss
the wound, SO God, our Mother takes
the smallest wound of the heart and
presses it to the lips of divine sympathy.
LAS one whom his mother comforteth. so
will l comfort YOU"
| remark further that God has q moth
er'S patience for the errng. If one does
wrong first his associates in life cast him
OFT; If he goes on in the wrong way his
business partner casts him off; if he goes
on his best friends cast him off - his
father casts him off, But after all others
have cast him off, where does he go?
Who holds no grndge and forcives the
last time as well as the first? Who sits
by the murderer's counsel all through the
long trial? Who tarries the longest at
the windows of culprit's cell? Who,
when all others think i'll Of q man, keeps
On thinking well of him? 1t is his mother.
God bless her gray hairs if she be still
alive, and bless her grave if she be gonel
And bless the rocking chair in which she
used to Sit and bless the cradle that she
used to rock, and bless the Bible she
used to read
SO Goo, our Mother, has patience for
all the erring. After everybody else has
cast man off God, our Mother, comes
to the rescue. God leaps to take charge
of bad case After all the other
doctors have got through the heavenly
Physician comes in. Human sympathy
al such time does not amount to much.
Even the sympathy of the church, | am
sorry to say, often does not amount to
much. l have seen the most harsh and
bitter treatment on the part of those
who professed faith in Christ toward
those who were wavering and errfng.
They tried on the wanderer sarcasm and
blllingsgate and caricature, and they
tried little tattle. There was one thing
they did not try, and that was forgive
ness.
A soldier in England was brought by
a sergeant to the Colonel. "What," saws
the Colonel, "bringing the man here
again! We have tried everything with
him." sob, no." says the sergeant;
there is one thing you have not tried.
| would like you to try that What
is that?" said the Colonel. Said the
man, forgiveness. The case had not
gone so far but that it might take that
turn. and SO the Colonel said: ''Well,
What is your excused" II have no ex-
cuse, but l am very sorry" said the
man.
I'VE have made up our minds to for
give you,'' said the Colonel The tears
started. He had never been accosted in
that way before. His life was reformed,
and that was the starting point for d
positively Christian life. church of
God, quit your sarcasm when q man
falls! Quit your irony, quit your little
tattle, and try forgiveness. God, your
Mother, tries it all the time. A mans
sin may be like continent, but Gods
forgiveness is like the Atlantic and Pa
cifc oceans, bounding on both sides.
The Bible often talks about Gods
hand | wonder how it looks You re-
member distinctly how your mothers
hand looked, though thirty wears ago it
wthered away. 1t was different from
your fathers hand. When you were to
be chastised You had rather have mother
punish you than father 1t did not hurt
so much. And fathers hand was diff
ferent from mothers partly because it
had outdoor toll, and partly because God
intended it to bedifferent. The knuckles
were more firmly set, and the palm was
callouSed.
But mothers hand was more delicate.
There were bueveins running through
the back of it. Though the fingers
some Of them, were picked with a needle,
the palm OF it was sort. Oh, it was very
soft! Was there ever any poultice like
that to take pain out Of a wound? So
Gods hand is mothers hand. What it
touches il heals If it smite you it does
not hurt as if it were another hand. Oh,
you poor wandering soul in sin, it is not
bailiff's hand that siezes you to-day!
It is not hard hand. 1t is not an I'M
sympathetic hand. 1t is not cold hand.
1t is not an enemy's hand. No 1t is
gentle hand, loving hand, sympa-
thetic hand, soft hand, mothers
hand. LAS one whom his mother COM
forteth, so will 1 comfort you
l want to saw finally that God has a
mothers way of putting child to sleep.
You know there is no cradle song like a
mothers After the excitement Of the
evening it is almost i'm possible to get the
child to sleep If the rocking chair stop
a moment the eyes are wide open; bat
the mothers patience and the mothers
soothing manner keep on until after
awhile the angel Of sIumher puts his
wing over the pillow. Well, my dear
brothers and sisters in Christ the time
will come when we will be wanting to
be put to sleep. The day of our life will
be done, and the shadows of the night
of death will be gathering around us