The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-12-14

morning drops crown OF Bolu on the
head OF the grain. sohl'' says the field,
now l know the use Of the plow, Of
the harrow, Of the heavy foot, Of the
shower, and Of the snow storm. II Is
we'll enough to be trodden, and tram
pied, and drowned. and showed under,
If in the end can yield such glorious
harvest" He that goeth forth and
weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him"
When see God especially busy in
troubling and trying Christian,
know that out of that Christians. char
acter there is to come some especial
good. A quarryman goes down into
the excavation, and with strong-handed
machinery bores into the rock. The
rock says; "What do you do that forPn;
He puts powder in; he lights fuse.
There is a laundering crash. The rock
says: "Why, the whole mountain Is
going to pieces" The crowbar is
plunged; the rock is dragged out. After
awhile it is taken into the artists
studio 1t says: well, now ! have
got to good, warm, comfort
able place at last" But the sculp-
tor takes the chisel. and mallet, and
he digs for the eyes, and he cuts for
the mouth, end he bores for the ear,
and he rubs it with sand-paper, until
the rock says, "When will this torture
be endedP" A sheet is thrown over it
1t stands in darkness After while II
is taken out. The covering Is removed.
1t stands in the sunlight, in the pres
ence Of ten thousand applauding people,
as they greet the statue Of the poet, or
the prince, or the conqueror. "Ah"
says the stone, ''now understand it ]
am great deal better off now standing
as a statue Of a conqueror than would
have been down in the quarry" So
God finds man down in the quarry OF
ignorance and sin. How to get him up?
He must be bored, and blasted, and
chiseled, and secured, and stand some
times in the darkness.
But after awhile the mantle Of afflic-
tion will fall off, and his soul will be
greeted by the one hundred and forty
four thousand, and the thousands OF
thousands, as more than conqueror. o,
my friends, God, our Mother, is just as
kind in our Affections as in our pros.
perities. God never touches us but for
our good. II a field clean and cultured
is better off than barren field, and II
a stone that has become the statue is
better off than the marble in the quar-.
ry, then that soul that. God chastens
may be his favorite. o, the rocking Of
the soul is not the rocking of an earth
quake, but the rocking of Gods cradle.
"As one whom his mother comforteth,
so will comfort you" have been told
that the pearl in an oyster is merely
the result Of wound, or a sickness in
ficted upon 1t, and do not know but
that the brightest gems Of Heaven will
be found to have been the wounds Of
earth kindled into the jeweled bright
ness Of eternal glory.
IremarlS that God has mothers ca.
pacity for attending to little hurts The
father is shocked at the broken bone OF
the child, or at the sickness that sets
the cradle on FIRE vita fever, but II
takes the mother TO sympathize with
all the little ailments and little bruises
OF the child. II the child have splinter
in its hand, 1t wants the mother to take
II out, and not the father The father
says: 30, that is nothing" but the
mother knows II is something, and that
little hurt sometimes is very great
So with God, our Mother; all
our annoyances are important enough
to look at and sympathize with.
Nothing with God is something
There arc no ciphers in Gods
arithmetic And II we were only good
enough Of sight, we could sec as much
through microscope as through a tele-
scope Those things that may be inn
palpable and infinitesmll TO us, may be
pronounced and infinite TO God. A
mathematical point is defined as hav-
ing no parts, no magnitude. II Is so
small you cannot imagine It, and yet a
mathematical point may be starting
point for great eternity. Gods sur
veyors carry very long chain. A
scale must be very delicate that can
weigh a grain, but Gods scale
is SO delicate that He can weigh
with IL that which is so small that
grain is q million times heavier.
When John Kitto, 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
Christian geographer, and comments
tor known among all nations So every
wound Of the SOUL however insignif.
cant, God Is willing to bind up As al
the first cry of the child the mother
rushes TO kiss the wound, so God, our
Mother, takes the smallest wound oi
the heart and presses It TO the lips ol
divine sympathy. "As one whom his
mother comforteth, so will comfort
you"
| remark farther that God has a
mothers patience for the trring. II one
does wrong, first his associates In life
cast him of, II he goes on in the wrong
way his business partner casts him off;
II he goes on, his best friends cast him
off-his father casts him off. But after
all others have cast him of, where
does he gop Who holds no grudge, and
forgives the last time as well as the
flrstp Who sits by the murderer's coun.
sci all through the long trial2 Who
tarries the longest at the windows Of O
culprits cell? Who, whom all others