Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-17

lie says "whoa" to the beast he is rid
| ing and dismounts He examines the
wounds; he takes out some wine and
with it washes the wounds, aud 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 bandage. Then he helps
the wounded man upon the beast and
walks by the side holding him on until
they come to tavern. He says to the
landlord: Here is money to pay the
mans board for two days; take care of
him; II it 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 foolish thing it is to go
away from the right, and how glad di-
vine mercy is to take back the wander
err? How is it done? by picture. A
good father, Large farm, with fat
sheep and oxen. Fine house, with ex-
uuisite wardrobe. Disseminated boy.
Goes away. Sharpers fleece him. Feeds
hogs. Gets homesiclS. Starts back.
Sees an old man running. 1t is father!
The hand, torn of the huslss, gets a
ring. The foot, infamed and bleeding,
gets sandal The bare shoulder, show
| ing through the tatters, gets robe. The
stomach, gnawing itself with hunger,
gets full platter smoking with meat.
The father cannot eat for looking Mt
the returned advcnturer. Tears run
ming 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 bad boy rcpcnts, and
comes back, promising to do better,
God knows that is enough for one day.
"And they began to be merry" Pic
ture-Prodigal son returned from the
wilderness. So God our Mother, teaches
us everything by pictures.
l remark again, that God has
mothers favoritism. A father some
times shows n sort of favoritism. Here
is boy-strong, we'll, of high forehead
and quick intellect. The father says:
81 will take that boy into my firm YETI"
or, ~ will give him the very best possi-
BILE education" There are instances
where for the culture of one boy all the
others have been robbed A sad favor
itism; but that is not the mothers
favorite. l will tell you her favorite.
There is a child who ut two years of
age had fall. He has never got over
it. The scarlet fever muified his hear
ing. He is not what he once was. That
j Ahn mo
anxious nights than all the other
children. If he coughs in the night
she springs out Of sound sleep
and goes to him. The last thing
she does when going out of the house
is to give a charge in regard to him.
The first thing on coming in is to ask
| in regard to him. Why, the children
of the family all know that he is the
favorite. and say: ''Mothcr, you let him
| do Just as he plcases, and you give him
great many things which you do not
give us. He is your favorite." The
mother smiles, she knows it is so. So
he ought to be; for if there is any one
in the world that needs sympathy more
than another. it is an invalid child,
weary on the first mile of life's journey;
carrying an aching head, n weak side,
an irritated lung So the mother
ought to make him favorite. God,
our Mother, has favoritcs. "Whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth."
"0w says one, II cannot understand
all that about afliiction." A retiner of
silver once explained it to Christian
lady: Il put the silver in the fire, and /
keep refining it and trying it till / can
see my face in it, and then take it
out" Just so it is that God keeps His
dear children in the furnace till the di-
vine image may be seen in them; then
they are taken out of the fire.
When l see God especially busy in
troubling and trying n Christian know
that out of that Christians character
there is to come some especial good.
But after while the mantle of aiiiic-
ton will fall off and his soul will be
greeted by the one hundred and forty
four thousand, and the thousands ofthou-
sands, as more than cOnqueror. o, my
friends, God, our Mother, is just as kind
in our Affections as in our properties
God never touches us but for our good.
If field clean and cultured is better off
than a barren field, and if a stone that
has become statue is bstter off than
the marble in the quarry then that soul
that God chastens may be His favorite.
o, the rocking of the soul is not the
rocking of an earthquake, but the rock
ing Of Gods cradle. "As one whom his
mother comforteth, SO will / comfort
you"
l remark that God has mothers
capacity for attending to little hurts.
The father is shocked ut the broken
bone of the child, or at the sickness
that sets the cradle on fire with fever,
but 1t takes the mother to sympathize
with all the little ailments and little
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