The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-13

| than conGueror. Oh, my friends. God, our
Mother, is just as kind in our Affections as
| in our properties. Coo never toucn1s 70
but for our good If field clean and cul,
| tlred is better off than barren nelo, una
| if a stone that has become statue Is pet
| ter off than the marble in the quarry tnen
| that soul that God chastens may De ms
| fayorite Oh, the rocking of the soul is not
| the rocking of an earthquake, but the rock
| ing of Gods cradle. las one Whom ms
| mother comforteth, so will l comfort you.
| / have been told that the pearl in an ovster
| is merely the result of wound, or q SICK
ness inflicted upon it, and L DO nos KNOW
| but that the brightest gems OF heaven VIZ
| be found to have been the wounds OF eartn
| kindled into the jeweled brightness OF eter-
! nal glory
/ remark that God has mothers capac-
! ity 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 with fever, but 1t takes the mother to
| sympathize with all the little ailments and
little bruises of the child: If the
| it wants the mother to take it out, and
| not the father. The father says. ooh,
| that is nothing" but the mother knows it
| is something. and that q little hurt some
| Mother; all our annoyauces are important
| enough to look at and sympathiZe with.
| Nothing with God is something. There are
| no ciphers In Gods arithmetic. And It
| see as much through microscope as
| through telescope. Those things that
| may be impalpable and intinitesimal to
| us, may be pronounced and infinite to God.
| A mathematical point is defined as hay
| ing no parts, no magnitude. 1t is so small,
| you cannot imagine it, and yet mathe-
| NAUTICAL point may be a starting point for
| great eternity. Gods surveyors carry
| delicate that can weigh grain, but Gods
| scale is so delicate that he can weigh with
| it that which is so small that grain is
| million times heavier. When John kitto,
| poor boy on back street of Plymouth,
cut his foot with piece of glass, God
| the great Christian geographer,
and a commentator known among
al all tD n't9 snS S S9 every Neana
| God Is willing to bind up. AS at the first
| cry of the child the mother PUSHES to kiss
| the wound, so God, our Mother, takes the
| smallest wound of the heart, and presses
it to the lips of divine sympathy. AS one
| whom his mother comforteth, so will /
| comfort you
! l remark farther that God has a moth
| ers patience for the erring. If one does
| wrong, first his associates in life cast him
| Off; II he goes on in the wrong way, his
| business partner casts him off; if he goes
| on, his best friends cast him oH-his
! father casts him off. But after all others
! have cast him off, where does he go?
| Who holds no grudse, and forgives the
| last time as well as the first: Who sits
| by the murderers counsel all through
| the long trial! WHO tarries the longest at
| the windows of culprits cell! Who,
| when all others think ill of man, keeps
| on thinking we'll Of him? 1t is his mother.
! God bless her grag hairs if she be still alive;
| and bless her graye if she be gone! And
| bless the rocking chair in which she used
| to sit, and bless tho cradle that she used to
| rock, and bless III" Bible she used to read!
I t.,T hI.,tlx hoo,
the erring. After everybody else has cast
| n man off, God our Mother, comes to the
| rescue. God leaIH to take charge of bad
| case. After all tho other doctors have got
| through, the hcaY emily physician comes in.
| Human sympathy at such time does not
amount 20 much Even the sympathy of
! the church, l aIn sorry to say, often does
! not amount to much. / have seen the most
harsh and bitter treatment on the part of
| those who profcsSci faith in Christ toward
| lose who were Wayerin9 and erring. They
| trled on the Wanderer sarcasm, bill
| ingsgate and c"ljcature, and they tried
| tittlc-ta'ie. Thclc was one thing they did
| not try and that was forgiveness A sol
der in England was brought by sergeant
| 70 the colonel. WHAT says the colonel,
Infringing the man here again, We have
tried everything, with him. ,"Oh, no. says
not tried. | would like you to try that
What is that sad the colonel. Said the
! man, forgiveness" The case had not gone
50 far but thai it might take that turn,
| and so the colonel said. well. young man,
| you have done so and so. What is your ex-
| cuscI .! have "o excuse. but am very
| sorry, said the man. I'VE have made up
our minds TO for4iye you said the colonel.
! The tears started. He had never been ac-
| costed i'll that VIZ! before. His life was re-
formed, and that was the starting point for
| a positively Christian life. Oh, church of
| God, quit your sarcasm when a man fails!
| Quit your irony, quit your tittle-tatle and
try forgiveness; God. your Mother, tries it
| all the time. mans sins may be like
| continent bt:t Gods forgiveness is like
| the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, bounding it
! on both sides.
The Bible often talks about Gods hand
| | wonder how it looks. Eou remember dis
| tinctly how yonr mothers hand looked,
| though thirty years ago it withcrcd away
| 1t was different from Your fathers hand
| When you were 70 be chastised you had
| rather have mother punish you than flthcr
| 1t did not hurt so much. and fathers hand
! was different from II other :. partly because
| it had outdoor toll and partly because God
| intended it to be different The knuckles
| were more firmly set and the palm was
| calloused, but mothers hand was more del
! iCate. There We're blue veins running
| through the back Of it. Though the fingers,
! some Of them were picked with Il needle
| the palm If it was soft Oh. it was very
| soft Was there ever any poultico like that
| to take pain out of wound? So Gods
| hand is mothers .,and. What it touches
| it heals. If it smite YOU it does not hurt
| as if il were another hand. Oh YOU poor
| wandering soul il sin. it is not a bailih's
! hand that seizes YOU today. 1t is not hard
| hand. 1t is not an unsympa thetc hand 1t
| is not cold hand. 1t is not an enemy's
! hand No it is a gcrte hand, a loving hand
a sympathetic hand. soft Ii; nd. q mothers
| hand. AS one whom his mother comforteth
| SO will | comfort YOU
| l want to say finally that God has a
mothers way of putting child to sleep.
| You know there is no cradle song like
| mothers. After the excitement Of the
evening it is almost impossible to get the
child to sleep. If the rocking chair stop
moment the eyes are wide open; but the
| mothers patience and the mothers soothing
manner keep on until, after awhile, the angel
| of slumber puts his wing over the pillow.
| Well. my dear brothers and sisters i'll 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 gathered around us. Then
| we want God to sooth us, to hush us 10
| sleep. Let the music at our going not be
| the dirge of the organ or the knel of the
| church tower. or the drumming of dead
march," but let it be the hush of a mothers
| l,,T1.lt,, Dbf tho aIlp of the grave Will