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


make the wounds stop sInarting: and then
he tears off piece of his own garment for
a bandage Then he helps the wounded
man upon the beast, and walks by the
tavern. He says to the landlord, Here
is money to pay the mans board for two
days; take care Of him; if it costs anything
more, charge it to me. and l will pay it.
l'icture-The Good Samaritan, or Who is
Your Neighbour?
Does God, our Mother. want to set forth
what a foolish thing it is to go away from
the right. and how glad divine mercy is
to take back the wanderer? How is II
done! BY picture. A good father. Large
with exquisite wardrobe. Discontinued
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 husks, gets ring
The foot intlamed and bleeding, gets a
sandal: The bare shoulder, showing
! through the tatters. gets robe The stom-
! nch. gnawing itself with hunger, gets a
full platter smoking with meat. The faith
er cannot cat for looking at the returned
until they come to smile--the night dew
| melting into the morning. No work on the
farm that day; for when bad boy repeEts,
and comes back. promising to do better
| God knows that is enough for one day
And they began to be merry" Picture
| Prodi2al Son returned from the wilder
| ness. SO God, our Mother, teaches us ey-
| erything by pictures. The sinner is a lost
| sheep. Jesus is the bridegroom. The use
| less man a barren fig tree. The gospel is
q, great supper. Satan, Il sower of tares
| Truth, 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-en-
thus teaching us?
remark again, that God has a mothers
favoritism. "A father sometimes shows q
sort of fayoritism. Here is a boy-strong,
well. or high forehead and quick intellect.
The father says Il will take that boy into
my firm YET or Il will give him the very
best possible education ]" There are in
stances where. for the culture of the one
boy, all the others have been robbed A sad
favoritism: but that is not the mothers
There is child who at two years of age
had fall. He has never got over it, The
scarlet fever mullied his hearing. He is not
what he once was. That child has caused
the mother more anxious nights than oil
the other children. If he coughs in the
| night she springs out of a sound sleep and
goes TO him. The last thing she does when
going out of the house is to give charge III
regard to him. The first thing on coming in
is to ask in regard to him. Why, the chill.
| dre0 of the family all know that he is the
, favorte, and say, Mother, you let him do
| just as he pleases, 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 inval-
| id child, weary on the first mile Of Hfe's
| journey; carrying an aching head, a weak
| side, an irrtated lung. SO the mother ought
to make him fayoritc. God, our Mother,
| chasteneth." That is, one whom he espe-
| cially loves he chasteneth. God loves us
| all; but Is there one weak, and sick, and
| sore. and wounded, and suffering, and faint?
| That is the one who lies nearest and more
| perpetually on the great loving heart OF
| God. Why it never coughs but our Mother,
| God. hears it.. 1t never stirs a weary limb
! in the bed but our Mother. God, knows of it.
| There is no such Il watcher as God. The
! best nurse may be overborne by fatigue, and
| fall asleep in the chair; but God, our Moth
! err after being up year of nights with n
| suffering child, never slumhcrs nor sleeps.
oh" says one. Il cannot understand all
that about affection" \ rehner OF silver
once explained it to a Christian lady, Il put
the silver in the fire, and / keep refining
it and trying it till / can see my ncc in it,
and then take it out" Just so it is that
God keeps his dear children IN ihe furnace
Till the divine image iIii;;,y be seen in them
then they are taken out of the fire We'll"
says some one. IF that is the way that God
| treats his fayorites, | do not want to be a
| fayorite." There is a barren field on an
autumn day just wanting to be let alone
There is a bang at the bars. and q. rattle Of
| whifc trees and devices. The field says,
What is the farmer going to do with me
now?' The farmer puts the plow i'll the
| grouds shouts to the horses, the coulter
| goes tearing through the sod, and the fur
| row reaches from fence to fence. Next day
! there is bang at the bars and Il rattle of
| the Whitfle-treeS again. The field says, Il
wonder what the farmer is going TO do
now" The farmer bitches the horses to the
harrow, and it goes bounding and tearing
| across the field. Next day there
is {, rattle at the bars again and the
to do now?" He walks heavily across
tho field, scattering seed as he
walks. After awhile cloud comes: The
field says: What, more troube?' 1t begins
to rain. Alter while the wind changes to
to the northeast, and it begins to snow
Says the field: rs it not enough that have
been torn aud trampled upon and drowned?
Must | now be showed UNDER After n
while spring comes out Of the gates of the
south. and warmth and gladnCsS come with
il. A green scarf bandages the cash of The
wheat field and the July morning drops a
crown of gold on the head OF the grain.
oh" says the field. now | know the use
of the pillow. of the harrow. of the heavy
foot, of the shower, and of the snowStorm
1t is well enough to be trodden, and tram
Piled, and drowned. and showed under, ii in
the end l can yield such glorious harvest.
lie that goeth forth and wecpcth. bearing
precious seed. shall doubtless come again
with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
him
When ! see God especially busy in troub
ling and trying Christian, | know that out
of that Christian character there is to
come some especial good A quamyman
goes down into the excavation, and with
strong handed machinery borcs into the
rock The rock says: What do you do that
| forI' He puts powder in; he lights the fuse
| There is n laundering crash. The rock says:
"Why, the whole mountain is going to
pieces" The croUbar is plunged; the rock
| is dragged out. After awhile il is taken into
| the artists studio. 1t says: We'll, now ]
have got to Il good warm, comfortable
| place at last" But the sculptor takes the
chisel and mact, and he digs for the eyes,
and he cuts for the mouth, mud he borcs
for the ear, and he ruhs it with sandpaper
until the rock says: when will this torture
be ended?" A sheet is thrown over if. 1T
stands in darkness. After awhile it is taken
out The covering is removed. 1T stands IN
the sunlight, in the presence OF ten thousand
aDplauding people. as they greet the statue
Of the poet. or the prince, or the conqucror
All says the stone, nov | understand It.
| am a great deal better off now standing
as a statue of Il conqucror than would