The Globe-republican., 1892-12-30

tears on piece Of his own garment "a
osnda9e. Then he helps the wounde
man upon the beast and walks by "a
side' holding him on until they come I
tavern. He says to the landlord
'dere Is money TO pay for the man
BOARD Tor two days; take care of him:
( u costs anything more charge it to me
, and 1 will pay it." Picture-"The Goo
Samaritan. or Who Is Your Neiahbor?
Does God, our Mother, want to Sc
forth what . foolish :hisx it is to q
away from the right and how glad di
vine mercy is to take back the wanderer
HOW Is 1t done? by picture. A goo,
1ather. Large farm with fat sheep an,
oxen. Fine house with exquisite ward
rooe. Disseminated boy. Goes awav
Sharpers fleece him. Feeds hogs. Get
homesick. Starts back. Sees an olt
man running. 1t is father! The hand
torn OF the husks, gets q ring. Th,
loot, inf1amed and bleeding, gets q san
daL The bare shoulder, showins
through the tatters, gets q robe. Tht
stomach, gnawing itself with hunger
gets full platter smoking with meat
The father cannot eat for looking at the
returned adventurer. Tears running
down the face until they come to q
smlle-the night dew melting into the
morning.
| No work on the farm that day, fol
when a bad boy repents and comes back
| promising to do better, God knows that
Is enough for one day, ''And they began
! TO be merrv." Picture-''Prodiga Son
Returned from the Wilderness" So
God. our Mother, teaches US everything
BY pictures. The sinner is lost sheep.
Jesus is the bridegroom. The useless
man Is barren Zig tree. The Gospel is
q great supper. Satan a sower of tares
Truth, mustard seed. That which we
could not have understood in the ab-
stract statement of God. our mother,
presents to US in this Bible album of pic
lures, God engraved. Is not the divine
maternity ever thus teaching us?
'Oh," says one, 81 cannot understand
all that about affliction!" A refiner of
silver once explained it to Christian
lady. Il put the silver IN the fire, and
keep refining it and trying it till 1 can
see my face in it, and l then take it out
just so it is that God keeps his dear chill
dren in the furnace till the divine
image may be seen in them: then they
are taken out Of the fire. "Well," says
some one, ''if that is the way that God
treats his favorities, do not want to be
favorite.'
There is barren field on an autumn
day just wanting to be let alone. There
is bang at the bars and rattle of
whiffitrees and clevises. The field says,
"What Is the farmer going to do with
me now?" The farmer puts the pIow in
the ground, shouts to the horses, the
Golfer goes tearing through the sod, and
the !urrow reaches from fence to fence
Next day there is bang at the bars
and a rattle Of whitfletrees again. The
field says, 81 wonder what the farmer is
going to do now?" The farmer bitches
the horses to the harrow. and it goes
bounding aud tearing across the field.
Next day there is rattle at the bars |
again, and the field says, "What is the |
farmer going to do now?' He walks |
heavily across the field. scattering seed !
as he walks. After awhile q cloud
comes. The field says. what more
trouble!' 1t begins to rain. After
awhile the wind changes to the north
east, and it begins to snow. Says the
ield: 'Is it not enough that 1 have
been torn and trampled upon and
lrowned? Must l now be showed un-
ler?" After awhile spring comes out of
he gates of the south, and warmth and
'ladness come with it. A green scarf
'andages the cash of the wheat field,
md the July morning drops a crown of
'old on the head of the grain.
'Oh," says the field, ''now I know the
lse of the plOw, of the harrow, of the
leavv foot, of the shower and of the
nowstorm. It is well enough to be
rodden and trampled ard drowned ard
moved under if in the end 1 can yield
uch glorious harvest" ''he that 60
tn forth and weepeth, bearing precious
eed. shall doubtless come again with re-
oicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
When I see God especially busy in
roubling and trying Christian, l know l
hat out of the Christians character
here is to come some especial good. A ,
uarryman goes down into the excava- '
ion. and with strong handed machinery
ores into the rock. The rock saws I
What do you do that for?" He puts S
owder in; he lights fuse. There is a I
numbering crash. The rock says, "Why, b
ne whole mountain is going to pieces" 4
he crowbar is plunged; the rock is v
ragged out After awhile 1t is taken c
ito the artists studio. 1t says. "WeIl,
ow have got good, warm, comfort I
Bile place at last" t
But the sculptor takes the chisel and s.
allet, and he digs for the eyes, and he t
Its for the mouth, and he bores for the 81
lr. ard he rubs it with sandpaper, un- q
the rock says, "When will this tor G
re be ended?" A sheet is thrown over t.
1t stands in darkness. After awhile n
is taken out The covering is re- y
owed. 1t stands in the sunlight, in the a
essence OF ten thousand applauding Ii
'ople. as they greet the statue OF. the 81
'et. or the prince, or the conqueror. l,
'Ah," saws the stone, snow | under g
and it. l am great deal better of I'll
w standing as statue of couqueror hi
an would have been down in the fo
larry" So God finds a man down in
e quarry of ignorance and sin. How m
get him up? He must be bored and Y
asted and chiseied and secured and m
and sometimes in the darkness. ey
But after awhile the mantle Of afflic- CT
N will fall off, and his soul will be
eeted by the one hundred and forty th
ar thousand and the thousands of so
ousands as more than conqueror Oh, av