Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

| wound, 40 God, our Mother, takes the small
est wound of the heart, and presses 1t to
the lips of divine sympathy. Gas one
whom his mother comforteth, SO will COM
| fort you"
remark farther that God has a mothers
patience for the erring. If one does wrong.
! first his associates in life cast him off; if he
goes on in the wrong way, his business
partner casts him off; If he goes on his best
| friends cast him off-his father casts him
of. But after all have cast him of, where
| and forsiYes the last time as we'll
as the first? Who sits by the
murderer's counsel all through
the long trial? Who tarries the longest at
the windows of culprit's cell? Who, when
all others think ill of man, keeps on
thinking we'll of him? 1t is his mother.
God bless her gray hairs, if she be still
alive, and bless her grave, if she be gonel
And bless the rocking chair in which she
used to rock, and bless the Bible she used
to readi
God to the Rescue.
So God, our Mother, has patience for all
the erring. After everybody else has cast
q man of, God, our Mother, comes to the
rescue. God leaps to take charge of bad
case. After all the other doctors have got
through, the heavenly Physician comes in.
Human sympathy at such time does not
amount to much. Even the sympathy of
the Church, 1 am sorry to say, often does
not amount to much. 1 have seen the most
harsh and bitter treatment on the part of
those who professed faith in Christ toward
those who were wavering and erring. They
tried on the wanderer sarcasm, and Billings
gate and caricature, and they tried title
tattle. There was one thing they did not
try, and that was forgiveness.
Oh, Church of God, quit your sarcasm
when man falls! Quit your irony, quit
your tittle-tattle, and try forgiveness. God,
your Mother, tries it all the time. A mans
sin may be like continent, but Gods for
giveness is like the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, bounding it on both sides.
The Bible often talks about Gods hand.
wonder how it looks. You remember dis
tinctly how your mothers hand looked,
though 80 years ago it withered away. 1t
was different from your fathers hand.
When you were to be chastised, you had
rather have mother punish you than father
1t did not hurt so much. And fathers
hand was different from mothers partly be-
cause God intended it to be different. The
knuckles were more firmly set, and the
palm was calloused. But mothers hand
was more delicate. There were blue veins
the fingers, some of them were picked with
q needle, the palm of it was soft Oh! it
was very soft. Was there ever any poultice
like that to take pain out of wound? SO
Gods hand is mothers hand. What it
touches it heals. If it smite you 1t does
not hurt as if it were another hand. Oh
your poor wandering soul in sin, it is not a
bailiff's hand that seizes you to-day. 1t is
not a hard hand. 1t is not an unsympathetic
hand. 1t is not a cold hand. 1t is not an
enemy's hand. No. 1t is gentle hand, a
loving hand, a sympathetic hand, a soft |
hand, mothers hand. ''As one whom mis-
Soothes Us in Death.
want to say, finally, that God has |
mothers way of putting a child to sleep. |
You know there is no cradle song like q |
After the excitement of the |
evening 1t rs almost impossible to get the |
child to sleep. II the rocking chair stop q
moment, the eyes are wide open; but the
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
n Christ, the time will come when we will
be wanting to be put to sleep. The dav of
,ur life will be done, and the shadows of
he night of death will be gathering around
Is Then We want God to soothe us, to hush
Is to sleep. Let the music at our going not
,e the dirge of the organ, or the kneIl of the
hurch tower, or the drumming of 'dead
march" but let it be the hush of mothers
lullaby. Oh! the cradle OF the grave will
'e soft with the pillow of all the promises.
When we are being rocked into that last
lumber, want this to be the cradle song:
AS one whom mother comforterh, so will
comfort you.''