Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-12

word Of one syllable, and we do not
know it yet-faith, faith. When we
come to that word we stumble, we halt,
we lose our place, we pronounce it
wrong. Still God, our Mother, puts US
in the school of prosperity, and the let
tiers are in sunshine, and we cannot
spell them. God puts us in the school
of adversely, and the letters are black,
and we cannot spell them. II God were
merely king, he would punish us; if
he were merely d father he would whip
US; but God is d mother, ana 90 we are
borne with and helped all the ,rav
through.
A MOTHER TEACHES HER CHILD
chiefly by pictures. If she wants to set
forth to her child the hideousness OF a
.ouarrelsome spirit, instead Of giving
lecture upon that subject, she turns
over a leaf and shows the child two
bows in wrangie, and says, "Does not
thot look horrible?" If she wants to
teach her child the awfulness Of war,
she turns over the picture book and
shows the war-charger, the headless
trunks of butchered men, the wild,
oloodshot eye Of battle rolling under
lids OF flame, and she says, THAT Is
yarr' The child understands it. Ia
great many books the best part are the
pictures. The style may be inSipld, the
TYNE poor, but picture always attracts
= cbiId's attention. Now God, our Moth
or. teaches US almost everything by pic
lures. Is the divine goodness 20 be set
forth? How does God, our Mother,
teach us? BY an autumnal picture. The
harms are full. The wheat stacks are
rounded. The cattle are chewing the
cud lazily in the sun. The orchards
are dropping the ripe pippins into the
Ian of the farmer. The natural world,
that has been busy all summer, seems
now to be resting in great abundance.
We look at the picture and say, Thou
crowpest the year with thy goodness, and
thv maths drop fairness. Our family
comes around the breakfast table. II
has been a very cold night but the
Icbildren are all bright, because they
sleDt under thick coverlids, and they
ara now in the warm blast of the open
register, and their appetites make luXu-
ries out Of the plainest fare, and we
look at the picture and say, "Bless the
Lord, 0 my soul"
GOD WISHES TO SEE FORTH
the fact that in the judgment the good
will be divided from the wicked. How
is IL done? By a picture; by parable
"a fishing scene. A group OF hardy
men. long bearded. geared for standing
m the waistiu water; sleeves rolled up.
Long oar, sungilt; boat battered as
thopsb Il had been playmate Of the
storm. A full net, humping about
with the fish, which have just discov-
cred their captivity, the worthless moss
bnnkers and the useful founders all in
the same net. The fisherman puts his
hand down amid the sQuirming fms,
lt.kes out the moss-bunkers and throw:
them into the water, and gathers the
good fish into the pan. So, says Christ
II Shall be at the end of the world. The
had he will cast away, and the good ht
will keep. Another picture,
God, our Mother, wanted TO set tortl
the duty Of neighborly love, and 1t Il
dome by picture. A heap OF wounds
ON the road to Jericho. A traveller ha'
been fighting robber. The roooel
stabbed him and knocked him down
Two ministers came along. They looi
a. the moor fellow, but do not help him
A traveller comes along--a Samaritan
He savs "Whoa" TO the beast he Is rid
ING. and dismounts. lie examines tn
wo6nds: he takes out some wine, ant
Win II washes the wounds, and then 81
takes some oil, and puts that In % max