The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

the returned adventurer. Tears run
ming down the face until they come t.
a smile-the night dew melting into the
morning. No work on the farm that
day; for 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 merry Pic
ture-Prodigal son returned from the
wilderness. So God our Mother, teaches
US everything by pictures
remark again, that God has a
mothers favoritism A father some
times shows sort of favoritism Here
is boy-strong, well, of high forehead
and quick intellect. The father says:
Il will take that boy into my firm yeti"
or, II will give him the very best posi-
bic education" There are instances
where for the culture of one boy all the
others have been robbed A sad favor
itism; but that is not the mothers
favorite. L will tell you her favOrite.
| There is a child who at two wears of
age had fall He has never got over
it The scarlet fever muffied his hear
| ing. He is not what he once was. That
| child has caused the mother more
anxious nights than all 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 a charge in regard to him.
The first thing on coming IN is to ask
in regard to him Why. the children
of the family all know that he is the
favorite, and say: Mother, you let him
do just as he pleases, and you give him
a 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 invalid child.
weary on the first mile of LIES journey:
carrying an aching head, weak side.
an irritated lung. So the mother
ought to make him a favorite. God
our Mother, has favorites. Whom the
! Lord loveth he chasteueth."
or says one, Il cannot understand
all that about affection" \ refiner of
silver once explained it to a Christian
| lady: Il put the silver in the fire. and
keep refining it and trying it till l can
see my face in it, and then | take it
out" just so it is that God keeps His
dear children in the furnace till the di-
vine image may be seen in them; then
they are taken out of the fire.
When | see God especially busy in
troubling and trying a Christian know
that out of that Christians character
there is to come some especial good. A
qGarryman goes down into the excava-
ton and with strong handed machinery
bores into the rock. The rock says:
what do you do that for?" He puts
powder in; he lights the fuse. There Is
laundering crash. The rock SAYS:
''Why, tne whole mountain is going to
pieces" The crowbar is plunged: the
rock is dragged out. After a while il
is taken into the artists studio 1t
says: ''Well. now 1 have got to a good.
warm. comfortable place at last" Blu.
the sculptor takes the chiSel and NAL
let and he digs for the eyes, and
cuts for the mouth, and he bores for
the ear, and he rubs it with sand
paper, until the rock says: when will
this torture be euded?' A sheet Is
thrown over it 1t stands in darkness
After while it is taken out The COW
ering is removed. 1t stands in the sun
light, in the presence of 10000 applaud
ing people, as they greet the statue OF
the poet or the prince or the conqueror.
Air says the stone. now | under
stand it. l am a great deal better off
now standing as n statue of conquer
cr than | would have been down in the
quarry" So God finds Il man down in
the quarry of ignorance and sin. How
to get him up? He must be bored and
blasted and chiseled aud secured, and
stand sometimes in the darkness.
But after a while the mantle OF afffic-
ton will fall OFF and his soul will be
greeted by the one hundred and forty
four thousand. and the thousands ofthou-
sands, as more than conqueror. o. my
friends, God, our Mother, is Just as kind
in our Affections as in our prjsperities.
God never touches us but for our good.
If field clean and cultured is better of
than a barren field. and if d stone that
has become a statue is better off than
the marble in the quarry then that soul
that God chastens may be His favorite.
o, the rocking of the soul is not the
rocking of an earthquake, but the rock
ing of Gods cradle. ''As one whom his
mother comforteth, 50 will / comfort
you"
l remark that God has a mothers
capacity 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 it takes the mother to sympathize
with all the little ailments and little
bruises of the child. II the child have
a splinter in its hand, it wants the
mother to take it out, and not the
father. The father says: 20, that is
nothing" but the mother knows it is
something. and that little hurt some
times is very great. So with God, our
Mother; all our annoyances are i'm
portant enough to look at and sympa-
thiZe with. Nothing with God is some
thing. There are no cipher's in Gods
arithmetic. And if we were only good
enough of sight, we could see as much
through microscope as through tel
escope. Those things that may be i'm
palpable and infiuitesimal to US may be
pronounced and infinite to God A
mathematical point is defined as having
no parts, no magnitude 1t is so small
you cannot imagine it, and yet mathe-
NAUTICAL point may be a starting point
for a great eternity. Gods surveyors
carry very long chain 4 scale must
i, 4
but Gods scale is so delicate
that He can weigh with it that
which is so small that grain is 1.OOO.-