Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-12-15


But after awhile the mantle Of afiiietion
will fall off, and his soul viii he greeted By
the one hundred and forty-four Thousand
and the thousands OF thousands rs more
than conqueror Oh, my friends, God, cur
Mother, is just rs kind in our Affections As
in our properties. God never touches US
but for our good If field clean and cul-
tured is better off than a barren field, and
! if a stone that has become statue IS bet
ter of than the marble in the quarry, then
that soul that God chastens may be his
favorite
Oh, tie rocking Of the soul is not the
/ rocking OF an earthquake. but the rocking
Of Gods cradle. As one whom his mother
comforteth, so will comfort yon. have
been told that the pearl in an oyster is
merely the result of a wound or a sickness
inflicted upon it, and / do not know but
4 that the brightest gems OF heaven will be
found TO have been the wounds of earth
kindled into the jeweled brightness Of eter-
nal glory.
THE INFANTS NEEDS.
remark that God has mothers capac-
! ity for attending tolittle 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
1 little bruises of the child. II the chill
have splinter IN its hand it wants the
mother to take it out, and not the father.
The father says, ooh, that is nothing,
but the mother knows it is something, and
that little hurt sometimes is very great.
So with God. our Mother; all our annoy
ances are important enough to look at and
sympathize with
Nothing with God is something. There
are no ciphers in Gods arithmetic. And IL
we were only good enough Of sight we
could see as much through a microscope
as through n telescope Those things that
may be impalpable and infinitesimal to us
may be pronounced and infinite to God 4
mathematical point is defined as having no
parts, no magnitude. 1t is 50 small you
cannot imagine it, and yet a mathematical
point may be starting point for great
eternity. Gods surveyors carry a very
long chain. 4 scale must be very delicate
that can weigh "a grain, but Gods scale is
30 delicate that lac can weigh with il that
which Is so small that grain IS a million
times heavier
When John kitto, a poor boy on back
street of Plymouth, cut his foot with
fully thar he became the great Christian
Reographer and commentator known
among all nations. So every wound of the
soul, however insignificant. God is willing
to bind no. As at the first cry of the child
the mother rushes to kiss the wound, so
God. our Mother, takes the smallest wound
Of the heart and presses il 70 the lips OF
divine sympathy. rs one whom his moth
or .,,,t ffs.t al :. 81. ,t,fIl .af,, fart .4at,
] remark further that God has a moth
er's patience for the erring. { che does
wrong, first his associates in lie cast hiil
off; II he goes on in the wrong way, his
business partner casts him of: Il he g,'ts
on, his best friends cast him oif-his father
casts him or But after all others have
cast him Of where does he goi Who Dol Is
no grudge and forgives the last time ms
well as the firstf Who sits by the muir
derers counsel all through the long triol'
Who tarries the longest at the windows If
a culprit's cellf Who, when all Others
think i'll Of Il man, keeps on thinking well
of hims II 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 sit, and
bless the cradle that she used to rock, and
bAtNe iAlf A9ANtA Niih AiTAfA ~ AfftA4
So God, our Mother, has patience for all
the erring. After everybody else has cast
a 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. am sorry TO say, often does
not amount to much.
THE CHURCH LACKS SYMPATHY
I have seen the most harsh aud bitter
treatment on the part Of those who pro
fessed faith in Christ toward those who
were wavering and erring. They tried on
the wanderer sarcasm and billingsgate
and carieature, and they tried title tattle |
There was one thing they did not try, and |
that was forgiveness. A soldier in Eng
land was brought by sergeant to the |
colonel What" says the colonel, bring |
ing the man here againl We have tried /
everything with him." "Oh, no. says the /
tried. | would like you TO try that"
''What is that" said the colonel. Said /
the man, Forgiveness"
The case had not gone so far but that It
might take that turn, and so the colonel
sdlu. W tils 9NuhE man. Nou nave uOHt ~
and So What is your excused" II have
no excuse. but ] am very sorry" said the
man. I'VE have made up our minds to
forgive you, said the colonel The tears
started He had never been accosted in
that way before. His life was reformed.
and that was the starting point for posi-
lively Christian life. 0 church of God,
quit your sarcasm when a man fallsl Quit
your irony, quit your little tattle and try
forgiveness. God, your Mother. tries it all
the time A mans sin may be like CON
tinent, but Gods forgiveness 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
distinctly how your mothers hand looked,
though thirty 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 ia
ther. 1t did not hurt so much And f.
theirs hand was different from mothers,
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