The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-24

went on, from bad to worse until he was
arrested for murder. When he was on trial
Ii came out that he had murdered five other
people, and from one end Of the city to the
other there was a universal cry going up
against him, and during his trial they had
to guard the court house the Indignation.
was SO intense. The white haired mother
got just 90 near her boy as she could,
and every witness that went into the court
and said anything against that boy seemed
to hurt her more than the boy. When the
Jury brought in q verdict of guilt, there
was q great cry sent up, but the old
mother nearly tainted away; and when
the judge pronounced the sentence of
death they thought she would faint away.
After it was over the old mother got her
arms around him and kissed him,
and there in the court they
had to tear him from her embrace.
She went the length and breadth OF the
city trying TO get men to sign q petition
for his pardon. And then when he was.
hung she Just begged the governor to let
her have the body Of her boy that she
might bury 1t. They say that death has
torn down everything in this world, every
thing but mothers love. That 1t Ia strong
er than death itself The governor refused
to let the old mother have the body but
she would cherish the memory of that
boy as long rs she lived. A few months
after she followed her boy, and when she
was dying she sent word to the governor
and begged that her body might
be laid close to her boy.
That is mothers love. She
wasn't ashamed to have her grave pointed
out for all time as the grave OF the mother
of the most noted criminal the state OF
Vermont ever had. And the prophet
takes hold of the very idea. He says:
Scan q mother forget her childf" But
mothers love is not to be compared
to the love Of God. A friend of
mine was at dinner party
some years ago, and he was impressed
with the dignified, queenly manner with
which the lady of the house presided.
After he had gotten into the drawing
room he remembered he had left some-
thing in the dining room and he went
back to get IL. He found that same
lady sitting at the same table
with "a man that looked like tramp.
She rose and introduced him as her young
est son, and putting her loving arm
around him, she said, "He has gone far
away, but love him still" Is there q
mother here today that has five children,
and one has gone astray, and doesn't she
love that onef Doesn't hes heart yearn
for him? I sometimes think there is a
little more love because there Is pity
linked with the love.
Is there some poor fallen woman here
today who thinks she Is forsaken by God
and man, and whose own pure sisters have
cast her off and ostracised her? want
A.. n kAx
God is love. Let the love OF God sink into
your hearts today. He loves you because
you have sinned. Did you ever
think what has brought out the love OF
God? IL was Adams fall. When the
news reached heaven God came down and
sought him out. Adam ought to have
gone up and down Eden crying, "My God,
Ihave sinnedi Where art thou7" But in
and blessed him and told him that
the seed OF the woman should
bruise the serpent's head. And so you will
find all along through the scriptures that
He loves the world. There il not person
here today that can put her finger on a
portion OF scripture that teaches that God
hates a sinner because he has sinned. 1t
was man = calamity that brought out Gods
love. I have two sons and II one
OF them should go astrsy, II I loved him
II would make me angry to have him go
and do wrong. What would care that
he had done wrong II I didn't love him7
IL n Just because I love him that my boy
has gone sstray. DIR. A., one OF the great
est scotch divines, was in this country
before he died. His mother died when he
was a little boy only three weeks old, and
tneEs wss . large family Of Arnots.