The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-24
THE NOT POPULAR HYMN SUNG In MUSIC HALL TO-DAY.


wonderful things they could see from the
tops OF the trees. Well, now, you tell
boy of IL that he mustn't climb tree and
he will get up that tree soma way. And
so the Arnot children were all the time
teasing their father to let them climb
the tree; but the old sire said:
"No." One day he was busy reading his
paper, and the boy said, "father is reading
his paper. Let's slip down into the lot
and climb tree" One of the little fell
lows stood on the top OF the house to see
that father did not catch them. When his
brother got up on the first branch,
he said, "What do you see?" l"Whyl
/ don't see anything" "Then go
higher, You haven't got high enough"
SO up he went higher, and again the little
boy stretched and said, 'Well, now, wha.
do you seen 81 don't see anything"
"You aren't high enough, go higher"
And the little fellow went up as high as
he could GO, and down he came and broke
his leg. Willie said he tried to get him
into the house but he couldn't do it. He
had to tell his father all about it. He
said he was scared nearly out OF his wits.
He thought his father would be very angry.
But he ran into the house and told his
father, and be said his father
just hurled the paper and started
for the lot. When he got there,
he picked the boy up in his arms and
brought him up to the house. Then he
sent for the doctor And Willie said he
got new view OF that father. He found
out the reason why that father was so
stern. He said the moment that boy got
hurt no mother could have been more
loving and gentle.
My dear friends, there is not one COM
mandmcnt that has been given us which
has not been for our highest and best in
terest. There isn't commandment that
hasn't come from the loving heart OF God,
and what He wants Is to have us give up
that which Is going to mar our hap
piness in this life and in the life
to come. So don't let Satan
believe for moment that God doesn't
love you. 1t Is said when the Archbishop
OF France was thrown into prison there
was little window in the door of his cell
in the shape of cross, and man in the
cell next to him had been brought out
and shot down, and he didn't know
but that at any time they would
do the same with him.
He took lead pencil and wrote on the
top of that cross, "height," at the bot
tom, ""depth;" and on either OF the cross
"length" and "breadth." My friends,
that is Just what the cross OF Jesus
Christ tells us-tho height, depth,
length and breadth OF Gods
love. How a woman in this audience
can go to Calvary and sit there
five minutes and doubt that God is love
is a mystery TO me. used to put God as
stern Judge on the throne, and His Son
as one that had come to appease the earth
and make ID possible for me to get access
to that Father. My dear friends, since
became q father have made this discov-
eryAit took more love for God to give that
Son 10 die than il did for that Son to die.
Mothers, won't you rather die than to see
Jour own child die? ! used to tell my
mother, when / was little boy, that
loved her most. And my little boy when
he was about Ave years old would climb
up on my knee and put his arms around
my neck and say, "Papa, love
you the most" And the little fellow
thought he did. But I tell you, since
have become a father / have found out
that my love for my mother wasn't any
thing compared with my love for my
children. Supposing your little boy
should see you in your coffin. He would
feel grieved at the time, but his
grief would soon wear away and be
forgotten. But supposiDg you see your
little boy in the coffin. Would you ever
forget 10? DO you think this mother
right aown here would ever for
get that little thing sitting in her lap?
Never rs longas memory lasted she would
remember vat chiS. I cannot T. you
anything :. 'at tne los OF God.
I heard q man Spce say