Milford chronicle., 1902-10-24

ton or mother FOR her child is used
by Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage as a
symbol of the divine love for the hui
man race in this sermon on the text
Isaiah Xvi, 13, las one whom his
mother cOmforteth, SO will ! comfort
you"
Washington Irving has aptly been
called the father of American litera-
ture, but among all the writings Of the
wizard Of Sunnyside there is not a
chapter more trenchantly powerful
than that on 1.-THE Art Of BoObmak-
ing" In It the author pictures him
self asleep and dreaming in the
library of the British museum.
His head is pillOwed upon pile
Of musty tones. While he dreams
he sees the different authors of the
present day porting over the manu-
scripts of the ancient libraries and
making ample notes and verbatim cop
les Of the same and, indeed, going so
far as to cut entire leaves from the
books Of a Beaumont. a Fletcher, a
Pollock and a Ben JonsOn. Then the
dreamer sees these modern authors
FASTING together the verbatim excerpts
and the stolen leaves into new vol
umes and printing their own names
upon the title pages These literary
piracies continue until ut last the cry
of Thieves! Thievesw' Is raised Then
there is great hubbub and sculrying
among the modern authors because the
ancient writer's whose faces and bodies
are pictured within the quaint, old
fashioned frames hanging upon the
walls of the British museum are
changed into flesh and blood. ready to
snatch the new books out of the hands
Of the kidnapers and to claim them as
the offsprings of their own brain, some
Of them born centuries upon centuries
ago.
The obvious moral Of the imaginative
tale is that there is nothing new under
the sun. No man. woman or child. no
matter how intelligent, can ever lay
claim to true originality. We are all,
physically and mentally, as we'll as
spiritually, reproductions Of other
lives. We are all combinations Of other
peoples thoughts and desires and ac-
tons. even as the walls Of an ancient
palace are often huge mosaics of many
different stones cut from many diff
ferent quarries. While many have
contributed to make us what we are
the largest contribution is the maternal
one. How much Of all that Is good and
pure in our nature do we owe 10 ouI
mothersl How much Of all the peace
and comfort we have enjoyed 10 We
owe to their wise and loving ministry
1t is this fact, which we all recognize
that the prophet uses to impress on us
the love and kindness Of God NJ
smile could he have used so effective
as that in my text. "As one whom his
mother cOmforteth."
The Christian Mother.
The words of my text have for man!
of Us very tender and reverent appli
cation. The greatest lessons of a sac
rifcing and forgiving love have beef
learned by most of us from the now 81
lent lips of our Christian mothers
Though your mother may have beel
dead for ten or twenty years, yet yol
remember as though it were yes:erda,
how tenderly she cared for you whe
you were little child. You remembe
how she nursed you through that lon
fit Of sickness when you were abOu
fifteen, and every time she left tn
room you would call: Mother mother
Where is mother" You we'll ramen
Der how she placed her hand upo
your shoulder and looked long an
earnestly into your eyes the day 70
left for the great city or college, q
though she were trying to make up hC
mind whether she could trust 70
away from home. You also rem emb'
how, when man grown, you had tn;
. great trouble in life, and your chi,
: desire was to get back to the old HON
stead and tell mother. And, alas, yC
: well remember the dark day when "
carried her out to gently let her boz
down into the open grave, when "
laid her away to sleep among Il
+ spring flowers or when you cover,
her up under the soft quilt Of spotle
snow, the purest, gentlest. mobiles
most fOrgiving and helpful of hum,
|. companions was forever taken fro
= your side. Remembering all this 10
and devotion, we realize the force
. the metaphor which Isaiah, the prop
ct, uses when, seeking to show he
tenderly God loves and cares Tor /
children. he takes the gentle, materr
influence which has done so much
develop our physical and mental a
e. spiritual life and says "As one who
- his mother comfOrteth, 50 win / co
:. fort you"
l. The Divine Being shows the love
= q mother in wanting to be the co
er fo-ter Of all the young folks who {
" preparing for the great struggle
d, life. The mother wants to be the
spring friend of her boys and 81
during the long years Of immature
= when the world at large is sneering
> them and laughing at their ambitio
as though they were the mere G
growths Of a foolish and a visloni
v brain. She wants to be the friend
the young men and the young won
during those school days when Il
have no earning capacity and w
they are entirely dependent u
others for financial support The str
'0' gle Of life even under the best col
~ tons is a hard one, but thai. str
&c. gle does not commence, ag 81
~ ~ people suppose. when the young I
zee. stands with a diploma in hand on
s ~ graduating day from school or coll,
Ie's 1t commences away back in the sc,
ihA teens" 1t commences with the 70
Ons girls failure who is trying for
i i9G prize in the schOolrOOm. 1t CONNER
with the disappointments of the p
I'M az ground. 1t commences with those
tie youthful sorrows and trials WI
RI. the boy and the girl can tell to no
. but mother. Yes, the mothers com
II which is given to the young folk
M an all important comfort. 1t Isl SUE
necessary comfort that many of
when we were young, often could nc
to sleep because of our weeping I
IT we heard her foot moving across
Il, bedroom floor and felt her gentle
upon our cheek and heard her
49, voice saying: Never mind, my
1t will come out all right. l will 81
ntst to your papa about the matter, al
know he will let us do what You wG
God pity the man who never had
gentle influence of a comforting; me
TO. during the days of childhood o
young manhood God pity the
p V1rbo novoYs Iynox,y tho hoIxy low o. no