Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-10-20


Mother, why do you love me? Why
do you not turn your back upon me as
every one else is doing?" Because, my
son." she answers, Il know that it is
rot yourself who is breaking my heart
, and killing me. 1t is sin! And l also
know that if l can only bring you to
know my Saviour he will give you
strength to overcome your sin, and you
will be the same loving boy you used
to be. No, Harry, will never leave
you or turn my hack upon you, no mat
ter how you make me suffer, until /
can bring you to Christ" Like a divine
mother, God never turns his back up
/ on his erring children who have gone
) astray. The farther we have wandered
i the more the Divine Comforter is will
: ing to go after us. He is ready to do
even more for our salvation and eter-
nal rescue than our own earthly moth
| ers are willing to do. In the psalm
lists own words we read, when my
father and my mother forsake me,
then the Lord will take me up or, as
the revised version more beautifully
expresses it, ''Then the Lord will gath
er me up" Ye hayward, sinful chill
dren, can We not look upon the face of
your God and see there a face illu-
mined with the tender, forgiving and
pardonlng love of a comforting moth
er?
Like the divine mother, God wants to
be the comforter of all those who have
made temporal failure of life-of those
whose early ambitions have been as
completely shattered and wrecked as
were the ships in Apia harbor when
the Samoan tornado drove them upon
the rocks He wants to be the COM
forter of those who have had to face
a bankruptcy court or who have had
the dearest desires of their hearts an
initiated He wants to be the com
forter of practically the whole human
race for temporal troubles that sooner
or later come to about everybody.
Treasures of Heaven.
Thus all the troubled and the sorely
disappointed of earth should take great
comfort out of the thought that Gods
love for them is like that of a divine
mother. They should be able to look
dL jill WOlluly WAClhCl SOOo VI
i'll. as did the Maori chief, who, though
born in a New Zealand mud hut. could
turn to the Duke of Devonshire when
he was being shown one of the most
beautiful palaces of the world and
say, This palace is not as beautiful
as the mansion which my heavenly
Father has builded for me-" Though
the troubled Christians may be clothed
in rags, yet they should feel that they
are rich, because God, as heavenly
mother, has prepared for them the
wedding garments with which they
shall be robed in the heavenly banquet
halls at the Kings marriage. Though
they may be poor, yet they should feel.
like the invalid son going home to his
earthly parent, that all the treasures
of heaven shall be forever theirs.
, God, like a divine mother. wants to
/ be the comforter of his children in
, their last earthly sicknesses as well as
. when he is bending over them in their
> cradles. He wants to be the comfort
| er of the dying invalid when he utters
the agonizing moan, Il cannot stand
, this pain any longer" as well as the
comforter of the little child who is sit
J ting for the first time in her Sunday
| class. He wants to be the comforter
! of all those who have been disappoint
) ed in life and who when they come &c
4 die may be gladdened by seeing him
: feeling like the old statesman, Henry
: Clay, who in his last moments looked
| up with sweet smile and cried, Moth
: er, mother" All, in that hour we shall
= need a mothers love as much as doe:
t the schoolboy who romps into the hall
t way calling to the cook. MARY. where
t is motherg' And this smile is tru,
/ because of all times when mothe
t chiefly longs to be by the side of he
g child it is when that child is dying.
Il When the eldest son of Queen Alex
f andra was sick unto death. the thel
r Princess of Wales had hundreds O
d trained and most skillful nurses VIII
g would gladly have answered to he
# call. But day and night, for tire
v long weeks, the mother of the Duke o
Clarence never left his side 1t wa
a her royal hand that smoothed tn
J. sheets. 1t was her arm that lifted til
.. the last kiss, as the immortal spiri
le sped from the pain racked form. Yes
is the mother, the true earthly mother
" wants to be the last comforter by th
v side of her dying child. 1t was in OF
f. der to satisfy this maternal desire tina
- Princess Alice. the daughter of Quee
.e Victoria, disobeyed the orders of tn
X physicians. and, bending over the be
n that was reeking with the diphtheriti
N germs, kissed her baby girl farewe
IS and at the same time pressed her ow
IN lips against the hot lips of death. Pril
w cess Alice laid down her life on a,
10 count of that maternal kiss. So God, q
TO divine mother, is always by til
M deathbedS of his children.
SIS The Transcendent Triumph.
Il God, like the divine mother, special
IL loves fO hover around tha doathho 4