Milford chronicle., 1902-10-24


him, and Chamber up into his lap, and |
nestle as little lambs against the warm,
loving heart Of the Good Shepherd |
Christ today longs to be the divine |
friend of the boy swinging the bat, |
and of the girl dressing the doll, as |
well as the divine friend of the young |
men and women in the school |
mother, that God loves your children |
with a love more intense than that |
which fills your heart? If you have not !
made your children understand this, if
you have never sought to impart to
them the sweet fellowship and holy
joy which can bind their hearts to
him, you have been derelict in your
duty. you have not really consecrated |
them to Christs service. Teach them
how tenderly God loves them, and they
will learn to love, honor and trust him
as they love. honor and trust you.
Comforter of the Sinner.
The Divine Being is like a mother,
too, in wanting to be the forgiving
comforter of all who have gone astray.
When man does wrong and persists
in doing wrong, nearly all the world
will turn against him. First, as a rule,
the sinners retribution is found in his
employers anger, when he is dismissed
from the store. When a man has sin
ned once, or even twice. his employer
may forgive him. But when he APP
pears at the store intoxicated the third
or fourth time then comes the per-
emptory order that he must go at once
to the cashiers office and receive what
is owing him and forever leave the
establishment. Then his friends are
apt to turn against him. Then his
brothers and sisters and children and
father and even his wife do the same.
But though nearly all the human race
will turn against a sinner, as a rule,
there is one human being. If she is
alive who will never cease to reach
after the prOdigal. That person. as you
all know before ! speak her name, is
the sinners mother. The young man
may sin not only seven times, but sew
enty times seven; he may be so worth
less in the eyes of the world that all
his old friends may come to that moth
er and say her son is not worth being
saved, he may be so useless that
even the father may order the son out
of the home and disown and disinherit
him, but the mother will cling and con-
tinue to cling to her boy. If she thought
that thereby she could give her son one
more chance for repentance, she would
sell the clothes out Of her wardrobe if
necessary. she would move out of her
fine home and go to work, she would
sell her jewelry and even her wedding
ring. She would go to the extent of
! giving up her life If she could only
save her boy.
In imagination we can picture a
scene the like Of which is nightly hap
pening in thousands of homes It is
about 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning.
All the rooms are darkened in the
home except one. There the light is
steadily burning in the bedroom. Every
little while woman, prematurely gray
and feeble on account of mental sui.
fering. comes to the window and raises
the curtain and places an anxious face
against the pane. Then she goes back
to chair and wrings her hands. Their
she kneels by her sofa and offers al
earnest prayer. She cries and begins
to put on her hat and cloak. The mar
who is sleeping in the bed is reused by
the opening of the closet door, and hC
says: Mother, why don't you come t,
bed? 1t is useless for you to fret anC
cry away your life over that worthless
boy" "Oh, husband" she answers, &c
cannot give him up. He was so hand
some and good to me before the evi
companions got hold of him. 1t is no
my baby boy, Harry, that is so bad t
his mother 1t is sin, awful sin. An,
If, by the help of God, l can get sill
out of his heart, he will be the sam
J loving child that he used to be. al
r going out into the storm to try to hun
l him up"
r The Mothers PardOntng Love.
t Just then there is a quick ring at til
f bell. The mother rushes downstaiI
: and throws open the door. With tina
j two young men drag the intoxicate
j son into the hall and disappear liB
y evil spirits into the darkness. There
u a deep cash over the young mans for
9 head. His face is covered with blool
d The terror stricken woman throws he
IS self down by the PROSTATE form an
begins to wipe away the blood as 81
n cries: "Oh, my boy, my boy! My sil
q full, sinful hOyw When the young ma
e begins to regain consciousness from h
# drunken stupOr, he turns and sees b.
l. fearful face bending over him. Thel
" realizing the awfulness of his sin an
is how he is breaking her heart, he say
al Mother, why do you love me? WI
to do you not turn your back upon me {
Id every one else is doing?" Because, n
N son. she answers, Il know that it
n rot yourself who is breaking my hea
and killing me. 1t is sin! And al
Of know that if l can only bring you
n know my Saviour he will give "
re strength to overcome your sin, and "
Of will be the same loving boy you u.s.
n to be. No, Harry, 1 will never lea
Is you or turn my hack upon you, no ms
y, ter how you make me suffer, until
at can bring you to Christ" Like divi
IS, mother, God never turns his back L
1T on his erring children who have go
ry astray. The farther we have wander
of the more the Divine Comforter is wi
en- ing to go after US. He is ready to
ey even more for our salvation and ct
en- nal rescue than our own earthly mo-
on ers are willing to do. In the psal
lg- lists own words we read 'When
di- father and my mother forsake L
lg- then the Lord will take me up" or,
me the revised version more beautiful
AN expresses it, Then the Lord will ga
the er me up" Ye Maynard, sinful cl
&c. dren, can We not look upon the face
rly your God and see there a face il
ing mined with the tender, forgiving a
the pardOnlng love of a comforting mo
ces er?
ay- Like the divine mother, God wants
lit be the comforter of all those who hI
ich made temporal failure of life-of tn
)ne whose early ambitions have been
Ort completely shattered and wrecked
is were the ships in Apia harbOr wi
the Samoan tornado drove them VI
us, the rocks. He wants to be the G.
go fOrter of those who have had to
ntil a bankruptcy court or who have
our the dearest desires of their hearts
and initiated. He wants to be the c.
soft forter of practically the whole hun
10Y! race for temporal troubles that 500
eak or later come to about everybody.
d Treasures of Heaven.