The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-04
CRADLE SONG OF
GOD HIS THEME
Rev. l. L. LoofbourOW of Oak
land Supplies Methodist
Church Pulpit.
DELINEATES CHARACTER
DESCRIBES THE DIFFERENT
TRAITS IN HUMANS.

The Rev. Leon L. Loofburow of the
Eighth Avenue Methodist church of
Oakland. Cal, and a brother of District
Attorney i. {. LoofburrOw. yesterday
occupied the pulpit of the First MethO-
dist church OF salt Lake, in place of the
Rev. Francis Burgette Snort, who IS
away on his vacation. Rev. Mr.. Loot-
borrow spoke on The Cradle Song OF
God,' adapted from Isaiah 66:13- As
one whom his mother cOmtortetn- so
viii 1 comfort you" He said in part:
In the days before photography was
| in use, there was a branch OF art called
miniature painting. Reproductions OF
the old masters or portraits were exc
/ cuted on small pieces OF ivory, some
/ times only an inch square. When the
/ Bible says that man was created IN
| the image OF Cod IL means that man
is sort of miniature Of the character
/ Of God. ould we know what tne
| power OF God Is? Take man at his
I strongest-a Napoleon or Hartman.
/ strip him Of all low, selfish and un-
worthy motives and measures. Enlarge
/ this wonderful capacity to govern from
/ its tiny miniature here to the measure
of God. That is the power that creates
/ and governs the universe.
Difference In Character.
But men and women excel In diff
| ferent points of character The pecu-
/ liarly masculine virtues are power
| strength and wisdom The peculiarly
| feminine virtues, on the other hand.
| are affection, sympathy, forgiveness
| and love. II is because OF these that
| we idealize wOmanhOod. And these
/ qualities that we so much admire an
/ them are. like mans, but the miniature
| or reflection Of the character OF Cod
| How true the revelation that we
| have Of God in the Bible Is when II
| makes Him the perfect embodiment OF
the highest WOmanly VlrtueSl Ana II
n YOU have never thought Of it, you viii
be surprised how often the image OF
i moth erhood is used in the scriptures
to tell us OF God.
Il MY text this morning is from one
Of these passages where the symbolism
is entirely maternal Israel is cnlld
| brought to birth by Jehovah. carried
in his everlasting arms, dandled upon
his knee. 1t is God singing the song
! world. AS one whom his mother COM
forteth. (stiI in his crying) 50 viii
comfort YOU the prophet represents
4 God as saying.
Let me call your attention 10 three
of the attributes Of God that we know
best through motherhood. They form
: three Of the notes In that great craole
: Note of sympathy.
The first is the note Of sympathy
| How the mother reflects in her nature
the sympathy Of Cod Did you ever
! see a good mother who was not ready
| to have poured into her ears every griel
Of her little ones2 Whoever heard .
true mother say 20 the child who cam,
to her with tears. Go away l don
| want to hear your troubles. 1 care
! nothing about them No, every trivia
| sorrow is met by her sympathy. Sh'
feels every pang OF her child.
'"This. Beautiful as IL is, is only
type of Gods sympathy. Lift It up
| spread II out until the iamlly Grey
takes in every man. Yet Cod mas Ih'
| mother nature. Not a grief or sorrow
/ poured into His ears is untelt Dy Kim
. Touched with the feeling OF our in
/ firmities. how he loves to gather US .
/ His bosom and WHISPER comfort 10 Jul
The Bible is full Of this sympathll
| Of God. But nowhere Is II So luil.
shown as In the life OF Jesus. he wen
: 10 the needy. the poor. the SICK. HOV
many of His words and his deeds WtI'
, FOR them2 How like the mother sym
! pathy il all is. surely THIS note ls on
we cannot fail TO near IN the cIaul
song God IL singing over US
Another note IS that OF genLlcness
Is there anything IN All the worla $
gentle as a mother with her babe
: With what tenderness she handles ~
wee body. How tirelessly she watche
over II. ,.t
reed that men would tramp on with
. out noticing. He will not break
; Jehovah is gracious and mercitul
: slow to anger and Of great loving klnd
2 ness: Jehovah is good TO all, and M
tender mercies are over all HIS Works
l How do we learn that? FROM men, a
through the ages they have gone out Z
struggle ana TO WARP No. FROM IN
= mother singing her cradle song. ina
D is the ideal of gentleness we eNalt an
: put on the throne of the universe. i
Z is that divine gentleness that teacne
us that I'm all the affairs Of life strengt
; and tenderness should go hand IN hano
Consistency Virtue.
/ THE third note is that Of constancy
: | DO Won know how much a good mothe
I / endiires for her children? / do not
= | nor do you. unless you are one IN
can exhaust a fathers patience tWent
times over Yet even greater, vastl
| greater, is Gods love.
Z did God make our mothers bette
\ | than He Himself is2 No. but lie CAV
( | them to US to teach us the goodness 2
, ! His nature and the greatness or III
o love to us. lie is the publication. IN
n | gIorification Of these tenderest atfeo
I | tions Of earth. Who Of us today WI
! not come back to such God. who. eve
now. like one whom His mother com
e forteth. is singing to us that deares
X Of all cradle songs. the song OF IN
2 divine sympathy. and gentleness. an