The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-05-09

Mothers Day at the Broadway Bap-
tist church was one Of unusual inter
est. There was more than l,200 in
the Sunday school despite the storm;
there were above 300 in the Business
Mems Bible Class at the Palace Thea
ter; and IS additions to the church at
the morning and evening services Be.
cause of the overflowing crowds the
morning service was held in Conven-
ton Hall. At the evening hour the
pastor DR.. K. l.. Davidson, preached
to a packed house ON THE Mother
hood of Cod from the text. "As One
whom His Mother Comforteth, SO will
| Comfort you, Isaiah 66:13. He said
in part.
THE Bible not only teaches the
Fatherhood of God but it teaches also
as clearly the Motherhood of God. God
Is my Mother as truly as God is my
Father 1t is grand thing for me
TO walk up into the presence Of God
my Father and listen to his words of
counsel and reproof; but q better thing
by far than this, is to occasionally
walk into the arms Of God, my Mother,
and receive the kiss of love and have
Him speak 10 me out Of a mothers
heart. There is a mothers side as well
US fathers side TO the love Of God.
IL is Universal
"A mother loves all of her children
God loves all of His. For God so loved
the world that He gave His only be-
gotten Son that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish but have eter-
nal life.
Individual
1T makes no difference how many
children u mother has she loves them
all. They are individualized in her
affection and each one is the object
of her highest love. Gods love is not
only universal II is also individual
The great apostle Paul said Christ
loved me and gave himself for me-. As
many people as there are on earth
there are not so many but that God
knows and loves each one, however, OBJ
scure.
Unmerted and Unrequited
"A mother loves regardless Of wheth-
or her love is merited or requited. A
mothers love does not depend on the
love of her children for her. She loves
them when they are bad as well as
when they are good How bad does a
boy have TO be before his mother ceases
TO love him? Did you ever think Of
that? ] have seen n mother love her
boy TO the gallows and then wait un.
til the executioner had done his work
and then beg his body for burial that
she might have the privilege of placing
flowers on his grave and weeping over
it, God commendeth His love toward US
that while we were yet sinners Christ
died for US. God loves the lost souls
in hell Gods love for " in not de-
pendent on our love for Him. We love
Him because He first loved US.
Extravagant
"a mothers love is eXtravagant. It
wlthholds nothing. II piles on the sup
erfluities of life. Gods love is extra
VACANT. He has provided for every
want OF man. Do you want water?
Look around you; three-fourths of the
worlds surface is covered with water.
Do you want bread Look at the vast
harvest fields. waving together their
golden heads telling you. Come and
eat; be hungry no more. DO you de
sire gold? God has filled the bowels
of the earth with gold. DO you want
friends? God says take the sixteen
hundred million people that stand
around you and make every one Of
them your friend. We could have wor-
ried along without the fragrance OF
the flowers or the songs Of the birds
or the charms of ocean gems but God
gave them TO us because he knew that
they would make life little sweeter
and a little more attractive.
Sacrificial
MANY is the mother who has given
her life for her child A mother few
years ago. overtaken with her babe
by a prairie fire placed her babe in
hollow Mace in the earth and then |