\ BEV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. Bubject: “The Mother of AL" TEXT: **As one whom hisx mother com fort eth, so will I comfort you," Isaiah xvi, 18 The Bible is a warm letter of affaction from a parent to a child, and yet there are many who sea chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gen tle dew in one summer that will not cause as much remark as ons hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are mora struck by those passages of the Bible that an. nounce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection. There may coms to a household twenty or fifty letters of affection during the year, and they will not make as much excitement in that homes as one sheriffs writ, and so there ara people who ars more attentive to faows passages which announce? the judgment of God than to those which announce His merey and His favor God is a lion, Jolin says in the book of Rev- elation, God is a breaker, Micah announces in his prophecy. God is a roc: God is a king. But hear also that God is love, A father and his child are walking out in the fields on a summer's dav and thers comes up a thundergtorm, and there isa flash of lightning that startles the child, and the father says, ‘My dear, that is God's eye." There comes a peal of thunder, and the father says, ‘My dear, that is God's voice.” But the clouds go off tae sky, and the storm is gone, and light floods the floods the landscape, and the father forgets to say, “That is God's smile.” The text of this morning bends with great gentleness and love over all who are pros. trate in sin and trouble, It lights up with compassion. It melts with tenderness, It breathes upon us tha hush of an eternal lul- laby, for it announces that God is mother. *‘Asone whom his mother forteth, so will I comfort you.” I remark, in the first place, that Gol has a mother’s simplicity of 1ustraction, A father does not know how to teach a child the A B C. Men are not skillful in the primary department, but a mother has much patience that she will tell a chiid for the hundredth time the differenc: between F apd G and between | and J. Sometimes it is by blocks; sometimes Ly the worsted work; sometimes by ths slate; sometimes by the book. She thus teaches the child and has no awkwardness of condescension in so doing. So God, our Mother, stooss down to our infantile minds, Though we are toll a thing a thousand times and we do not ualerstaci it, our heavenly Mother goes on, line upon line, our com- a little, God has been teaching some of us thirty years and some ol us sixty years one word of one syllable, and we do not know it yet—{aith, faith, When we come to that word we stumble, we halt, we los: our | place, we pronounce it wrong. Still God's patience is not exhausted, God, our Mother, puts us in the school of pros perity, and the letters are in sunshine, and | we cannot spell them. God puts us into the school of adversity, and the Pt are black | and we cannot spell them. If God were | merely a king He would panish us; if He weze simply a father He would whip us; | Laut God is & mother, and so wa are born | with and helped all the way through. ! A mother teaches her child ctjefly by pic- | tures. If she wanis to set forth to her caild | the hideonsness of a quarrelsoms spirit, io- stead of giving a lecture upon that subject she turns over a lea! and shows the caild two boys in a wrangle, and savs, “Does not | that look bBorrible?’ 1f she wants to teach her child tae awfulness of war she turns over the pictura book and shows the war charger, the headless trunks of butchered | mep, the wild, biocodshot eye of battle roll. ing under lids of flame, an {shes says, “‘That fs war? The child understands it. In a great many books the best parts are the pictures. The style may bs iasipid, the | type poor, but a picture always attracis a child's attention, Now God, our Mother, teaches us almost everything by pictures. 1s the divine goodness to be set forth? How does Gol, cur Mother, teach us? By an aatumpal picture, The baros are full. The wheat stacks are rounded. The cattie are chewing the cud lazily in the sun. The orchards are dropping tae rips popping into the lap of the farme The nataral world thot has been busy all summer seeds now to be resting in great abuadance, Wa look at the picture ant say, ‘Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness, and Thy paths drop fatness.” Our family comes around the breakfast table, It has been a | very cold might, but the children are ali bright because they slent un ler thick cover. lets, and they are now in the warm blast of luzuries out of the plainsst fare anil we look at the picture and say, "Bless the Lord, OU my soul ™ God wishes to set forth the fact that in the judgment the good will be dividel from the wicked, How is it done? By a picture; by a parable—a fishing scene. A group of hardy men, long bearded, geared for stand- Long oar, sun gilt; boat vattered as though it had been a playmate of ths storm. A full net thumping about with the fish, which bave just discoversd their captivity, the worthless mossbunkers and the puts bis hand down amid the squirming fins, takes out the mossbunkers and throws them into the water and gathers the good fish in- to the pail. Bo, says Christ, it shall be at the end of the worid. ‘The bad He will cast away, and the good H: will keep. Another picture, God, our Mother, wanted to set forth the duty of neighborly love, and it is done by a picture. A beap of wounds on the road to Jericho, A traveler has been fighting a robber. ‘I'ne robber | knocked bim down. Two ministers come along. They look at the poor fellow, but do not heip him. A traveler comes along a Samaritan. He says “Whoa!” to the beast he is riding and dismounts. He ex- amines the wounds: he tage out soms wine, and with it washes the wounds, snd then bie takes some oll and puts that in to make the wounds stop smarting, and then he tears off a piece of his own garment for a bandage. ben he helpe the wounded man upon the beast and walks by the side, hold- ing him on until they come to a tavern, He says to the landlord, ' Here is money to pay the man's board for two days; take care of him: if it costs anything more charge it to me, and will pay it.” Pictare-—"The Goold Samaritan, or Who Is Your Neighbor?’ Does God, our Mother, want to set forth what a foolish thing it is to go away from the right, and how glad divine mercy is to take back the wi er? How is it dons? BIS ure. A father. Large farm th tat sneep and oxten, Fine honsw with te wardrobe, Discontentad boy. Goes Bharpers flesce him. Feeds bogs, ck, Starts back. Hees an old It is father! The hand, torn Toe foot, in: The nd bleeding, g bare shoulder, showing through the tatters, gete a robe, The stomacn, wing itseit with gets a fall platter smoking with ment, father cannot eat for look - ing at the returned adventurer. Tears ran down the face until they come to a the night dew melting into the mora- ov mts an | comes back promis pvr fo God knows that is enough “A an to be merry,” for ove duy, And they bog v He graved, Is not the divine maternity ever thus teaching us? I remark again that God has a mother's favoritism. A father somoetimesshowss sort of favoritism. Hereis a boy-—stronz, well, of high forehead and quick intellect. The father savs, “I will take that boy into my i} firm vet,” or, “I will givas him the very best if possible education,” Thers ars instances i where, for the culture of ths ono boy, all the others have been robbe ll. A sad favor- 1 itism, but that is not the mothsr's favorite, I will tell you her favorite, There is a child wha at two years of aze had a fall, He has never got avor it, The scarlet fever mufilad his hearing, He is not what he once was, That child has causad the mother more anxious nights than all the other children. If he couczhs in the night she springs out of a sound slesp and goes to him. gard to him. The first thing on coming in is to ask in ragard to him. Why, the children of the family all know that heis the favorite and say: “Motaer, you ot him do just as he pleases, and you give him a great many things which you do not give us. He is your favorite." The mother smiles: she knows it i= so. So heonught to be, for if there isany one in the world that needs sympathy more than another it is an invalid child, weary on the first mile of life's jour- ney--carrying an achinz head, a weak side, an irritated lune. So the mother ought to make him a favorit», God, our Mother, has favorite. “Whom tae Lord loveth He chasteneth’’ —that i+, one whom He espacial- ly loves He chasten:tl, God loves us all, but there is one weak ing and faint’ ‘That is the one who lies nearest and mors perpetually on ths great | loving heart of Got, Why, it never coughs { but our Mother—Goi-—-hears it. It never stirs a weary limb in the bad but our Mother —Godeinows of it. There is no such a watcher as God. The best nursa may be overborne by fatigue and fall aslesp in the chair: but God, our Mother, alter being up a vear of nights with a suffsring child, never slumber; or sleeps, “Oh,” says one, ‘1 cannot nndersiand all that about affliction! A refiner of silver once sxplained it to a Caristain lady: 1 pat the silver in tha fire, and I keep refining it and trying it till I can see my face in it, and i then take it out.” Just so itis that God keeps His dear children iu the furnace till | the divine image may bs seen la them, hen they ars taken out of the fire. “Well” | says some one, “if that is the way that God | favorite,” Toere is a bang at the bar and a rattle of whifll stress Tue flold says, “What is the Toe the sod, and the furrow reacass from fences Next day there is a baog, at the bars ani a rattle of waiffleirees again. The ing to do now? The farmer hitches the aud tearing across the Held, Next day there is a rattle at the bars again, sud the field sayy, "What is the far. mer going to do now? He walks heavily across the fleld, scattering seed as he walks After awhile a c.oul comes. The fleid says, “% ast, more troudle™ It begins to rain, Says the field: “Is it not enough that I have been torn and trampled upon and drowned? Must I now be soowsd under? After awhile spring comes out of the gates of the south, and warmth and gindness come with it. A green and the July morning drops a crown of gold va ih," tout, of the shower and of ths snowstorm, it well enough to be trodden and trampled and drownel and snovred under if ins the end [can yield such a glorious har- vest.” “He that gosth forth and weepell, bearing precious seed, shall doutnless come again with rejoicing, bringing bis with him.” When [ see God especially busy in (oon bling and trying a Carstian, i kpow that out of that Coristian's character there is to emo some especial good, A quarryman goss down into the excavation, and with strong handed macainery Doras into the rock. The rock says, “What do you do that for?" He puts powder in; he lights a f There is a thundering ~rash. The rock says, Why, whole swountain is goinz to pieces.” Lhe crowbar is plunged the rock is dragged out. After awhile it is into the artist's studio It now | have got a good, wim, is sheaves fy ae ins, the say, “Well, Com s1 an | mal- | 1 Bat the sculptor takes the chis jet. and he digs for the eyes, and he nuts for A sheet | is thrown over it. It stands in Jdarcn.ss. | After awhile it is taken out Me covering It stands ia the sunlight, in the | presence of ten thousand applauding people, as thoy greet the statutes of the post, of the | prince, or the conqueror, “Ah.” says the stone, “now I understand 1 am a great deal batter off now stand. ing as a statue of a conqueror than I would | have been down in the quarry.” Ho God | finds a man down in the quarry of ignorance ! and sin. How to get him up? He must be | bored and blaste | and chiseled and scoured | and stand sometimes jn the dargnes, it. the one hundred and iorty-four thousand | and the thousands of thousands as more than | conqueror. Oa, my friends, God, | Motuer, ie jost as kind in oar afflictions as ! in our prosgerities, | but for our good, If a field clean tured is better off than a barren field, and if | a stone that has becowie a statue is better off | than the marole in the quarry, then that | soul that God chastzus may be His favorite, Oh, the rocking of the soul is not the rocking of an earzhquake, but the rocking of | God's cradle, '‘As one whom his mother | comforteth, so will I comfort you.” Ihave | heen told that the pearl in an oyster is | merely the result of a wound or a sickness | infli ted upoa it, and I donot know but that’ | the brightest gems of ivavan will be found { to have been the wounds of earth kindled jnto the jeweled brightness o. glory. 1 remsrk that Gol has a mother's eapaci- ty for attending to little hurts, The father is shocked at the broken boas of the child or at the gic ines that sats ths cralle on firs with fever, but it take: the mother to sym- thizs with ail ths little ailments and litte aises of the obild, If the child have a splinter in its hanl it wants the m wher to take it out and not the father. says, “Ob, that ix nothing,” but the mother knows it is something, and that a little hurt sometimes is very great. Ho with fol, our Mother: all our annoyances are important enouzh to look at and sympathize with. Nothing with God is sometaing. There ars no ciphers in (Go 1's arithmatic, Ani it we wer only goot enough of wig as we could $00 ~¢ much through a microscopes 8s through a telessope. Thosy things that may be palpable and infiniterimal to us may be noel and infinite to Gol. A mathematical point is defined as having no parts, no magaitate, It isso amall you can. not imagine it, and Jus a mathematics! point may be a ng point for a great eternity, God's surveyors carry a very lnng chain, A soale must bs very delicate rhat ean weigh a grain, but God's scale ds #0 dell cate that He own waiga wita it tast waicn is so small that a grain is a million a pow on a back gor ois, hia oot with a of glass, God it up #0 success that he became the great Coristian ani a commentator divine sympathy. “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." I remark further that God has a mother's patience for the erring. If one does wrong first his associates in lite cast him off; if he | goes in the wrong way his business partner ! cast him off =his father casts him off, Bat { after all others have cast him off, where does ha go?! Who holds vo grudge and for- | gits by the murderer's counsel | the long trial? | the windows of a eulprit's cell? Who, when all others think ill of a man, keeps on think- Ling well of him! It is his mother, God i bless her grav hairs if she be still alive, and bless her gravel! she bs gone! And bless the rocking chair in which sbe usad to sit, { and bless the oradle that she used to rock, and bless the Bible she used wo read! So God, our Mother, has patienca for all | the erring, After everyoody else has cast a | man off God, our Mother, coms to the res. | ene, God leaps to take canrge of a bal case, { After all che other doctors have got through | the heavenly Physician comes in, Human | sympathy at such a time does not amount to i much, Even the sympathy of the caurch, {1 am son FY 10 say, often doss not amount to { much. 1 have seen the most harsh and bit. | ter treatment on the part of those who pro- | fesse { faith in Christ toward those who were | wavering and erring. They tried on the wanderer sarcasm and billingsgate and cari- { cature, and they tried tittle tattle, Toere { was one thing they did nos try, and that was | forgiveness, | A soldier in England was brought by a | sergeant to the co'onel. "What," says the eolone!, “oringing the man here again! We | have tried everything with him." “Oh, | no,” says the s:rgeant; “‘thers is one thing you havo not tried. I would like you to try that.” “What ix that? savs the colonel | Baid the man, “Forgiveness.” Toecase had not goae so far but that it might take that | turn, and so the colonel said: Well, young | nan, you bave don® so and so, What is { your excuses!” “I hiv: no excus, but lam | very sorry,” said ths man. “We have made up our minds to lorgive | you,” said the colonel. The tears starte?, i He had never been scouted in that way be- | fora. His life was reformed, and that was | the starting point for a positively Carstian { life, © church of God, quit your sarcasm when a8 man falls! Quit your irony, quit | your tattle tattle, and try forgiveness, (rod, | your Mother, tries it all the time, A man's sin may be like a continent, but God's for. | giveness ix like the Atlantic and Pacific voeans, bounding it on both si fox, | The Bible often talks about God's band | { wonder how it looks. You remember dis { tinctly how your mother's hand looked, | though thirty years ago it witherad away ! it was different from your father's hand. When you were to be chastised you nad | rather have mother punish you than father. { 1t did not hurt so much. And father's hand | was different from mother's, partly because it had outdoor toil, and partly becauss God | intended it to bs different. The kouckies | wers more firmly set, and ths palm was cal. louse 1, But mother's hand was more delicate, i There were b.ue veins running throuth the back of it. Chouzh the flugers, some of them, were pickel with a needle, ths palm of it was soft. Ob, it was very soft! Was | there ever any poultice like that to take | pain out of a wound? Ho God's band is = | mother's hand, What it touches it heals 17 it smita you it does not hurt as if it were | another hand. Oh, you poor wandering soul in sin, it is not a lailiff's hand that seizes youtoday! Itis nota hard nani, It is not an unsympathetic hand, It is 5. a cold hand. It is not an enemy's hand, No. It | fsa gentle band, a loving band, a syapa- thetic hand, a soft haod, a mother’s hand, “As one winom his mots comforteth, so will I comfort you. I want to say finally that God mother's way of putting a child to | You know «here is po cradls song like a mother's After the excitement of the even- ing it is almost impossible to the child to sleep, If the rocking chair slop a mo- ment ths eye: are Wi open: but the mother’s patience and the moths: soothing manner keap on u after awhile the angel of slumber puts his wing over ths plliow, Well, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, thes time will come wien we will be wanting to be pul t The day of our life will be done, and the 2 of the night of desth will by gather und ne, Then wo want Gold to soolhs to bush us to sloop, Lt the music at our going not be ths dirge of the organ, the knell of church tower, or the dramming of a “Jead march,” but let it be the hush of a mother's lullaby. (a, the cradie of the grave will be with the pillow of all the promisas! When we are being rockasd into thas last slumber 1 want tii to be the cradie song, “As one whom a mother comforieth, so will I comfort you.’ all through has Nn sleep, ue in stil » wleap. ar ue, or we ’ soft Asleep in Jesus! Far from thes hv kindred and thelr groves may be; But thine js sil a lnessad ioe) From which nope ever wake 10 weep. A Scotchman was dying. His daughter Nellio sat by the bedside, It was Buanday and the bell of the church was ringing, calling ths people to charce. The good oid man, in his dyiag dream, thought to be when he went in the sleigh across the river, and as the evening bell struck up in his dying dream he thought it was the call 0 caurcs, | He said, “dark, children, the bells are ringing: we shall ve inate; we must make the mare step out quick’™ He shivered, ani then ssid: “Pall the vuffalo rove up closer, | my lass! 6 is cold crossing the river, but wo be there.” And be smilel and said, ‘Just | there pow.” | good old man had got to churcs. Not the | old country church, but the temples in the skies, Just across the miver. How come fortably aid God husa the old man to sleep! | As one whom his mother comforteth, so God | comforted him. Coffee Caliivation. | H.W. L. Couperus, a coffee planter | froma Java and Japan, recently delivered {a lecture in the Academy of Beience upon the subject with which he might well be presumed to be must familiar. He traced the spread of the coffee plant ! from Java to Sumatra, Ceylon, Pedang, | Brazil and the United £tates and then afforded some information about the plant itself. It is a delicate plant, which, like the human being, cannot stand too | much stimulant. If fertilizers, which | are necessary to its growth, are used in | 100 large quantity or are placed too close | to its roots it displays a sort of vegetable | exhilration and dies off soon from ex- | hauvation. It thrives best at an sititude | of from 8000 to 4000 feet and is grown from the seed, not the besa as we re. ceive it, but with the *‘parchment” or hull on it. lo the plantations the trees | are set in rows nine feet apart and eight feet between the trees in the row. The fertilizer used consists of ashes of leaves and weeds which grow on the plantations and are burned together and mixed with cow dung, The treatment of the bean after it has een , the iemoval of the parch- ment, the roasting sad other details were touched upon in sn interesting manner, and the speaker exprossed the opinion that coffes sould be grown in California. Haas (4 Behr, who took part in the subsequent discussion, coincided in Mr. Cou 's view of the possibility ol raising coffee in this State, and elicited the information from the lecturer thw much work which the Java planters de by hand could be done here by machine Do You Know That i i All Happens in a Hecond, love long. How polite and gallant a man is to the women of the world who are not related to him. Most babies ery in church because they are frightened by the bolsterous talk of the preacher. There is nothing more profound than pride, and, strange 0 say, noth- ing more ridiculous. A woman's greatest rival ina man's heart is the pleasure he enjoys in having his own way. A man’s best friend to-day Is often the skeleton in his closet that tor- ments him the most to-morrow. The hest loved man he who gives the most: he also the one least regarded when he stops giving. One very good reason why a man should tell the truth is that it is not the tax on his memory that a would be, Men judge a man's religion actions outside the church, and the wotnen judge it by the brilliancy of his prayers within. It 15 all well enough to tell a man when he is In troubl look on the bright side: the rub to find the bright side to look on. Some men will not stop doing a foolish thing, because If they did, i: would be an admission on their part that it was foolish. A woman who has everything to ‘ose and nothing to gain, always nore reckless than a man who has gain and iw is He by his eto is is to ase, If people in Bible times were like they are now, Christ found it easier to die for sinners than to find man afterward who would admit that he was one. Men are brutes. occasionally without their wives, and tell them so. Women are They enjoy life without their husbands once in a while, but they will never admit that they are not miserable without them. We have noticed that the more odges and clubs a man belongs to, the more often his neighbors see his wife splitting wood before breakfast loining many lodges seems to on a man's fam- ilv as If he were given to the drink- ing habit Atchison Globe, White Bread the exclusive use of James ( times 100 Io white bread ‘ritchton- Brown attributes prevailing decay in teeth. As flourine necessary to good teeth, and as this is a characteristic feature f the discarded portions of the wheat not in making white finur., the learned gentieman sees no hope in the way of teeth for the fut ire generations except by a to the general consumption of made from whole wheat flour the is used return bread rere stone Valuable Postage Stamp. A postage stamp worth heeft discovered in New York. 85 000 would certainly seem as if it small enough for all practical pur poses. But after all a good deal can happen even in a fraction of a sec- ond, A through a distance of about miles in this length of time, A cur- rent of electricity has probably an even greater speed. 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