THE following little incident we quote from good authority and which our picture this week illustrates.
“Owing to some heavy rains, nearly all the ground about a poultry-yard was covered with water. At this time there was a brood of chickens in the henhouse; they were on the roosting-place, and could not get down on account of the water. The hen was seen to convey them, one by one, on her back, to the grass-plot at a short distance, wading through the water as well as she could.”
God has wisely ordered it, that mothers should have affection for their young, and should care for them when they cannot care for themselves.
A mother’s love is very tender, very true. The mother hen loves her little brood, and watches tenderly over them. The human mother loves her little darlings and in unwearying self-denial she ministers to them. But there is a love that is deeper and stronger than even a mother’s love. If I were to ask you, dear children, whose love is that, I think you would be ready to answer, at once, the love of God is greater than the love of a mother; and that is right. And how has God shown His great love? He gave His well-loved Son to a dreadful death that poor sinners might be set free from their sins and share endless joy and glory with Him who suffered for them. Do you know this wonderful love? Have you believed in Jesus? God loved—so loved that He gave His Son. Jesus loved—so loved that He gave Himself. Are you His? If not, why not own your lost condition and believe in that love which is full enough to take you in! Why not believe in, and accept, as freely as it is offered, that love which is without limit!
ML 06/28/1903