"When you
preach, Mr. Moody, look for my poor boy," were the parting words of that
mother. That young man may be in this hall to-night. If he is, I want
to tell him that his mother loves him still. I will read out his name,
and if any of you ever hear of that young man, just tell him that his
mother is waiting with a loving heart and a tender embrace for him. His
name is Arthur P. Oxley, of Manchester, England.
The Cruel Mother--Hypothetical.
Suppose a mother should come in here with a little child, and after she
has been here a while the child begins to cry, and she says, "Keep
still," but the child keeps on crying, and so she turns him over to the
police and says, "Take that child, I don't want him." What would you say
of such a mother as that? Teach a child that God loves him only so long
as he is good, and that when he is bad the Lord does not love him, and
you will find that when he grows up, if he has a bad temper he will have
the idea that God hates him because he thinks God don't love him when he
has got a bad temper, and as he has a bad temper all the time, of course
God does not love him at all, but hates him all the time. Now God hates
sin, but He loves the sinner, and there is a great difference between
the love of God and our love.
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