Isaiah 66:13 - Homilies By E. Johnson

Tender condition.

"As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." These are the analogies of truth that reach the heart through the life-experience when mere intellectual disquisition is vain.

I. THE MOTHER - IDEAL CREATES THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF TENDERNESS . God is the great Mother as well as the great Father of all flesh. Therefore Christ, who came to reveal the Father, was perfect humanity. In taking, as the Divine Son of the Father, our flesh, he revealed in "humanity" not only perfect manhood, but perfect womanhood too.

II. THE MOTHER - IDEAL REVEALS WHAT TRUE COMFORT MEANS .

1 . Sympathy with our frailties and mistakes .

2 . Succour at supreme self-cost .

3 . Hopefulness even to the last .—W.M.S.