The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10

/ And suppose God should deign to an,
swer, he might say; eyes, but did not
my only Son die for their ransomY Did
he not pay the price? Not one drop of
blood was retained in his arteries, not
one nerve of his that was not wrung in
the torture, He took in his own body
and soul all the suffering that those sin
ners deserve, They pleaded that sac
rifce, They took the full pardon that !
promised to all who, through my Son,
earnestly applied for it, and it pissed
out of my mind that they were offerd,
ers. forgot all about it. Yes, forgot
all about 1t, Their sins and their in
Equities do | remember no more" A
sln-forgetting God! That is clear be
yond and far above sin pardoning God
How often we hear it said, II can for
give, but | cannot forget" That is
equal to saying, 81 verbally admit it is
all right, but will keep the old grudge
good" Human forgiveness is often n
flimsy affair, 1t does not go deep down.
1t does not reach far up, 1t does not
fix things up. The contestants may
shake hands, or passing each other
ON the highway they may speak the
Good morning" or the Good night"
but the old cordiality never returns.
The relations always remain strained
There is something in the demeanor
ever after that seems to say, II would
not do you harm; indeed, wish you
well, but that unfortunate affair can
never pass out of my mind.' There may
| no hard words pass between them, but
until death breaks in the same GOODNESS
remains. But God lets our pardoned
offenses go into oblivion. He never
throws them up to- us again. He feels
as kindly toward us as though we had
been spotless and positively angelic all
along.
AN ANECDoTE.
Many years ago a family, consisting
of the husband and wife and little girl
of two years, lived far out in a cabin on
a western prairie. The husband took
few cattle to market. Before he started
his little child asked him to buy for her
a doll and he promised. He could after
the sale of the cattle purchase house
hold necessities, and certainly would not
forget the doll he had promised. In the
village to which he went he sold the
cattle and obtained the groceries for his
household and the doll for his little
darling. He started home along the dis
NAL road at nightfall.
AS he went along on horseback a
thunderstorm broke, and in the most
lonely part of the road, and in the
heaviest part of the storm, he heard
child cry. Robbers had been known to
do some bad work along that road, and
it was known that this herdsman had
money with him, the price of the cattle
sold. The herdsman first thought it was
a stratagem to have him halt and be de-
spoiled of his treasures, but the child's
cry became more keen and rending, and
so he dismounted and felt around in the
darkness and all in vain, until he
thought of hollow that he remember
ed near the road where the child might
be, and for that he started, and sure
enough found a little one tagged out
and drenched of the storm and almost
dead.
He wrapped it up as well as he could
and mounted his horse and resumed his
journey home. Coming in sight of his
cabin he saw it all lighted up and sup
posed his wife had kindled all these
lights SO as TO guide her husband through
the darkness. But, no. The house was
full of excitement and the neighbors
were gathered and stood around the
wife of the house, who was insensible as
from some great calamity. On inquiry
the returned husband found that the lit
tie child of that cabin was gone. She
had wandered out to meet her father
and get the present he had promised,
and the child was lost. Then the father
unrolled from the blanket the child he
had found in the fields, and 10! it was
his own child and the lost one of the
prairie home, and the cabin quaked with
the shout over, the lost one found.
How suggestive of the fact that once
we were lost in the open fields or among
the mountain crags, Gods wandering
children, and he found us dying in the
TEMPEST and wrapped us in the mantle
Of his love and fetched us home, glad |
ness and congratulation bidding us well
come. The fact is that the world does
not know God, or they would all flock
to him. Through their own blindness |
or the fault Of some rough preaching
that has got abroad in the centuries,
many men and women have an idea that |
God Is a tyrant, an oppressor, an auto
crat, a Mana Sahib, an omnipotent |
Herod Antipas. 1t is a libel against the
Almighty; it is SANDER against the |
heavens; it is defamation of the infni- |
ties.
counted in my Bible 304 times the
word ENERGY" single or compounded |
with other words. l counted in my
Bible 473 times the word Glove" single |
or compounded with other words. Then
l got tired counting. Perhaps you
might count more, being better at fig |
ures. But the Hebrew, and the Greek,
and the English languages have been
taxed till they cannot pay any more
tribute to the love and mercy and kind
ness and grace and charity and tender
ness and friendship ana beneVolence |
and sympathy and bounteousness and
fatherliness and motherliness and pa
thence and pardon of our God.
A STORY OF GARIBALDI.
There are certain names so magnetic |
that their pronunciation thrills all who
hear it. Such is the name of the Italian |
soldier and liberator, Garibaldi. March
ing with his troops, he met a shepherd |
who was in great distress because he
had lost lamb. Garibaldi said to his |
troops, "Let us help this poor shepherd |
find his lamb" And so, with lanterns |
and torches, they explored the noun
tains, but did not find the lamb, and |
after an unsuccessful search late at |
night they went to their encampment.
The next morning Garibaldi was
found asleep far ON into the day, and |
they Weakened him for some purpose and |
found that he had not given up the |
search when the soldiers did, but had |
kept on still farther into the night and |
had found it, and he pulled down the
blankets from his couch and there lay |