Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-09
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cannot pay any more tribute to
the love and mercy and kind
ness and grace and charity and
tenderness and friendship and benevo-
lence and sympathy and bounteousness
and fatherliness and motherliness and
patience and pardon of our God 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.
Marching with his troops, he met
shepherd who was in great distress
because he had lost a lamb. Gard.
baldi said to his troops: LET us help
this poor shepherd find his lamb"
And SO, with lanterns and torches, they
explored the mountains, but did not
find the lamb, and after an unsuccess-
full search late at night they went
to their encampment The next morn
ing 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
further into the night and had found
it, and he pulled down the blankets
from his couch and there Law the lamb,
which Garibaldi ordered Immediately
taken to its owner So the comman.
der of the hosts Of heaven turned aside
from his glorious and victorious march
through the centuries of heaven, and
said: Il will go and recover that lost
world, and that race of whom Adam
was the progenitor, and let all
who will accompany me-" And
through the night they came, but do
not see that the angelic escort came
any further than the clouds, but their
most illustrious leader came all the
way down, and by the time his errand
is done our little world, our wandering
and lost world, our world feecy with
the light, will be found in the bosom
of the Great Shepherd, and, then, all
heaven will take up the cantata and
sing, The lost sheep found" Sol
set open the wide gate of my text, in
wiling you all to come into the mercy
and pardon of God; yea, still further,
into the ruins of the place
where once was kept the knowledge of
your iniquities. The place has beeh
torn down and tho records DESTROYED,
and you will find the ruins more dilapi-
dated and broken and PROSTATE than
the ruins of Melrose or Kenilworth,
for from these last ruins you can pick
up some fragment of a sculptured stone
or you can see the curve of some
broken arch, but after your repent
ance and your forgiveness, you cannot
find in all the memory of God a
fragment of all your pardoned
sins so large as a needles point
Their sins and their iniquities
will remember no more" And none
of that will surprise you if you will
climb to the top of bluff back of
Jerusalem Dit took us only five or ten
minutes TO climb iD, and see what
went on when the plateau of limestone
was shaken by paroxysm that set the
rocks, which had been upright aslant,
and on the trembling crosspieces of the
split lumber hung the quivering form
of him whose life was thrust out by
metallic points of cruelty that sickened
the MONDAY sun till it tainted and fell
back on the black lounge of the Judean
midnight
Six different kinds of sounds were
heard on that night which was inter-
jected into the daylight of Christ's as.
sassination; the neighing of the war
horses, for some of the soldiers were
in the saddle, was one sound: the bang
of the hammers was second sound:
the ieer of malignants was a third
sound: the weeping of friends and
coadjutOrs was a fourth sound: the
plash of blood on the rocks was fifth
sound: the groan of the expiring Lord
was sixth sound And they all COM
mingled into one sadness. Over place
in Russia where wolves were pursuing
a load of travellers, and to save them
servant sprang from the sled into
the mouths of the wild beasts,
and was devoured, and thereby
the otherliv We're saved, are inscribed
the words, Greater love hath no man
than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friend" Many a surgeon in our
own time has in tracheotomy with his
own lips drawn from the windpipe of
diphtheritic patient that which cured
the patient and slew the surgeon, and
all have honored the self-sacrifice. But
all other scenes of sacrifice pale before
the illustrious martyr of all time and
all eternity. After that agonizing
spectacle in behalf of our fallen race
nothing about the sin-forgetting God
is too stupendous for my faith, and I
accept the promise, and will you not
all accept it? "Their sins and their
iniquitles will / remember no more"