The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-11

47S times the word "1ove, single or
compounded with other words. Then I
got tired counting. Perhaps you might
count more, being better at figures.
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 kindness and
grace and charity and tenderness and
friendship and benevolence and sympa-
thy and bounteousness and fathef1iness
and motherliness and patience and par
don of our God. There are certain names
SO magnetic that their pronunciation
thrills all who hearit. Such the name
of the italian soldier and liberator, Carl
ibaldi. Marching with his troops, he met
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 ex-
plored the mountains, but did not find
the lamb, and after an unsuccessful
search late at night they went to their
encampment. The next morning Carl
baldi was found asleep far on into the
day, and they wakened 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 lay the lamb, which Garibaldi
ordered Immediately taken to its owner.
So the Commander of all the Hosts of
Heaven turned aside from it's glorious
and victorious march through the cen
turtles of Heaven, and said: 81 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, butI
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 f1eecy 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" So / set open the wide
gate of my text inviting 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 knowl-
edge of your iniquities. The place has
been torn down and the records de-
stroyed, and you will find the ruins
more dilapidated and broken and pros
trate 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 repentance and your forgiveness
you cannot find in all the memory
of God fragment of all your pardoned
sins so large as needles point. "Their
sins and their iniquities will I remem-
Der no more" And none of that will
surprise you if you will climb to the top
of bluff back of Jerusalem lit took us
only five or ten minutes to climb it),
and see what went on when the plateau
of limestone was shaken by a paroxysm
that set the rocks, which had been up
right, 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 sicbened 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 hammer was a second sound; the
jeer of the malignants was third
sound; the weeping of friends and coad-
tutors was a fourth sound, the
plash of blood on the rocks was
a fifth sound; the groan of the eX-
piring Lord was a sixth sound. And
they all commingled into one sadness.
Over place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing 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
other lives were saved, are I'M
scribed the words, Greater love
hath no man than this, that man lay
down his life for his friend" Many
a surgeon in our own time has in ira
cheotomy with His own lips drawn
from the windpipe of diphtheritic pa
tent that which cured the patient and
slew the surgeon, and all have honored
the self-sacrifice. But all other scenes
of sacrifice pale before this most illustri-
GUS 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 l accept the promise. and will
you not all accept it? ''Their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more"