Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-06-09

to have said. and they did great many
things they caght neyer TO have done
Sinners are they, sinners all
And suppose Col should deign to an
swer, he might sly: Yes, but did not my
only Sen die for their gsnsnriy Dill lie not
pay the prices Not one drop of blood was
retained in his arteries, not one nerve of
] lis that was not wrung in the torture. He
took in his own body and soul all the suf-
! fering that those sinners deserve. They
| pleaded that sacrifice. They took the full
pardon that promised to all who, through
my Son, earnestly applied for it, and it
passed out Of my mind that they were Of
tenders. forgot all about il. Yes, for
rot all about it. Their sins and their in
EQUITIES do remember no more" A sin
forgetting God That is clear beyond and
Gar above a sin pardoning God.
How often we hear it said, 4 can forgive,
but | cannot forget" That is equal TO
/ saying, II verbally admit it is all right,
but will keep the old grudge good" HUI
man forgiveness is often flimsy affair. 1t
does not go deep down. IL does not reach
far up. 1t does not fix things up. The CON
testants 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 rela-
tions 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 unfortu-
nate 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 par
doned offenses 20 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.
STORY OF THE PRAIRIE.
Many years ago "A family, consisting of
the husband and wife and little girl of two
years, lived far out in a cabin on 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 household 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 gro
ceres for his household and the doll for
his little darling. He started hoLN along
the dismal road at nightfall.
As he went along ON horseback thun-
derstorm hroke, and in the most lonely
part of the road and in the heaviest part of
the storm he heard IA child cry. Robbers
had been known to do some bad work
along that road and it was known that
this herdsmaa had money with him, the
price OF the cattle sold The herdsman
first thought it was a stratagem to have
him halt ami be despoiled 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, I'M
Til he thought of a hollow that he remell-
bered near the road where the child might
be and for that he started, and sure enough
found a little one tagged out and drenched
)f the storm and almost dead. He wrapped
4 up as well as he could, and mounted his
horse and resumed his journey home.
Coming in sight of his cabin, he saw it
Ill lighted up and supposed 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
IS from some great calamity. On inquiry
he returned husband found that the little
,hild 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 unroled from
the blanket the child he had found in the
fields. and, lo il 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 crngs, Gods wandering children.
and he found us, dying in the tempest, and
wrapped us in the mantle of his love and
fetched us home, gladness and eongratula-
tion bidding us welcome. The fact is that
the world does not know God, or they would
all flock TO him. Through their own blind
ness, 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 and oppressor, an autocrat,
Mana Sahih, an Omnipotent Herod Antipas.
IL is libel against the Almighty; it is
Islander against the heavens it is a defama-
tion of the ininities.
counted in my Bible 304 times the word
mercy" single or compounded with
other words. | counted in my Bible 453
times the word love" single or com
pounded with other words. Then | 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 ami
mercy and kindness 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 a shepherd whow
in great distress because he had lost a
lamb. Garibaldi said to his troops. "Iet
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 unsuccessful search
late at night they went TO their encamp-
ment. 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 nm the search whom