The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-06-17

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 fnct tina once
we were lost in the open fields, or
among the mountain cTags, 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 congratulation
bidding us welcome. 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 u ty-
rant, and oppressor, an autocrat, a
Mana Sahib, an Omnipotent Herod An
tipat. 1t is a libel against the AL
mighty; it is SANDER against the
heavens; it is defamation of the in
fnities. l counted in my bible 3O4
times the word mercy" single or
compounded with other words 1
counted in my bible 473 times the
word "love," single or compounded
with other words. Then, got tired
counting. Perhaps you might count
more, being better at figures. But the
Hebrew and the creek 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
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 q
shepherd who was in great distress
because he had lost lamb Carl
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 walsened
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 comman-
der of the hosts of heaven turned aside
from his glorious and victorious march
through the centuries of heaven, and
said: II 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 dc
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 heecy with
the light, will be found in the bosom
of the Great Shepherd, and, then, al
heaven will take up the cantata and
sing, THE lost sheep found" So
set open the wide gate of my text, in
viting 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 o
your iniquities. The place has beer
torn down and the records destroyed
and you will find the ruins more dilapi
dated and broken and PROSTATE thai
the ruins of Melrose or Kenilworth
for from these last ruins you can picl
up some fragment of u sculptured ston
or you can see the curve of som
broken arch, but after your repent
ance and your forgiveness, you canno
find in all the memory of God
fragment of all your pardone
sins so large as needles point
"Their sins and their iniquitie
will remember no more" And non
:. of that will surprise you if you vii
climb TO the top Of bluff back G
Jerusalem Gt took us only five or tel
minutes TO climb it), and see wha
: went on when the plateau of limeston
was shaken by a paroXysm that set tn
rocks, which had been upright asian
: and on the trembling crosspieces OF tn
}, split lumber hung the quivering forl
of him whose life was thrust out
+ metallic points of cruelty that sickene
c the MONDAY sun till it tainted and fe
}, back on the black lounge of the Judea
II midnight.
o Six different kinds of sounds wei
u heard on that night which was int
IS jected into the daylight of Christ's a
e sassination; the neighing of the wa
9 horses, for some of the soldiers wei
l. in the saddle, was one sound: the bar
u of the hammers was a second SCUM
II the jeer of malignants was thin
n sound: the weeping of friends an
u coadiutors was fourth sound: I'll
II plash of blood on the rocks was fiji
L. sound: the groan of the expiring Lol
N was sixth sound And they all col
le mingled into one sadness Over pla
IL in Russia where wolves were pursui1
IL a load of travellers, and to save the
~ = servant sprang from the sled in
III the mouths of the wild beast
ID and was devoured, and therel
m the other lives were saved, are inscribC
u the words. "Greater love hath no ma