The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-06-17

trance, and says How canst sfHou, the
just Lord, let those Souls into the realm
of supernatural gladness- Why, they
said a great many things they
never ought to have said, and
they did a great many things they
ought never to have come. Sinners are
they; sinners all" And suppose God
should deign to answer, He might say:
Eyes, but did n6h Ny son die for their
ransom2 Did He not pay the priee2
Not one drop OF blood was retained ia
His arteries. not one nerve of His 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, earn
estly applied for il, and it passed
out of my mind that they were
offenders. I forgot all about It. Yes, !
forgot all abos. il. Their sins and
their iniquities do remember no
more. :" A. sin-forgetting Godl That
is clear beyond, and far above sim
pardoning God. How often we hear il
said: 81 can forgive. but can not for
get" That is equal to saying: YER
bally admit it is all right, but will
keep the old grudge good" Human
/ forgiveness is often fimsy affair. 1t
does not go deep down. 1t does not
reach far up. 1t does not fix things up.
The contestants may shake lands,
or, passing each other on the
"good-morning" or the 'good night"
but the old cordiality never returns.
The relations. always remain strained.
There is something in the dem. amor ever
after that seems to say: II would not
do you harm, indeed, wish you we'll,
but that unfortunate affair can never
pass out of my mind." There may be
no hard words pass between them, but
until death breaks i'm the same coolness
remains But God lets our pardoned
offenses go into oblivion. He never
throws them mp to us again. He feels
as kindly toward us as though we had
been 5spotless and positively angelic all
along. az Wv
The factis 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 and oppressor, an autocrat,s a
| Mana Sahib, an omnipotent Herod An
tipas. 1t is a libel against the AL
mighty; it is a Islander against the
| heavens; it is a defamation of the in
| fnities. I counted in my Bible three
mercy single or compounded with
4 - II.
| bic four hundred and seventy
three times the word 'slove," single
or compounded with other words.
Then got tired of 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 car. not pay any more
| tribute to the love and mercy and kind
ness and grace and charity and ten
| derness and friendship and benevo-
lence and sympathy and bounte-
BUSINESS and fatherliness and moth
| erliness and patience and pardon
of our God. There are names sc
magnetic that their pronunciation
thrills all who hear it. Such is the
name of the Italian soldier and liberia
| tor, Garibaldi 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 explored the mountains, but did
not find the lamb, and after an unsuc-
! cessful search late at night they
went to their encampment The
next morning Garibaldi was found
asleep far on into the day, and
| they y7akened 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
| found it, and he pulled down the blank
cts from his couch and there lay the
lamb, which Garibaldi ordered immedi-
ately taken to its owner. So the COM
mander of all the hosts of Heaven
| turned aside from His glorious and
victorious march through the CEN
turtles of Heaven, and said: / 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: 1.-The lost sheep found"
Six different kinds of sounds were
hoard on that niUht 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 a second sound; the
jeer of malignants was third sound;
the weeping of friends and coadjutors
was fourth sound; the plash of blood
on the rocks was a fifth sound; the groan
of the expiring Lord was sixth sound.
And they all commingled into one sad
ness. Over place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing a load of travellers,
and to save them a servant sprang from
the sled into the mouths of the wild
beasts, and was devoured, and thereby
the other lives were saved, and in
scribed the words: Greater love hath
no man than this, that man lay down
his life for his friend.' Many sur
geon in our own time has in tracheoto-
my with his own lips drawn from the
windpipe of diphtheritic patieH,
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 illustrious martyr of all time