Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-06-25

husband tha ough the darkness. But. no.
The house was full of excitement AMI the
~naighbors were gathered and stood around
the wife Of the s:ouse. who was insensibie as
from some great calamity. On inquiry the
returned husoan | found that the little child
OF ss,at cabin was gone. She hal wandered
cut 10 meet Ter father and get the present
he had promised. and the child was lost.
Then the father rrrollad from the blanket
the child lie hal found in the fields, ard 10.
II was his own child and the lost Cne ct the
prairie home. AMI the cabin quaked with the
shout over the lost soue found.
How suggestive OF the tact that ouca ~
were lost in the open fields or among the
mountain c-ag~, Co.'s wandering Children,
and He found rs dying IL the tempest and
Wrapped us in the mantle OF His love and
fetched Us home. eladness aut congratu,a-
ton bidding us welcome. The fact is that
tue world does not know God. or they would
all flock 10 Him. Through their own blind
sless or tie fault Of some rough preaching
that has got abroad in the centuries, many
men and women have au iiea that God IS a
tyrant an ounreSsor. au au.0eyat- q Mana
sanln. an oznnipotenu naroi Ant,pas. Il is
a libel against the Almighty; it is a SANDER
against the heavens; it is a defamation
OF the minutes.
/ couote in my Bible 3o4 times the word
mercy single or compounded with other
words. countei in my Bible 473 times the
word 'lova.' single or compounded with
other words. Then | got tire1 counting.
Perhaps you might count more. being better
r. figures. But the Hebrew and the GresE
and tue English languages have been taxed
TIL they cannot pay any more trib:1te to the
love aud mercy and sindness AMI graz, and
charity and tenderness and friendshia aud
DenevOience ana sympathy ana Dounteous-
ness aud fa.her.iness and notherliaess and
patience ami pardon of our Gc1.
There are certain names SO magnetic that
fIair ,,rc,,,,r oiu rio, tpritls oil Uno haar If
Such is the name of the Italian soldier AMI
liberator, Garibaldi. Marching with his
troops, e met a shepherd who was In great
distress because he had lost a lamb. Carl
poor shepherd find his lamb" And SO, with
lanterns and torches. they explored the
mountains, bat did not find the lamb, and
after an unsuccessful search late at night
they went to their encampment.
The next morning Garibaldi was found
asleep lar on into the day, and they
Weakened him for some purpose and found
that he had not given up the search when
the soliiers did. but had kept on still farther
into the night and had found it. and be pulled
down the blankets from his couch and there
lay tue lamb, which Garibaldi ordered i'm
meIiately taken to its owner. So the Com
mander of all the hosts of heaven turned
aside from His glorious and victorious
march through the centuries of heaven and
said: Il viii go and recover that lost world,
and that race of whom Adam was the pro
genitor, and let all who will accompany
Me"
And through the night they came, but
do not see that the angelic escort came any
farther than the clouds, but their most illus
trious Leader came all the way down, and by
the time Ills eTrand Is done Our little world,
our wandering and lost world, our world
tleecy with the light, will be found in the
bosom Of the Great shepherd, and then all
heaven Will take.up the cantata AMI sing:
1.-The lost sheep is found" So | set open the
wIue 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 oncs was kept the knowledge of your
iniquities.
The place has been torn down and the
records destroyed. and you will find the
= ruins more diIapidatei and broken and
, PROSTATE than the ruins of Meirose or kenil
worth, for from these last ruins you can pick
up some fragment OF a sculptured stone, OF
you can see the curve of some broken arch,
but after your repentance AMI your forgive
ness you cannot find in all the memory OF
God a fragment OF all your pardoned sins sc
large as q needles point. Their sins and
their iniquities will | remember no more"
And none of that will surprise you if you
will climb to the too Of a bluff back of Jeru
salem lit took us only five or ten minutes tt
climb it,, and see what Went o when the
plateau OF limestone WAS shaken by a par
oxysm that set the rocks, which had been
upright, aslant, and on the trembling cross
pieces of the split lumber hung the quiverins
form Of Him whose life was thrust out by
metallic points of cruelty that sickencd the
monday sun till it fainte1 and fell back OF
the black lounge of toe Judean midnight.
Six different KINDS of sounds were hear,
on that night which was interjected into tn
daylight of Christ's assassination. Tn
nelghing Of the war horSes-for some Of TIL
soldiers were in the saddle-was one sound
the bang of the hammers vas a secon'
sound; the ieer of m~alignants was a thir.
sound: the weeping of friends and coad ju
tors was a fourth sound; the p!ash of bloo'
on the rocks was a fifth sound: the groan 0
the expiring Lord was a sixth sound. AM
they all coinmingled into one sadness
over a place IN Russia where wolves wer
pursuing q load OF travellers, and to saw
them a servant sprang from the sled int
the mouths of the wild beasts and was de
voured, and thereby the other lives wer
saved, are inscribed the words: "Greate
love hath 40 man than this, that q man la
down his life for his friend"
Many a surgeon in our own time has il
tracheotomy with his own lips drawn fron
the windp!pe of a diptheric patient tina
! which cured the patient and Slew the sur
geon, and all have honorA the self 81 riiica
But all other scenes OF sacrifice pale hetor,
this most lllustriouS MartyS OF all time an
al! eternity. After that ag6niZing ~soe-tacl
IN behalf OF our fallen race nothing abou
the sin-forgetting Go is too st1pen Ious 10
my faith, and i ACCEPT the promise. an Wi!
YOU not all accept it; Their sins ana thei
luiquities viii remember no NOR
n ft,tc.. of Cao,, -.