The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-06-07
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cry became more keen ana reidnS,
and so he dismounted and felt around III aie
darkness and ell in vain, until he thought
of hollow that he remembered near tne
road where the child might be, and tor that
he started, and, sure enough found IL NIUE
one tagged out and drenched or tne STORM
well as he could and mounted his horse
and resumed his journey home. coming
in sight of his cabin, he saw 1t all n&hteu
M. and supposed his wife had klndled all
these lights so as to guide hef hu5 3lla
through the darkness. But no, the house
was full of excitement and the neiehbors
were gathered and stood around the Wlle
of the house, who was insensole as from
some great calamity: On inquiry me nus,
band found that the little child of that cabin
was gone. She had wandered out 10 NJ a,et
h had 'a pTomised, n and the child was
lost. Then the father unrohei
from the blanket the child ne had 10uhd
in the fields, and, 10! it was his own child,
and the lost of the pralne nome ana
the cabin uuaked with the shout over the
lost one found. How suggestive OF the tact
that once we were lost in the open heidS,
or among the mountain crass, 500 wan,
dering children, and He found US, dying IN
the tempest, and wrapped us in the mantle
of His love and fetched us home, giadness
and congratulaton bidding us welcome.
The fact is that the world does not Know
God, or they would all flock to 1ilIn
Through their own blindness, or the 1ault
of some rough preaching that has got
abroad in the centuries, many men ana "o-
men have an idea that God is tyrant,
and oppressor an autocrat, a Mana Saflb,
an omnipotent Herod Antipas. 1t is libel
against the Almighty; it is a SANDER against
the heavens; it is q defamation OF TIE IN
finities. / counted in my Bible 3t4 uineS
the word mercy" single or compounded
with other words. ! counted in my Bible
473 times the word love single or com
pounded with other words. Then, / got
tired counting. Perhaps you might count
more, being better at t%ures. but me
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 ana
tenderness and friendship and beneVolence
and sympathy and bounteouSnesS ana
fathernesS aud motherllneSs and paucnce
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, GHu-
baldi Marching with his troops, he met a
shepherd who was in great distress because
he had lost q lamb. Garibaldi sand to IAS
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 10
their encampment. The next morning Carr
baldi was found asleep far on INTO the day.
and they walked him for some purpose ara
found that nc na0 not gwen uI' inc >tsti ~
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 IT'S
owner. So the commander of al the hosts
of heaven turned aside from His glorious
and victorious march through the centuries
of heaven, and said: Il will go ana To
cover that lost world and that race Of
whom Adam was the prosenitor, and let all
,t,.,.at
the night they came, but | do not see that
the angelic escort came any further than
the clouds, but their most iltustrlous leader
came all the way down. and by the time
His errand is done our little world. our
wandering ard lost world, our world 1eecy
with the light. will be found in the bosom
of the Great Shepherd and, then,
all heaven will take .nP the
sheep sheep found" So set open the vide gate
Of my text, inviting you all to come into
the mercy and pardon of Cod yea, still
further. into the ruins of the place where
once was kept the knowledge of your in
EQUITIES. The place has been torn down
and the records destroyed, and you will find
ahe ruins more dilapidased and broken
and PROSTATE than the ruins of Melrose or
Kenilworth, for from these last ruins you
can pick up some fragment of 81 scuptured
stone, or You can see the curve of some
broken arch, but after your repentance and
your forgiveness, you cannot lind IN all
the memory of God a fragment of all your
pardoned sins so large as q needles point
''Their sins and their iniqulties will l re-
member no more" And none of that will
surprise you if you will climb to the top
of bluff back of Jerusalem tit took US
only FIVE or ten minutes to climb it, and
see what went on when the plateau OF lime
stone was shaken by paroxysm that set
the rocks. which had been upright, aslant
and on the trembling crosspieces of the
split lumber hung the quiverinS form of
Him whose life was thrust out by metallic
points of cruelty that sickened 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 interiected into
the daylight of Christ's assaSsination: the
neghnS of the warhOrses, for some of the
soldiers We're in the saddle. was one sound;
the bang of the hammers was q second
sound; the jeer Of malignants was third
sound; the weeping of friends and coad-
tutors was q fourth sound; the plash of
blood on the rocks was fifth sound; the
groan of the expiring Lord was a sixth
sound. And they all cOmmingled into one
sadness. Over q place in Russia whore
wolves were pursuing a load of travellers,
and to save them 4 servant sprang from
the sled into the mouths OF the Wild beasts,
and was devoured, and thereby the other
lives were saved, are Inscribed 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 III
tracheotomy with his own lips drawn from
the windpipe of diphtheritic patient that
which cured the patient and slew the sur
geon, and all have honored the selfsacri-
fee. But all other scenes of sacrifice pale
before this most illustrious martyr of all
time and all eternity. After that agonizng
spectacle in behalf of our fallen race moth
ing about the sin-forgetting God is too stu
pendous for my faith, and | accept the
promise, and will you not all accept it?
''1her sins and their iniquities will l re-
member no more
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