The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17

that this herdsman had money with
him. the price of the cattle sold. The
herdsman first thought it was strate-
gem to have him halt and be despoiled
of his treasures, but the child's cry be-
came more keen and rending, and so he
dismounted and felt around in the dark
ness. and all in vain until he thought Of
a hollow that he remembered near the
road where the child might be, and for
that he started. and sure enough found
a little one tagged out and drenched of
the storm and almost dead. He wrapped
il up as well as he could and mounted
his horse and resumed his journey home
Coming in sight of his cabin he saw il
all lighted up and supposed his wife
had xindled all these lights so as to
guide her husband through the dark
ness. But no. The house was full of
excitement and the neighbors were gath
cred and stood around the wife of the
house. who was insensible rs from
some great calamity. On inquiry the
returned husband found that the little
child 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
unrolled from the blanket the child he
had found in the fields, and 10. it 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 crags. Gods wan
dering 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
tyrant, an oppressor, an autocrat,
Mana Sahib, an Omnipotent HerOd
AutipaS 1t is q libel against the Al
mighty: it is a SANDER against the
heavens; IL is defamation of the inf
mites I counted in my Bible 2o4 times
the word mercy" single or COM
pounded with other words. l counted
in nv Bible +73 times the word love,
single or compounded with other words.
Then. I 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 and mercy and
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tenderness and friendship and benevo-
lence and sympathy and bouuteousness
and fatherliness and motherliness and
patience and pardon of our God. There
are certain names so magnetic that
| their pronunciation thrills all who hear
them Such is the name of the Italian
soldier and liberator. Garibaldi March
| ing 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 mount
! aims. but did not find the lamb, and
| after an unsuccessful search late at
| night they went into their encampment.
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 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 Gari5aldi
! ordered Immediately taken to its owner.
So the Commander of all the hosts OF
Heaven turned aside from His victorious
march through the centuries OF Heaven
and said: Il 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 illustri-
GUS 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 light will be found
in the bosom OF the Great Shepherd and
then all Heaven will take up the caatata
and sing: The lost sheep is found"
So I set open the wide 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 once
was kept the knowledge Of your mi
Duties. The place has been torn dowr
and the records destroyed and you vii
find the ruins more dilapidated and
broken and PROSTATE than the ruins o.
Nelrose or Kenilworth, for from thes,
last ruins vou can pick up fragments o
a sculptured stone, or you can see the
curve of some broken arch, but afte1
your repentance and your forgiveness:
YOU can not find il all the memory o
, God q fragment Of all your pardoneC
sins 50 large as q needles point
: Their sins and their iniquities will l re
member no more. And none OF tina
will surprise you il you will climb L
the top Of 4 bluff back of Jerusalem ii
. took US only five or ten minutes to clim'
it,, aud see what went on when thS
plateau OF limestone was shaken by {
pa-oxvsm that set the rocks. which haC
; been upright. aslant- and on the tren
bling crosspieces OF the split lumbe
} hung the quivering form of Him who's
life was thrust out by metallic point
of cruelty that sickened the nOOnda,
! sun till il tainted and fell back on tn
black lounge of the Judean midnight
Six different kinds of sounds wer
heard on that night which were inter
iected into the daylight Of Christ's as
sass;nation: the neighing of the wa
; horses. for some Of the soldiers were il
the saddle. was one sound; the bang o
I the hammers was . second sound; tn
l jeer of malignants was third sound
I the weeping of friends and coadjutor