The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-06

he thought or hollow that ne remembered
near the road where the child might be,
and for that he started, and, sure enough,
found q little one tagged out and
drenohed Of the storm and almost dead.
He wrapped it up as well as he could aud
mounted his horse and resumed his journey
home. Coming in sight of his cabin he saw
it all lighted up, and supposed his wife had
kindled oil these lights so as to guide her
husband through the darkness. But, no.
| The house was full Of excitement and the
| neighbors were gathered and stood around
| the wife of the house, who was insensible as
! from some great calamity. On inquiry the
/ returned husband found that the little child
4 of that cabin was gone. She had wan
| dered out to meet her father aud 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 wander
! lug 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 wei.
| come. 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 Il tyrant,
and oppressor, an autocraU, Mana
| Sahib, an Omnipotent Herod Antipas.
1t is a libel against the Almighty; it is
| SANDER against the heavens it is a defama-
| ton of the infnities. l counted in my Bible
| three hundred and four times the word
| mercy" single or compounded with other
| words. | counted in my Bible four hundred
| and seventy three times the word ''love :"
ioty, ia or AA xxyik Cel,n
| Then got tired counting. Perhaps you
! might count more, being better at figures.
| But the Hebrew and the Greek and the En-
| glish languages have been taxed till they
! cannot pay any more tribute to the love
and mercy and kindness and grace and
| charity and tenderness and friendship and
| benevolence and sympathy and bounteous'
ness 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 a shepherd who was
| in great distress because he had lost lamb.
| Garibaldi said TO his troops: let US help
| this Door shepherd find his lamb. And SO,
| with lanterns and torches, they explored
the mountains but did not find the lamb,
| and after an unsuccessful search late at
| night they went to their encampment The
| far on into the y, 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 sJlll further into the night
and had found it, and he pulled down the
blankets from the couch and there lay the
| lamb. which Garibaidi ordered Immediately
taken to It's owner. So the commander of
all the hosts OF heaven turned aside from
his glorious aud victorious march through
the centuries of heaven, and said: II will 90
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 ny the
time his errand Is done our little world, our
wondering and lost world, our world fleecy
with the light, will be found on the bosom
of the Great Shepherd, and, then, all
heaven will take up the cantata and sing,
THE lost sheep found" So 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
iniQuites. The place has been torn down
and the records destroyed, and you will
find the ruins more dilapidated and
broken and PROSTATE than the
ruins of Melrose or Kenilworth, for from
these last ruins you can pick up some frag-
ment of q sculptured stone, or you can see
the curve of some broken arch, but after
your repentance and your forgiveness, you
cannot find in all the memory of God
fragment Of all your pardoned sins 80 large
as a needles point. Their sins and their
iniquties will remember no more" And
none of that will turprise you if you will
climb to the top of a bluff back of Jerusa-
lem lit took us only five or ten minutes to
climb it,, and see what went on when the
platform Of limestone was shaken by a
paroxysm that set the rocks, which had
been upright. aslant, and on the trembling
crosspieces Of the split lumber hung the
quiverlng form of him whose life was thrust
out by metallic points of cruelty that sick
ened the monday sun till it tainted and fell
back on the black lounge of the Judean
midnight.
Six diff brent kinds of sounds were heard
on that night which was inter jected into
the daylight Of Christ's assassination: the
neighing of the warehouses, for some OF the
soldiers were in the saddle, was one sound;
the bang Of the hammers was second
sound; the jeer Of malignants was a third
sound; the weeping of friends and conductors
was 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 a place in Russia where wolves were
pursuing a load of travellers, and to save
them servant sprang from the sled
into the mouths of the wild beasts,
aud was devoured, and thereby
the other lives were saved, are inscribed the
words: "Greater love hath no man than
this, that man Icy down his life for his
| friend" Many a surgeon in our own time
| has in tracheotomy, with his own lips,
drawn from the windpipe of diphtheritic
patient that which cured the patient and
slew the surgeon, and all have honored the
! self-sacrifce. But all other scenes OF sacri-
flee pale before this most illustrious martyr
| of all time and all eternity. After that
agonizing spectacle in behalf of our fallen
race nothing about the sin-forgetting God
is too stupendous for my faith, and accept
the promise, and will you not all accept it,
Their sins and their iniaulties will / re-
| member no more"
EMORY's COMMENCEMENT.