The Red Cloud chief., 1892-06-17

always remain strained. There II Some
thing in the demeanor ever after that
seems TO say: ~ would not do you
harm; indeed, I wish you we'll, but that
unfortunate affair can never pass out
Of my mind. There may no hard words
pass between them, but until death
breaks in the same GOODNESS remains
But God lets our pardoned offensss go
into oblivion. He never throws them
up to us again. He feels as kindly to-
ward us as though we had been spotless
and positively angelic all along.
Many years ago a family, consisting
Of the husband and wife and a little
girl of two years. lived far out In q
cabin on n western prairie. The hus-
band took a few cattle to market. BE.
fore he started his little child asked
him to buy for her a doll, and he prom.
Used. He could, after the sale Of the
cattle, purchase household necessities
and certainly would not forget the doll
he had promised. In the village to
which he went he sold the cattle and
obtained the groceries for his household
and the doll for his little darling. He
started home along the dismal road NJ
nightfall. As he went along on horse
back a thunderstorm broke, and In
the most lonely part OF the
road and in the heaviest part of
the storm, he heard q child cry. Rob-
bers had been known to do some bad
work along that road, and 1t was known
that this herdsman had money with
him, the price of the cattle sold. The
hcrdsman first thought IL was a 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
dismountcd and felt around in the dark
ness, and all in vain until he thought of
a hollow that he remembered lei the
road where the child might be, and for
that he started, and sure enough found
r little one tagged out and drcnchcd 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 II
all lighted up and supposed his wife
had kiudled 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 as 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! 1t 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, OF
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 oil
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 nm idea that God Is q
tyrant, IN oppressor, an autocrat, q
Mana Sahib, an Omnipotent Herod
Antipas. II is . libel against the Al
mighty; it is a SANDER against the
heavens; it is a defamation of tbs inf.
mites. I counted in my Bible 20A time,
the word mercy" single. or com
pounded with other words. l counted
~ rux, DsI1n Ac0 <svnac &La ,yo,.I Sno,,a Y
single or compounded with other words
Then, ! got tired countin q.
So l set open the wide gate of my text
inviting you all to com 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
quities. The place has been torn dowr
and the records destroyed and you will
find the ruins more dilapidated ani
Melrose or Kcnilworth, for from thes,
last ruins you can pick up fragments O
a sculptured stone. or you can see the
curve of some broken arch, but aftel
your repentance and your forgiveness,
you a not find in all the memory O.
God a fragment Of all your pardonet
sins SO large as q needles point
"Thcir sins and their iniquities will / re
member no more" And none Of tina
will surprise you II you will climb t.
the top of a bluff back of Jerusalem Il
took us only five or ten minutes to climl
it), and See what went on when ths
plateau of limestone was shaken by Z
paroxysm that set the rocks, which hat
been upright, aslant, and on the trem
bling crosspicces of the split lumbe,
hung the quivering form of Him who's,
life was thrust out by metallic points
Of cruelty that sickened the MONDAY
sun till it 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
jected into the daylight of Christ's as
sassination: the neighing Of the wal
horses, for some of the soldiers were IL
the saddle, was n sound; the bang O
l tho hunntnarc vayno IN cnnorI o1x~J. A..