Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-06

soldier azd hberssor. Gsrih4ldi Earch-
iug with his troops, be met shepherd
wLo waS III great distress because DC
rad lost 4 lzrab. GAR balei sad to his
rroopS, Let Us help this poor shepherd
find his Lamb And 80, with lanterns
aud torches, they explored the noun
tains, bat did nor md the lamb, and
after an unsuccessful search late az
night they went 70 their enesnpment
The next morning Garibaldi was
found asleep far on into TIE day, and
they Weakened hin for some purpose and
found that he had not given up the
search when the soldiers did. but had
kept on stin farther into the night aud
had found 1t, and he pulled down the
blankets from his couch and there lay
the lamb. which Gsribalai ordered I'M
nsdiateiy taken - its owner. 80 the
Commander Of all the hosts OF heaven
turned aside from his glorious and VIC
tori0us march through the centuries or
heaven and said, Il viii go and recover
that lost world, and that race OF whom
Adam was the progenitor, and let all
who viii 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 illustrious leader came all the way
down, and by the time his exrand Is
done our little world, our wandering
and lost world, our world fleecy with
the light, will be found in the bosom OF
the Great Shepherd, and then all heaven
will take up the cantata and sing. THE
lost sheep found" So l set open the
wide 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 knowl-
edge of your iniquities.
The place has been torn down and the
records destroyed. and You will find the
ruins moro dilapidated aud broken and
PROSTATE than the ruins of Melrose or
Kenilworth, for from these last ruins
you can pick up some fragment of II
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 SO 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 top of bluff back
of Jerusalem Gt took US only five or ten
minutes to climb it,. and see what went
on when the plateau Of limestone was
shaken by q paroxysm that set the
rocks, which had been upright, aslant,
and on the trembling crosspieces Of the
split lumber hung the quivering form
of him whose life was thrust out by me-
tallic points of cruelty that sickened the
MONDAY sun till it tainted and fell back
ON the black lounge Of the Judean mid
night.
Six different kinds of sounds were
heard on that night which was inter
jected into the daylight Of Christ's as
sassination. The neighing Of the war
horses-for some OF the soldiers were in
the saddle-was one sound; the bang of
the hammers was q second sound; the
jeer of malignants was a third sound;
the weeping Of friends and coadjutors
was fourth sound; the plash Of blood
On the rocks was q fifth sound; the
groen of the expiring Lord was sixth
sound. And they all commingIed into
one sadness.
Over a place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing load Of travellers. aud
to save them a servant sprang from the
sled into the mouths Of the wild beasts
and was devoured, and thereby the 9TH
or lives were saved, are inscribed the
words, "Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for
his friend"
Many surgeon in our own time has
in tracheotomy with his own lips drawn
from the windpipe Of diphtheric pa
tent that which cured the patient and
slew the surgeon, and all have honored
the self sacrifice. But all other scenes
Of sacrifice pale before this most illus
trious martyr of all time and all eter-
nifty. After that agonizing spectacle in
behalf of our fallen race nothing about
the sin forgetting God is too stupendous
for my faith, and l accept the promise,
and will you not all accept it? Their
sins and their iniQuities will remember
| no more"