The Penn's Grove record., 1892-06-10
PENIS GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. JUNE TO-. 1892

' q libel against the Almighty; 1t IS a SANDER
against the heavens; it is a defamation
of the infinities.
I counted in my Bible 3li tim,s tina word
mercy" single Or co II l1un lei with othsr
words. l counted in my Bible 473 times the
word love-" single or CO npoundsi with
other words. Then | got tirei counting.
Perhaps you might count more, being better
at figures. But the Hebrew and the Greek
the English languages have been taxed
till they cannot pay any more tribute to the
love aud mercy an I kin i1sss au | grace aud
charity and tenderness and friendship an
benevolence and sympathy and bouptaouS-
ness aud fatherlinsss and motherliness aud
patience and pardon of our Col.
There are certain names so magnetic thu
their pronunciation thrills all wac hear it,
Such is the name OF the italian 50, der an 1
liberator, Garibaldi. Marching with his
troops, he met a shepherd who was in great
distress because he hal lost a lamb. Carl
baldi said to his troops: Let us help this
poor shepherd find his La nb." AMI so, with
lanterns and torches, they explored the
mountains, but did not find tho lamb An 4
after an unsuccessful search late at night
they went 30 their encampment.
The next morning Garibaldi was founi
asleep tar on into the day, and they
Weakened him for soma purpose AMI founl
that he had not given up the search wneu
the soldiers did, but had kept on still farther
ahSo Shph ~ dhl lpulu IL. hul no DllItl
down the blanSets from his couch and there
lay the lam !, which Garibllti orlered in
me lately taken to its owner. So the Com
mander Of all the hosts of heaven Turned
aside from His glorious aud victorious
march through the centuries OF heaven and
said: II will go and recover that lost world.
and that race OF whom Alan was the pro.
Ne" A"' 10 q" WIZ v" accompany
And through the night they came, but I
do not see that the an yelic escort came any
farther than the clouds, but their most illus.
trious Leader came all the way down, au1 by
the time His errand is done our little world.
our wandering and lost world, our world
deecy with the light, will be found in the
bosom OF the Great shepherd, aud then all
heaven will take up the cantata AMI sing;
The lost sheep is found" So | set open the
wide gate of my text, inviting you all to
come into the mercy and pardon OF God; yea,
where once was kept the knowledge of your
iniquities.
The place has bean torn down AMI the
records destroyed, and You will hni the
ruins more dilapidated and broken aud
PROSTATE than this ruins of Melrose or Kenil-
worth, for from thsse last ruins you can pick
up some fragment of a soul otursi stone, or
you can see tine curve of SO ne broken arch,
bat after your repentance and your forgive
ness you cannot find in all the memory of
God a fragment of all you pardonei sins so
large as a needles point. ''Their sins au1
their iniqnities will l remember no more"
Aud none of that will surprise you if you
will climb to the top OF a bluff back of Jeru-
salem ut took us only five or ten minutes to
climb it,, and see what went on when the
plateau of limestone was shaken by a par
oxysm that set the rocks, whici had been
upright, aslant, and on the trembling cross
pieces of the split lumber hung the quiveriug
form Of Him whose life was thrust out by
metallic points OF cruelty that sickeneA the
monday sun till it faintei and fell back on
the black lounge of the Judsan midnight.
Six different kinds of sounds were Sird
on that night which was interjectsi into the
daylight Of Christ's assassination. Tn
neighing OF the war horses-for some of tue
soldiers were in the s~addle-was one sound;
the bang of the hammers was a second
sound; the jeer of malignants was a third
sound; the weeping OF friends and ooadju-
tors was a fourth sound; the piash Of blood
on the rocks was a nTtn sound; the groan or
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 a servant sprang from the sled into
the mouths of the wild beasts and was de-
vourei, and thereby the other lives were
savet, are inscribed tho words; "Greater
love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friend"
Many a surgeon in our own time has 10
tracheotomy with his own lips drawn from
the windpips of a diptheric patient that
which cured the patient and slew the sur
geon, and all have honored the self sa 'rifica,
But all other scenes of sacrifice pale before
this most ilIustrious Martyr Of all time and
all eternity. After that agoniziug spectacle
in behalf of our fallen race nothing about
the s~in-forgettin5 Col is too stupen ious for
my faith, and | accept the promise, AMI will
you not all accept itS 'Their sins and their
iuiquities will | remember no more"