Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-06-11

find his lamb" And so, with lanterns
and torches, they explored the noun
tains, but did not find the lamb, and
after en- unsuccessful search late at
night they went to their cncampment-
The next morning Garibaldi was
} found asleep for on into tho day. and
they wukcned Linn forsome purpose and
found that he had net given up the
search when the soldiers did. but had
kept on still farther into,thc night Gld
had found it, and 10 pnlled down tho
blankets from his. couch and there lay
the lamb, which Caribald ordered I'LL
r:cdiatoly talion to It's owncr. SO the
Commander Of Ell tho hosts of heaven
turned aside from his glorious and vic
torious march through the centuries VI
heaven End said, al will 80 and recover
thut lost world, and that race Of whom
Adam was the prosenito-, and let al
who will accompany mo-
And through the night tiley came, but
do not see that tho angelic escort came
any farther than tho -CIcuds, but their
most illustri0us leader camo oil tho Y:ayy
down, and by the time his srralssis
done our little world, our wandering
and lost world. our world leecy with
the light, will BIO found in the bosom OF
tho Great Shepherd, and then all heaven
will take up the cantata andsing, "Thc
lost sheep found" Sol set open THE
wide gate Of my text, inviting you all to
como into the mercy and pardon Of Cod
yea, still further, into tho ruins Of the
place where once was kept tho knowl.
cdgo of your iniquitics.
Tho place has been torn down and the
records destroyed, and you Will find the
ruins more dilapidated und broken and
PROSTATE than tho ruins Of Melrose or
Kenilworth, for from these last ruins
yon can pick up some fragment of q
scnlptured stone, or you can sec The
curve OF some broken orch, but after
your repentance end your forgiveness
you ccnnot find In NIL the .nicmory OF
God fragment Of I'll your pardoned
sins so large as needles point "Their
sins and their iniquities will remember
no more"
And none CT that win surprise you if
you will climb to the top of bluff back
of Jerusalem lit took US only five Or ten
minutes to climb it), and see what went
ON when the plateau of limestone was
shaken by a paroxyem that Get the
rocks, which had been upright, aslant,
and On tho trembling crosspicces Of the
split lumber hung the Quivering form
Of him whose life was thrust out By me-
tallic points Of cruelty that siclzened the
monday sun till it faintcd and fell back
on the black lounge of tho Judean mid
night.
Six different kinds Of eounda wcro
heard on that night Which was intor-
jcctcd into tho daylight of Christ'u as
sassination. Tho neighing Of tho war
horses-for sonlc OF the soldiers were In
the saddle-was ono sound; the bang of
the hammers was q cecond sound; the
jeer Of lnal;gnGnts WAS third sound;
the weeping Of friends and conductors
was O fourth eound: tho plash Of blood
on tho rocks was @ fifth sound; tho
groan Of The expiring Lord was sixth
sound. And they oil commingled into
ono sadness.
Over place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing load Of travellers, and
to save them "a servant sprang from the
sled into tile mouths of the wild beasts
and was dcvoured, and thereby the 9th
er lives were saved. are inscribed the
words, "Grcater love hath no man than
this, that q man lay down his life for
his friend"
Meny surgeon in our own time has
IN tracl.eotomy with his own lips drawn
from the windpiro Of 0 diphthoric pa
L.ent that which cured the patient md
llcw tho surgeon, uni all have honored
The self sacrifice. But oil other scenes
If sacrifice pale before this most Illus
trious martyr Of all time and all cter-
nifty. After that ugonizing spectacle in
behalf Of our fallen race nothing nbout
the sin forgetting God is too stupendous
for my faith. and l accept tho promise.
and will ron not oil accept 1t? "Their
sins end their iniquities will | remember
no more.