The Red Cloud chief., 1892-06-17
.,v,v, remain strained. There IL some

always remain Stralueu. 1uerS 10 soiMO
thing In the demeanor eve after that
seems TO say. IL would not do you
harm; indeed, I wish you well, but that
unfortunate affair can 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 offcnsss go
into oblivion. lie never throws them
up to us again. lie feels rs kindly to-
ward us rs though we had been spotless
and positively angelic all along.
Many years ago a family, consisting
Of the husband and wife and q little
girl Of two years, lived far out In .
cabin on q western prairie. The hus-
band took a few cattle to market. BE.
fore he started his little child asked
him to buy for her q doll, and he prom
ised. He could, after the sale OF n
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 u 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 II was known
that this herdsman had money with
him, the price Of the cattle sold. The
hcrdsman first thought It was u 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
dismounted and felt around In the dark
ness, and all in vain until he thought ut
a hollow that he remembered near the
road where the child might be, and for
that he started, and sure enough found
a little one tagged out and drenched OF
the storm and almost dead. He wrapped
1t up as well as he could and mounted
his horse and resumed his journey home.
Coming in sight of his cabin he saw 1t
all lighted up and supposed his wife
had kindled all these lights so rs to
guide her husband through the dark.
ness. But no. The house vas fun OF
excitement and the neighbors were gaia.
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, ant
the child was lost. Then the father
unrolled from the blanket the child Ia
had found in the fields, and 10! 1t WA
his own child, and the lost n Of the
prairie home, and the cabin quakct
with the shout over the lost one found
How suggestive of the fact that once
we were lost in the open fields, o
among the mountain crags, Gods wan
dering children, and He found us, dyini
in the tempest, and wrapped us in tn
mantle Of His love and fetched us home
gladness and congratulation bidding III
welcome. The fact is that the worl'
does not know God, or they would oil
flock to Him.
I Through their own blindness, or tn
fault of some rough preaching that ha
! got abroad in the centuries, many me-
and women have an idea that God is
!: tyrant, IN oppressor, an autocrat,
Mana Sahib, an Omnipotent Hero
Antipas. 1t Is q libel against the Al
l mighty; it Is u SANDER against tn
o heavens; it Is a defamation of the inf
mites. I counted in my Bible 2O4 time
the word mercy" single or con
j pounded with other words. ! counte
y in my Bible 473 times the word ''love,
single or compounded with other wordi
r Then, I got tired countin &.
r So I setopcn the wide gate of my tex
inviting you all to come into the mere
! and pardon of God; yea, still fprthe
into the ruins of the place where one
was kept the knowledge of your in
y quities. The place has been torn dow
= and the records destroyed and you wi
find the ruins more dilapidated IN
broken and PROSTATE than the ruins
n Melrose or Kenilworth, for from the!
u last ruins you can pick up fragments
8 o sc%ulptured stone. or you can see IL
q curve of some broken arch, but aft.
y your repentance and your forgivene
'r you can not find in all the memory
n God q fragment Of all your pardont
" sins SO large as a needles poin
'r "Their sins and their iniquities will II
n member no more" And none of th'
1t will surprise You If you will climb
W the top Of n bluff back of Jerusalem
=. took us only five or ten minutes to elm
- it), and sec what went on when Il
70 plateau of limestone was shaken by
:. paroxysm that set the rocks, which HI
been upright, aslant, and on the trel
&c bling crosspieces of tho split lumb
~ hung the ~quivering form of Him who
life was thrust out by metallic poin
=. of cruelty that sickened the noond'
70 sun till it tainted and fell back on Il
!" black lounge Of the Judean midnight.
Six different kinds Of sounds we
heard on hat night which were int
jected into the daylight of Christ's q
s~assination: the neighing Of the w
horses, for some OF the soldiers were
- the saddle, was one sound; the bang
the hammers was q second sound; Il
r. jeer of malignants was q third sour
~ the weeping of friends and coadjuto
was q fourth sound; the splash
- blood on the rocks was II fit
10 sound; the groan Of the expiring Lo
=. was q sixth sound. And they