Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-06-11
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horrible pit or splash it over other people.
Sometimes | have felt in Christian meeting
discounted and unfit for CHRISTIAN servics
because / hal done none of those things
which seemed to he in the estimation OF
many necessary for Christian usefulness. for
| never swore a word, or ever got drunk, or
went TO compromising places, or was guilty
of assault or battery, or ever uttered a
slanderous word, or ever did any ons a
hurt althouy III | knsw my heart was sin
lul enough; AMI | sail to myself, There is
no use of my trying to do any gooi, for |
never went through thosa deprave1 ex-
periences.n but afterward 1 saw consolation
in the thought that no ons gained any
ordination by the laying on of tia han Is of
i~issoluteness and infany. And thou IN an
ordinary moral life, enilng in a Christian
life, may not be as dramatic a story to tell
about, let US be grateful to Col rather than
worry about it, il We have never plum gei
into outward Nominations
1t may be appropriate 10 a meeting OF re-
formet drunkards or reformai debauchees to
quote for those not reformed how desperate
and nasty you once were, but do not drive a
scavenger's cart into asssmblage5 of people,
| the most OF whom have always been decent
and respectable. But have been sometimes
in great evangelistic Eieetings wh are people
went into particularsabout t1e sins that they
once committed, so much so that | felt like
putting lily nan l vi my PDSktbUDDa OF Cdll-
ing the police lest these reformed men might
fall from grace and go at their old business
ot theft or drunkenness or cutthroatery. IL
your sins have been forgiven and your life
purified, forget the waywardness of the past
an 1 allow others to forget it.
But what most want in the light of this
text to impress upon my hearers and readers
is taat we have a sin-torgettlng God. Sup
pose thaton thelast day-called the last day
because tue sun will never again rise upon
our earth, the earth itself being flung into
iery denolltioa-suoposiug tn 1t on Jh1tlast
lay a group of internal spirits should some
now get near enough the gate Of heaven ni
challenge our entrance. and say: How
;anst thou, the just Lord, let those souls
into the realm OF supsrnal gla tness? Why.
5hey said a great many things they never
ougat to have said, and they did a great
many things they GU ht ueve to have done.
Sinners are they: sinners all"
And suppose God SHOULD deign to answer,
He might say: Yes. but did not Ny only
Son die for their ransom? Did He not pay
the price, Not one drop of bloo1 was re-
tanned in His arteries, not one nerve of His
that was not wrtlug in the torture. HetooS
in His own body AMI soul all the suff 4rings
hat those sinners deserve. They pleaded
that sacrifice. They took the full pardon
that 1 promised to all who, through My
Son, earnestly applied for it, and it pissed
out OF Ny mind That they were Offenders.
| forgot all about it. Yes, | forgotall about
it. Their sins aud their iniquitles do | re-
member no more.'P A s~in-forgetting Godl
That is clear beyond and far above a SIN
%pardoning God.
How often We hear it sail; 81 can for
give, but cannot forget" That is equal
to saying, 81 verbally admit it is all right,
but will keep the old CRU igs COOL" HUI
man forgiveness is often a filnSy affair. 1t
ioes not 90 deep down. Il does not reaca
ar up. 1t does not fix things up. The con-
Lestants may snake hands, or passing elcn
other on the highway they may speak the
Good morning. or Cool nigat," out the
Did cordiality never returns. The relations
always remain strained.
There is something in the deneanor ever
afGeI 0ua6 sSe"a9 - ~~y, al would. not. do
you harm; indeed, | wish you well, but that
unfortunate affair can never pass out OF my
mind" There may no hard words pass be-
tween them, but until death breaks in the
same coolness remains. But God let's our
pardoned offenses go into oblivion. Hs
never throws them up to Us again. He feels
as kindly toward us as though we had been
:potless and positively an yelic all along.
Many years ago a family, consisting of
the husband ami wife and little girl of two
years, lived far out in a cabin on a western
prairie. The husband TOOK a few cattle TO
market. Before he started his little child
asked him to buy for her a doll and he
promised. He could after the sale of the
cattle purchase household necessities, and
certainly would not forget the dol he had
pronisei. In the village to which he went
he sold the cattle and obtained the groceries
Tor his household an the doll for his little
darling. He started home along the dismal
road at nightfail.
As he went along on horseback a thunder
storm brose, and in the most lonely part
of the roa /, an in th3 heaviest part of the
storm, he heard a child cry. Robbers ha |
been known to do some bal work along that
road, and it was known that this herdsman
had money with him, the Drlce of the cattle
sold. The hcr1sman first thought it was a
stTatagem to have him halt and be despoiled
of his treasures, but tho child's cry became
more keen an irending, and 50 he tlsmountei
and felt around in the darkness and all il
vain, until he thought OF d hollow that he
remembered near the road WHARF, the child
might be, and for that he started, and sure
enough toun | a little one tagesI out and
drenched of the storm an almost dead.
He wrapped it up as well as hs could an |
mounted his horse and resumed his journey
home. Coming in sight OF his cabin he saw
1t all lighted uo and Suapos4i bis wife had
kindled all these lights So as to guide her
husO9ni throu IN the darkness. But. ne.
fThe hou- e was full of excitement and the
i'l-ht1t0 W u GttlHttt anu SbODI around
the wife of the house. who was insensible as
from so ne great calamity. On inquiry the
returned husban | found that the little child
o that cabin was gone. She had wandered
out to met her father AMI get the present
he hal promised. ami the child was lost.
Then the father u~n"ollel from the blanket
the child he ha found in the fields. and lol
it was his own chill and the lost one of the
rrairie home, an the lbin quaked with the
shout over the lost one foun1.
How suggestive of the fact that opos we
were lest in the open fields or among the
mountain crogs, Co.'s wandering children,
and He found us dying in the tempest and
wrappe us in the mantle OF His love and
fetched Us home. gladness an | congratula-
ton bidding MS welcome, The fact is that
the worlt doas not know God, or they would
all flock to Him, Through their own blind
ness or the fault OF some rough preaching
that has got abrold in the centuries, many
men and women have an lea that Col is a
tyrant, an oppressor, au autOcrat. a Nara
Sahib, an omnipotent HeroJ Antipas. 1t IS
a libel against the Almighty; it is a sian Ter
against the heavens; it is a defamation
OF the intinItieS.
counte in my Bible 3)i times the wor |
mercy" single or con0oun lei with other
words. I~c)unta1 in my Bible 413 times the
word low" sin lie OF con pounded with
other words. Then | got tirel counting.
IeTuaDN you mlgub count mOFe, oelHS netbeI
az figures. But the Hebrew AMI the Greek
ami the En- ylish languages have been taxed
TIL they clnnot pay any more tribute to the
love and mercy an | kindness and grace and
charity AMI tenderness and friendship and
benevolencs AMI sympathy aal bouateous-
ness and fatherlinass and motherliness and
patienca an pardon o. our Co.
There are certain names so magnetic that
their pronunciation tlrillS all wac hear it.
Such is the mama o. the Italian solder au1
iiDerator, Garioaldi. Marching with his
troops, lie met a saepaer1 WHO was in great
distress Tee iuss he hal lost a lamb. Carl
baldi said to his TROOPS BE- us help this
poor shepherd find his la no" Ani so, with
lanterns and torches, they explored the
mountains, but did not find the lamb, an 1
after an unsuccessful search late at night
they went to their e~ncanpment.
The next morning Garibaldj was found
as'eep far on into the day, and they
wakened him for soma purpose AMI foun |
that he had not given up the search wden
the soldiers di 1, but had kept on still farther
into the night and had found it. aud he pulled
down the blankets from his couch and there
lay the lamh, which Garibil IL ordered n
mediately taken to its owner. So the Com
mander of all the hosts of heaven turned
aside from His glorious and victorious
march through the centuries of heaven and
said II will go an recover that lost world,
and that race of whom Alan was the pro
g~euitor, and let all who will accompany
Me"
And through tas night they came but |
do not see that the an seliC esc)r5 came any
farther than the clou Is, but their mo st illus
triouS Leader came all the way down, and by
the time His errand is done our little world,
our wanderi Y and lost world, our worlc
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