Connecticut western news., 1892-06-09

rifice. They took the full pardon that promised to all who, through my Son, earnestly applied for it, and 1t passed out of my mind that they were offerd CTS. forgot all about it. Yes, I forgot all about it. Their sins and their in- iquities do remember no more'" A sin-forgetting God! That is clear be yond and far above sin pardoning God
 How often we hear it said, II can for give, but cannot forget" That is equal to saying, 'I verbally admit 1t is all right, but will keep the old grudge good" Human forgiveness is often q fimsy affair. It does not go deep down. It does not reach far up. It does not fix things up. The contestants may shake hands, or passing each other on the highway they may speak the Good morning or the .Good night" !" but the old cordiality never returns The relations always remain strained.
 There is something in the demeanor ever after that seems to say, ''I would not do you harm; indeed, wish you we'll, but that unfortunate affair can never pass out of my mind" There may no hard words pass between them, but until death breaks in the same coolness remains. But God lets our pardoned offenses go into oblivion. He never throws them up to us again. He feels as kindly toward us as though we had been spotless and positively angelic all along.
 AN ANECDoTE.
 Many years ago family, consisting of the husband and wife and little girl of two years, lived far out in cabin on & western prairie. The husband took a few cattle to market. Before he started his little child asked him to buy for her doll and he promised He could after the sale of the cattle purchase house. hold 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 dis mai road at nightfall.
 As he went along on horseback a thunderstorm broke, and in the most lonely part of the road, and in the child cry. Robbers had been known to do some bad work along that road, and it was known that this herdsman had money with him, the price of the cattle sold. The herdsman first thought it was 6 stratagem to have him halt and be de- spoiled of his treasures, but the child's cry became more keen and rending, and so he dismounted and felt around in the darkness and all in vain, until he thought of hollow that he remember ed near the road where the child might be, and for that he started. and sure enough found little one Jagged out and drenched of the storm and almost dead.
 He wrapped it up as we'll as he could and mounted his horse and resumed his journey home Coming in sight of his cabin he saw it all lighted up and sup posed his wife had kindled all these lights so as to guide her husband through the darkness. But, no. The house was full of excitement and the neighbors were gathered and stood around the wife of the house, who was insensible as from some great calamity. On inquiry the returned husband found that the lit tie child of that cabin was gone. She had wandered out to meet her father and get the present he had promised, and the child was lost. Then the father unrolled from the blanket the child he had found in the fields, and lol it was his own child and the lost one of the prairie home, and the cabin quaked with the shout over the lost one found.
 How suggestive of the fact that once we were lost in the open fields or among the mountain crags, Gods wandering children, and he found us dying in the temptest and wrapped us in the mantle of his love and fetched us home, glad ness and congratulation bidding us wei come. The fact is that the world does not know God, or they would all flock to him. Through their own blindness or the fault of some rough preaching that has got abroad in the centuries, many men and women have an idea that God is tyrant, an oppressor, an auto crat, Mana Sahib, an omnipotent Herod Antipas. It is libel against the Almighty; it is islander against the heavens; it is a defamation of the infini- ties.
 I counted in my Bible 304 times the word mercy" single or compounded with other words. I counted in my Bible 473 times the word "ltve,' single or compounded with other words. Then I got tired counting. Perhaps you might count more, being better at fig ! ures. But the Hebrew, and the Greek and the English languages have beer taxed till they cannot pay any more | tribute to the love and mercy and kind ness and grace and charity and tender ness and friendship and benevolence and sympathy and bounteousness anG | fatherliness and motherliness and pa tience and pardon of our God.
 A STORY OF. GARIBALDI.
 There are certain names so magnetic that their pronunciation thrills all whC hear it. Such is the name of the Italian soldier and hberator, Garibaldi. March ing with his troops, he met a shepherd who was in great distress because ht had lost lamb. Garibaldi said to hi: troops, "Let us help this poor shepherd | find his lamb" And so, with lanterns and torches, they explored the noun tains, but did not find the lamb, ant after an unsuccessful search late a night they went to their encampment.
 The next morning Garibaldi wal found asleep far on into the day, ant they wakened him for some purpose ant found that he had not given up tht search when the soldiers did, but hat kept on still farther into the night ant had found it, and he pulled down tht blankets from his couch and there laN the lamb, which Garibaldi ordered i'm mediately taken to its owner. So tht Commander of all the hosts of heaver turned aside from his glorious and vic torious march through the centuries O heaven and said, "I willgo and recove 1 that lost world and that race of whom