Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-06

promised. In the village to which he wen
| he sold the cattle and obtained the grocerieI
for his household and the doll for his little
darling.
He started home along the dismal road q
nightfall. As he went along on horseback,
Q thunderstorm broke, and In the mos
lonely part of the road and in the heaviest
part Of the storm he heard child cry
Robbers had been known to do some bad
work along that road, and 1t was known
that this herdsman had money with him,
the price of the cattle sold. The herdsmsn
| first thought 1t was strategem to have him
halt and be despoiled Of his treasures, but
the child's cry became more keen and rend-
| ing, and so he dismounted and felt around
| in the darkness and all in vain, until he
thought of q 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.
The Lost Child Was His Own.
Coming in sight of his cabin, he saw it all
lighted up. and sppposing his wife had
kindled all these lights so as to guide him
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 little 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 un.
rolled from the blanket the child he had
found in the fields, and, 10! it was his own
child, and the lost one of the prairie home,
hA Iod NIT fho uhnn
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 tempest, and
wrapped US in the mantle of his love and
fetched US home, gladness and congratula-
tion bidding us welcome. 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 he has got
abroad in the centuries, many men and
women have an idea that God is tyrant,
and oppressor, an autocrat, Mana SahIb,
an Omnipotent Herod Antipas.
Gloomy Preaching That slanders God.
1t is libel against the Almighty; it is q
slander against the heavens; 1t is a defama-
tion of the 1nfnities. I counted in my
or compounded with other words. counted
In my Bible 473 times the word '1ove,"
single or compounded with other words.
Then I got tired counting. Perhaps you
might count more, being better at figures
But the Hebrew and the Greek and the En-
glish languages have been taxed till they
cannot pay any more tribute to the love,
and mercy, and kindness, and grace, and
charity, and tenderness, and friendship, and
benevolence, and sympathy, and bounteous-
ness, and fatherliness, and motherhness,
and patience, and pardon of our God.
There are certain names SO magnetic that
their pronunciation thrills all who hear it
Such is the name of the Italian soldier and
liberator, Garibaldi The Commander of
the Hosts of heaven turned aside from his
glorious and victorious march through the
centuries of heaven, and said: '1 will 60
and recover that lost world, and that race of
whom Adam was the progenltor, and let all
who will accompany me-" And through
the night they came, but do not see that
the angelic escort came any further than the
clouds, but their most illstrious leader came
all the way down.
Tho Record Of Past Sins Destroyed.
By the time his errand is done our little
world, our wandering and lost world, our
world feecy with the light, will be found
in the bosom of the Great Shepherd, and
then all heaven will take up the cantata
and sing, ''The Lost Sheep Found" So I
set open the wide gate Of my text, inviting
you all to come into the mercy and pardon
of God; yea still further, into the ruins of
the place where once was kept the knowl-
edge OF your iniquities. The place has been
torn down and the records destroyed, and
you will find the ruins more dilapidated
than the ruins of MeIrose or Kenilworth,
for from these last ruins you can pick up
some fragment of q sculptured Stone, but
after your repentance and your forgiveness
you cannot find in all the memory Of God q
fragment of all your pardoned sins 40 large
as a needles point ''Their sins and their
iniquities will remember no more" And
none of that will surprise you if you will
climb to the top of bluff back of Jerusalem
and see what went on when the plateau of
set the rocks, which had been upright,
aslant, and on the trembling crosspieces of
the split lumber hung the quivering form
of him whose life was thrust out by metallic
points of cruelty that sickened the MONDAY
sun till it tainted and fell back on the black
lounge of the Judean midnight.
Sounds at the Crucifixfon of Christ.
Six different kinds of sounds were heard
on tnat night Wnlcn was 1nter1ected into
the daylight of Christ's assassination; the
neighing Of the war horses, for some of the
soldiers were in the saddle, was one sound
the bang of the hammers. was a second
sound; the jeer of malignants was third
sound; the weeping of friends and coadju-
tors was fourth sound; the plash of blood
on the rocks was a fifth sound; the groan of
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 q servant sprang from the sled
into the mouths of the wild beasts and was
devoured, and thereby the other lives were
saved, are inscribed the words: sGreater |
love hath no man than this, that man lay |
down his life for his friend" Many a |
surgeon in our own time has in trache- |
otomy with his own lips drawn from the |
windpipe of diphtheritic patient that |
which cured the patient and slew the sur
geon, and all have honored the self-sacri- |
fee. But all other scenes of sacrifice pale !
before this most illustrious martyr of all |
time and all eternity. After that agoniz- |
ing spectacle In behalf of our fallen race |
nothing about the sin-forgetting God is too |
for my faith, and I accept the |
promise, end will you not all accept it?
DE Wits Little Early Risers No gripping, |
no pain. no nausea: easy pill to take.