The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

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, glad
ness and congratulation bidding US well
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 a tyrant, an oppressor, an auto
GRAFT, q Mana Sehib, an omnipotent
Herod Antipas. 1t is libel against the
Almighty: it is Islander against the
heavens: it is a defamation of the mimi
ties.
l counted in my Bible 3O4 times the
word mercy" single or compounded
with other words. l counted in my
Bible Alb times the word love, single
or compounded with other words. Then
| got tired counting. Perhaps you
might count more. being better at fig
ures. But the Hebrew, and the Greek.
and the English languages have been
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 and
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 who
hear it. Such is the name of the Italian
soldier and h1erator, Garibaldi. March
ing with his troops, he met a shepherd
who was in great distress because he
had lost lamb. Garibaldi said to his
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, and
after an unsuccessful search late at
night they went to their encampmeht.
The next morning Garibaldi was
found asleep far ON into the day, and
they Weakened him for some purpose and
found that he had not given up the
search when the soldiers did, but had
kept on still farther into the night and
had found it, and he pulled down the
blankets from his couch and there lay
the lamb, which Garibaldi ordered i'm
mediately taken to its owner. So the
turned aside from his glorious and vic
torious march through the centuries of
heaven and said, 81 will go and recover
that lost world, and that race of whom
Adam was the progenitOr, and let all
who will accompany me-
And through the night they came, but
do not see that the angelic escort came
any farther than the clouds, but their
most illustrious leader came all the way
down, and 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 l 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 knowi-
edge of your iniquities.
The place has been torn down and the
records destroyed. and you will find the
ruins more dilapidated and br@en and
PROSTATE than the ruins of Melrose or
Kenilworth, for from these last ruins
you can pick up some fragment of "a
sculptured stone, or you can see the
curve of some broken arch, but after
your repentance and your forgiveness
YOU cannot find in all the memory of
God a fragment of all your pardOned
sins so large as a needles point. Their
sins and their iniQuities will remember
no more
And none of that will surprise you If
Il; Il f,Nt hn fnr Of n q
of Jerusalem (it took us only five or ten
minutes to climb it), and see what went
on when the plateau of limestone was
shaken by a paroXysm that 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 me
taIEc points of cruelty that sickened the
MONDAY sun till it tainted and fell back
on the black lounge of the Judean mid
night.
Six different kinds of sounds were
heard on that night which was inter
| jected into the daylight of Christ's as
sassination. The neighing of the wal
| horses-for some OF the soldiers were II
| the saddle-was one sound; the bang OF
DNNC-ANN
| jeer of malignants was n third sound
the weeping of friends and coadjutor;
was fourth sound; the plash of blood
on the rocks was a fifth sound; the
groan of the expiring Lord was sixth
sound And they all commingled into
| one sadness.
Over a place in Russia where wolve:
were pursuing a load of travellers, ant
to save them q servant sprang from the
sled into the mouths of the wild beast!
and was devoured, and thereby the 9th
er lives were saved, are inscribed thu
words, Greater love hath no man thai
this, that a man lay down his life 70,
his friend"
Many surgeon in our own time ha'
in tracheotomy with his own lips draw
from the windpipe of a diphtheric pa
tent that which cured the patient anC
slew the surgeon, and all have honore'
the self sacrifice But all other scene
of sacrifice pale before this most illus