Milford chronicle., 1892-06-10

e naue aHalf can never pass ont OF my mind
S, There may no hard words pass betwee
N them, but until death breaks In the san
IF GOODNESS remains. But God lets our pa
r. doned otfenses 80 into oblivion. he ney,
T. throws them up 10 ms again. He feels Z
D. kindly toward as as though we had bee
! spo1iess ana positively angelic all along
d a STORY OF THE PRAIRIE.
/ Many years ago family, consisting I
o the husband and wife and little girl Of tw
It years lived far out in a cabin on a ,yeste,
q prairie. The husband took a few caftla I
t market. Before he started his little chill
: asked him to buy for her doll. and b
promised. He could, after the sale Of tn
=; cattle, purchase household necessities. an,
: certainly would not forget the doll he hsi
{ promised. In the village to which he wen
he sold the cattle and obtained the gro
J eeries for his household and the doll 70
ms little darling. He started home alonl
the dismal road at nightfall
As he went along on horseback n thun
derstorm broke, and 10 the most lionel,
part OF the road and in the heaviest part al
the storm he heard a child cry Robber.
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 a stratagem to.have
him halt and be despoiled Of his treasures
but the child's cry became more keen and
rending, and so he dismounted and felt
I around in the darkness and all in vain. nm
til he thought OF hollow that be remern-
bered near the road where the child might
I be and for that he started, and sure enough
found little one tagged out and drenched
OF the storm and almost dead. He wrapped
I II upa well as he could, and mounted his
morse and resumed his journey home
Coming in sight of his cabin, he saw it
All lighted up and supposed his wife had
klnaled an these lights so as to guide her
husband through the darkness. Bub no
The house was full OF excitement and ne
neighbors were gathered and stood around
the wife Of the house, who was jnsensible
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 yet
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
auaked 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, God wandering children.
and he found us, dying IN the tempest. and
wrapped us In the mantle Of his love and
fetched as home, gladness and oOngratula
fiOn bidding ms welcome. The fact is that
the world does not know God, orthey would
all flock to him. Through their own blind. /
ness, or the fault Of some rough PREACHING
that has got abroad IN the centuries, many (
men and women have an idea that God I
is tyrant and oppressor, an autocrat. a .
Mana Sahib, an Omnipotent Herod Antipas.
i is libel against the Almighty; it is a
Islander against the heavens; It lisa defama-
tion Of the inlnities
counted in my Bible 80i times the word
mercy" single or compounded with
other words counted in my Bible 40
times the word ''love,n single or com.
pounded 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 English
languages have been taxed till they caesnot
pay any more tribute to the love and
mercy and Kindness and grace and charity
md tenderness and friendship and benev0-
ence and sympathy and bounteousness and
and motherliness and patience
md pardon of our God
There are certain names so magnetic
hat their pronunciation thrills all who
lear it. Such is the name Of the Italian
older and liberatOr, Garibaldi Marching
With his troops he met shepherd who was q
q great distress because he had lost q
amb. Garibaldi said tc his troops. II .et 7
IS help this poor shepherd find his lamb - =
md so, with lanterns and torches, thcy Y
Xplored the mountains, but did not find o
he lamb, and after an unsuccessful search U
tie at night they went to their encamp Q
lent The next morning Garibaldi was =
,und asleep far ON into the day, and they p
akened him for some purpose and found 7.
lat he had not given up the search when u
lie soldiers did, but had kept on still far o.
Ter into the night and had found it, and g
2 pulled down the blankets from his 3
'ueh and there lay the lalnb, which Carl Sc
adj ordered Immediately taken to its ia
vner.
So the Commander Of all the hosts Of Y
,aven turned aside from his glorious and ?,
glorious march through the centuries OF y
'aven and said, u will go and recover "
at lost world, and that race Of whom "
lam was the progenitor, and let all who 3,
III accompany me-" And through the ~
ght they came, but do not see that the n,l
gelic escort came any farther than the th
buds, but their most illustrious leader po
me all the way down, and by the time w
; errand is done our little world, our 1ii
lndering and lost world our world feecy A
til the light, win be found in the bosom an
the Great Shepherd, and then all heaven WI
II take up the cantata and sing, 'The II
t sheep found"
ALL ARE INVITED.
20 / set open the wide gate Of my text,
'iting you all to come into the mercy
1 pardon Of God; yea, still further, into tel
, ruins Of the place where once was kept oe.
knowledge Of your iniquities. The
zee has been torn down and the records no
troyed, and you will find the ruins
re dilapidated and broken and PROSTATE OIL
N the ruins Of Melrose or Kenilworth me
from these last ruins YOU can pick up ial
le fragment Of a sculptured stone or you
] see the curve II some broken arch, but I'M
er your repentance and your forgiveness ne
] cannot find in all the memory OF God
ragment Of all your pardoned sins so
&c as a needles point HTheir sins and
ir iniquities will remember no more we
md none Of that viii surprise you if >
/ will climb TO the top Of blum back !
Jerusalem tt took us only five or ten y
lutes totclimb IT, and see what Wen;
when the plateau OF limestone was 10
ken by a paroxysm that set the rocks, son
ich had been upright, aslant, and on
trembling crosspieces Of the split lum-
hung the quivering form Of him whose Il
was thrust ont by metallic points Of mt
city that sickened the MONDAY sun till Ing
ainted and fell back on the black lonnca my
he Judean midnight. are
X different kinds 81 sounds we're beard con
Int ni0bt wbicl, was infs,.;acted mt Sta
daylight Of Chriss's assassination; the
Ching Of the war horses, Tor some Of the Z
iers were tn the saddle, was one sound; tbir
bang q hammers was second ~.
nd; the jeet Of malignants was q third n
nd; the weeping Of friends and coad- ,oi5
RS was q fourth sound; the plash Of Nm
d on the rocks was a fifth sound the
~ Of the expiring Lord WINS sixth
ld And they all commingled into one m,