News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-09

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 a family, consisting
of the husband and wife and little girl
of two years, lived far cut 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 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
NAL road at nightfall.
As he went along on horseback a
thunderstorm broke, and in the most
lonely part of the road, and in the
heaviest part of the storm, he heard n
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
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
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ed near the road where the child might
be, and for that he started, and sure
enough found little one tagged out
and drenched of the storm and almost
dead.
He wrapped it up as well 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 10! it was
his own child and the lost one of the
prairie homo, 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
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 tyrant, an oppressor, an auto
Crat. a Mana Sahib, an omnipotent
Herod Antipas. 1t is libel against the
Almighty; it is SANDER against the
heavens; it is defamation of the infini-
ties.
l counted in my Bible 304 times the
word ENERGY" single or compounded
with other words. | counted in my
Bible 473 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 hberator, Garibaldi March
ing with his troops, he met q shepherd
who was in great distress because he
had lost a 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 encampment.
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 inn
taken to it's owner. So the
Commander of all the hosts of heaven
turned aside from his glorious and vic
torious march through the centuries of
heaven and said, II 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 heecy with
the light, viii be found in the bosom of
the Great Shepherd, and then all heaven
will take up the cantata and sing, 1.-The
lost sheep found" SO | 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 tb Q
place where once was kept the knovI-
edge of your iniquities.
The place has been torn down and the
records destroyed, and you viii find. the
ruins more dilapidated and broken and
PROSTATE than the ruins of Melrose or
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 fragment of all your pardoned
sins SO large as q needles point ''Theu
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 Gt took us only five or ten
minutes to climb it), and see what went
on when the plateau of limestone was
shaken by 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-
tallic points of cruelty that sickened the
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 =
5assination. The neighing of the wlr
horses-for some OF the soldiers were in