The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-06-16

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was known that this herdsman had
money with him, the price of the cattle
sold. The herdsman first thought II
was a stratagem to have HIM halt and
be despolled OF his treasures, but rle
chlld's cry became more keen and rend-
ing, and 80 he dismouuted and felt
around III the darkness and all in vain,
until he thought of q hollow that he re-
membercd near the road where the child
might be and for that he started, and sure
enough found q little one tagged out and
drenched of the storm and almost dead.
lie wrapped it up as well as lie could,
and mounted his horse and resumed his
journey home.
| Coming III sight ol his cabin, he saw it
all lighted up and supposed his wife had
klndlcd all these lights 80 as to guide
her husband through the darkness. But,
no. The house was full of excitement
and the nelghbors were gathered and
stood around the wife of the house, who
was lnsenslble as from some great
cal amlty. On inquiry the returned hus- =
pand found that The little chll d of that
caoln was gone. She had wandered out
10 meet her father and get the present
ne had promised, and the child was lost.
Then the father unrOiiGa from the blank
eC the child he had found in the fields,
aud 10y! it was his own child aud the lost
one OF the praire home, and the cabin
quakcd with the shout over tho lost one
found.
How suggestive of the tact 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
or his love and fetched us home, glad
ness and congratulation bidding US well
come. The tact is that the world do ca
not know God, or they would all flock TO
him. Through their own blindness, or
the fault of some rongh preaching
That has got abroad in the centu.
rlesl many men and women have
an idea that God is tyraut and oppressor.
an autocrat. a Mana Sahib, an Omnipot-
en-! llerod Antipas. 1t is n libel against
The Almighty; it is a slander against the
heavens; 1t Is Il defamation OF the ipljnl-
ties.
L counted in my Bible 3O4 times the
word "melcy," slDgle or compounded
with other words. l counted in nv
Bible 413 times the word ''love.n single
or compounded with other werds. Then
L got tired counting. Perhaps YOU
might count more, being better at liy-
ures. But the Hebrew aud the
English, and the Greek languages
have been taxed TIL they cannot
pay any more tribute to the love
and mercy aud kindness and grace and
charity and tenderness and frienshp and
bcncvolcncc and sympathy ana boun.
teousneSS and iathcrlmcss and mothcrli-
ness and patience and pardon of our
God.
There are certain names so magnetic
that their pronunciation thrills all who
hear 1t. Such Is the name Of the Italian
soldier anu llbCrutOr, Garibaldi. March,
inS With his troops he met 4 shepherd
who was in great distress because he
had LOST lamb. Garlbaldi said to his
troops, "Ict us help this poor shoDhcrd
find his lamb" And so, with lanterns
and torches. they explored The noun
ialns, but dll not find the lamb, and al
ter an unsuccessful search late at eight
, they went TO their cncampmcnt. The
next morning Garibaldi was found asleep
lar On into the day, and they wakencd
I INN lOr some purpose and found that lie
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 GariDaldi
! ordered Immediately taken to its owner,
SO the Commander of all the hosts OF
heaven turned aside from his glorious
and victorious march through the cen.
tures OF heaven and said, Il will 90 and
Nj fknt
Ol whom Adam was the prOgcultor, and
let all who will accompany me-" And
, through the night they came, but do
not see that the angelic escort came any
father than the clouds, but their most
f lllustrous leader ca ne all the way down,
and by the lime his errand is done our
little world, our wandering and lost
world, our world heecy with the hight,
will be found in the bosom of the Great
f Shepherd, and then all heaven will take
up the cantata and sing, The To-. sheep
tDund"
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 RUNS Of the place where once
! was kept the knowledge of your iniqui-
ties. The placs has been torn down
anu Ilic IcCOIuS ueSlTOyeu, ana you VIII
lind the ruins more delapidated and
broken and PROSTATE than the ruins of
Melrose or kenllworth, Tor from these
last ruins you Can pick up some frag-
ment of sculptured stone or you can
see the curve of some broken arch, but
after your repentance and your forgive
ness you cannot find in all the memory
OF God fragment of all your pardoDed
SINS SO large as 4 needles point.
"Thelr sins and their iniquities will
remember no more"
And none of that will surprise you if
you will climb to the top OF a bluff back
of Jerusalem ct took us only five or ten
minutes to climb it, and see what
went on when the plateau Of limestone
was shaken by Il paroxysm that set the
rocks. which had been upright, asant,
and ON the trembling crosspicces 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
miIDiDht