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benevolenc, and sympathy aud bountsous-
| ness and fathecliness and motherliness and
patience and pardon Of our God.
| There are cartain names 80 magnetic that
| their pronunciation thrills all who hear it.
! Such Is the name of the Italian soldier and
| Jiberator, Garibaldi. Marching with his
troops, he met shepherd who was in great
baldi said to his troops: "Lst US help this
poor shepherd find his lamb" And so, with
| lanterns and torches, they explored the
mountains, 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
wakened him for some purpose and found
that he had not given up the search when
| into the night and had found it. and he pulled
| down the blankets from his coucn and there
lay the lamb, which Garibaldi ordered i'm
mediatsly taken to it's owner. So the Com
mander Of all the hosts Of heaven turned
aside from His glorious and victorious
march through the centuries Of heaven and
said: II will go and recover that lost world,
and that race of whom Adam was the pro-
Me-"
And through the night they came, but
do not see that the angelic escort came any
farther than the clouds, but their most illus =
trious Leader came all the way down, and by
the time His errand Is done our little world,
our wandering and lost would, our world
fleecy 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 is 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 the place
where once was kept the knowledge Of your
iniquities.
The place has been torn down and the
records destroyed, and you will find the
ruins more dilapidated and broken and
PROSTATE than the ruins Of Melroso or KeniI-
worth, 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 forgive
ness you cannot find in ell the memory Of
God a fragment OF all your pardoned sins 80
large as needles point. ''Fheir 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 Jeru-
salem lit took US only five or ten minutes to
climb it,, and see what went on when the
plateau Of limestone was shaken by par
oIysm that set the rocks, which had been
upright aslant and on the trembling cross
pieces 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 Judoau midnight
Six different kinds OF sounds were heard
on that night which was interjected into tho
daylight Of Christ's assassination. The
neighing of tho 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 fifth sound: the groan OF
the expiring Lord was q sixth sound. And
they oil commingled into one sadness.
Over place in Russia where wolves were
pursuing q load OF travellers, and to save
them a servant sprang from the sled into
the mouths of the wild beasts and was de-
voured, and thereby the other lives were
savei, are inscribed the words: "Greater
love hath no man than this that man lay
down his life for his friend"
Many q surgeon In our own time has in
tracheotomy With his own lips drawn from
the windpips Of a diptheric patient that
which cured the patient and slew the sur
geon, and all have honored the SELF 90 riace.
But all other scenes OF sacrifice pale before
this most illustrious Martyr OF all time and
all eternity. After that agontxing spectacle
In behalf Of our fallen race nothing about
the sin-forgetsiny Goi Is too stupendou. for
nv faith, and ACCEPT the promise. and will
you not all accept itl 'Their sins and their
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