Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-03-14

tDfoWS tnefu up 10 us again. lie teciS
as kindly toward us as though we had
been spotless and positively angelic all
along.
Many years ago family consisting
OF the husband and wife and little girl
or two years lived FAR ont i'm cabin
on western prairie. The husband took
a few cattle 20 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 household necessities aud Ger
tainly 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 dismal road at night
fall. AS he went along on horseback
thunderstorm broke. and in the most
lonely part of the road and i'm the
heaviest part of the storm he heard a
childs cry. Robbers had been known
to do some bad work along that road.
and IL was known that this herdsman
had money With him. the price of the
cattle sold. The herdsman first thought
it was n strataaem TO have him halt
and be despoiled Of his treasures. but
the childs cry became more keen and
rending. and so he disinounted and felt
around In the darkness and all in vain
until he thought OF hollow that he
remembered near the road where the
child might be. and fer that he started
and, sure enough. found a little one
tagged out and drenched OF the storm
and almost dead. He wrapped il up as
well as he could and mounted his horse
and resumed his journey home. Com
ing in sight of bis cabin. be saw 1t all
lighted up and supposed his wife had
kindled all these lights so as to guide
her husband through the darkness.
But no. The house was full Of excite
ment. 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 hus-
band found that the little child of that
cabin was gone. She had wandered
out to meet her father and get the pres
ent 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, IL was his own child
and the lost one OF the prairie home,
and the cabin quaked with tie shout
over the lost one foundl How sugges-
tive of the fact that once we were lost
In the open fields or among the noun
tain 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. gladness and
congratulation bidding us welcome.
The fact Is that the world does not
know God or they would all flock to
him.
A story OF GsribaIdi.
There are certain names so magnetic
that their pronunciation thrills ali who
hear them. Such is the name of the
Italian soldier and liberator, Garibaldi.
Marching with his troops, he met
shepherd who was in great distress be-
cause he had lost a lamb. Garabaldi
said to his troops, "Let us help this
poor shepherd find his lamb" And so.
with lanterns and torches, they ex.
plored the mountains, but did not find
the lamb, and after an unsuccessful
search late at night they went to their
encampment. The next morning Carl
baldi 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 further into
the night and had found II, and he
pulled down the blankets from his
couch, and there lay the lamb, which
Garibaldi 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 centuries of heaven and
said, Il will 20 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 i 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 GRAND is done our
little world. our wandering and lost
world. our world feecy with the light.
viii be found in the bosom OF the Great
Shepherd, and then all heaven will
take up the cantata and sing, "The lost
sheep foundr'
>C@.-t shto N@tECs hnu luruOn.
So set open the wide gate of my
text. inviting you all to come into the
mercy and pardon OF God-yea, stin
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 dllapi.
dated and broken and PROSTATE than
the ruins Of Melrose or Kcnilworth, for
from these last ruins you can pick up
some fragment OF sculpturcd stone
or you can see the curve OF some bro
ken arch, but after your repentance
and your forgiveness you cannot find
In oil the memory OF God fragment
OF your pardoned sins so large as q
needles point. Their sins and their
iniquities will remember no more"
Six different kinds OF sounds were
heard on that night which was inter-
tected into the daylight OF Christ's as
sassination. The neighing OF the war
horses-for some OF the soldiers were
In the saddle-was one sound, the bang
OF the hammers was second sound.
the jeer OF malignants was a third
sound. the weeping OF friends and fol-
lowers was fourth sound, the plash
of blood on the rocks was fifth sound,
and the groan OF the expiring Lord was
a sixth sound And they all commin-
gled into one sadness. Over a 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 saved are inscribed the words,
Greater love hath no man than this, |
that man lay down his life for his
friend" Many surgeon in our own
time has In tracheotomy with his own
lips drawn from the windpipe OF
diphtheritic patient that which cured