Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-04-05


bsttery or ever uttered n slsnderoos
word or ever did any one a hurt. al
though I knew my heart was sinful
enough. and said to myself: There
Is no use Of my trying TO do any good.
praved ~xper;ences-" But afterwsr,i
no one gained any ordination by the
laying on Of the hands OF dissoiuteness
and infamy.
And though an ordinary moral life,
ending In n Christian life. May not be
as dramatic a story 20 tell about. let us
be grateful 10 God rather than worry \
about il II We have nercr plunged into
outward denominations. 10 may be APP l
propriate in a meeting Of reformed i
drunkards or reformed debauchees TO
quote for those not reformed how des-
perate and nasty you once were. but do
not drive q scavenger's cart into as
semblages Of people the most OF whom |
have always been decent and respect |
able. But I have been sometimes In /
great evangelical meetings where peo-
pie went into particulars about the |
sins that they once committed. SO
much so that felt like putting my
hand on my pocketbook or calling for
the police lest these reformed men
might fan from grace and 60 al their
old business of theft or drunkenness
or cutthroatery. II your sins have
been forgiven and your life purified.
forget the waywa rdness OF the past
and allow others 20 forget 81
But what I most want in the light Of
this text 20 impress Is that We have a
sin forgetting God. Suppose that on
the last day-called the last day be-
cause the sun viii never again rise up
on our earth. the earth itself being
flung into fiery demolition-supposing
that on that last day a group OF in
fernal spirits should somehow get
near enough the gate Of heaven and
challenge our entrance and say; "How
canst Thou, the Just Lord. let those
souls into the realm OF supernal glad
ness2 Why. they said great many
things they never ought TO have said.
and they did great many things they
ought never 10 have done. Sinners are
they-sinners ell"
There are certain names 80 magnetic
that their pronunciation thrills all who
hear them. Such is the name Of the
Il
baldi Marching with his troops. he
met shepherd who was in great dis
frskE because he had lost lamb.
1aribaidi said 10 his troops: let as
help this poor shepherd find his lamb"
Ana SO. with lanterns and torches. they
explored the mountains, but did not
and the lamb. and after an unKucccss-
full search late az night they vent 40
their eDcampment- The next morn
.ng 0arlbaldi was found asleep far on
into the day. and they wakenec him
for some purpose and found that he
had not given up the search when the
soldiers did. but had kept on still fur
ther into the night and had found IL.
and he pulled down the blankets from
his couch. and there lay the lamb.
which Garibaldi ordered Immediately
taken % its owner. So the Commander
OF ali 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 Loaf
world and shat race OF whom Adam "
the prorenitor, and let all who will ac-
company me- And through the night
| they came. but do not see that the
/ angelic escort came any farther than
? the clouds. but their most Industrious
b Leader came all the way down. and 10y
! ! the time His errand is done our little
. / world. our wandering and lost world
! our world heecy with the light. viii bs
b | found in the bosom Of the Great Shsp
I | herd. and then all Heaven viii take mr.
; ths-cantata and sings "The lost sheer
/ foundi~
I So ! set open the wide gate OF m,
J / text. inyiting you al 10 come into tn
= mercy and pardon OF God-yea. still
K further. into the ruins Of the place
I where once wa kept the knowledge 81
E your iniquities. The place has beef
: torn down and the records destroyed
r and YOU will End the ruins more dila pi
q dated and broken and prostrate thai
q | the ruins 81 MelrOse or Keniiworth. 70
!: / from these last ruins you can pick al
; some fragment Of a scuiptured ston
r or you can see the curve Of som
r broken arch. but after your repent
; ance and your forgiveness You canno
d find in all the memory 81 God frae
d ment Of your pardoned sins 50 larF
o A. q needles point. Their sins an
4 their iniquities viii ] remember a
e more
A. Six different kinds Of sounds wer
n heard on that night which was intel
u iecsed into the daylight Of christ's Al
r. sasefnatson- The neighing OF fh
wsrhorses-for some Of the soldier
n were IN the saddle-~As one Eoun'
~ the hang Of the hammers was q secon
a sound. the jeer 81 malignsnts was
r third sound. the weeping Of friends IN
n followers was fourth sound. n
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