The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-03-13


| and it was known that this herdsman
had money with him, the price of the
cattle sold. The herdsman first thought
| 1T was stratagem to have him halt
| and be despoiled 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 thought of a hollow that he
remembered 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
a. &most dead He wrapped it up -
| we'll as he could and mounted his horse
and resumed his journey home Com
ing In sight of his cabin, he saw it 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
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 home
and the cabin quaked with the shout
over the lost one found! How sugges-
tive of the fact that once we We're lost
in the open fields or among the noun
tain crags, Gods wandering children,
and he found u.s. dying in the tempest,
and wrapped us in the mantle of his
love and fetched us home, gladness and
congratulation bidding us welcome
me fact is that the world does not
know God or they would all flock to
him.
Ihere are certain names so magnetic
That their pronunciation thrills all who
hear them. Such is the name of the
Italian soldier and liberator, Garibaldi.
Marching with his troops. he met a
shepherd who was in great distress be-
cause 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 ex-
plored the mountains, but did not ind
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 wakened him for some
purpose and found that he had not
given up the search when the soldiers
| h1lf ho1
the night and had found it. and he
pulled down the blankets from his
couch, and there lay the lamb which
Garlbaldi 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, 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 illus
trious leader came all the way down.
and by the time his errand is done our
little world, our wandering and lost
world, our world feecy 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 found!"
So | set open the wide gate of nv
text, inviting you all to come into the
mercy and pardon of Gou-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 di,
lapidated and broken and PROSTATE
than the ruins of Melrose or kenil-
worth, for from these last ruins YOU
can pick up some fragment of a sculp-
tured 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
a fragment of your pardoned sins so
large as needles point Their sins
and their iniquities will I remembey
no more"
SIX different kinds Of sounds were
heard on that night which was inter
jected 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 a second
sound, the jeer Of malignants was a
third sound, the weeping of friends
and followers was fourth sound, the
splash Of blood on the rocks was a
fifth sound, and the groan of the ex-
piring Lord was sixth sound. And
they all comminsled into one sadness
Over place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing load of travellers and
to save them servant sprang from
the sled into the mouths of the wild
beasts and was devoured and thereby
the other lives were saved are in
scribed the words, Greater love hath
no man than this, that man lay
down his life for his friend" Many a