Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-03-12

word or ever did any one n hurt al
though l knew my heart was sinful
enough, and l said to myself: There
is no use of my trying to do any good.
for L never went through those de-
PRAYED experiences But afterward
saw consolation in the thought that
no one gained any ordination by the
laying on of the hands of dissoluteness
and infamy.
And though an ordinary moral life.
ending in a Christian life. may not be
as dramatic story TO tell about. let us
be grateful to God rather than worry
about II If we have never plunged into
outward denominations. 1t may be APP
proprlate in meeting of reformed
drunkards or reformed debauchees TO
quote for those not reformed how des-
perate and nasty YOU once were. but do
not drive n scaVenger's cart into as
semblages Of people the most of whom
have always been decent and respect
able. But | have been sometimes in
great evangelical meetings where peo-
pie went into particulars about the
sins that they once committed. so
much so that l felt like putting my
hand on my pocketbook or calling for
the police lest these reformed men
might fall from grace and go at their
old business of theft or drunkenness
or cutthroatery. If your sins have
been forgiven and your life purified.
forget the waywardness of the past
and allow others to forget il.
But what l most want in the light of
this text to impress is that we have n
sin forgetting God. Suppose that on
the last day-called the last day be-
cause the sun will never again rise up
on our earth, the earth itself being
flung into fiery demolition-su pposing
that on that last day 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
ness? Why, they said great many
things they never ought to have said
and they did a great many things they
ought never to have done. Sinners are
they-sinners all"
There are certain names so magnetic
that their pronunciation thrills all who
hear them. Such is the name of the
Italian soldier and liberator, Carl
baldi Marching with his troops. he
met shepherd who was in great dis
tress because he had lost n lamb
Garibaldi said to his troops: Let MS
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 unsuccess-
! ful search late at night they went to
| their encampment. The next morn
! ing Garibaldi 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 fur
| ther into the night and had found it.
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: II will go and recover that lost
world and that race of VIII ON Adam ":
the progenitor, 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 illustrious
Leader came all the way down, and by
| the time His errand is done our little
world, our wandering and lost world
our world fieecy with the light, will be
! found in the bosom of the Great Shep-
! herd. and then all Heaven will take up
the cantata and sing: THE lost sheep
| found!"
So ] set open the wide gate Of my
/ text, inviting you all 10 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 dilapi-
dated and broken and PROSTATE than
| the ruins of Melrose or Kenilworth, for
| from these last ruins you can pick up
some fragment Of a scuIptured stone
/ or YOU can see the curve Of some
/ broken arch. but after your repent
| ance and your forgiveness you cannot
/ find in all the memory Of God frag-
| ment Of your pardoned sins so large
as a needles point Their sins and
/ their iniquities will I remember no
more"
Six different kinds OF sounds were
/ UedIu Oh lllhi ulEHl winch was inter-
/ iected into the daylight Of Christ's as
sassination. The neighing Of the
warhorses- 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 n
third sound, the weeping OF friends and
| followers was q fourth sound. the
| plash Of blood on the rocks was a fifth
/ sound, and the groan Of the expiring
| Lord was n sixth sound. And they all
/ commingled into one sadness. Over a
| place in Russia where wolves were pur-
| suing a load Of travellers and 90 save