Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-03-14


canst thou, the just Lord, let those
souls into the realm of supernal glad
ness? Why, they said a 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"
And suppose God should deign to an
swer. He might say: Yes, but did not
my only Son die for their ransom? Did
he not pay the price? Not one drop Of
blood was retained in his arteries;
not one nerve of his that was not
wrung in the torture. He took in his
own body and soul all the suffering
that those sinners deserve. They plead
ed that sacrifice; they took the full
pardon that l promised to all who,
through my Son, earnestly applied for
it, and it passed out of my mind that
they were offenders. l forgot all about
it. Yes, l forgot all about it. Their
sins and their iniquities do | remem-
Der no mOre.'" A sin forgetting God!
That is clear beyond and far above
sin pardoning God. How often we
hear it said, Il can forgive, but I can
not forget" That is equal to saying,
Il verbally admit it is all right, but 1
will keep the old grudge good" There
is something in the demeanor that
seems to say: Il would not do you
harm. Indeed l wish you well, but
that unfortunate affair can never pass
out Of my mind" There may no hard
words pass between them, but until
death breaks in the same GOODNESS re-
mains. But God lets our pardoned Of
fenses 90 into oblivion. He never
throws them up to us again. He feels
as kindly toward us as though we had
been spotless and positively angelic all
along.
Many years ago a family consisting
of the husband and wife and little girl
of two years lived far out in cabin
on a western prairie. The husband took
a few cattle to 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
I purchase household necessities anu GER
1 tainly would not forget the doll ne 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 hOrseb&cB
a thunderstorm broke and in the mos
lonely part of the road and in the
heaviest part of the storm he heard &
child's cry. Robbers had been known
to do some bad work along that road
and it was known that this herdsmaI
had money with him, the price of thu
cattle sold. The herdsman first though
it was stratagem to have him hal
and be despOiled of his treasures, bu
the childs cry became more keen anC
rending, and so he dismOunted and feel
around in the darkness and all in vail
until he thought of a hollow that h
remembered near the road where tn
child might be, and for that he startet
and, sure enough. found a little on
tagged out and drenched of the storm
and almost dead He wrapped it up n
well as he could and mounted his hOrs
and resumed his journey home. Con
ing in sight of his cabin. he saw it a
, lighted up and supposed his wife ha
kindled all these lights so as to guild
her husband through the darkness
But no. The house was full of excite
ment. and the neghbors were gathere
and stood around the wife Of the hous'
who was inseusible as from some grea
, calamity. On inquiry the returned hu'
, band found that the little child Of tia
cabin was gone. She had wandere
/ out to meet her father and get the pre-
ent he had promised, and the child wa
! ( lost Then the father unrolled frOl
the blanket the child he had found
= She fields, and. 10. it was his own chill
e and the lost one of the prairie HON
n and the cabin quaked with the shot
o over the lost one found! How sugge
tive Of the fact that once we We're To-
in the open fields or among the mOu
tain crags, Gods wandering childre
:. and he found US, dying in the tempe
: and wrapped us in the mantle Of Il
: love and fetched us home, gladness al
= cOngratulatiOn bidding us welcom
! The fact is that the world does n
know God or they would all flock
3 him.
Il A Story of GnribaIdi.
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