Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-03-15

realize the turpltade OF san. cut ask you
to a higher faith in the promise OF God
| and the full deliyerance OF His mercy. Ee
| does not give 4 receipt 10: part payment
or so much received on account, but re.
ceipt n full, God having for Christ 3 sake
| dccreed your sins and your impurities
| will remember no more"
| know You viii quote the Bible refer
| cnce to the horrible pit from which You
were digged. Yes. be thankful FOR that
rescue. bat do no: make displays OF the
| mud OF that horrible pit or splash il over
other people. Sometimes l have felt IN
Christian meetings discounted and unfit
for Christian service because | had done
none OF those things which seemed 10 be,
in the estimate o. many. necessary for
Christian usefulness. for l never swore a
word o. ever got drunk or went to com
promising places or was guilty OF assault
and battery or ever uttered a slanderous
word or ever did aEy one hurt. although
/ knew my heart was sinful enough and |
said TO myself. There is no use OF my try
ing to 90 any good, for | never went
| through those depraved 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 IN ordinary moral life. end
| ing in Christian life may not be as dra.
| matte story to tell about. let us be CRATE
full TO God rather than worry about 1t II
we have never plunged into outward abom.
| nations.
4 sin forgetting God, That is clear lie.
you'd and far above a sin pardonins God.
| How often we hear it said. II can forgive,
but l cannot forget" That is equal to
/ saying, Il verbally admit it is all right.
but l will kee? the old grudge good"
seems to say: Il would no; do you harm.
Indeed. wish yqu well. but that unfortu..
| nate affair can never pass out of my mind.
| There may be no bard words pass Between
| them. but until death breaks in the same
GOODNESS remains. But God lets our par
doned offeases go into oblivion. lie never
1 throws them up to Us again. He feels as
| kindly toward us as though we had been
] spotless and positively angelic al along.
/ Many years ago a family consisting OF
the husband and wife and little girl of two
| years lived far out in e cabin on western
! prairie. The husband took few cattle 10
| market. Before he started his little child
asked him TO buy her a doll. and he prem
/ ised He could after the sale of the cattle
| purchase household necessities and Ger.
tainly would not forget the doll he had
| promised. In the village to which he went
| he sold the cattle and obtained the grocer
| les for his household and the doll for his
| little darling. He started home along the
1 dismal road at nightfall. As he went
and in the most lonely part OF the road
| and in the heaviest part Of the storm lie
! heard 4 child's cry. Robbers had been
!. known to do some bad work along that
road. and il was known that this herds
! man had money with him. the price oil the
/ cattle sold. The hcrdsman first thought
| it as a stratagem to have him halt and he
Gespoiled OF his treasures. but the chi,d's
| cry became more keen and rending. and so
| he dism lunted and felt around II the
/ darkness and all in vain until he thought
/ OF hollow tree 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 and almost dead. Tie wrapped
| il up as well as he could and mounted his
horse and resumed his journey home.
| Coming in sight OF his cabin he saw II all
| lighted up, and supposed his wife had
| kindled all these lights 50 as to guide her
| husband through the darkness. Bat no.
| The house vas full OF excitement. and the
ncighbors were gathered and stood around
| the wife of the house. who was insensinle
| from some great calamity. On INQUIRY the
returned husband found that the little
| child of that cabin was gone. She had
| wandered out to meet her father and ger
| the present he had promised. and the
| child was LOSE. Then the father unrollcd
| from the b,anke: the child he had found in
| the fields, and. 10. it was his own child
and the lost one OF the prairie home, and
tine cabin quaked with the shout over the
| lost one found.
How suggestive of the fact that once we
were lost in the open fields or among the
| mountain 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 con-
| graduation bidding US welcome. The fact
| is that the world does not know God OF
| they would all flock to Him.
So | set open the wide gate OF my text.
/ inviting You all to come into the mercy
| and pardon OF God-yea. still further. into
| the ruins of the place where once was
| kent the knowledge OF your iniquities.
| The place has been torn down and the
| records destroyed, and yet you viii find
| the ruins more dilapidated and broken
| and PROSTATE than the ruins of Melrose or
| kenilwortn. for from these last ruins You
can pick UP some fragment of a sculptured
| stone or you can see the curve of some
broken arch. but after your repentance
! and your forgiveness You cannot find in al
the memory OF God fragment of your
| pardoned sins so large &C needles point.
/ Their sins and their iniquit:es will l re-
member no more"
Six different kinds OF sound were heard
on that night which was INTERCEPTED into
| the daylight of Christ's assassination. The
| neighing OF the war horses-for some of
| the soldiers were in the saddie-was one
| sound. the hang of the hammers was n
second sound. the jecr of mriignants was
| third sound, the weeping OF friends and
followers was a fourth sound. the plash
| of blood on the rocks was fifth sound.
and the groan OF the expiring Lord was
sixth sound And they all comningled
into one sadness.
Over q place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing load OF travellers ard to
save them a servant sprang from the sled
| into the mouths of the wild beasts ard
was deyoured. and Thereby the other lives
were saved are inscribed the words, Great.
| or love hath no man than this. that man
| lay down his life for his friend" Many
surgeon in our own time has in trachteo-
tony with his own lips drawn from the
windpipe of diphtheritic patient that
which cured the patient and slew the sur
geon, and all have honored the self sacr:-
fec. But all other scenes OF sacrifice pale
before this most illustrious martyr OF all
time and all eternity. After that aconizing
spectacle in behalf OF our fallen race moth
ing about the sin forgetting God is too
stupendous for nv faith. and / accept the
promise, and will you not all accept il?
''Their sins and their iniquities will | re-
| member no more.
copyright. 1862. L. Klopsch.l
Givcrshoss for Horses.
Superintendent. Hankinson says that