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

to a higher faith IN the promise ot Tod
and the full dcliyc-ance OF His mercy. lie
does not give receipt fo- part payment
or so much received on account, but re.
ceipt n full. God having FOR Christ $ sake
decreed 'yoIr sins and your iniquitics
will ! remember no more"
| know YOU will 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 it over
other people. Sometimes | have felt III
Christian meetings discounted and unfit
for Christian service because i had done
none CT those things which seemed TO be.
IN the estimate OF many. necessary for
Christian usefulness. for l never sworc
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 any one hurt. although
l knew my heart was sinful enough and l
said TO myself. There is no use OF my try.
ing to 40 any good. for | never went
through those depraved experiences" But
afterward | saw consolation III 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 it ii
we have never plunged into outward abom-
nations.
A sin forgetting God, That is clear he
yoad and far above sin pardoning God.
How often we hear it said. Il can forgive.
but / cannot forget" That is equal to
saying, Il verbally admit it is all right.
but L will kee? the old grudge good"
There Is something in the demeanor that
seems 10 say: Il would no; do you harm.
Indeed. / wish yoa well, but that uEfortu.
8
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
throws them up to us again. He feels as
kindly toward us as though we had been
spotless and positively angelic all along.
Many wears ago family consisting OF
the husband and wife and little girl OF two
years lived far out in cabin on a western
prairie. The husband :ook a 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 Tor his
little darling. He started home along the
dismal road at nightfall. As he went
along on horseback n thunderstorm broke,
and in the most lonely part of the road
and in the heaviest part ct the storm he
heard n child's cry. Robbers had been
known 10 do some bad work along that
road, and it was known that this herds
man had money with him. the price OF the
cattle sold. The herdsman first thought
il as strataSem to have him halt and he
Gespoied of his treasures. but the cki.d's
cry became more keen and rending, and So
he dism ountcd and felt around IN 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. lie wrapped
it up as well as he could and mounted his
horse and resumed his journey home.
Coming in sight OF his cabin he saw it all
lighted up, and supposed his wife had
kindlcd al these lights SO as to guide her
husband through the darkness. Bat no.
The house was full of excitement. and the
ncighhors 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. Thea the father unrollcd
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 suggestive of the fact that once we
were lost in thc 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, giadness and con-
graduation bidding US welcome. The fact
Is that the world does no. know God or
they would all flock to Him.
So l Sc: open the wide gate OF my text.
inviting You ell 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 ard the
records destroyed, and yet you viii find
the ruins more dilapidatcd and broken
and PROSTATE than the ruins of Melrose or
Kenilwortn, for from these last ruins you
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 fragment of YOUR
pardoned sins so large as needles point.
Their sins and their iniquit:eS will i 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
neghing of the war horses-for some of
the soldiers were in the sadile-was one
sound. the hang OF the hammers was a
second sound. the jecr OF mclignants was
third sound, the weeping OF friends and
followers was fourth sound. the plash
of blood on the rocks was a fifth sound.
and the groan OF the expiring Lord was a
sixth sound! And they all commingled
into one sadness.
Over a place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing load OF travellers ard to
save them servant sprang from the sled
into the mouths of the wild beasts ard
was devourcd. 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 a
surgeon in our own time has in trachteo.
tony with his own lips drawn from the
windpipe OF a diphtheritic patient tina.
which cured the patient and slew the sur.
geon, and all have hoaored the self sacr;-
fec. But all other scenes of sacrifice pale
before this most illustri0us martyr of all
time and all eternity. After that aconizng
spectacle in behalf OF our fallen race moth
ing about the sin forgetting God is too
ssuPendous for my faith. and accept the
promise, and will you not all accept liz
Their sins and their iniquities will re-
member no more"
copyright. 1862. L. Klopsch.l
Gfvcrshoss for Horses.
Superintendent. Hankinson says that