Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-22

will keep the old grudge good" There
! is something In the demeanor that
seems to say: Il w. 4 not do you
HARM Indeed 1 wish you we'll, 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 coolness re-
| mains. But God lets our pardoned Of
fenses go 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 a capfn
on western prairie. The husband took
few cattle to market. Before he
started his little child asked him to
buy for her doll, and he promised.
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 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 horseback
thunderstorm broke, and in the most
lonely part of the road and in the
heaviest part of the storm he heard a
chi1d's cry. Robbers had been known
to do some bad work along that road,
and it was known that this herdsman
had money with him. the price of the
cattle sold. The herdsman first thought
it was stratagem to have him halt
and be despofled of his treasures, but
the childs cry became more keen and
rending, and so he dismounted and felt
around in the darkness and all in vain
until he thought of hollow that he
remembered near the road where the
child might be, and for that he started
and, sure enough, found a little one
tagged out and drenched of the storm
and almost dead. He wrapped it up as
well 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 insensibIe 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 unroIled 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 were lost
| in the open fields or among the noun
| tain 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
! congratulation bidding us welcome
| The fact is that the world does not
! know God or they would all flock to
| him.
So 1 set open the wide gate of my
| text, inviting you all to come into the
| mercy and pardon of Goo-yea. still
! further, into the ruins of the place
where once was kept the knowledge of
your iniduities. 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-
| 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 a needles point. Their sins
and their iniquities will I remember
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 mangnants was a
| third sound, the weeping of friends
and followers was a fourth sound, the
| splash of blood on the rocks was
! fifth sound. and the groan of the ex-
| piring Lord was a sixth sound And
| they all commingled into one sadness
Over a place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing a load of travellers and
| to save them a 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
surgeon in our own time has In
tracheotouy with his own lips drawn
| from the windpipe of a diphtheritic