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

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| and the full dcliverance OF His mercy. lie
| does not give receipt fo- part payment
or so much received or account, but re.
ceipt n full. God having for Christ sake
decreed ''yolr sins and your iniquities
will ! remember no more"
l know You will quote the Bible refer
| cnce to the horrible pit from which YOU
were digged. Yes. be thankful Tor that
| rescue, bat do no: make displays OF the
! mud OF that horrible pit or splash il over
other people. Sometimes l have felt III
! Christian meetings discounted and unfit
! for Christian service because | had done
none CT those things which seemed TO be.
! IN the estlma ton o. many. necessary for
/ Christian usefulness, for l never swore
word o. ever got drunk or went to com
| promising places or was guilty OF assault
| and battery or ever uttered slanderous
word or ever did any one a hurt. although
/ l 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 III the thought
| that no one gained any ordination by the
| laying on OF the hands OF dissoluteness and
infamy.
And though m ordinary moral life, end
| ing in 4 Christian life. may not be as dra.
matte a story to tell about, let us be CRATE
ful TO God rather than worry about it ii
we have never plunged into outward abom-
| nations.
4 sin forgetting God, That is clear Le-
| you'd and far above a sin pardoning God.
| How often we hear it said. Il can forgive,
but l cannot forget" That is equal to
1 saying, Il verbally admit it is all right.
but / will keep the old grudge good"
| There is something in the demeanor that
seems TO say: Il would no; do you harm.
Indeed. wish yop 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
coolness remains. But God lets our par.
doned offenses 20 into oblivion. lie never
throws them up to Us again. He feels az
| kindly toward us as though we had been
] spo;less and positively angelic al along.
/ Many years ago family consisting OF
| the husband and wife and little girl OF two
i years lived far out in q cabin on western
! prairie. The husband took few cattle 10
market. Before he started his little child
asked him to buy her doll. ard he prem
/ ised He could after the sale of the cattle
1 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
| dismal road ut nightfall. As ne went
along on horseback a thunderstorm broke,
/ 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 10 do some bad work along that
road. and II was known that this herds
! man had money with him. the price OF the
/ cattle sold. The herdsman first thought
| it as strataSem to have him halt and be
| Gespoiled of his treasures. but the chi.d's
| cry became more keen and rendIng, and So
| he dism )untcd 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 he. and
| for that he started. and, sure enough,
| found little one tagged out and drenched
| OF the storm and almost dead. He wrapped
| 1t up as well as he could and mounted his
horse and resumed his journey home.
| Coming in sight OF his cabin he saw il all
; lighted up, and supposed his VIE had
| kindled all 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 Eer
the present he had promised. and the
child was lose Then the father unroied
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 caoIn 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 crass. 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 not know God or
they would all flock to Him.
/ ODpn faa y-tdp ~ NJ
inviting You oil 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 win find
the ruins more dilapidated and broken
and PROSTATE than the ruins OF Melrcse or
kenilwortn. Tor from these last ruins YOU
can pick up some fragment of 4 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 50 large IS 4 needles point.
Their sins and their iniquit:es will / 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 sadiie-was one
sDuHu. lHe ndNL OF Tie hammers was 4
second sound. the jccr of malignants 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 n
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 sDrang from the sled
into the mouths of the wild beasts and
was devourcd. and thereby the other lives
were saved are inscribed the words, Great
or love hath no man than this. that 4 man
lay down his life for his friend" Many a
surgeon in our own time has in trachtco-
tony with his own lips drawn from the
windpipe OF a Giphtheritic patient tina.
which cured the patient and slew the sur
geon, and all have honored the self sacr:-
fee. But all other scenes of sacrifice pale
before this most illustrious martyr OF all
time and all eternity. After that asonizing
spectacle in behalf OF our fallen race moth
ing about the sin forgetting God is too
stupendous for my faith. and accept the
promise, and will you not all accept IL?
Their sins and their iniquities will re-
member no more
Copyright. 1909. L. Klopsch.l
Gvcrsho.s for Horses.
Superintendent. Hankinson says that