The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16

lets our pardoned offenses go into ob- livion. He never throws them up to us again. He feels as kindly toward us as though we had been spotless and posi- lively 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 Western prairie. The husband took a 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 house hold necessities and certainly would not forget the doll he had promised. In the village to which he went he sold the cat tie and obtained the groceries for his household and the doll for his little darl- ing. He started home along the dismal road at nightfall. 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 childs cry. Robbers had been known to do some bad work along that road, and 1t was known that this herds man had money with him, the price Of the cattle sold. The herdsman first thought it was a strategem to have him halt and be despoIled of his treasures. but the child's 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 re, membered 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 al- most dead, He wrapped 1t up as well as he could and mounted his horse and re- sumed his journey home. Coming In sight of his cabin, he saw 1t all lighted up and supposed his wife had kindled all these lights so as to guide her hus- band through the darkness. But no The house was full of excitement. and the neighbors were gathered and stood around the wife of the house. who was insensl- bie AS from some great calamity. on l.. n,.I hat the little ca1 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 un- found in the fields. and To, 1t 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 sug- gestiye of the fact that once we were lost In tho 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 l, con, con, graduation bidding Us welcome. The fact Is that the world does not know God or they would all flock to Him.
 A Story of Garibaldi.
 There are certain names So magnetic that their pronunciation thrills all who hear them. Such is the name of the Italian soldier and llbcrator, Garibaldi. Marching with his troops. he met a shep- herd who was in great distress because he had lost a lamb. Garabaidi said to his troops, Let us help this poor shep- herd find his lamb" And so. with lan- terms and torches. they explored tho mountains. but did not find the lamb. and after an unsuccessful search late at night they went to their one impment. The next morning Garibaldi was found asleep far on into tho day. and they wakened him for some purpose and found that he had not given mp the search when the soldiers did, but had kept on still further into the night and had found it. and he pulled down the blankets from his couch. and there lay the lamb. which Garibdldi ordered imme- dlately taken to its owner. So the com mander of all the hosts of Heaven turned aside from his glorious and vic torious march through the centuries or Heaven and said, Il will go and recover that lost world and that race of whom Adam w@s the Ana and thr5gh c5 a The the night they came b}r I do not see that the angelic escort came any farther than the clouds. but their most illustrious leader came all the way down, and by the time his errand is done our little world our wandering and lost world our world 1eecy with the light. will be found in the bosom of the Great Shep- herd, and then all Heaven will take up the cantata and sing. ''The lost sheep foundl'
 Come Into Mercy and Pardon
 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 Kept the knowledge of your iniQuities. The place has been torn down and the re- cords destroyed. and you will find the ruins more dilapidated and broken and prostrate than the ruins of Melrose or Wentworth. for from these last ruins you can pick up some fragment of a scup- tured stone or you can see the curve of some broken arch. but after your repent ance and your forgiveness you cannot