Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-04-10

| pother yourself and bother me with any
more Of that discussion" The following
that debit can never get over the fact
that l owe You that money. It is some.
thing that weighs on my mind hike a mill
stone. Do forgive me that debt" This
time you clear lose your patience and say:
"You are a nuisance. What do you mean
almost sorry l forgeve you that debt. Do
you doubt my veracty or do you not un.
| derstand the plain language in which /
told you that debt was canceled?" Well,
my friends, there are many Christians
guilty of worse folly than that While it
is right that they repent of new sins and
of recent sins, what is the use of bother
ing yourself and insulting God by asking
Him to forgive sins that long ago were
forgiven? God has forgiven them. Why
do you not forget them? No; you drag
the load on with you, and 365 times year,
call occurrences which He has not only for
| given, but forgotten.
Quit this folly. l do not ask you less to
realize the turpitude of sin, but l ask you
to higher faith in the promise of God
and the full deliverance of His mercy He
does not give receipt for part payment
| or SO much received on account, but IT,
ceipt n full, God having for Christ's sake
| decreed your sins and your iniquities
will l remember no more"
| I know you will quote the Bible refer
ence to the horrible pit from which you
We're digged. Yes, be thankful for that
rescue. but do not make displays of the
mud of that horrible pit or splash it over
| other people. Sometimes | have felt in
Christian meetings discounted and unfit
| for Christian service because l had done
none of those things which seemed to be,
| in the estimation of many, necessary for
Christian usefulness, for 1 never swore a
word or 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 do any good, for | never went
through those depraved experiences" But
afterward l saw consolation in the thought
that no one gained any ordination by the
laying on of the hands of dissoluteness and
infamy.
And though an ordinary moral life, end.
ing in Christian life, may not be as dra.
matte a story to tell about, let us be CRATE.
full to God rather than worry about it il
we have never plunged into outward aboIn-
| nations.
A sin forgetting Cod That is clear be.
| yond and far above sin pardoning God.
How often we hear it said, Il can forgive,
saying, II 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 not do you HARM
Indeed. wish you well, but that unfortu.
nate affair can never pass out of my mind"
| There may be no hard words pass Between
| them, but until death breaks in the same
GOODNESS remains. But God lets our par
doned offenses 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
4 Fn,N Tvs, ,-f1 Nf
the husband and wife and little girl of two
| years lived far out in cabin on a western
| prairie. The husband took q few cattle &c
| market. Before he started his little child
asked him to buy her doll, and he prom
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. lie 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 child's cry. Robbers had been
known to 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
it as a stratagem to have him halt and be
| ueSpOlieO Oh his treasures, DuI lHc CIllQ
cry became more keen and rending, and SO
he dism ounted and felt around in tho
| 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. He 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
| kindled all these lights so as to guide her
| husband through the darkness. But no,
| The house was full of excitement, and the
peighbors were gathered and stood around
| the wife of the house, who was insensible
| 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 get
the present he had promised, and tho
child was lost. Then the father unrolled
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 the open fields or among the
mountain crags, Gods wandering children,
and lie found lis, 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 or
| 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 ints
| the ruins of the place where once was
kept the knowledge of your iniquities.
The place has been torn down and the
| records destroyed, and yet You will find
| the ruins more dilapidated and broken
on ha of Melrpsa nr
Kenilworth 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 all
the memory of God a fragment of your
pardoned sins so large as needles point.
''Their sins and their iniquities will I re-
member no more"
Six different kinds of sound were heard
on that night which was interjected into
the daylight of Christ's assassination. The
neighing of the war horses-for some of
the soldiers were in the saddle-was one