Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-24


harm. Indeed ! wish you well, 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
a few cattle to market. Before he
started his little child asked him to
buy for her a 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
a 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 herdsman
had money with him. the price of the
cattle sold. The herdsman first thought
1t was stratagem 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 a 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 1t 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.
Dht nv hC nOubC was lull VI GACllC-
ment, and the neighbors were gathered
and stood around the wife of the house,
who was insensible 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
Loaf Co L
the blanket the child he had found in
the fields, and, 10, ii 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 | 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 records destroyed,
and you will find the ruins more di-
lapidated and broken and prostrate
than the ruins of Melrose or Kenil-
worth, for from these last ruins you
can pick up some fragment of a sculp-
tured 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 a needles point Their sins
and their iniquities will l 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 malignants was a
third sound, the weeping Of frissids
and followers was fourth sound. the
splash of blood on the rocks was a
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 load of travellers and
to save them servant sprang from
the sled into the mouths of the wild