Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-03-15
Sinners are they-sinners

have done. Sinners are they-sinneFs
all"
And suppose God should deign TO an
swer. He might say: YES, but did not
my only Son die for their ransom? Did
lie not pay the price? Not one drop of
blood was retained in his arteries; not
one nerve OF his that was not wrung in
torture. He took in his own body and
soul all the suffering that those sinners
deserve They pleaded that sacrifice;
they took the full pardon that | promised
to all who. through my Son, earnestly APP
piled for it, and it passed out of my
mind that they were offenders. | forgot
all about it, Yes, | forgot all about it,
Their sins and their iniquities 10 ! re-
member no more f" 4 sin forgetting
God! That is clear beyond and far aboye
a sin pardoning God. How often We hear
il said. Il can forgive, but / cannot for
get" That is equal to saying, Il verb
ally admit it is all right, but l will keep
the old grudge good" There is some
thing in the demeanor that seems 10 say:
Il would not do you harm. Indeed |
wish you well, but that unfortunate NJ
fair can never pass out of my mind.
There may 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 new
er throws them up to us again. He feels
as kindly toward MS as though We had
been spotess and positively angelic all
along.
A Lost Sheep Found.
Many years ago family consisting Of
the husband and wife and little girl Of
two years lived far out in a cabin on
western prairie. The husband took
few cattle tu market. Before he started
his little child asked him to buy for her
doll. and he promised He could ar
ter 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 eat
tie aud 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
child's cry. Robbers had been known
to do some bad work along that road, an'l
il was known that this herdsman had
money with him, the price Of the cattle
sold The herdsman first thought IL was
strategem to have him halt aud he de
spoiled of his treasures. hut the chiidS
cry became more keen and rcnding, 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 drenchcd of the
! In wi
mp as well rs 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
kndled all these lights SO az 20 guide
her husband through the darkness. But
no. The house was full OF excitement,
aud the neighbors were gathered and
stood around the wife of the house, who
was insensibe as from some great ca
lamity. On inquiry the returned hus-
band found that the little child OF that
cabin was gone. She had wandered out
10 meet her father and get the present he
had promised, aud the child was lost.
Then the father unro4ea from the hlan-
ket the child he had found 10 the fields.
and, To- il was his own child, aud the lost
one of the prairie home, and the cabin
| Qunked WIFI the Snont 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 wan
dering children. and he found us, dying
in the tempest and wrapped Us IN The
mantle OF his love and fetched us home,
Eladncss and congratulation bidding as
| welcome.
The commander of all the hosts Of
heaven turned aside from his glorious
| and victorious march through the cen
turtles Of heaven and said II will 40 and
recover that lost world and that race 81
whom Adam was the progcnitor, ana let
| all who will accompany me. Aud
! through the night they came, but | 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 crrand is done our
little world, our wandering aud lost
world, our weld ncecy with the light
will be found in the bosom Of the Great
Shepherd, and then all heaven will take
up the cantata and sing, The lost sheep
found. Their sins and their iniqnitjcs
will ! remember 10 more"