The age-herald., 1902-03-16

lenses go into oblivion. He never throws them up to us again. He feels as kind ly toward us as though we had been spotless and positively angelic all along
 Many years ago family consisting of the husband and wife and little girl of two years lived far out in a cabin on q 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 ne cessities and certainly 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 nlghtfall. As he went along on horseback a thunderstorm broke, and in the most lonely part of the road and in the heav- jest part of the storm he heard chids 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 it was stratagem to have him halt and be de- spoiled 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 remembered near the road where the child might be- and for that he started and, sure enough, found little one Jagged out and drench- ed of the storm and almost dead. He wrapped 1t up as we'll as he could and mounted his horse and resumed his jour nlv home. Coming in sight of his cabin. he saw 1t all lighted up and supposed his wife had llindled all these lights so as to guide her husband 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 insensibly as from some great call amity, 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 the 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 los- 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 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.
 A Story of Garibaldi.
 There are certain names so magnetic that their pronunciation thrills all who hear them. Such is the name of the Ital- ian soldier and liberator, Garibaldi Marching with his troops he met a shepherd who was in great distress be- cause he had lost lamb. Garibaldi said to his troops, Let us help this poor shepherd find his lamb" And so with lanterns and torches, they explored the mountains, but did not find the lamb, and after an unsuccessful search late at night they went to their encampment. The next morning Garibaldi was found asleep far on into the day and they wakened him for some purpose and found that he had not given up the search when the soldiers did, but had kept on still fur ther into the night and had found it, and he pulled down the blankets from his couch, and there lay the lamb, which Garibaldi ordered immediately taken to its owner. So the commander of all the hosts of heaven turned aside from his glorious and victorious march through the centuries of heaven and said, T will go and recover that lost world and that race of whom Adam was the pro- genitor and let all who will accompany me-. And through the night they came but I do not see that the angelic escort came farther than the clouds, but their most illustrious leader came all the way 
 our little world. our wandering and lost world, our world fieecy 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 foundn'
 Come Into Mercy and Pardon. So l set open the wide gate of my text, inviting you all to come into the mercy and pardon of God-yea, still further into l fha .f kept the knowledge of your iniquities. The place has been torn down and the records 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 fragments of a sculp- tured stone you can see the curve of some broken arch, but after your re- pentance and your forgiveness you can not find in all the memory of God a fragment of your pardoned sins so large as needles point. Their sins and their iniquities will l remember no more.'
 Six different kinds of sounds were heard on that night which was interjected in- to the daylight of Christ's assassination. The neighing of the warhorses-for some of the soldiers were in the saddle-was one sound, the bang of the hammers was a second sound. the jeer of malig- nants was a third sound, the weeping of friends and followers was fourth sound, the plash of blood on the rocks was a fifth sound, and the groan of the expiring Lord was a sixth sound. And they all commngled into one sadness. Over a place In Russia where wolves 1 were pursuing q load of travellers and to l save them a servant sprang from the l sled into the mouths of the wild beasts and was devoured and thereby the oth- CT lives were saved are inscribed the | words, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend" Many a surgeon in our own time has in tracheotomy with his own lips drawn from the windpipe of a diph- | theritic patient that which cured the pa | tient and slew the surgeon. and all have | honored the self sacrifice. But all other , scenes of sacrifice pale before this most illustrious martyr of all time and all eternity. After the agonizing spectacle in behalf of our fallen race nothing about the sin forgetting God is too stupendous for my faith, and l accept the promise, and will you not all accept it? Their sins and their iniquities will I remem- Der no more.'