The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1902-03-14

old business of theft or drunkenness
or cutthroatery. If your sins have
been forgiven and your life purlhed,
forget the waywardness of the past
and allow others to forget it.
But what most want in the light OF
this text to impress is that we have
sin forgetting God. Suppose that on
the last day-called the last day De-
cause the sun will never again rise uP-
on our earth, the earth itself oelng
flung into fiery demolition-supposlng
that on that last day group OF IN
fernal spirits should somehow get
near enough the gate OF heaven ana
challenge our entrance and say: How
canst Thou, the just Lord, let those
souls into the realm of supernal glad
ness? Why, they said great many
things they never ought to have salo'
and they did great many things they
ought never to have done. Sinners ars
they-sinners all"
There are certain names so magnetic
that their pronunciation thrills all VINO
hear them. Such is the name OF the
Italian soldier and liberator, Carl
baldi. Marching with his troops, ne
met a shepherd who was in great dis
tress because he had lost lamD'
Garibaldi said to his troops: Let US
help this poor shepherd find his lamb
And so, with lanterns and torches, tney
explored the mountains, but dld not
find the lamb, and after an unsuccess-
full search late at night they went 10
their encampment. The next morn
ing 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
Their into the night and had found H.
and he pulled down the blankets from
his couch, and there lay the lamb,
which Garibaldi ordered Immediately
taken to it's owner. So the Commander
of all the hosts of heaven turned aside
from His glorious and victorious march
through the centuries Of heaven ana
said: II will go and recover that lost
world and that race of whom Adam
the progenitor, and let all who will ac-
company me-" And 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 errand is done our little
world, our wandering and lost world,
our world feecy 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: 1.-THE lost sheep
found"
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 dilapi-
dated and broken and PROSTATE than
The ruins of Melrose or Kenilworth, for
rom these last ruins you can pick up
some fragment of sculptured stone
,r YOU can see the curve of some
broken arch, but after your repent
ance and your forgiveness You cannot
ind in all the memory of God frag-
nent of your pardoned sins so large
IS a needles point. Their sins and
heir iniquities will l remember no
more"
Six different kinds of sounds were
heard on that night which was inter-
ected into the daylight of Christ's as
The neighing Of the
some of the soldiers
we're in the saddle-was one sound,
he bang of the hammers was second
ound. the ieer Of malignants was
bird sound. the weeping of friends and
ollowers was a fourth sound, the
clash of blood on the rocks was fifth
ound, and the groan of the expiring
ord was a sixth sound. And they all
into one sadness. Over a
,lace in Russia where wolves were pur-
,uing a load of travellers and to save
hem a servant sprang from the sled
INTO the mouths of the wild beasts and
vas devoured and thereby the other
ives were saved are inscribed the
words: Greater love hath no man
han this. that man lay down his life
'or his friend" Many a surgeon in
,ur own time has in tracheotomy with
lis own lips drawn from the windpipe
If diphtheritic patient that which
ured the patient and slew the surgeon,
md all have honored the self-secrifice.
3ut all other scenes of sacrifice pale
before this most illustrious martyr of
Ill time and all eternity. After that
lgonizing spectacle in behalf of our
'allen race nothing about the sin for
getting God is too stupendous for my
aith, and accept the promise, and will
you not all accept it? Their sins and
heir iniquities will l remember no
more"