Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-03-13

the fields, and. 10, 1t 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.
There are certain names so magnetic
that their pronunciation thrills all who
hear them. Such Is the name OF the
Italian soldier and liberator, Garibaldi.
Marching with his troops. he met a
shepherd who was in great distress be-
cause he had lost a lamb. Garibald!
said to his troops. Let us help this
poor shepherd find his lamb" And so,
with lanterns and torches, they ex-
plored the mountains, but did not find
the lamb, and after an unsuccessful
search late at night they went to their
encampment. The next morning Carl
baldi 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 further into
the night and had found 1t. 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. II will go and recover that lost
world and that race of whom Adam
was the progenitor and let all who will
accompany me-" And through the
night they came, but l do not see that
the angelic escort came any farther
than the clouds. but their most illus
trious leader came all the way down,
and by the time his errand Is done our
little world, our wandering and lost
world. our world fieecy with the light,
will be found in the bosom of the Great
Shepherd, and then all heaven will
take up tho cantata and sing, 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 d.
lapidated and broken and PROSTATE
than the ruins of Melrose or Kenil-
worth. for from these last ruins you
can pick up some fragment of sculp-
tured stone or you can see the curve
of come 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 a needles point. Their sins
and their iniquities will I remembe
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 ieer of malignants was a
third sound. the weeping of friends
end followers was a fourth sound, the
splash of blood on the rocks was a
fifth sound, and the groan Of the ex-
hiring Lord was a sixth sound AMI
they all commingled into one sadness.
Over place in Russia where wolves
were pursuing load of travellers and
to save them a servant sprang from
the sled into the mouths of the wild
beasts and was devoured and thereby
the other lives were saved are in
scribed the words. Greater love hath
no man than this. that 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 diphtheritic
patient that which cured the patient
and slew the surgeon, and all have
honored the self-sacrifce. But all
other scenes Of sacrifice pale before
this most illustrious martyr of all
time and all eternity. After that ago
nizing spectacle in behalf OF our
fallen race nothing about the sin for
getting God is too stupendous for my
faith. and I accept the promise, and
win you not all accept 1t? Their sins
and their iniquities will I remember
no more"