The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-11

and the lost one Of the prairie home.
and. the cabin quaked with the shout
over the lost one found. How sug-es-
tive or he fact that once we were lost
In the open fields or among the noun
tain crass. Gods wandering children.
and be found Us. dying in The tempest
and wrapped Us in the mantle Of his
love and fetched Us home. siadness and
congratulation bidding Us welcome.
The fact Is that the world does not
know God or they would all fock to
him
A Story of b
There are certain names so magnetic
hat their pronunciation thrills al who
hear them Such is the name or the
Italian soldier and liberator. Garibaldi.
Marching with his troops. he met q
shepherd who was in great distress be-
cause he had lost a lamb. Garabaldi
said 10 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
SCsANh "NS - hlSh khNg Ghl " tAtAT
e~ncampment. The next morning Carl
baldi was found asleep far on into the
day. and they Weakened him for some
purpose and found hat he had o
given up the search when the soldiers
did, but had kept on still further into
the night and had found IL, and he
pulled down the blankets from his
nntynh md fhnra Low tho iornh -h;.l
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, Il 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 | do not see that
the angelic escort came any farther
than the clouds, but their most illus
trious leader anne all the way down.
and by the time his errand is done our
little world. our wandering and lost
world, our world fieeey with the light.
will be found in the bosom of the Great
JAN aio h1h Z" hSaNNi i
take up the cantata and sing, 1.-The lost
sheep found!"
Come Into Mercy and Pardon.
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 nee 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
from these last ruins you can pick up
some fragment of a sculptured stone
or you can see the curve of some bro
ken arch, but after your repentance
and your forgiveness you cannot find
in all the memory Of God n fragment
of your pardoned sins SO large as a
needles point: Their sins and their
iniquities will | remember no more
Six different kinds of sounds were
heard on that night which was inter
jected into the daylight of Christ's as
s~assination. The nciGhing of the war
uOIScS-lDl SDiiit ol t.t SOItiltIS Z
in the saddlt-was one sound. the bang
Of the hammers was 4 second sound,
the jeer of malignants was Il third
sound, the weeping of friends and fol-
lowers was n fourth sound. the plaSh
of blood OIL the rocks was a fifth sound,
and the grOan of the expiring Lord was
a sixth sound And they all commin-
Il pIn1 into nrn C.tEnn-S IEnr 81 nl1po
in Russia where wolves were pursuing
q load Of travellers and to save them a
servant spranS from the sled into the
mouths Of tho wild beasts and was de-
voured and thereby the other lives
were saved are inscribed the words,
Greater love hath no man than this,
that Il 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 sacrifice. But
all other scenes of sacrifice pale before
this most illustrious martyr Of all time
and all eternity. After that agoniZ;ng
spectacle in behalf of our fallen race
nothing about the sin forgetting God
is too stupendous for my faith. and I
accept the promise, n will you not
all accept it? Their sins and their in
EQUITIES will / remember no more"
copyright, 1902. Louis Klopsch. n VI
KiDlirg's Faith.
Bishop Brewster of the Episcopal di-