Connecticut western news., 1902-03-13

not one nerve of his that was not wrung in the torture. He took in his own body and soul all the suffering that those sinners deserve. They plead ed that sacrifice; they took the full pardon that l promised to all who. through my Son, earnestly applied for it, and it passed out of my mind that they were offenders. forgot all about it. Yes, forgot all about 1t. Their sins and their iniquities do l remem- Der no more'" A sin forgetting God! That is clear beyond and far above a sin pardoning God. How often we hear it said "I can forgive, but can not forget" That is equal to saying, II verbally admit 1t Is all right, but will keep the old grudge good" There is something In the demeanor that seems to say: "I would not do you harm. Indeed I wish you well, but that unfortunate affair can never pass out of my mind" There may no hard words pass between them, but until death breaks in the same coolness re- mains. But God let's our pardoned of lenses go into oblivion. He never throws them up to us again. He feels as kindly 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 cabin on a 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 necessities and cer- tainly 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 night fall. AS he went along on horseback a thunderstorm broke, and In the most lonely part of the road and In the heaviest part of the storm he heard 6 child's 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 a stratagem to have him halt and be despoiled 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 a 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 drenched of the storm IIz Na1 we'll as he could and mounted his horse and resumed his journey home. Con- ing in sight of his cabin, he saw 1t all lighted up and supposed his wife had kindled all these lights so as to guide her husband through the darkness. But no. The house was full of excite ment, and the neighbors were gathered and stood around the wife of the house, who was insensible as from some great calamity. On inquiry the returned hus- band found that the little child of that cabin was gone. She had wandered out to meet her father and get the pres ent he had promised, and the child was lost Then the father unrolled from the blanket the child he had found in the fields, and, To, 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.
 A Story of Garibaldi.
 There are certain names so magnetic that their pronunciation thrills all who hear them. Such Is the name of the Italian soldier and Hberator, Garibaldi. Marching with his troops, he met a shepherd who was in great distress be- cause he had lost lamb. GarabaIdi 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 Gari- 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 it, and he pulled down the blankets from his couch, and there lay the lamb, which 1 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 and said, ''I 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 came all the way down, and by the time his errand Is done our little world, our wandering and lost world, our world 6eecy 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 foundr'
 Come Into Mercy and Pardon.
 So I 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 prostrate than
 the ruins of Melrose or Wentworth, 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 a fragment
 of your pardoned sins so large as a | naodlo'a Dninf GFvThofr cine ond