Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-01-27
--,,..-...t;ne the things that are Behind

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payenport, January 27, 1888.
7,v,rpstting the things that are Behind
# Is q, good thing to forget, it is a good
,,ino,o strive after forgetiulness; 1t IS good
~ errget our own SORROWS again, all except
. ~ lr' 9nroHt. Why should we go back to
, n.;na pur sorrows again! Why should we
ul ,,,sn % seek the experiences which We're
ss'' t;.,er when we had them. Why should
w cry the graves in which they are bur-
WI e r. NOT God our God in the future and
ieu. on, as in the past. VIII not he who
Pi s,ehes the sparrow watch those whom he
WY. hotter than his own life! And is not
~, .dmeasurement Of human experience
No Bow down when he presses your
,"os ,y;tb sorrow; but when the rain has
nea away. and he sends his gentle winds
PasIrs a,. the wheat and the flowers shake
aF the weight of drops. and lit up their
.,ashad heads erect again. And II the ex-
"arience Of the past be heavy drops upon
Pa - tho rain shed upon your heads by the
gg,1nSs Of sorrow that have passed away
f.oo the face of your heaven, if they
oncs bowed down your head, let them DO
80 no longer lin up your heads, and le.
,be drops that weigh you down TALL to the
EARTH! -,
Why brood, either upon your losses.-
same look back upon the ebbing waves Of
gfe ,s the wrecks they carry with them
.,s, the wrecks of all. But have you lost
,oythipp that you had when you were born!
;I.ye , on lost anything lhatyo want when
I'm al! Have you lost anything that you
;;yiIl miss hereafter, Why moodily con-
mme ycur heart with pain for the lack of
r,tle treasure, for the blight, perhaps, Of an
ambition, which wa, itself a blight-whch
yas Itself but an cxcresencc. You have
Al, IN breath, water to drink, clothes to
,yoar AMI Il hpI;eta shelter you; you have
f,;snIs tha, love you, SAVIOUR that dWells
or may dwell With you; hope, that outdates
line. treasure which no moth can eat. no
lbiqfcan steal, no change whistle away
WHY. then, for losses, which We're
never worth the tears shed for them
why sit; looking back into the darken-
ed chamber OF the past, mourning and droop-
ipg!
FORGET, too your grief-though that, per-
baps Is harder TO do--your grief, which eats
Ii soul Ikea cinker Why should one for
sake his own house and wander up and
down the burial place Of grief Ike the poor.
maniac OF the Gadarenes, 1t is sad walk
mo under the bitter tho'is from which drops
lposon fall upon our hands
FORGET your burdens, carry them nj
twice ana pcrpetuaiiy. What il your ways
have been rough and perllA&! Is there no
.lt Tor you in the future! Ten thousand
Stars may rise and you not see them, II you
stand with your back 10 the east gaz
ing and weeping after yesterdays sun -
That which YOU have lost in the west,
turn, and be patient, and you shall see il
sgain-you shall behold day once more in
The east.
Forget too, your pleasures. that have
'ossomed and shed their leaves. There
a time for all things. Why should you
refuse the ever springing present, and only
mRrn over that which God when he gave
/ il 10 you, told you il was but for moment!
For everything that is bright and beautiful
on earth is sent BY Cod to say TO us hco
hinos that is beauty aud brightness is Il
ia,h rejection OF heaven, and that its
fraiIty and quick dropping Is an image OF
! the evaneseence OF time; 1t speaks to us at
where we are, il also tells us where we SHALL
be.
Ofall the pas; then, 1t it be said Let
the dead bury their dead" Gallup no more
your old sins to vcX You with rcmorse as II
soul.tormeni had in it any more merit or
4 who'esomeness than monk;sh penanccs and
bodily fagela,ions. Nay let the caresses
Of your sins be in the wilderness, were they
fell, and do not carry their bones toward
canaan-for the repentance OF sin is to let
alone, the best and most sovereign sorrow
for sin is to put in its place divinoly inspir-
ed virtue Forgot the old shames, the old
aiamec, the old gricfs, the old pleasures, the
od joys, the old sins r . HRry Ward
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