The Penn's Grove record., 1892-06-10
REV.. DR.. TINAGf'S SERMON.
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Subject. uTurpive .no H~,oroet.n
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TEXT: "Tbgir sims and tbsir in50uftie,
will | remgmJr, ma more u-Habrews viii.
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The national Hover of the Egyptians il
the heliotrnnp Of tina Assyrians IL he watsf
.liIy. of the HIndoos il tbs mar;golj Of tbf
Chinese is the rbrvsqntbamnm w, have nc
national flower Inn there ia hardly any
flower more suggest va 10 many of us thar
the forgetmepot. WeaII like 10 he rsmem.
bered. and one pf nnr misfortunes Is thai
there are so many things we cannot remem.
Der. Mnemonir, ar the art of assisting
memory, is an IMPORTANT art. IL was first
suggested by Stm6niiex OF Cos five hundred
years before Christ.
Persons who mad but it'll. mower to recall
events. or rut facts and nemas and dates in
procession. have through this art had their
memory reinforced In an almost incredible
extent. A good memory & an almost in
valuable possession. nv All means cultivate
it. | had an agei friend who detained all
night at u miserable jepot in waiting for a
rail train fast in the snow banks entertained
a group OF som. ten tn fftapn clergy men.
likewise detained On their wav home from a
meeting of prr,hgt-ry first with a MEGA of
chalk, drawins out on the black and sooty
walls of the icI1t the characters of Walter
SCOTS ''Marmiap q and then r~eciting from
memor the whole of that moan of some
eighty pages IN fine print.
, MY old friend. through great age. lost his
memory. and when | asked him il this story
OF the railroad depat was true he said. II do
not remember now. but il was lust like me.
Let me see" SAID he to me s.have | ever
seen YOU before" .'Yesp | said. ''you were
my guest last night and | was with you an
hour ago." What an awful contrast in that
man between the greatest memory | ever
knew and no memory at all.
Q But right alons with this art of r~ecollec-
ton, which [ cannot too highly eulogizl, is
one quite a. imrortant and vet | never
heardlt a~pplauIeL, mean the art OF for
getting. There i, "A solendid faculty in that
direction that W. all need to cultivate. We
might. through that process. be ten times
happier and more useful than we now are.
We have been told that forgetfulness is a
weakness aud ought to be avoided by all
possible means. So far from weakness, my
text ascrihe, il tntiol. 1t is the very top Of
omnipotence that God is able to obliterate "a
part OF His own memory. If we repent of
sin and rightly eek the divine forgiveness,
the record Of the misbehavior is not only
crossed off the hook. but God actually lets
IL pass out OF memory.
Their sins and their iniquities will | re.
member no more To remember no more
Is to forget, ami you cannot make anything
else out Of ii. Coils power OF forgetting is
so great that il two men appeal to Him, and
the one man, after II life all right, gets the
sins of his heart pardonei, and the other
3 man. after a lite Of a~bomination, gets par
doned God rene nbers no more against one
than against the other. The entire past of
both the moralist, with his imperfections,
and the p~rufigafe, with his debaucherias, is
as much ubliteritsl in the one case a ! in the
other. Forgotten, forever and forever
Their sins and their iniquities will | re-
member no more
This sublime attribute of foryetfuluess on
the part Of God YOU ami | need in our finite
| way to initiate. You will do well to cast out
of your recollection all wrongs lone you.
During the course Of ones life he is sure to
be misrepreseutri, to he lied about, to be in.
| iured, There are those who Keep these
thinesfrash by frequent rehearsal. II things
have appeared in PRINT they keep them in
their scrapbonk, Tor they cut tne5e precious
paragraphs out of newspapers or books and
| at leisure times look them over, or they have
| them tied III in hun lies or thrust in pigeon
| holes, and they Fl quently regale themselves
and their friend, by an inspection OF these
| filings. these sarc4slns, these falsehoois, these
crueltieS.
l have known gentlemen who carried
them IN thtlr pGcketDOohS, so that they
| could easily ret at these irritations, and they
! nut their right hand in the inside Of the coat
| rocket over the heart an 4 say; "Look here
| let me show va something's Scientists
| catch wasps. aui hornets, and poisonous in
| sects and trau,iS them in curiosity bureau
| for study. AMI that is we'll. But these of
whom Ispeak catch the wasps, and the hor
nets, and the poisonous insects, and play
with them an Put them on tn emse!ves aud
on their friends, and see how far the noxious
insects can Jump and show how deep they
| can sting, Have no such s~crapbook. Kesp
| notbinr in your possession that is disagree
! able. Tear up tie falsehoods, and the Sian
ders and the bvpercriticis MS.
Initiate the Lord in my text AMI for ret.
actually forget sublitnely forget. There is
no happiness for you in any other plan OF
nrncedure, You see all around you, in the
| church aud out of the church, dispositions
| acerb. malign, cynical, pessimistic. d. you
know how these men and women got that
| dispositions 1t was by the embalmment Of
| things paptlleriue and viperous. Yssy have
| snenf much Of their time in calling the roll
| nf ali fine rats that ave nibbled at their rem,
~ntation. Their soul is a ca Se of yuitures
| Fvarvthinn IN them is sour or imbitterad.
The milk Of human kindness has beer
| enrolled. They 10 not believe in anybody OF
ANYTHING.
| If they SHG Two n'opt6 Whispering they
think II is about themselves. Il they Sc,
tuo neopls iau-hnE they think it is aboul
themse YES. Where there is one sweet pip
min in Their orchard there are fifty crab
arTI,s They have never been able to for
St They To not want to forget, They
,Sorrsr wui forr4t. Their wretchedness ia si.
n.s,ne frr no one can be happy if he carrie.
parnatnolly IN mind the mean things tina,
bboye hem done him.
I'm the other hand. you can find here AMI
there a man or woman Tor there are nc,
many of them whose disposition is genia,
and Srmmerv Why? Have they AWAY;
haen treated welIf Oh, no. Hard thin
have been said against them. They havt
haen CHARGED N.tu otiiciousuess: a>I theiI
DsnarS,iti,, have ben set down TO a desir+
For di.nIav and they have many a tim,
80 no su,i.rt OF iittle-tattle. AMI theJ
80 had anag.h small assaults like enaf.
nj enongh sr,at attacks like lions To nav,
al them p.rpetually miserable if the,
""niJ bays consented to be miserable.
~ ~ have had enough divine nhilos,.
no 70 c1.t of the ~annoyances ami tha1
aayya tart themselves in the suuliqhs q
!odis favor. and have realized that thes,
nn,sitiors and hindrances are a mart of !
rirrLtg ai-ripins. by which thew are TO h.
| prepared tor usefulness AMI heaven. Tn,
secret Of It all Is. they have by the help o
he eternal G~otIaarne1 now to for ret.