The Bossier banner., 1892-08-11

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than worry about It, if we have never
into outward denominations
1t may be appropriate in meet
ing of reformed drunkards or re-
fol med debauchees to quote for
those not reformed how desper-
ate and nasty you once were, but
do not drive scavengcr's cart into as
semblages of people the most of whom
have always been decent and respect |
able. But have been sometimes IN |
great evangelistic meetings where peo-
pie went into particulars about the sins
that they once committed SO much so
that felt like putting my hand on my
pocket book or calling for the police
lest these reformed men might fall from
grace and go at their old business of
theft or drunkenness or cut-throatery:
If your sins have been forgiven and
your life purified, forget the wayward-
ness of the past and allow others to for
get it.
But what most want in the light of
this text to impress upon my hearers
and readers is that we have a sin-for-
getting God. Suppose that on the Last
Day-called the Last Day because the
sun will never again rise upon our
erath, the earth itself being flung into
fiery ydemolition-supposing that on that
Last Day a group of internal spirits
should somehow get near enough the
gate of Heaven and challenge our eh-
trance, and say: "How canst Thou, the
Just Lord, let those souls into the realm
r1o
said a great many things they
never ought to have said, and
they did a great many things they
ought never to have come. Sinners are
they; sinners ALL" And suppose God
| should deign to answer, He might say:
"Yes, but did not My son die for their
ransom? Did lie not pay the price?
Not one drop of blood was retained in
His arteries not one nerve of His that
was not wrung in the torture. He took
in His own body and soul all the suf-
fering that those sinners deserve.
They pleaded that sacrifice. They took
the full pardon that l promised to
all who through My Son, earn
estly applied for it, and it passed
out of my mind that they were
offenders. l forgot all about it. Yes,
forgot all about 1t. Their sins and
their iniquities do / remember no
tnore.'" A sin-forgetting God! That
Is clear beyond, and far above a sim
pardoning God. How often we hear it
said: 81 can forgive. but can not for
get" That is equal to saying: Il YER
bally admit it is all right, but will
keep the old grudge good" Human
forgiveness is often a fiimsy affair. II
does not go deep down. 1t does not
reach far up. 1t does not fix things up.
The contestants may shake hands,
or, passing each other on the
highway, they max speak the
'good-morning' or :he good night, "
but the ole cordiality never returns.
The relations always remain strained.
There is something in the demeanor ever
after that seems to say: II would not
90 you harm, indeed, wish you we'll
but that unfortunate affair can never
pass out of my mind" There may bt
no hard words pass between them, but
until death breaks in the same GOODNESS
, remains. But God lets our pardonet
q throws them up to us again. lie feel
q as kindly toward us as though we haC
b been spotless and positively angelic al
n along.
| SO / set open the wide gate of M
n text, inviting you all to come into tn
l. mercy and pardon of God; yea, still
q further, into the ruins of the plac
4 where once was kept the knowledge o
3 you iniquities. The place has beel
4 torn down and the records destroyed
4 and you will find the ruins more di
/ lapidated and broken and prostrat
o than the ruins of Melrose or Kenilwortf
? for from these last ruins you can pick u
i some fragment of a sculptured stone
~ or You can see the curve of some broke
A arch, but after your repentance an
o your forgiveness, you can not find i
,e all the memory of God fragment {
# ali your pardoncd sins SO large as
h needles point. Their sins and thei
!. iniquities will | remember no more.
20 And none of that will surprise yo
Ia if you will climb to the top of a blu
p back of Jerusalem lit took us only fiv
r. or ten minutes to climb it) and see wha
" went on when the plateau of limestor
J. was shaken by paroxysm that set tt
rocks, which had been upright asian
and on The trembling crosspieces of Il
% split lumber hung the quirering for
So of Him whose life was thrust out /
~ metallic points of cruelty that sickene
q the MONDAY sun till it tainted and fe
=. - back on the black lounge of the Judea
y midnight.
., Six different kinds of sounds wei
~ heard on that night which was inte
=, jected into the daylight of Christs a
a. sassination; the neighing of the WI
' horses, for some of the soldiers were
:. the saddle, was one sound; the bang
W the hammers was a second sound; Il
." jeer of malignants was third SCUM
~ the weeping of friends and coadiuto
~ was a fourth sound; the plash of bio,
"" on the rocks was fifth sound: the gro;
Ip Is of the expiring Lord was a sixth SCUM
H. And they all commingled into one sa
,lo ness. Over a place in Russia where wolv
:o were pursuing load of traveller
- and to save them servant sprang fro
tio the -:-d into the mouths of the wi
- -, beasts, and was devoAred, and therel