The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-06-08

A story 10 tell about, let us be grate-
full to God rather than worry about n II
we have never plunged into outward
denominations. 1t may be appropriate
in a meeting Of reformed drunkards OF
reformed debauchees to quote for those
not reformed how desperate and Nasty
you once were, but do not drive d
scavengers cart into assemblages Oh
people, the most Of whom have always
been decent and respectable. But nave
been sometimes in great evangelisto
meetings where people went Into par
ticulars about the sins that they once
committed so much that felt like put
ting my hand on my pocket book OF
calling for the police lest these reformed
men might fall from grace ana 60
at their old business OF theIt
or drunkenness or cut-throatery. Ii
.your sins have been forgiven
and your life purified, forget the way
wardness of the past and allow others
to forget it. i
But, what most want in the light OF
this text to impress upon my hearers
and readers is that we have sin-tor-
getting God. Suppose that on the last
dav-called the last day because the
sun will never again rise upon our earth'
the earth itself being flung into merry
demolition-supposing that on that last
day a group of Internal spirits shoula
somehow get near enough the gaze OF
Heaven and challenge our entrance,
and saw "How canst Thou, the just
Lord. let those souls into the realms
of supernal gladness? Why they
said a great many things they never
ought to have said, and they did a great
many things they ought never to nave
done. Sinners are they; sinners all.
And suppose God should deign to an
swer. He might say: Eyes, but did not
NV only Son die for their ransom? DID
He 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 ooay
and soul all the suffering that those SIN
uers deserve. They pleaded that sacrl-
fee. They took the full pardon that
promised TO all who, through My Son,
earnestly applied for 1t, and 1t passed
! out of mind that they were offenders. !.
forgot all about It. Yes, l forgot all
r about it. Their sins and tneli
} iniouities do remember no more "A
5 sin-forgetting Godi That Is clear be
/ yond. and far above q sin-pardonine
/, God, How often we hear it said: -
: can forgive, but 1 cannot forget" Tina
1 Is equal to saying: 81 verbally admit !
' ,s all right. but / will keep the oil
y grudge good" Human forgiveness
s often Himsy affair. 1t does not g
d deep down. It does not reach far UP
e II does not Az things up. The con
T. testants may shake hands, or, passin
o each other on the highway, they ma
d speak the good morning" or the goo
IT night" but the old cordiality never r'
N turns The relations always renal
u strained. There Is something in the d.
IL meanor ever after that seems TO say: :
r. would not do you harm; indeed, wis
l Won well. but that unfortunate ana
IL can never pass out Of my mind" Thei
err NAV no hard words pass between then
III but until death breaks In, the san
OF coolness remains But God lets o,
80 hardened offenses go into oblivion. L
pit never throws them up TO us again. /
To- feels as kindly toward us as though
es had been spotless and positively angel
's- all along.
p Many years ago family consisting
mt the husband and wife and little 81
to of two years, lived far out in cabin
al a western prairie. The husband took
US few cattle 10 market. Before he start
ID. his little girl asked him to buy for b
'ig a little doll, and he promised. He coul
all after the sale of the cattle, purcha
go household necessities, and certain
ds would not forget the doll he hi
ed promised. In the village to whi'
ed he went he sold the cattle al
al, obtained the groceries for his houi
ke hold and the doll for his little darlin
les He started home along the dism
yn road at nightfall As he went along
OH horseback, thunderstorm broke, a
up in the most lonely part Of tho road a
lin In tho heaviest part of the storm,
rse heard child cry. Robbers had DO
de- known TO do some bad work along IN
Ide road, and II was known that this her'
We man had money with him, the price
OF the cattle sold. Tho herdsman III
us thought II was a stratagem to have h
ou halt and be despoiled Of his treasur
gh but the child's cry became more ks
ally and rending, and so he dismount
and felt around in the darkn'
MS and all In vain, until he thoug
get of n hollow that he remember
my near the road where the ch
lgs might be, and for that he started, a
ley sure enough, found little one fagg
or ont and drenched OF the storm, a
ley almost dead. He wrapped IL up as W
rch as he could, and mounted his horse a
I'm. resumed his journey home. Coming
ave sight OF his cabin, he saw II all light
the up, and supposed his wife had kind
as all these lights so as TO guide
'ar- husband through the darkness.
mes no. The house was full OF
ces citement, and the neighbors WI
you gathered and stood around tho "
ere of the house, who was insensible
e IL from some great calamity. On inqu
ars the returned husband found that
EN-; little child Of that cabin was gone.
'ble had wandered out TO meet her fatl
low and get the present he had promis
B TO and the child was lost. Then the fat
ere unrolled from tho blanket the child
res had found in the fields, and loi IL '