Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-06
TRY TO FORGET
sOMETIMES-THE ART OF KNOWING HOW
WORTH OULTIYATING.
uIhtr Sins and Their lniquites VIII ! Remember
No Mora"-An Interesting Sermon BY the
Brooklyn Divine Yesterday.

DAWNkLNNN Ns AsF NAAo 'f 49,
enormous audience which thrOnged the
Tabernacle this morning had fresh
evidence OF Dr. Talmage's originality.
The value Of retentive memory every
one knew by experience and had heard
extOlled from their school days up, out
they learned from DR.. Talmages ser
mon that the art OF forgetting IS worth
Cultivating, and that there Is the nigh
est possible example for us exercise.
His text was Heb. 5: l.: ''Their sins
and their iniquitieS will / remember no
more"
The national flower Of the Egyptians
Is the hellotrOpe, Of the AsSyrians is the
water lily, OF the HindOOs is the mari
Rold, of the Chinese is the chrySanthe-
mum. We have no national flower, but
there is hardly any flower more sug-
eestive TO many Of us than the
s.forget-me-not." We all like TO be re-
msmbered, and one o. our misfOrtuneS
IS that there are so many things we can
NOT remember. MnemOnicS, or the art
OF assisting memory, is 40 important
art. It was first suggested by Simon
ides OF Cos five hundred years before
Christ. Persons who had but little
power 70 recall events, or put facts and
names and dates in proper professions
have, through this art, had their men,
ory reinforced 70 an almost incredible
extent
a GOOD MEMORY
Is an invaluable possession. By all
means, cultivate IL. l had an aged
friend, who detained all night at a mis-
cradle depot in waiting for rail-train
fast in the snow banks, entertained a
bgroup Of some ten or fifteen clergymen,
likewise detained on their way home
from meeting OF Presbytery, by, first,
with a piece of chalk, drawing out on
1.-THE black and sOOty walls OF the depot,
fthe characters OF Walter ScOtt's MAR
imion, and, then recitIng from memory
the whole of that poem Of some eighty
pages In fine print. Ny old friend
through great rage lost his memory,
and when / asked him il this story OF
the railroad depot was true, he said:
II do not remember now, but IL was
lust like me-" "Let me see, " said he 70
me, ''have l ever seen you before?"
s'Yes, i said, ''yOu were my guest last
night and l was with you an hour ago"
What an awful contrast in that man be-
tween the greatest memory l ever knew
and no memory at all.
But right along with this art OF recO-
lection, which / cannot too highly euOl-
gize, is one quite as important and yet
never heard it applauded. l mean the
art Of forgetting. There is a splendid
faculty in that direction that we all
need to cultivate. We might, through
that process, be ten times happier and
FrrH hor v-rf, ~ a 10 yrn
been told that fOrgettulness Is a weak
ness and ought TO be avoided by all pos
sible means. So far from a weakness,
my text ascribeS il TO God.
IT Is THE VERY TOP
OF OmnipOtence that God is able TO OBJ
literate part Of His own memory. III
we repent OF sin and rightly seek the
divine forgiveness, the record Of the
misbehaviOr is not only crossed of the
hooks, but God actually lets it pass out
Of memory. "Their sins and their in
EQUITIES will ! remember no more" To
remember no more is to forget, and you
cannot make anything else out Of il.
Gods power of forgetting is so great
that II two men appeal to Him, and the
one man, after life all right, gets the
sins Of his heart pardOned, and the
other man, after life OF abomination,
gets pardOned, God remembers no more
against one than against the other.
The entire past OF both the mOraliSt,
with his imperfectiOnS, and the profit
gate, with mis- debauCheries, Is as much
bbliterated in the one case as in the
bther. Forgotten, forever and forever.
"Their sins and their iniQUitieS will
remember no more"
This sublime attribute OF forgetful-
ness on the part of God you and need,
80 our finite way, 10 initiate. You will |
do we'll 70 cast out Of your recollection |
all wrongs done you. During the course |
of ones life he Is sure 20 be miSrepre- |
scented, TO be lied about, 10 be injured. |
There are those who keep. things |
fresh by frequent rehearsal. II things |
have appeared In print, they keep them |
In their scrap book, for they cut these |
precious paragraphs out of newspapers !
or books and at leisure times look them |
over, or they have them tied up in bun |
dies, or thrust in pigeon holes, and !
they frequently regale themselves and |
Eheir friends by an inspection OF these |
Mugs, these SarcaSmS, these falsehoOds, |
these cruelties. l have known gentle !
MAJ who carried them in their pocket !
books, so that they might easily get at |
these irritatlOnS, and they put their /
right hand in the inside OF the coat !
pocket over their heart, and say;
''LoOR HERE!
Let me show you something" Scien-
lists catch WaspS aud hornets and pols- !
onous Insects and transfX them in curl !
oSity bureaus for study, and that is well. ]
But those Of whom l speak catch the I
wasDs and the hornets and poisonous |
insects and play with them and put |
them on themselves and on their friends |
and see how far the noXiouS things can
jump and show how deep they can /
stiug. Rave no such scrap book. Keep /
nothing in your possession that is dis |
agreeable. Tear up the falsehoOds and |
the ISLANDERS and the hypercriticiSms. |
Initiate the Lord in my text aud forget, |
actually forget, sublimely forget. |
Shere Is no happiness for you In any |
oNher plan of procedure. You see all |
around you Ia the church and out OF the !
church dispositions acerb, malign, Gym |
lcal peSSimiStic. Do you know how /
these men aud women got that DISPOSE |
lion? IL was by the embalmment |
Of things pantherine and vigorous |
They have spent much Of their time in /
calling the roll OF the rats that /
have nibbled at their rep |
utation. Their soul Is cage of |
Nultures. Everything in them is sour /
or embittered. The milk Of human /
Kindness has been curdled. They do /
not believe ye in anybody pr anything. If