Milford chronicle., 1892-06-10

II ADNeetAuAAe1n IN IoANaAA NAAeo - ~
elared to Be One Of the suBIimest A
a tributes Of the Deity-An Eloquei
/ Plea for Charity aud Mercy.
- BROOKLYN, June 5.-The enormous aud
9 ence which thrOnged the Tabernacle til
! morning had fresh evidence Of Dr. Ia
= IMAGES originality. The value Of a reten
tive memory every one knew by experien,
: and had heard extolled from their schoo
r days up, but ti.sy learned from DR.. Ia
1 IMAGES sermon that the art Of forgettin
: Is worth cultivating, and that there is til
highest possible example for its exercis
His text was Hebrews viii, 10, "Their sin
and their iniquities viii ! remember q
r more -
The national flower Of the Egyptians /
the heliotrOpe, Of the Assyrians Is til
water lily Of the Hindoos is the marigold
Of the Chinese is the chrysanthemum. W
have nonationai flower, but there is hardl
any flower more suggestive to many o
us than the forgetmenot. We all like L
be remembered, and one OF our misfortune
Is that there are so many things we canno
remember Mnemonics, or the art OF as
sisting memory, is an important art. i
was first suggested by SimOnides OF Co
five hundred years before Christ.
Persons who had but little power to re
call events, or put facts and names ant
dates In proper professions, have through
this art had their memory REINFORCED L
an almost incredible extent A good
memory Is an invaluable possession. BIS
all means cultivate it. l had an aged
friend who, detained all night at = miser-
able depot in waiting for a rail train fast
/ in the snOwbanks, entertained a group OF
some ten or fifteen clergymen likewise de-
tanned on their way home from a meeting
of presbytery, first, with piece Of
chalk, drawing out on the black and sooty
walls of the depot the characters Of Wal
ter SeOtt's "Marmion," and then reeiting
from memory the whole Of that poem Of
some eighty pages in fine print.
My old friend through great age lost his
memory, and when / asked him If this
story Of the railroad depot was true, he
said, 81 do not remember now, but it was
just like me" let me sec" said he to
me, "have / ever seen you before2' YES"
| 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 mem-
DRY at all.
A SPLENDID FACULTY.
But right along with this art Of recolIec-
ton, which cannot too highly eulogize, is
one quite as important, and yet / never
heard it applauded. mean the art Of for
getting. There is "a splendid faculty in
that direction that weall need to cultivate
We might through that process be ten
times happier and more useful than we
now are. We have been told that forget |
fulness is Il weakness and ought to be /
avoided by all possible means. So far from I
a weakness, my text ascribes it to God. It I
is the very top Of OmnipOtence that God is /
able to Obliterate part of his own men,
DRY. If we repent Of sin and rightly seek
the divine forgiveness, the record OF the
is not only crossed off the
books, but God actually let's it pass out Of
memory
"Their sins and their iniquities will re-
member no more" To remember no more
Is to forget, and you cannot make anything
else out of it. Gods power of forgetting is
so great that if 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 par
Toned, God remembers no more against
)ne than against the other The entire
past Of both the mOralist, with his imper-
ections, and the prOfligate, with his de
)aucheries, is rs much obliterated in the
me case as in the other Forgotten, for
,ver and forever. "Their sins and their
niquities will remember no more"
This sublime attribute Of forgetfulness
N the part of God you and ! need, in our
mite way, to initiate. You will do well !
o cast out Of your recollection all wrongs {
one you. During the course Of ones life
e is sure to be misrepresented, to be lied e
ho11f IN lna fuf1 Vhnrn "a -l,,,I .
eep these things fresh by frequent re. '
earsal. fittings have appeared in print, I
hey keep them in their scrapbOok, for Q
hey cut these precious paragraphs out Of
ewspapers or books, and at leisure times o
'ok them over, or they have them tied up 5
l bundles, or thrust in pigeonhOles, and j.
ley frequently regale themselves and n
leir friends by an inspection Of these g
ings, these sarcasms, these falsehOods u
lese cruelties.
] have known gentlemen who carried
lem in their pOcketbooks, so that they 2.
,uld easily get at these irritations, and they IL
1t their right hand in the inside of the a
lat pocket over their heart and say: Look u
srel Let me show you something" Sci p
fists catch wasps and hornets and poi
nous insects and transfix them in curios 70
? bureaus for study, and that is we'll to
ut these Of whom speak catch the wasps, p
ID the hornets, and poisonous insects, and ul
ay with them, and put them OH them OF
Ives and on their friends, and see how %
r the noxious things can jump, and show %
w deep they can sting. Have no such N
rapboOk. Keep nothing in your posses ~
N that is disagreeable. Tear up the 10
schools, and the SANDERS and the hyper Dh
tlcisms. le'
Il 7 l
5ually forget, sublimely forget There Of
no happiness for you in any other plan 81
procedure You see all around you, in ne
} church and out Of the church. DISPOSE an
MS acerb, malign, cynical, pessimistic
you know how these men and women
t that disposition It was by the en- 1h
Imment Of things pantherine and viper re-
). They have spent much Of their time Uo
calling the roll of all the rats that have ca
Dbled at their reputation. Their soul is ne
age Of vultures. Everything in them is us
II or imbittered. The milk Of human ~
ldness has been curdled They do not I'M
ieve in anybody or anything. If they enc
two people whispering, they think it is oo
nut themselves. If they see two people Ihe
Ching, they think it is about them reg
res. SUI
Where there is one sweet pippin in their to
hard, there are fifty crab apples They tht
re never been able to forget. They DO Sin
want to forget, They never will for a
Their wretchedness is supreme, for sW'
Dne can be happy II be carries perpetu- onl
in mind the mean things that have pay
n done him. On the other hand, you ret
find here and there a man or woman his
there are not many Of them) whose too
position is genial and summary. Whyi feri
ge they always been treated well2 Oh pie
Hard things have been said against par
m. They have been charged with Off my
lsness; and their generosities have been pas
down to a desire for a display, and they fen
g many time been the subject Of tit got
tattle, and they have had enough small iqu
,ults like gnats and enough great at forl
IS like lions to have made them perpet- far
y miserable, if they would have con i
ed to be miserable. But they have had but
ugh divine philosophy to cast off the say.
oyances, and they have kept themselves but
he sunlight OF Gods favor and have mai