Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-06

count, but receipt In full, God having 70
tChrist's sake decreed, 'your sins and you
iniquities will I remember no more"
far ss possible, let the disagreeables Of lit
drop. We have enough things in the pref
ent and there will be enough In the futur
to disturb us without running aspeoiai trail
into the great Comedy to fetch Us as specis
freight things left behind.
Keep Fresh Goods in Your Memory.
Some ten years ago, when there was
great railroad strike, I remember seeing al
along the route from Omaha to Chicago ant
from Chicago to New York hundreds ant
thousands Of freight cars switched on th'
side tracks, those cars loaded with all kind
of perishable material, decaying and vast
ing. After the strike was over did the rail-
material down to the markets? No, they
threw it off where it was destroyed, ane
loaded up with something else.
Let the long train of your thoughts throw
off the worse than useless freight of cor
rupt and destroyed past, and load up with
gratitude and faith and holy determination.
| We do not please God by the cultivation
| of the miserable, He would rather see III
happy than to see us depressed. You would
rather see your children laugh than to see
them cry, and your heavenly Father has nc
1ondness Tor hysterlcS-
Not only forget your pardoned transgres.
sions, but allow others to forget them. The
| chief stock on hand of many people is to
what big scoundrels they once were. They
not only will not forget their forgiven de-
fcits, but they seem to be determined that
the church and the world shall not forget
them. IF you want to declare that you
have been the chief of sinners and extol
the grace that could save such wretch as
you were, do so, but do not 60 into par
ticulars
Do Not Parade lgnoble Scars.
If you have any scars got in honorable
warfare, show them; but II you have scars
got in ignoble warfare, do not display them.
I know you will quote the Bible reference
to the horrible pit from which you were
digged Yes, be thankful for that rescue,
but do not make displays of the mud Of
that horrible pit, or splash it over other
people. Sometimes I have felt in Christian
meetings discounted and unfit for Christian
service because 1 had done none of those
things which seemed to be, in the estima-
tion of many, necessary for Christian use
fulness, for never swore word or ever
got drunk, and said to myself: There is
no use of my trying to do any good, for l
never went through those depraved expert
ences," but afterward 1 saw consolation in
the thought that no one gained any ordina-
tion by the laying on of the hands OF dis
soluteness and 1nfamy.
And though an ordinary moral life, end
ing in Christian lite, may not be as dra-
matte a story to tell about, let US be CRATE
full to God rather than worry about it if we
have never plunged into outward abomina-
tions. 1t may be approx Iriate in meeting
of reformed drunkards or reformed de-
bauchees to quote for those not reformed
how desperate and nasty you once were, but
do not drive scavenger's cart into assem-
blages of people. the most Of whom have
always been decent and respectable.
Suspicious of superfiuous Confession.
But 1 have been sometimes in great evan
gelistic meetings where people went into
particulars about the sins that they once
committed SO much so that felt like put
ting my hand on my pocketbook 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 forgetit
But, what most want in the light of
this text to impress upon my hearers and
readers is that we have a sin-torgetting
God. Suppose that on the Last Day
called the Last Day because the sun
will never again rise upon our earth, the
earth itself being flung into fiery demoli-
tion-supposing that on that Last Day
group of internal spirits should somehow
get near enough the gate of heaven and
challenge our entrance, and say: "How
cants Thou, the Just Lord, let those souls
into the realm of surpernal gladness? Why,
ought to have said, and they did great
many things they ought never to have DONE
Sinners are they; sinners ALL" And sup
pose God should deign to answer, He might
say: eyes, but did not my 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 body and soul all the suffering that
those sinners deserve.
Their Sins Were Forgiven Them.
They pleaded that sacrifice. They took
the full pardon that I promised to all who,
through my Son, earnestly applied for it,
and it passed out of my mind that they we're
offenders. I forgot all abovt it. Yes. 1 for
got all about it Their sins and their in
Equities do I remember no more
A sin-forgetting God! That is clear be-
yond, and far above sin-pardoning God.
How often we hear it said: 81 can forgive,
but cannot forget" That is equal to say
ing: 81 verbally admit it is all right, but I
will keep the old grudge good" Human
forgiveness is often flimsy affair. 1t does
not go deep down. 1t does not reach far
up. It does not fix things up. The con-
testants may shake hands. or, passing each
other on the highway, they may speak the
GOOD morning" or the "Good night" but
the old cordiality never returns. The rela-
tions always remain strained. There is
something in the demeanor ever after that
seems to say: II would not do you harm;
indeed, wish you well, but that unfortu-
nate affair can never pass out of my mind"
There may no hard words pass between
them, but until death breaks in the same
GOODNESS remains. But God lets our par
doned offenses 60 into oblivion. He never
throws them up to US again. He feels as
kindly toward US as though we had been
spotless and positively angelic all along
Child Rescued From the Storm.
Many years ago a family, consisting Of
the husband and wife and little girl Of 2
years, lived far out in cabin on Western
prairie. The husband took few cattle to
market Before he started his little child
asked him to buy for her q doll, and he
promised. He could, after the sale Of the
cattle, purchase household necessities, and