The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-06-16
IT'S GOOD TO FORGET.
DR.. TALMAGE DIScoURSES ON RIGHT
EOUS LAPSES OF MEMORY.

ForgetfumesS in Certain Cases Is Do
clared TO DO Ono OF tho Sublimest At
tributes of the Doity---An Eloquent
Plea for Charity and Mercy.
BROOKLYN, June 5.-The enormous
audience which thronged the Taberna-
Gle this morning had fresh evidence Of
DR.. Talmage's originality. The value
Of rctcnttlvc memory every one knew
by experience and had heard cXtollcd
from their schoolday5 up, but they
learned Gom DR.. Talmage's sermon
that the art of forgetting is worth cult
waiting, and that there is the highest pos
sible example for its exercise. HIS text
was Hebrews viii, II, "Their sins and
their inlqultics will l remember no
more"
The national flower Of the Egyptians
is the hcliotrOpe, OF the Assyrians is
the water lily, of the Ilindoos is the
marigold, OF the Chinese Is the chrysau-
themum. We have no national flower,
but there is hardly any flower more sug-
2eStlVc ID many Ofus than the torSetme-
not. We all like to he remembered,
and one of our misforlunes is that there
arc so many things we cannot remem-
Der. NlnemOnicS, or the art Of assisting
memory, Is an important art. II was
first suggested by SimOnidcs of Cos five
hundred years before Christ.
Persons who had but little power to
recall events, or put facts and names
and dates i'll proper professions, have
through this art had their memory re-
enforced TO an almost incredible extent.
a good memory is an invaluable posses.
sion. by all means cultivate it. had
an aged friend who, detained all night
at miserable dcpo; in waiting for a
rali train last III the snOwbanis, enter
tanned Il group OF some ten or fifteen
clcrgyIncn likewise detained on their
way home from a meeting Of prcsby-
terry, first, with a piece OF chalk. draw
ing out on the black and Sooty walls of
the depot the characters of Walter
ScottS "Marmiou," and then rccitiny
from memory the whole Of that pcom
"l some eighty PAGES in fine print.
My Old friend through great a-e lost
hlS memory. and when | asked him if
ms story oi The railroad depot was true,
lie sad, ~ do not remember now. bui
&c
SAID he TO me, "havc | ever seen Won
before" ~ ,S,' said, you were my
guest last night and / was with you an
nouf AGO. What an awful contrast Iii
that man between the greatest mcmvry
ever Knew and no memory at all.
lat iiJht along with this art Of rccul.
lection, which | cannot too highly eulO.
%lHc, !" one quite as important, and vet
/ never heard il tapplaudrd. mean the
art OF forgetting. There is a splcndi,
lacuity III that direction that we all nee,
to cultlvatc. We might through that
process DC ten times happier and NOR,
usclul than we now are. We have bee!
told that lorgctiulnUS IS is n weakness an,
ought To be avoided by all possibl,
means. SO lar from a weakness. m,
text ascrlhcs it to God. H. IS the vcr
top OF omnipOtcnCc that God IS able {
oblltcratc part OF his own memory,
we repent OF sin and rightly seek the d
vine forgiveness, the record Of the mis-
hchaI .or Is not only crossed Off tn
books, but God actually lets it pass ou
OF memory.
"Ther sins and their iniquitcs will
remember no more" To remember n
more Is to forget, and YOU cannot max
anything else out OF it. Gods powc
OF forgetting is so great that if two mel
appeal to him, and the one man. after
lie all right, gets the sins of his hear
pardCned, and the other man, alter
lie OF abominatlon gets pardoncd, Go,
remembers no more against one (ha,
against the other. The entire past O
both the mOralst, with his im3erfec
lions, and the prOtligatc. with his &c
bauchcrlcs, is rs much oblitcrated 10 TIN
one case as i'll the other. FORGOTTEN
TO, ever and forever. "1'heir sins on,
their iniquitics will l remember II,
mOrc.o
This sublime attribute of forgetiulnes
on the part OF God you and | need, il
our Unite way, to initiate. You Will d,
we'll TO cast out of your recollection al
wrongs done you. During the cours,
OF ones life he is sure to be misrepre
sentcd, to be lied about, to be injured
There are those who keep these thing.
fresh by frequent rehearsal. If things
have appeared in print, they keep then
IN their s"raphOOk, for they cut thes,
precious paragraphs out of ne wspapcr.
or books, and ut leisure times look then
over, or they have them tied up in bun
>N' VI WI eS' III p'oSoIllOItS, ana JIlcS
frequently regale themselves and then
friends by an inspection of these filings
these sarcasms, these talsehoods. these
cruclties.
Initiate the Lord in my text and for.
.et, actually forget, sublimc!y forget. .
There IS no happiness Tor YOU in any
othcr plan or procedure. You sec all
around YOU, in the cOurch and ont of the
church, DISPOSITIONS accr5, mal!nn, cynl-
cal, pcssjmisNc. DO you know how
these men and women got that disposi.
ton? 1t was by the cmbalmmcnt Of
thngs panthcWe and vipcrous. They
rave spent much Of their time in calling
the rol OF all tic rats that have nibblcd
at thcir reputation. Their soul is cauC
OF vniturcs. Everything in thcu is sour
or lmblltcrcd. The milk OF human kind
ness has been curdlcd They do not
believe III anybody or ANYTHING. If they
see two people Whispering, they think
1t is about themselves. If they see two
people laughing, they think it is about
themselves.
Where there is one sweet pippin IN