The Princeton union., 1892-06-16

I VeA eNcioy ~ uO you not understand
the plain language in which told you
that debt was cancelled?" Well, my
trends, there are many Christians
guilty ofWorse folly than that. While
1T is right that they repent Of new sins
and OF recent sins, what is the use Of
botherlng yourself and insulting God
Dy asking him to forgive sins that
long ago were forgiven? God has for
gotten them. Why do you not for
get them? No; you drag the load on
with you and 365 times year, il YOU
pray every day, you ask God to re-
call occurrences whichhe has not onlv
forgiven but tforgotten. Quit this folly.
AS lar as possible, let the disagree
ables of life drop. We have enough
things in the present and there will
be enough in the future to disturb US
without running a special train into
the great Gone-by to fetch US as
special freight things left behind.
Not only forget your pardon trans
gresslons, but allow others to forget
them. The chief stock on hama of
many people is to recount in PRAYER
meetings and pulpits what big scoun-
drels they once were They not only
will forget their forgiven deficits, 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
a wretch as you were, DO so, but do
not 60 into particulars. Do not tell
HOW MANY TIMES YOU GOT DRUNK,
or to wnat bad places you went, or
how many free rides you had in the
prison van before you were converted.
Lump it, brother; give it to us in
bulk. II you have any scars got in
honorable warfare, show them; but if
you hava scars got in ignohlc warfare
DO not display them. Sometimes I
have felt in Christian meetings discom-
fitted and unfit for Christian service be-
cause had done none of those thing
which seemed to be in the estimation
OF many necessary for Christian use
tulness, for never swore a. word or
ever got drunk or went to compromis-
ing places, or was guilty of assault and
battery, OF ever uttered SANDER
Gus word, or ever did any one a hurt,
although l knew my heart was sinful
enough; and I said to myself: '"There
is no use OF my trying to do any good
for | never went through those de-
praved experiences" but afterward |
saw consolation in the thought that
no one gained any ordination by the
laying on OF the hands OF disoluteness
and infamy. And though an
ordinary mortal life, ending in
a Christian life, may not be
as dramatic a story to tell about, let
us be thankful to God rather than
worry aboutit, if we havenever plung-
ed into outward denominations. It
may be appropriate in a meeting of
reformed drunkards or reformed de-
bauchees to quote for those not re-
formed how desperate and nasty you
once were, but do not drive a scaven-
gers cart into assemblages of people
the most OF whom have always been
decent and respectable.
But what | most want in the light
OF this text to impress upon my hear
ers and readers is that we have a sin
forgetting 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 demolition-supposing that on
that last day group OF Internal
spirits should somehow get near
enough the gate of Heaven and chal-
lenge our entrance and say: "How
canst Thou, the Just Lord, let those
souls into the realm OF supernal glad
ness? Why they said great many
things they never ought to have said,
and they did a great many things
they never ought to have done. Sin
ners are they; sinners ALL" And sup
pose God should design 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 suferings that those sinners
deserve. 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 mind that they were offenders.
I forgot all about it. Yes, forgot all
about it. Their sins and their iniqui-
ties do remember no more" A SIN
forgetting God! That is clear beyond
and far above a sin-pardoning God.
Many years ago a family, consisting
of the husband and wife and little girl
OF two years, lived far out in a cabin
on a Western prairie. The husband
took few cattle to market. Before
he started his little child asked him to
buy for her a doll, and he promised.
He could, after the sale of the cattle,
purchase household necessities, and
certainly would not forget the doll lie
had promised. In the village to which
he went he sold the cattle and obtain
ed the groceries for his household and
the doll for his darling. He started
home along the dismal road at night
fall. AS he went along on horse
back, a thunderstorm broke, and
in the heaviest part OF the
storm, he heard child cry. Robbers
had been known to do some bad
work along that road, and it was
known that this herdsman had money
with him, the price OF the cattle sold.
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