Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-06

had enough Divine philosophy TO cast
| off the annoyances, and they have kept
themselves in the sunlight OF Gods
favor and have realized that these ap'
/ positions and hindranceS are part OF a
mighty discipline, by which they are to
be prepared for usefulness and heaven.
The secret Of il all is, they have by the
help Of the Eternal God learned how to
forget.
What / most want in the light Of this
text 10 impress upon my hearers 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 a group Of Internal spirits should
somehow get near enough the Gate OF
Heaven and challenge our entrance, and
say: chow canst Thou, the Just Lord,
let those souls into the realm of super
nal gladness? Why they said a great
many things they never ought to have
said, and they did great many things
they ought never TO have done. Sinners
are they.
SINNERS ALL"
And suppose God should deign to an
swer, 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. They pleaded that sac
rifce. They took the full pardon that
I promised 70 all who, through my Son,
earnestly applied for it, and it passed
out af my mind that they were offend
ers. forgot all about il. Yes, for
got all about it. Their sins and their
iniQuities do 1 remember no more.'"
A sin-fOrgetting God! That is clear be-
yond, and far above sin-pardoning
God. How often we hear it said: Il
can forgive, but l cannot forget" That
is equal TO saying: II verbally ad
nit it Is all right, but will
keep the old grudge good"
Human forgiveness is often q himSy
affair. IL does not 20 deep down. IL
does not reach far up. 1t does not FIX
things up. The contestants may shake
hands, or, passing each other on the
highway. they may speak the "Good
Morning" or the "Good Night" but the
old cordiaity never returns. The re-
latiOnS 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
unfortunate 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 pardoned otfeace go
into oblivion. He never throws them
up to US again. He feels as kindly to-
wards US as though we had been spot
less and positively angelic all along.
MANY YEARS AGO
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 mar
ket. Before he started his little child
asked him to buy for her doll, and he
promised. He could, after the sale Of
the cattle, purchase household necessi-
ties, and certainly would not forget the
doll he had promised. In the village to
which he went he sold the cattle and
obtained the groceries for his household
and the doll for his little darling. He
started homo along the dismal road at
nightfall. As he went along on horse
back, thunderstorm broke, and in
the most lonely part Of the road and in
the heaviest part Of the storm, he heard
a child cry. Robbers had been known
TO do some bad work along that road,
herdsman nad money with him,
the price OF the cattle sold.
The herdSman first thought it was
a Stratsgem TO have him malt and be de-
spoiled Of his treasures, but the child'S
cry became more keen and rending, and
so he dismounted and felt around in the
darkness and all in vain, until he
thought OF a hollow that he remember
ed near the road where the child might
be, and for that he started, and, sure
enough, found little one tagged out,
and drenched Of the storm and almost
dead. He wrapped it up as we'll as he
could and mounted his horse and resum-
ed his journey home. Coming In sight
OF his cabin, ne saw ii all lighted up,
and supposed his wife had kindled all
these lights so as to guide her husband
the darkness. But, no. The
house was full Of darkness and the
were gathered and stood
around the wife Of the house, who was
insensible as from some great calamity.
On enquiry the returned husband found
that the little child Of that cabin was
gone. She had wandered out TO meet
her father and get the present he had
promised, and the child was lost.
THEN THE FATHER
unrolled from the blanket the child he
had found in the fields, and, 10! it was
his own child, and the lost one Of the
prairie home, aud the cabin Quaked
with the shout over the lost one found.
How suggestive OF the fact that once
we were lost 10 the open fields, or among
the mountain crsgs, Gods wandering
children, and he found US, dying in the
tempest, and wrapped US in the mantle
of his love and fetched us home, glad
ness and congratulation bidding us well
come. The fact is that the world does
not know Goa, or they would all flock
TO him. Through their own blindness,
or the fault OF some rough preaching
that has got abroad in the centuries,
many men and women have an idea that
God is a tyrant, and oppresor, an auto |
crat, Mana Sahib, an 0mnipotent |
HerOd AntipaS. 1t is a libel against !
the Almighty; 1t is SANDER against the
heavens; 1t is defamation
OF the intinitieS. / counted in |
my Bible 3O4 times the word mercy" |
single or compounded with other words. !