Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-06-11

have always been decent and respect
able. But / hevo been sometimes in
great evangelistic meetings where peo-
pie went into particulars about tho sins
TINT they once committed. SO much SO
thai felt like putting my hand on my
pocketbook or calling for tho police lest
these reformed men might fall from
grace end go ct their old business Of
theft or drunkenness or cutthroatery.
If your sins have been forgiven md Your
life purified, forget tho waywa-dress Of
the past ana allow others to forget it..
But what rlost want in the light Of
this text to impress upon my hearers
and readers Is that we have u Gin forget
ting God. Suppose that on the lust Day
called tho last day because tho sun
will never again r!3o upon cur Garth,
tho earth Itself being flung into Aory DO
mohtion-supposing that on that last
day group CT internal spirits should
somehow got near enough the gate Of
heaven and challenge our entrance, end
say: "How canst thou, the just Lord,
let those souls into tho realm OF supeTnal
gladnoss3 Why,ttliey eaid u great many
things they mover ought to- hevo said,
and they did % great many things they
ought never to have done. Sinners. ore
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 crop Of
blood was retained In bis arteries, not
ono nerve OF his that was not wrupg m
tho torture. Ho took in his own body
and soul ell tho suffering that those SIN
ners deserve. They pleaded thaS sac
ri6ce, They took tho full pardon that /
promised 20 all who, through my Son.
earnestly applied for 1t. and it passed
out Of my mind that they we're oifcrd.
ers. forgot Ill about It. Yes, forgot
eli about II. Their sins ard their In
iouitic, do remember no moro" A
sin-forgctting Godl That Is clear be
You'd md far abovo sin pavdoning Cod
How often VIC hear it said, II can. for
give, but I cannot forget That is
equal to saying, II verbally admit is is
all right, but will keep tho old grridge
good" Human forgiveness is often
flimsy efTatr. It does not 60 deep down.
It does not reach fer mp. 1t does not
fix things up. Tho contestants may
shake hands, or passing each other
on Tho highway thoy may speak the
Good morning" or tho Good night,
but tho old cordially mover returns.
The relations always rcmnin strained.
There IS something In the deineanor
over after that secms to say, 81 wo1ld
not do You harm; indeed, wish you
we'll, but that unfortunate aGutr can
never pass out Of my mind There may
no hard words pass between them, but
until death breaks in tic saIlo cooihess
remains. But God let's our pardoned
offcnses so into oblivion. Ee never
throws them up to us again. He feels
as kindly toward lib as though VIC had
been spotless and positively angelic all
along.
Az ANEcDOTE.
Many years ago O family, consisting
of the husband ard vito and littlo girl
of two years, lived fur out III o cabin on
q western pra;Sie. The husband took O
few cattlo to market. Before ho started
Ills littlo child asked him to Duy for her
doll and no promised. He could after
tire sale of the cattlo purchase house
hold necessities, and certainly would not
forget tho doll be had promised. In the
village to which bo went he sold tho
cattle and Obtained Che groceries for his
household and The doll for his little
darling. He started home along the. dis
,n:l road 1T ni1htfail.
As lie went along on horseback o
thunderstorm broke. ind In the most
lonely palt of tho road, end in the
heaviest part Of tho storm, he heard q
child cry. Robbers had Leen known 10
do some had work alorg that road, and
it was known that this herdslnan had
money with linn, the price OF the cattlo
sold. The hcrdsnan first thcughtic wcs
@ strntagcm to hnvo him halt and DO de-
snoiled OF his treasures, bit the clnld's
cry bece1ne more keen and rending, and
30 he disInounted and felt around in Gle
darkness aiid all in vain, until be
thought OF hollow that no remember
I'll near Tic rva-l Whcro the Child might
be, and fC7 tiat lso started. and sure
enough found o little one tagged out
md drenched Of tho storm and almost
dead.
He wrarpcdit up os we'll as lie co2ld
md mounted bis horse and resumed his
.iJrrney home. Coming in sight of his
cabin no saw Il all lighted up und sup
posed hts vito had kindled oil these
lights so as to guido her husband through
Tho darkness. Dat, no. The house was
full Of excitement and the neigilbors
,gcrv gathered and stood around tho
wife Of the house, Who WAS insensible us
from some great calamity. On inquiry
the returned husband found that tho lit
ne child of that cabin was gone. She
had wandered ont to meet her fathor
md got the present ne had promised.
md the child wcs lost. Then the father
anrolled from the blanket tho child he
had found In tho fields, and lol 1t was
his own child and the lost one of the
prairie home, and the cabin quakel with
The shout over the lost one found.
How suggestive of the fact that once
we were lost in tho open fields or cmong
the mountain crags, Gods wandering
children, and he found us dying IN the
TEMPEST and wrapped Us in the ,nantle
of his love and fetched US home, glad
ness and congratulation bidding us wei
come. The fact Is that the world docs
not know God, or they would al flock
10 him. Through their own blindness
rr the: fault of some rough preaching
that has got abroad in the centuries,
many 1nc- end women have I'M idea that