The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-10

Drama Or. TO change the figure, the
uosItion Is like that OF man VINO mas
made a Journey, and is looking back on
m and who sees 1t now with a compete
ness with which he never saw 1t BEFORE
He sees The beginning from the end
and the whole long white hne Whieh
his course has left, with all It's turnanss,
the places at which he could haruIy see
a few yards before him, the places
where he made mistakes.
And this spectator Is looking IaGh
because God made him look oacK. II -
mot that he may profit by the retrospect
nor fhat he may be better able TO so the
rest Of his Journey. 1t is for a much
sampler and more terrible reason, pc
cause there is nothing TO which to looS
forward. We support ourselves al
through life by living In the tuture'
TIrt Tor those who have reached the po-
S,tion Of this sick man there is no lu-
tire II is no LONGER "Son, Expect, but
"Snn Eemember." Not that desire 10
dad No. desire appears to be IN
tensely strong. But hope Is gore Ongy
memory is left. It Is what Dante rea1
above the doorway OF the netner WortG ,,
.'All hope abandon, ye who enter he st
Memory may be much more eliec-
tive Instrument OF punishment thau We
are apt TO think. There IS n ullLei ei'sv
we sometimes overlook between msnoIy
and recolieotlon. The faculty OF retain
Ing IL one thing; the power to recall 10
nuito different. II seems almost certain
mat every impression made on the hllIs9
Is retained somewhere or other. anu
Co,iI6 be reproduced had We only the
DoveI, 10 do 50. This Is one OF the sup
nosItIorss that are grounded on evidence
10 strong as to be really more than
sTppoSltiouF. The proofs Of 1t lie IN
those experiences which have so otteh
hannene,i: which may even have nap
ner,ed to us when lost fragments OF
memory have come TO surface.
Accident, or the Impulse oil str3nB
| motive. sudden fear, or Intense deslre'
iike that acting on invisible Ink, has re-
ca,yIsd woryls. acts or Impressions, the
memory OF which seemed to have oeen
cnnnletely obMterIted, We fancieI
| maj thess pieces Of past Thought had
Te,Iyhed. Ii appears they were only ~
| inf, ont OF reach, for q special elOrt
has, enabled us to get hold OF them II
| is almost certain that the book OF menu
or,, mas no pnEes erased. 1t is only our
obIIItv to read that is at fault. You have
probably heard the stoTy-lt ls quite
/ a,rtheutlC-of the woman VINO shoIdS
| before her death began to speak IN y
tongue utterly unknown TO chose arouh1
her. She spoke apparently with the Ut
most freedom She was never hI"MH
to them TO have acquired the use OF
si,ch n language Afterwards II was DIS
COVERED that Il was language she lhad
| earned as a girl. which had thus come
weIIng back 10 her lips ut bhe end.
we sneak OF having a bad memory;
| bry, II is not really memory that " at
| fault. Men differ not In memory, but
| in the power OF recalling II nj Will. Some
men have Il greater facility than others
| in turning up what they wish, or they
| have n greater power OF concentrating
| consclousnesS 50 as to force the hidden
| thing to gradually come to Hight. The
cayerns OF memory seem 20 retain
everything that Is cropped into them.
Why am / speaking OF this? Because
Il brings out that the instrument OF
memory, OF retrospect, OF remorse.
/ which God will use to chastisc, is not
mercy an instrument Mt hand, but an
/ instrument of tremendous power ! adj
init, OF course. that this is partly cons
lecture, but II is conjecture which Is
very nearly fact, We know n number
OF things about memory. We know how
II Is sometimes easier: sometimes more
dinlcust to recall things; SO We can see
how God could make Il much easier, in
fact, far to easy, to recall them. We
know also that we sometimes have
great difficulty In forgetting things; an
ugly word, a painful fact. comes M and
clings to the mind, and We cannot get
II pushed out Every effort to get nd
OF Il concentrates the attention on It.
simply gives u u faster hold
Therefore. we can easily understand
how God could make Il quite imp0ssi-
bio for US to forget Things. 30 that they
should always DO present to the mind,