The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
DIR. TALMAGFS
 SERMON.


 Washington, March s.-From the letter to the Hebrews Dr. Talmage takes text and illustrates how all offendera may / be emancipated: text. Hebrews, vni, E Their sins and their iniQuities will ] remember no more.
 The national flower of the Egyptians Is the heiiotrope, of the Assyrians is the water lily. of the Hindoos Is the nari- gold, of the Chinese Is the chrysanthe. mum. We have no national mower. but there is hardly any flower more suggest i've to many of us than the forgetmenot. We all like to be remembered. and one of our misfortunes issthat there are so many things we cannot remember. Mne- monies, or the art of assisting memory. Is an important art. It was first sug- 5efore Christ Persons who had but lit- tie power to recall events or put facts and names and dates in proper process sions have through this art had their memory re-enforced to an almost incred- ible extent A good memory is an invai- uable possession. By all means cultivate It. had an aged friend who, detained all night at a miserable depot in waiting for a rail train fast in the snowbanks' teen clerKymen. likewise detained or their way, home from a meeting of pres bytery, by first with piece of chalk drawing out on the black and sooty wails of the depot the character of Walter scott's 'Marmion' and then reciting from memory the whole of that poem of some eighty pages of fine print. My old frlenu; through great age. lost his memory. anu when I asked him if this story or tns N not remember now, but 1t was just ike me. Let me see," said ,i he aa tS me. aaSe said' you were my guest last night, ana Was contrast in that man between the great est memory I ever knew and no memory at all.
 But right along with this art Of rec9i- lection. which l cannot too hlshy euio, ,o, Rize, is one quite as important ana Eet | never heard 1t applauded. l mean tne art of forgetting. There is splendid faculty in that direction that we all need to cultivate. We might through that pro f,l than we now are. We have been told that forgetfulness is weakness ana ought to be avoided by all possible means. Co far from a weakness, my text ascrioes tence that God is able to obliterate a part of his own memory. If we repent of sin and rightly seek the divine Tor giveness the record of the mispehavioI Is not only crossed on the DOCKS ous ,.o' uUu actually lets it pass out Of memory '; '.Their sins and their iniquities Will remember no more." To remember nc more Is to forget, and you cannot make anything else out of it. Gods power O, forgetting Is so great that If two men apneal to him. and the one man, arter life all right gets the sins of his hear' pardoned and the other man. after a nIe of abomination, gets pardoned, God re, members no more against one tnan against the other. The entire past oi both the moralist. with his imperfections and the prohigate. with his debaucherles, is as much obliterated in the one case as in the other. Forgotten forever ana ra-.,,.r ..Tbeir cine and their iniQultleS will I remember no more
 This sublime attribute of forgetfulness on the part of God you and need, m our infinite way. to initiate. You W,li s'l oT wrongs done you. During the course ol ones life he Is sure to be misrepreseenteu e to be lied about to be injured. lhere are those who keep these things tresh @ py neared in print, they keep them in their scrapbook, for they cut these precious paragraphs out of newspapers or poona and at leisure times look them over M oI thrust in pigeonholes, and they frequently raeais themselves and their friends by an inspection of these filings, these cru cities. I have known gentlemen wno ear. r1ed them in their pockestnookiS. ess irr,tat,ons S @ and they put their right hand Tn the III side of their coat pocket over tneir near and say: Look here! Let me snow yot something. ScleHtlstS CalSn hornets and poisonous insects and trans fix them in curiosity bureaus Tor study and that is well, but these or whom sneak catch the wasps ana the norngt it and poisonous insects and play wl.i w.t. them and put them on tnemseFeS s [ th[ on their friends and see now Tar tm. noxious things can jump and snow no" deep they can sting. Have no such scrap. hook. Keep nothing In your possesSlon that Is disagreeable. Tear up the raise hoods and the islanders ana the nSpe' How to Be Happy.
 Initiate the Lord in my text and for get actually. sublimely forget. mere is no happiness for you in auy other pidl or procedure. YCu see all arouhu sou in the church and out of the church aiJ positions acerb ma,'Sn; Saw fEee these men and women got that disposition! IL was py the embalment of things pantherine aho viperous They have spent much or 'nei. !ra lime in calling the roll of the rats tna. have nibbled at their reputa'l1%n: %,;o,thine ID souI Is a cage of vultures Everytnlns then, is sour or imbittered. The milk nf human kindness has beer curoieu They do not believe in anybody or any 1Linp If they see two people whispering ihev think 1t is about themselves. II .hey see two people laughing. they think if ia about themselves. Where there IS me sweet pippin in their orchard tnere ire fifty crabapples. Ihey nave nva sa ,,, n, been able to forget They do not ,S, wan to forget They never ~'i for 1ose, no one can he happy If he carries perpetualiy an mind inc mean things that have peen done him. On the other hand' you @ can find here and there man or woman Iloi there are not many of them) whose dis, ,i1'sitirn is genial and summery: Why, Have they always teen treated well nh no Hard things have been sa'o