Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-03-13


a text and illustrates how all offenders
may be emancipated; text, Hebrews
viii, IL. Their sins and their iniquities
will remember no more"
The national flower of the Egyptians
is the heliotrope. Of the Assyrians is
the water lily. Of the Hindoos is the
marigold, Of the Chinese is the chrys-
anthemum. We have no national flow
er, but there is hardly any flower more
suggestive to many Of us than the for
getmenot. We all like to be remem-
bered, and one Of our misfortunes is
that there are SO many things we can
not remember. Mnemonics. or the art
of assisting memory, is an important
art. 1t was first suggested by Simon
ides of Coos 800 years before Christ.
Persons who had but little power to re-
call events or put facts and names and
dates in proper professions have through
this art had their memory REINFORCED
| to an almost incredible extent A good
memory is an Invaluable possession
BY all means cultivate 1t. l had an
aged friend who, detained all night at
a miserable depot in waiting for rail
train fast in the snowbanks, enter
tanned group Of some ten or fifteen
clerCymen, likewise detained on their
way home from meeting Of presby-
terry, by first with piece Of chalk
drawing out on the black and sooty
walls of the depot the characters Of
Walter SCOTS "Marmion" and then re-
citing from memory the whole Of that
poem Of some eighty pages in fine
print. My old friend. through great
age, lost his memory, and when l ask
ed him IL this story Of the railroad de-
pot was true he said. II do not remem-
Der now, but it was just like me.
LET me see." said he to me. Have
ever seen you before" Yes" l said;
"you were my guest last night and I
was with you an hour ago" What an
awful contrast in that man between
the greatest memory ever knew and
no memory at all!
The Art Of Forgetting.
But right along with this art Of rec
objection, which l cannot too highly
eulogize. is one quite as important, and
!
the art of forgetting. There is splen.
did faculty in that direction that we
all need to cultivate We might through
that process be ten times happier and
more useful than we now are. We
have been told that forgetfulness is a
weakness and ought to be avoided by
all possible means. SO far from a
IN
1t is the very top Of omnipotence that
God is able to obliterate n part Of his
own memory. If we repent Of sin and
rightly sock the divine forgiveness,
the record of the misbehavior Is not
only crossed off the books. but God &C
tually lets it pass out of memory
"Their sins and their iniquities will
remember no more" To remember NJ
more is to forget, and you cannot make
anything else out of it. Gods power
Of forgetting is so great that If two
men appeal to him and the one man
after q life all right, gets the sins Of
his heart pardoned and the other man
after a life Of abomination. gets par
doned God remembers no more agains
past of both the moralist, with his i'm
PROJECTIONS. and the profigate. will
his debaucherles, Is as much obliter
ated in the one case as In the other
Forgotten forever and forever. "Thei
sins and their iniQuites will l remem
Der no more"
This sublime attribute Of forgetful
| hn nj
need, in our finite way, to initiate. Yo'
will do well to cast out Of your recol
lection all wrongs done you. Durinl
4 the course OF ones life he Is sure to b.
misrepresented, to be lied about, to b
|. injured. There are those who kee
these things fresh by frequent re
C hearsal. If things have appeared i
-. print, they keep them In their scraI
81 book, for they cut these precious para
4 graphs out of newspapers or books an
at leisure times look them over. Or the
IS have them tied up in bundles or thrus
In pigeonholes, and they frequently II
W gale themselves and their friends b
, an inspection Of these filings. these sa
u casms, these falsehools, these crueltie
have known gentlemen who carrie
- them In their pocketbooks, so that the
,e could easily get at these irritations, an
they put their right hand in the insid
~ OF their coat pocket over their heal
and say: Look here! Let me sho
p you something" Scientists catch wasI
u and hornets and poisonous insects an
~ transfix them In curiosity bureaus f'
N study, and that is well, but these I
whom speak catch the wasps and II
Ill hornets and poisonous insects and pla
with them and put them on themselv'
re and on their friends and see how fl
the noxious things can jump and sho
III how deep they can sting. Have
~ such scrapbook. Keep nothing In yo'
g possession that Is disagreeable' Te
in up the falsehoods and the ISLANDERS NJ
the hypercriticisms.
IT How to BE Happy.
Initiate the Lord In my text and II
get, actually forget, sublimely forg
. There Ia no happiness for you in a
other plan or procedure. You see
around you IN the church and out
RS the church dispositions acerb, malii
I'd" cynical, pessimistic. DO you know III
M, these men and women got that dis
Ec- sition? 1t was by the embalmment
'Hs' things pantherne and vigorous Tn
-" have spent much Of their time in co
Ing the roll of all the rats that ha