The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-13
THE ART OF FORGETTING
Or. TaImsge illustrates How All Offend
ers May Be Emancipated.
How to Be Happy = Allow Other to Forget
Come Int Mercy and
Pardon.

WASH1NGTON, II. C.--From the letter
to the Hebrews DR.. Talmage takes a text
and illustrates how all offenders may be
emancipated text, Hebrews viii IL,
Their sins and their iniquities will [ re-
member no more
The national flower of the Egyptians is
the heliotropc, OF the Assyrians is the
water lily. OF the Hndoos is the marigold,
of the Chinese is the chrysanthemum We
have no national flower, but there is
hardly any flower more suggestive to
many of US than the forgetmenot. We all
like to be remembered. and one of our mis-
fortunes is that there are so many things
we cannot remember Mnemoncs, or the
art of assisting memory, is an important
art. IL was first suggested by Simonides,
of Ceos, 500 years before Christ. Persons
who had but little power to recall events
or put facts and names and dates in proper
professions have through this art had their
memory re-enforccd to an almost incredi-
bic extent. A good memory Is an inyalua-
bic possession. BY all means cultivate it.
/ had an aged friend who, detained all
night at a miserable depot in waiting for a
rail train last in the snowbanks, enter
tanned a group OF some ten or fifteen cer-
gymen likewise detained on their way
home from a meeting of presbytery, by
first with piece of chalk drawing out on
the black and sooty walls of the depot the
and then roeiting from memory the whole
OF chat uoem of some eighty pages in fine
print. My old friend, through great age.
lost his memory. and when | asked him IL
tfss story OF the railroad depot was true
,he said, II do not remember now. but IL
'was just like me Let me see" said he TO
me. "Have | ever seen YOU before"
Yes | said; ''you were my guest last
night, and was with you an hour ago"
What an awful contrast in that man be-
tween the greatest memory | ever knew
and no memory at all!
But right along with this art of recol-
lection, which ] cannot too highly eulogize,
is one quite as important, and yet L never
heard il applauded / mean the art of for
getting. There is a splendid faculty in
that direction that we all need TO cult
vate. We might through that process be
ten times happier and more useful than
we now are. We have been told that for
getfulncss is a weakness and ought to be
avoided by all possible means. So far
from weakness, my text ascribes it to
God. Ii is the very top of omnipotence
that God is able to obliterate part OF His
own memory. If we repent OF sin and
rightly seek the divine forgiveness, the
record of the misbehavior is not only
crossed off the books, bus God actually
lets it pass out OF memory. Their sins
and their iniquities will l remember no
more" 10 remember no 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 a life all right, gets the
sins OF his heart pardoned aud the other
man, after life of abcmination, gets par
doned God remembers no more against
one than the other. The entire past of
both the morahst, with his imperfectons
and the protligate, with his debaucheries,
ID. i. .N....a a.Ns.A4
IN the other. Forgotten forever and for
ever. Their sins and their iniquities will
l remember no more"
This sublime attribute of forgetfulness
on the part OF God you and | need, in our
finite way, to initiate. You will do well to
cast out OF your recollection all wrongs
done you. During the course of ones life
ne Is sure to be mlsrepresented, to be lied
about, to be injured. There are those who
keep these things fresh by frequent rehear-
sal. If things have appeared in print, they
keep them in their scrapbook, for they cut
these precious paragraphs out OF news
papers or books and at leisure times look
them over, or they have them tied up in
bundles or thrust in pigeonhoies, and they
frequently regale themselves and their
tr-erds by an inspection OF these hings,
II ase sareesms, these falsehoods, these cru
eities. | have known gentlemen who car
rled them in their pocketbooks, so that
they could easily get at these irritations
and they put their right hand in the inside
OF their coat pocket over their heart and
say: Look herel Let he show you some
entns' ScieH.ists eaten "asps ana nor
nets and poisonous insects and transfx
them in curiosity bureaus for study and
that Is well, but these OF whom / speak
catch the wasps and the hornets and pos-
onous insects and play with them and put
them on themselves ard on their friends
:..iu see nov IaI the noNlouS things can
imp anu sh1" no" uetP I4ey can sung
"a 20 no SucH seIdPoook' heep hoIhlny
m ~ YOU Posses5lon that Is dlsagreeable.
@ ieSr up gne Iaisenoods ana the ISLANDERS
anu tle ny yPsiIrl.ISlsln @
iI-iIl tiui1a'e the i-oru "a my text ana torrget,
=. Sotuaiiy torse., suohmey forget Ihera
- -. ro nagplsless 5or you m any otner plan
- y. ptt piDosuuAe. iou see eh around you IN
nc sIe eHulen @ aht on. oi the ehlrch qlsposi
I,ois ~ aeSIp' hillsp' eyhleai' peSslmistlc.
~ Wv NIo" now these men ana women
ri tnaL ul5Positloh ~ was by the EN-
i N'iiSnt 1Si "a .nihsS p"h1he,Ihe anu viper
ous' ~ - Hey nave spShy hluch OF their time
~ s SSAihs Ins ron oi eil the rsGs tnat nave
nlDpleu az tnelr reputation; Iheir soul Is
eIse Oh Vuitures. EHrSrythlng IN them Is
1: sGut " iilpleselcu' % lne ulllk OF human
i-AI, hInuiles5 mas zen euruled' lhey 40 not
pe4ene ' III unypoqy OF ahyIhihg, III they
~ W. pcople Whispering they thlnk IL Is
ia'', Soo1e .henlse.Eosi II lhey see TWO people
laIIsni"s, ,.Iy Iney 1hillh II Is ABOUT them-
~ nsi- eIeie e - olle sweet pipplh
~ IN Va 49, VI o4siiaiu tleIe qIe my craDaPP.es.
- t', e ne'eI G peen zen eo'e o 10 forget, 1hey
az HVe N1n' " ioiBSt. lHey never VIII