The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15
AND FORGET
DR.. Talmage Illustrates How Often.
ders May Be Emancipated.
God Remembers Our Sins No More IL
We sincerely Ask Forgiveness
Art of Recollection and
Forgetting.

Washington.
From the letter to the Hebrews DIR
Talmage takes a text and illustrate:
how all offenders may be emancipated;
text, Hebrews S:12: Their sins and
their iniquities will l remember nc
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
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 misfor-
tunes is that there are so many things
we cannot remember. Mnemonics, or
the art of assisting memory, is an i'm
portant art. 1t was first suggested by
Simonides of Coos 500 years before
Christ. Persons who had but little
power to recall events OIL put facts
sions have through this art had their
memory reinforced to an almost in
credible extent. A good memory is an
invaluable possession. By all means
cultivate it. 1 had an aged friend who,
detained all night at a miserable depot
in waiting for a rail train fast in the
snowbanks, entertained a group of
some ten or fifteen clergymen likewise
detained on their way home from a
meeting of presbytery, by first with
a piece of chalk drawing out on the
black and sooty walls of the depot the
characters of Walter Scott's "Marmi-
on" and then reciting from memory
the whole of that poem of some so
pages in fine print. My old friend,
through great age, lost his memory,
and when | asked him if this story of
the railroad depot was true he said:
Il do not just remember now, but it
was just like me. Let me see" said he
to me. Have l ever seen you before?"
"Yes," l said, you were my guest last
night, and ] was with you an hour ago"
What an awful contrast in that mar
between the greatest memory I ever
knew and no memory at all!
But right along with this art of rec
objection. which | cannot too highly
eulogize, is one quite as important, and
yet never heard it applauded. Imean
the art of forgetting. There is a splen-
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 forget
is a weakness hat ought to be
avoided by all possible means. So far
a weakness, my text ascribes it
God. 1t is the very top of omnipo-
that God is able to obliterate a
part of His own memory. If we repent
sin and rightly seek the Divine for
yiveness, the record of misbehavior is
actually let's it pass out of memory.
sins and their iniquities will l
remember no more" To remem Der no
more is to forget. and you cannot make
lnything else out of it. Gods power of
.'orgetting is so great that if two men
appeal to Him and the one man, after
life all right, gets the sins of his
%pardoned and the other man,
n life of abomination, gets par
Toned God remembers no more
against one than against the other.
The entire past of both the mOralist,
nd his imperfections, and the profit
with his debaucheries, is as much
'bliterated in the one case as in the
'ther. Forgotten forever and forever.
This sublime attribute of forgetful-
less on the part of God you and | need,
n our finite way, to initiate. You will
10 well to cast out of your recollection
Ill wrongs done you. During the
curse of ones life he is sure to be
nisrepresented, to be lied about, to be
injured. There are those who keep
things fresh by frequent re-
l%earsal. If things have appeared in
'rint, they keep them in their scrap
'ook, for they cut these precious par
graphs out of newspapers or books
nd at leisure times look them over,
T they have them tied up in bundles
r thrust in pigeonholes, and they
frequently regale themselves and their
by an inspection of these
ings, these sarcasms, these false
GODS, these cruelties. ] have known
GENTLEMEN who carried them in their
'o~cketbooks, so that they could easily
ct at these irritations, and they put
heir right hand in the inside of their
pocket over their heart and saw:
Look here. Let me show you some
Scientists catch wasps and
and poisonous insects and
them in curiosity bureaus for
indy, and that is well, but these Of
'hom speak catch the wasps and the
ornets and the poisonous insects and
lay with them and put them on them
and OF their friends and see how
ar the noxious things can jump. and I
how how deep they can sting. Have /
o such scrapbook. Keep nothing in {
our possession that is disagreeable. |
ear up the f~alsehoods and the SLAM !
ers and the hypercriticisms. Il,
Initiate the Lord In my text anil for l
ct, actually forget, sublimely forget. 7
here is no happiness for you in any q
Their plan or procedure. You see all !
round you in the church and out of
he church dispositions acerb, maligp. i
ynical, pessimistic. Do Won lnoy,