Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-03-14

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WASHINGTON, March 0.-From the let
ter to the Hebrews DR.. Talmage takes
a text and illustrates how all offenders
may be emancipated; text, Hebrews
viii, p, Their sins and their iniquities
will l 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 500 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 it. | had an
aged friend who, detained all night at
a miserable depot in waiting for rail
train fast in the snOwbanks, enter
tanned a group of some ten or fifteen
clergymen, likewise detained on their
way home from a meeting of presby-
terry, by first with a 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. Ny old friend. through great
age, lost his memory, and when l ask
ed him if this story Of the railroad de
pot was true he said, Il do not remem-
Der now, but it was just like me.
Let me see" said he to me. Have
ever seen you beforeT' Yes" l said;
you were my guest last night, and
was with you an hour ago" What an
awful contrast in that man between
the greatest memory l ever knew and
no memory at all!
The Art of Forgetting.
But right along with this art of rec.
objection, which | cannot too highly
eulOgize. is one quite as important, and
| yet never heard it appauded. | mean
the art of forgetting. There is spen.
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 q
weakness and ought to be avoided by
all possible means. So far from q
weakness, my text ascribes it to God
1t is the very top of omnipotence that
God is able to oblterate Il part of hi!
own memory. If we repent of sin ant
rightly seek the divine forgiveness
the record of the misbehaviOr is no
only crossed off the books, but God &c
tually lets it pass out of memory
Their sins and their iniquties will
remember no more" To remember NJ
more is to forget, and you cannot max,
anything else out of it. Gods pOwe
Of forgetting is so great that if tw,
men appeal to him and the one man
after life all right, gets the sins o
his heart pardOned and the other man
after a life of abomiAation. gets pan
dOned God remembers no more agains
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past of both the moralist, with his in
. PROJECTIONS. and the prodigate, wit
' his debaucheries. is as much oblitel
ated in the one case as in the Othel
/ Forgotten forever and forever. "Thei
sins and their iniquities will remen
Der no more"
This sublime attribute of forgetfu
!. ness on the part of God you and
: need. in our finite way. to initiate. 70
will do well to east out of your reco
. lection all wrongs done you. Durin
the course of ones life he is sure to L
misrcpresented, to be lied about. to L
injured. There are those who kee
these things fresh by frequent T.
hearsal. If things have appeared
O. print, they keep them in their scral
= book, for they cut these precious par
:. graphs out Of newspapers or books al
IL at leisure times look them over, or the
3 have them tied up in bundles or thru
er in pigeOnholes and they frequently r
ty gale themselves and their friends |
d, an inspection of these filings, these sa
casms. these falsehools, these crueltie
| have known gentlemen who CARR,
- them in their pocketbooks. so that til,
could easily get at these irritatiOns, al
they put their right hand in the insi
of their coat pocket over their hea
Y and say: 'Took here! Let me she
you something" Scientists catch was
and hornets and poisonous insects a
transfix them in curiosity bureaus
study, and that is well, but these
whom speak catch the wasps and t
lei hornets and poisonous insects and pl
ov with them and put them on themsely
hR and on their friends and see how
ats the noXious things can jump and shC
les now deep they can sting. Have
s Se such scraphook. Keep nothing in yO
in possession that is disagreeable. re
ms I'D the falsehOods and the ISLANDERS Il
the hypercriticisms.
for for How to BE Happy.
ills Initiate the Lord in my text and
-ni ret. actually forget, sublimely forg
: in There is no happiness for you in 4
:. other plan or procedure. You see
Il around you in the church and out
. the church dispositions acerb. mali
At cynical, pessimistic DO you know h
.hese men and women got that dis
sitiOn? 1t was by the embalmment
things pantherine and viperous. T
have spent much of their time in {
Z ing the roll of all the rats that h
LII nibbled at their reputation. Their
-. is a cage of vultures. Everything
them is sour or imbittered. The L
of human kindness has been curd
nta1 They do not believe in anybody or {
thing. If they see two people wills
ing, they think it is about themsel
If they see two people laughing, I
TO. think it is about themselves. WI
there is one sweet pippin in their
chard there are fifty crabapples. T
have never been able to forget. I
do not want to forget. They never
,;d.s forget. Their wretchedness is suprt
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