The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-04-04
DR.TALnAdE's sERnON
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Discourse.
Subject. Tho Art Of ForgetlinF-uou 10 Hs
Happy -Cauceiing Your Dsbts-Allow
Others TO Hargot-Come Into Melcy
and Pardon.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-From tho letter
20 the Hebrews Dr. Taimage takes q text
and illustrates how all offenders may be
emancipated; text, Hebrews viii, -,
Their sins and their iniQuitIcs viii ] re
member no more
The national flower Of the Egyptians is
the heiotrope, of the Assyrans Is tho
water lily, OF the Hindoos is the marigoid,
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 f0rgetmcnot. We an
like To be remembered, and one of our ms
fortunes is that there are so many things
we cannot remember. hlncmomcs, or the
art OF assisting memory, IS an important
art IL was first suggested by SlmoEldcs,
Of Coos 800 years before Christ. Persons
who had but little power Go recall events
or put facts and names and dates IN proper
professions have through this art had their
memory REINFORCED TO an almost lncreCi-
bic extent "A good memory is am lnyaua-
bic possession. BY al means cultivate 1t.
/ had am AGED friend who, detained all
night 40 a miserable depot in waiting for
rail train fast iu the snoWbanIs, enter
tanned a group Of some ten or fifteen clcr-
gymen, likewise detained on their way
home from a meeting OF prcshytery. by
/
/ the black and sooty walls OF the depot the
/ characters of Walter Scott's "Malmion"
and then reciling from memory the whole
/ of that poem of some eighty pages IN line
print. Ny old friend, through great age,
/ lost his memory. and when l asked hum II
/ this story of the railroad depot was true
/ he said, "I DO not remember now, but 1T
was Just like me- Let me see said he TO
me- Have / ever seen you before:
eyes" / 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 L ever knew
and no memory at all!
But right along with this art Of rec9l-
lection, which | cannot too highly euloClze,
Is one quite as important, and yet / never
heard it appiauded. l mean the art of for
getting. There is a splendid faculty IN
that direction that we all need to culti-
vate. We might through that process be
ten times happier ald more useful than
we now arc We have been told that for
getfulucss is a weakness and ought to be
avoided by all possible means. So Tar
from a weakness, my text ascribes it to
God. It 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, but God actually
let's it pass out of memory. "Iheir sins
and their iniquitios will / remember no
more" TO remember 10 more is to forget,
and yoI, 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 lie all right, gets the
sins Of his heart pardoncd and tae other
man. after q life Of ab0minaton, gets par
GOned God remembers no more against
one than the other. The entire past OF
both the moraIst, with his imperiections,
and the proHigate, with his debaucheries,
is as much obiterated in the one case as
in the other. Forgotten forever and for.
ever "Their sins and their lnlqmhcs VIII
/ remember no more"
This sublime attribute of forgetiulness
on the part Of God you and | need, in our
finite way, to initiate. on will do well ia
cast out OF your recollection all wrongs
done you. During the course of ones life
he is sure to be misrepresented, to be heC
about, to be injured There are those whc
keep these things fresh by frequent rehear
/ sal. II 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 lDol
them over, or they have them tied up u
! bundles or thrust in pigeonholes, and they
e frequently Tegaie themselves and thei
7 friends by an inspection Of these filings
these Carcasns, these fasehoods, these cru
elites. l have known gentlemen who car
p ried them in their pocketbooks, so tina
= they could easily get at these irritatiOns
/ and they put their right hand in the lnsid
of their coat pocket over their heart ant
cay: Look here! Let he show you some
G thing" Scientists catch wasps and hoI
S nets and poisonous insects and transit
Q them in curiosity bureaus for study, an
, that is wen, but these of whom | spea
catch the wasps and the hornets and poiS
onous insects and play with them and pu
G them on themselves and on their friend
/, and see how far the noxious things ca
S jump and show how deep they can sting
! Have no such scrapbook. Keep notkin
in your possession that is disagreeablC
Tear up the falsehoods and the SANDER
s and the hypercriticsms.
e Initiate the Lord in my text and forge
{ actually forget subhmely forget Their
I is no happiness for you in any other pla
= or procedure. \ on see all around you
y the church and out Of The church dispos
tona accrb malign, cynical, pessimist
Do you know how these men and wome
Q cot that disposition? 1t was by the en-
f balmment of things pantherine and wipe
:, Gus. They have spent much of their tim
" in calling the roll of all the rats that hay
L nibbled at their reputation. Their soul
a cage Of vultures. Everything in them
sour or imbittered. The milk of huma
kindness has been curdled. They do NJ
believe in anybody or anything If the
see two people whispering they think it
Nv about themselves If they see two Peep
laughing, they think it is about then
selves Where there Is one sweet pippi
Of in their orchard there are fifty crabapple
They have never been able to forget. The
W do not want to forget. They never VI
It. forget. Their wretchedness is suprem
!, petually in mind the mean things thj
le have been done him. On the other han
al you can find here and there a man
he woman ior there are not many of then
ID whose disposition is genial and summer
~ MhA2 HIVE thcY alMaNs been IreALl