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


perate and nasty you once were, but do
not drive scavcnger's cart into Assem-.
blages of people the most Of whom
have always been decent and respecta-
BILE. But I have been sometimes in
great evangelical meetings where peo-
Pile went into particulars about the sins
that they once committed, SO much 80
that felt like putting my hand on my
pocketbook or calling for the police
lest these reformed men might fall
from grace and go Mt their old business
Of theft or drunkenness or cutthroat-
cry. II yoar sins have been forgiven
and your life purified, forget the way
wardness Of the past, and allow others
to forget 1t.
A Sin Forgetting God.
But what most want in the light Of
sin forgetting God. Suppose that on
the last day-called the last day be-
cause the sun will never again rise up
on our earth, the earth itself being
flung into fiery demolition-supposin
that on that last day II group Of IN
fernal spirits should somehow get near
enough the gate Of heaven and chal-
lenge our entrance and say: "How
canst thou, the just Lord, let those
souls into the realm Of supernal glad
nessf Why, they said great many
things they never ought to have said,
and they did a great many things they
ought never TO have done. Sinners
are they-sinners ALL"
And suppose God should deign to an
swer. He might say: "Yes, but did not
my only Son die for their ransom2 Did
he not pay the price? Not one drop OF
blood was retained in his arteries;
not one nerve OF his that was not
wrung in the torture. He took In his
own body and soul all the suffering
that those sinners deserve. They plead
ed that sacrifice; they took the full
pardon that l promised to all who,
through my Son, earnestly applied for
it, and it passed out of my mind that
they were offenders I forgot all about
it. Yes, forgot all about it. Their
sins and their iniquities do l remem-
Der no more" A sin forgetting God!
That is clear beyond and far above u
sin pardoning God. How often we
hear IL said. II can forgive, but can
not forget" That is equal to saying,
~ verbally admit 1t is all right, but l
will keep the old grudge good There
Is something in the demcanor that
seems to say: 81 would not do you
harm. Indeed l wish you well, but
that unfortunate affair can never pass
out OF my mind" There may no hard
words pass between them. but until
death breaks in the same GOODNESS re-
mains But God let's our pardoncd Of
lenses go into oblivion. He never
throws them up to us again. He feels
as kindly toward us as though we had
been spotless and positively angelic al
along.
Many years ago family consisting
of the husband and wife and little cir
Of two years lived far out In cabir
on western prairie. The husband tool
few cattle to market. Before h'
started his little child asked him t
buy for her doll, and he promised
He could after the sale Of the cattle
purchase household necessities and Ger
tainly would not forget the doll he hat
promised. In the village to which HI
} went he sold the cattle and obtained
the groceries for his household and TIT
doll for his little darling. He started
home along the dismal road at night
fall. AS he went along on horsebacl
a thunderstorm broke, and in the mos
lonely part Of the road and in tn
= hea West part Of the storm he heard
I childs cry. Robbers had been know
] to do some bad work along that road
and it was known that this herdsma
: had money with him, the price of tn
5 cattle sold. The herdsman first though
II was 4 stratagem to have him hal
= and be despoiled of his treasures, bu
the child's cry became more keen an
i rending, and so he dismounted and fe
: around In the darkness and all in val
until he thought Of a hollow that h
i remembered near the road where til
e child might be, and for that he starte
I and, sure enough, found little OIL
q tagged out and drenched OF the storl
q and almost dead. He wrapped 1t up 9
y we'll as he could and mounted his horf
and resumed his journey home. Con
= ing in sight of his cabin, he saw 1t a
D lighted up and supposed his wife ha
e kindled all these lights so as to guic
II her husband through the darkness
o But no. The house was full Of excit
n,ent, and the neighbors were gathere
and stood around the wife OF the hous
T. who was insensible as from some gre
It calamity. On inquiry the returned hu
Il band found that the little child OF tn
r. cabin was gone. She had wander'
!. out to meet her father and get the pre-
eut he had promised, and the child WI
lost. Then the father unrolled fro
n the blanket the child he had found
,. the fields, and. 10. 1t was his own chi
1t and the lost one Of the prairie hon
id and the cabin quaked with the shO
a over the lost one found! How suggt
Of tive Of the fact that once we were 10
W in the open fields or among the mou
NJ tain crags, Gods wandering chlldre
90 and he found us, dying in the tempe
re and wrapped us In the mantle Of l
y. love and fetched us home, gladness a
w congratulation bidding us WELDON
w The fact is that the world does II
q. know God or they would all flock
w him.
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