The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-04-04


mind lf God forg.yes them. We have
right Co forget them Hayme once re.
pcnscd of our inleNe.t.es and msdemcan.
ors, there i8 no need of Our rcpenlIug of
them again. huppOsc / oWC YOU "a large
sum of money, and yOl are persuaded 4
am incapacItatCd to pay and you give me
acauitial from that obligation. ou says
81 cancel that debt. AN Is right now.
Start again" And the next day ! come in
AID say: you know about chat big debt /
owe YOU. ] have come IN Co get yoJ 90 let
me Of ] feel % bad about DO | canno
rest. Do Jet me off, You reply with
little Impotence: or did let you on Don't
bother yourself and bother noe with any
more Of that discussion" The following
day i come IN and says Ny dear sir, about
that debit can NEVER get over the fact
that / owe you that money. 1t IS some.
thing that weighs on my mind like a mill
stone. Do forgive me that debt This
time You clear lose your patience and say:
you are O nuisance. What do YOU mean
by this reiteration of that AFFAIR." i am
almost sorry / forgaye you that debt. Do
You doubt my yeracty OF do you not un-
derstand the plain language IN which i
told YOU that debt was canccIcd1' Wen,
my friends there are many Christians
guilty Of worse folly than that. While 1T
10 right that they repent of new sins and
OF recent Sins what is Che use Of bother
ing yourself and insulting God by asking
Him to forgive sins that long ago were
forgiven? God has forgiven them. Why
do you not forget them? No; you drag
the load on with you, and 800 times o year,
If you pray every day, You ask God to rec
call occurrences which He has no. only for
giyc1 but forgotten
Quit this folly. / do not ask you less TO
realize the turpitude of sim, but | ASH ycu
to a higher faith in the promise of God
and the full delivcrance OF His mercy. lie
does not give O receipt for part payment
or so much received on account, but re-
CENT full, God having for Christs sake
decreed your sins and your lnlqutles
viii | remember no more"
/ know You viii quote the Bible refer
2nco 10 the horrible pit from which you
were digged Yes, be thankful for hat
rescue. but DO not make displays OF the
mud Of that horrible pit or splash it over
other people. Sometimes I have felt in
Christian meetings discounted and unit
for Christian service because ] had done
none Of those things which seemed to be,
in the estimation of many, necessary for
Christian usefulness, for / never sWore a
word or ever got. drunk or went to com
]
and battery or ever uttered a sander0us
word or ever did any one a hurt, although
| I knew my heart was sinful enough and
| said to myself "There is no use OF my try
/ ing to do any good, for L never went
/ through those deprayed experiences" But
/ GfterWard / saw consolation in the thought
/ that no one gained any ordination by the
! laying on Of the hands of dissoiuteness and
! intamy.
And though an ordinary moral life end
/ ing in a Christian life, may not be as dra
matte a story to tell about, let us be CRATE
/ full to God rather than worry about 1t d
we have never plunged into outward abom
nations.
A sin forgetting God! That is clear be
yond and far above a sin pardoning God
How often we hear it said. Il can forgive
but [ cannot forget" That is equal t
saying II verbally admit it is all right
but / viii keep the old grudge good
There is something in the demeanor tina
seems to say: Il would not do you harm
Indeed. [ wish you well, but that unfortu
nate affair can never pass out of my mind.
There may be no hard words pass Between
them. but until death breaks in the SAINT
cooincss remains. But God lets our par
doncd otfenses so into oblivion. lie move
throws them up to US again lie feels q
spotless and positively angelic all along.
Many years AGO a family consisting O.
the husband and wife and little girl Of two
years lived far out in a cabin on a western
prairie The husband took a few cattle t
market. Before he started his little chilt
asked him to buy her doll, and he prom
ised. He could after the sale of the cattl
purchase household necessities and Ger
tainly would not forget the doll he ha'
promised In the village to which he wen
he sold the cattle and obtained the grocer
les for his household and the doll for hi
little darling He started home along tn
dismal road at nightfall. As he wen
along on horseback thunderstorm broke
and in the most lonely part of the roa
and in the heaviest part Of the storm h
heard a child's cry. Robbers had bee,
known to do some bad work along tina
road. and it was known that this herds
man had money with him, the price OF tn
cattle sold The herdsman first though
it as a strata ZEN TO have him halt and b
despoiled of his treasures, but the child
cry became more keen and rending, and S
/ he dism )unted and felt around in tn
darkness and all in vain until he though
! OF 4 hollow tree that he remembered nea
the road where the child night be, an
for that he started, and, sure enough
IOunQ q HUE one le85cu OuG anu OASllS4lS
Of the storm and almost dead. lie wrappe
E it up as well as he could and mounted b
1 horse and resumed his journey hom
4 Coming in sight of his cabin he saw 1t a
? lighted up, and supposed his wife he
j. kindled all these lights so as to guide hi
4 husband through the darkness. But n
+ The house was full of excitement, and Il
= neighbors were gathered and stood aroun
e the wife of the house, who was insensib
e from some great calamity. On inquiry Il
s returned husband found that the lit
5 child Of that cabin was gone. She h1
Il wandered out to meet her father and g
t the present he had promised, and Il
Y child was lost. Then the father unrollt
s from the blanket the child he had found
e the fields, and, 10, it was his own chi
l. and the lost one Of the prairie home, al
n the cabin quaked with the shout over Il