The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-03-20

dav come in and say: My dear sir, about
that debit can never get over the(ace
that / owe you that money lt Is soMS~
| thing that weighs on my mlnd IKE d mir M
stone Do forgive me that debt. rms
! time YOU clear lose your patience ana sayi
! you are a nuisance. What do YOU mean'
by this reiteration OF that affair? l am.
| almost sorry | forgave you that debt. DO
| Won doubt nv veracty or do you not un--
| derstard the plain language IN which X
| told you that debt was Cancelled Wens-
my friends there are many CHRISTIANS
| guilty Of worse folly than that. WINE ~
! is right that they repent OF new SINS ana
/ of recent sins what is the 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 year.
if you pray every day, you ask God to re-
call occurrences which de has not only lor-
given, but forgotten
Quit this folly. / do not ask you less to.
realize the turpitude Of sin, but | ask YOU
to higher faith in the promise OF Goa
and the full delverance of His mercy. He
does not give a receipt for part paymeno
or so much received on account but re-
ceipt n full, God having for Christ's sake.
decreed your sins and your inquiries
will | remember no more" II
| know you will quote the Bible reter-
ence to the horrible pit from which YOU
were digged Yes, be thankful for thai
rescue, but do not make displays of the
mud of that horrible pit or splash it over
other people. Sometimes | have telt IN
Christian meetings discounted and unhtl
for Christian service because | had done
none of those things which seemed to bes
in the estimation of many, necessary tor
Christian usefulness, for l never swore 81
word or ever got drunk or went to 'coms
promising places or was guilty OF fault
and battery 81 ever Uttered bt. ssR
! knew my heart was sinful enough and Y
said to myself, There is no use of my tryss
ing to do any good, for | never vent
through those depraved experiences. Bue
afterward / saw consolation in the thoughe
that no one gained any ordination by the
laying on of the hands of dissoluteness and
infamy.
And though an ordinaiE moral life, end
ing in Christian life, may not lee as dra-
matte story to tell about, let US be crate.
full to God rather than worry about it it
we have never plunged into outward abom-
nations.
A sin forgetting Cod. Tha. Is clear be*
yond and far above { sin pardoning Code
How often we hear it said, II can torglveSl
but | cannot forget That Is equal to-
saving, 81 verbally admit it is all right
II
There is something in the demeanor that
seems to say: 81 would not do you harms
Indeed, [ wish you well, but that unfortu:
nate affair can never pass out of my mnd!s%l
There may be no hard words pass between
them, but until death breaks In the same
GOODNESS remains. But God lets our pars
doned offenses go into oblivion. be neves
throws them up to us again. He feels asa
kindly toward us as though we had been
spotless and positively angelic all along. Vi
Many years ago a family consisting OIL
the husband and wife and little girl OF tw8I
years lived far out in a cabin on a western
prairie. The husband took few cattle TIL
market. Before he started his little child
asked him to buy her doll. and he promo
ised. He could after the sale of the cattle
purchase household necessities and CERT
tainly would not forget the doll he had
promised. In the village to which he went
he sold the cattle and obtained the grocer
les for his household and the doll for htf
little darling. He started home along the,
dismal road at nightfall. As he VENT
along on horseback thunderstorm broke{
and in the most lonely part of the road
and in the heaviest part of the storm he
heard a child's cry. Robbers had been
known to do some bad work along thas
road, and it was known that this herdsf
man had money with him, the price, OF th9
cattle sold. The herdsman 8 . >etfo9ghts.
it as a stratagem to have him halt and b4s
despoiled of his treasures, but the childG
cry became more keen and rending, and so
he dism )unted and felt around in tho
darkness and all in vain until he thoughd
Of hollow tree that he remembered near
the road where the child might be, and
for that he started, and, sure enoughd
found a little one tagged out and drenched
of the storm and almost dead. He wrapped
it up as well as he could and mounted hid
horse and resumed his journey homel
Coming in sight of his cabin he saw it all
lighted up, and supposed his wife had
kindled all these lights 50 as to guide her
husband through the darkness. But no,
The house was full of excitement, and the
neighbors were gathered and stood around
the wife Of the house, who was insensible
from some great calamity. On inquiry the
returned husband found that the .littk
child of that cabin was gone. She had
wandered out to meet her father and get
the present he had promised, and the
child was lost. Then the father unrolleo
from the blanket the child he had found il
the fields, and, To- it was his own child
and the lost one, OF the prairie home, anc
the cabin quaked with the shout over the
lost one found.
How suggestive of the fact that once va
were lost in the open fields or among thf 4
mountain crags, Gods wandering children
and He found us, dying in the tempes
and wrapped us IN the mantle OF His low I
and fetched us home, gladness and con
graduation bidding us welcome, The fac I
is that the world does not know God q l
they would all flock to Him.
So l set open the wide gate of my text !
inviting you all to come into the ~ kc.
and pardon of God-yea, still furtheE D
the ruins of the place where onte wa
kept the knowledge of your iniquities. "a
The place has been torn down and thsl
records destroyed, and yet you win fns Il
the ruins more dilapidated and brokeN \
and PROSTATE than the ruins of Alerose d
Keniworth, for from these last ruins vol
can pick up some fragment OF sculptpreE
stone or you can see the curve of som Il
broken arch but after your repentanc
and your forgiveness you cannot lind in az +
the memory of God fragment of you
pardoned sins so large as a needles poinS
''Their sins and their iniquites viii / ri Ii
member no more" Nk.
Six different kinds of sound were hear
on that night which was interjected int
the daylight OF Christ's assassination. TIL
neighing of the war horses--for some Is