The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1902-03-14
Him to forgive sin. that long ago wer.

tult TINS fO.iy. ! DO not ask you less "a
realize the turpitude Of sin. but | ask you
70 higher faith IN the promise Of God
! and the full dellverance Of His mercy. He
does not give receipt Tor part payment
/ CT 20 much received on account, but re-
/ ce7D, iull, God having for Christ's sake
cecreed your cins and your iniquIties
viii ! remember no more"
Is far as possible let the dsagreeables
! Ct lie drop. We have enough things in
! the present, and there viii be enough in
! the future, 10 disturb u without running
! special tram into the great Comedy 20
! fetch us as special freight things LETT be.
| hind. Years ago, when there was a great
| railroad strike, ] remember seeing all
! along the route from Omaha 70 Chicago
! and from Chicago 70 New York hundreds
/ aud thousands Of freight cars switched on
| the 3ilctrackJ, those cars loaded with all
/ El'ds OF Eersh2blc material, Cecaying and
wasting. After the strike was over did the
! railroad companies br!ng all that perishet
material down 70 the market; No; they
thre# 1t OF where 1t was destroyed and
!oaged up with comethlng else.
Let the long train OF your thoughts
throw oil the worse than useless freight OF
& corrupt and dc-troye1 past and load up
with gratitude aud faith and holy deter
Eilgtl1n. We DO not please God by the
cultivation OF the miserable.
Not only forget your pardoned trans
tlEfn.
the chief stock on hand OF some people
Is TO recount in prayer meetings and pul.
pits what big scOundrcls they once were.
They not only Will not forget their for.
given deficits, but they seem TO be deter
mined that the church and the world shall
not forget them.
Ii you want to declare that you have
been the chief Of sinners and extol the
grace that could save such a wretch as
you were, do so, but do not 20 into pa.tic-
ulars Do not tell how many times you
got drunk or to what bad places you went
or how many free rides you had in the
prison van before you were converted.
Lump it, brother; give it to US in bulk.
II you have any scars got In honorable
warfare, show them, but If you have scara
got IN ignot'e warfare do not display
them.
/ know you will quote the Bible refer
ence to the horrible pit from which you
were digged. Yes, be thankful for that
rescue. but do not make displays OF the
mud Of that horrible PIT or splash it over
other people. Sometimes ! have felt IN
Christian meetings discomfted and unfit
for Christian service because | had done
none of those things which seemed to be,
IN the estimation OF many, necessary for
Christian usefulness for j never swore
word or ever got drunk or went to COM
promising places or was guilty of assault
and battery or ever uttered sanderous
word or ever did any one a hurt, although
! knew my heart was sinful enough and
said TO mYself. There Is no use OF nv try.
ing to do any good for | never went
through those deprayed experiences" But
attorward | saw consolation in the thought
that no one gained any ordination by the
laying on Of the hands Of dissoluteness and
lnfamy.
A sin forgetting Cod That is clear be-
yond and far above sin pardoning God.
How often We hear it said, Il can forgive,
but | cannot forget That Is equal to
saying, Il verbally admit it is all right,
but | will keep the old grudge good"
There is something in the demeanor that
seems to say: II would not DO You harm.
Indeed, ! wish you well, but that unfortu-
nate affair can never pass out OF my mind"
There may be 10 hard words pass between
them, but until death breaks in the same
coolness remains. But God lets our par
doned ofcnsos go into oblivion. He never
throws them up to US again. He feels as
kindly toward us as though we had been
spotlcss and positively angelic all along.
Many years ago a family consisting of
the husband and wife and little girl OF two
years lived far out in a cabin on a western
prairie. The husband took few cattle to
market. Before he started his little chRd
asked him to buy her doll and he prom
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purchase household necessities and GER
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 his
little darling. He started home along the
dismal road at nightfall As he went
along on horseback thunderstorm broke,
and in the most lonely part of the road
aad in the heaviest part OF the storm he
heard child's cry. Robbers had been
known to do some bad work along that
road, and it was known that this herds
man had money with him, the price OF the
cattle sold. The herdsman first thought
it as a stratGgem to have him halt and be
despolled OF his treasures, but the chllds
cry became more keen and rendlng, and so
he dism united and felt around IN the
darkness and all in vain until he thought
of a hollow tree that he remembered near
the road where the child might be. and
for that he started, and, sure enough,
found a little one tagged out and drenched
of the storm and almost dead. lie wrapped
il up as well as he could and mounted his
horse and resumed his journey home.
Coming I'm sight of his cabin he saw it all
lighted up, and supposed his wife had
kindied all these lights so 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 lnsenslhle
from some great calamity. On inquiry the
returned husband found that the little
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 unroled
from the blanket the child ne had found IN
the fields, and, 10, 1T was his own child
and the lost one OF the prairie home, and
the cabin quaked with the shout Owe. the
lost one found.
How suggestive OF the fact that once we
were lost in the open fields or among the
mountain crags. Gods wandering children.
and He found Us, dying IN the tempest
and wrapped US IN the mantle OF His love
and fetched us home, gladness and con-
graduation bidding Us welcome. The fact
is that the world does not know God or
they would all flock to Him.
50 | set open the wide gate OF my text,
inviting YOU all 70 come ints the mercy
and pardon of God--yea, still further, into
the ruins of the place where once was
kept the knowledge Of your iniquitios.
The place has been torn down and the
records destroyed. and yet you will find
the ruins more dlapidated and broken
and PROSTATE thaa the ruins OF Melrose or
Wentworth. for from these last ruins you
can pick up some fragment of a sculptured
stone or YOU can see the curve OF some
broken arch but after your repentance
aud your forgiveness YOU cannot ind IN all
the memory Of God a fragment o. your
hardened sins so large a 4 needles point.
Their sins and their iniquitles viii re-
member no more.
Six different kinds Of sound were heard
on that uirht which was interjccted into
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