Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-03-15


perate and nasty you once were, but dc
not drive n scayenger's cart into assem-
blages Of people the most Of whom
have always been decent and respecta-
ble But | have been sometimes In
great evangelical meetings where peo-
pie went into particulars about the sins
that they once committed, so much SO
that | felt like putting my hand on my
pocketbook or calling for the police
lest these reformed men might fall
from grace and go at their old business
OF theft or drunkenness or cutthroat-
cry. If your 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
this text to impress is that we have u
sin forgetting God. Suppose that on
the last day-caled the last day be-
cause the sun will never again rise up
on our earth, the earth itself being
flung into fiery demolitiOn-supposlng
that on that last day a 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 a great many
things they never ought to have said,
and they did 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 I'm 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 promised to all who,
through my Son. earnestly applied for
1t, and 1t passed out of my mind that
they were offenders. forgot all about
it. Yes. forgot all about IT, Their
sins and their lniquitles 60 | remcm-
ber no more" \ sin forgetting God.
That Is clenr beyond and far above
sin pardonIng God. How often we
hear it said. II can forgive. but | can
not forget" That L. equal To saying.
81 verbally admit II is all right. but
will keep the old grudge good There
is something In the demean0r that
seems to say: IL would not do you
harm. Indeed wish you well, but
that unfortunate affair Gun 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 lets our pardOned Of
fenses 20 into oblivion. lie never
throws them up to us again. He feels
as kindly toward US as though we had
been spotless and positively angelic all
along.
Many years ago family consisting
Of the husband and wife and little girl
of two years lived far out In cabin
on western prairie. The husband took
a few cattle to market. Before he
started his little child asked him to
buy for her doll. and he. promised.
He could after the sale Of the cattle
purchase household necessities AMI GER
tainly would not forget the doll he had
promised. In the villuge TO which he
went he sold the cattle and obtained
the groceries for his household and the
doll for his little darling. He started
home along the dismal road at night
fall. AS he went along on horseback
a thunderstorm broke. and In the most
lonely part Of the road and in the
heaviest part Of the storm he heard a
childs cry. Robbers had been known
to do some bad work along that road,
and it was known that this herdsman
had money with him. the price of the
cattle sold. The herdsman first thought
Il was a stratagem to have him halt
md be despoiled Of his treasures, but
the child's cry became more keen and
r ing, and so he dismOunted and felt
around iH the darkness and all In vain
until he thought Of hollow that he
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. He wrapped 1t up as
we'll as he could and mounted his horse
md resumed his journey home. Com
ing in sight OF bis cabin. he saw 1t all
lighted up and supposed his wife had
kindled all these lights so as to guide
her husband through the darkness.
But no. The house was full Of excite
nent. and the neighbOrS were gathered
and stood around the wife Of the house,
who was insenslbe as from some great
calamity. On inquiry the returned hus-
band found that the little child of that
cabin was gone. She had wandered
)ut 10 meet her father and get the pres
ent he had promised. and the child was
OSl. Utll (uC lhAhNl hAiAN'iNN AANN'
The blanket the child he had found in
he fields, and. 10. It was his own child
and the lost one Of the prairie home,
and the cabin quaked with the shout
over the lost one found! How sugges-
tive Of the fact that once we were lost
IN the open fields or among the noun
tain crags, Gods wandering children,
and he found US, dying in the tempest
and wrapped US In the mantle Of his
owe and fetched us home, gladness and
bidding US welcome.
The fact is that the world does not
know God or they would all flock to
hiuE
A story of Garlbaldi.
There are certain names so magnetic
hat their pronunciation thrills all who
hear them. Such is the name Of the
italian soldier and liberator, Garibaldi.
Marching with his troops, he met
shepherd who was in great distress be-
cause he had lost a lamb Garabaldi
said to his troops, "Let US help this
poor shepherd find his lamb" And so,
with lanterns and torches, they ex-