Connecticut western news., 1902-03-13

viii, 12, Their sins and their iniQuities will I remember no more"
 The national flower of the Egyptians is the heliotrope, of the Assyrians Is the water lily, of the Hindoos is the marigold, of the Chinese Is the chrys- anthemum. We have no national flow CT. but there is hardly any flower more suggestive to many of us than the for getmenot We all like to be remem- bered, and one of our misfortunes is that there are so many things we can not remember. Mnemonics, or the art of assisting memory, Is an important art. It was first suggested by Simon ides of .Ceos 500 years before Christ. Persons who had but little power to re- call events or put facts and names and dates in proper processions havethrough this art had their memory re-enforced to an almost incredible extent. A good memory Is an invaluable possession. By all means cultivate 1t. l had an aged friend who, detained all night at a miserable depot in waiting for rail train fast in the snowbanks, enter tained group of some ten or fifteen clergymen, likewise detained on their WHY uOIll6 lTOAl II LuCClihS OA PA CobJ tery, by first with a piece of chalk drawing out on the black and sooty walls of the depot the characters of Walter Scott's "Marmion" and then re- citing from memory the whole of that poem of some eighty pages in fine print. My old friend, through great age, lost his memory, and when l ask ed him if this story of the railroad de pot was true he said, "I do not renem- Der now, but 1t was just like me. "Let me see," said he to me. Haze ever seen you beforeY' "Yes," iaiti; you were my guest last night, aiid I -~was with you an hour ago" Wha, an awful contrast in that nan bety cen the greatest memory I ever knew and no memory at all!
 The Art of Forgetting.
 But right along with this art of re's- ollection, which cannot too hi ,hly eulogize, is one quite as important, and yet never heard it applauded. D eau the art of forgetting. There is a sl len. did faculty in that direction that ws all need to cultivate. We might thro ugh that process be ten times happier and more useful than we now are. We have been told that forgetfulness is weakness and ought to be avoided by all possible means. So far from 6 weakness, my text ascribes it to God. 1t is the very top of omnipotence that God is able to obliterate a part of his own memory. If we repent of sin and rightly seek the divine forgiveness the record of the misbehavior is not only crossed off the books, but God at.- tually lets 1t pass out of memory. Their sins and their iniquities will remember no more" To remember no more Is to forget, and you cannot make anything else out of 1t. Gods power of forgetting Is so great that if two men appeal to him and the one man, after life all right, gets the sins of his beart pardoned and the other man, after Il life of abomination, gets paH- donei God remembers no more against one thun against the other. The entire past of both the moralist, with his inn perfections, and the profigate, with his debaucheries, Is as much obliter- ated In the one case as in the other. Forgotten forever and forever. '"Their sins and their iniquities will remem- Der no more" ...s#.a B .#.
 This sublime attribute of forgetful- ness on the part of God you and I need, In our finite way, to Initiate. You will do vel to cast out of year recOl- lection all wrongs done you. During the course of ones life he is Hure to be misrepreseRted, to be lied about, to b0 injured. There are those who keep these things fresh by frequent re- hearsal If things have appeared fin print, they keep them in their scrap hook, for they cut these precious para graphs out of newspapers or books and at leisure times look them over, CT they have them tied up in bundles or thrust in pigeonhoIDs, and they frequently re- gale themselves and their friends by an inspection of these filings, theee saH- caDms, these falsehools, these cr,oeltiea have known gentlemen who carrietl them in their pocketbooks, so that thear could easily get at these irritations, anil they put their right hapd in the insi6hs of their coat pocket over their heaue and say: Look here! Let roe shOV you something" Scient.sts catch waspO and hornets and poison ous Insects and transfix khem in curiosity bureaus for study, and that is well, but these of whom I speak catch thu wasps and the hornets and poisonous tlsects and play with them and put thef, on themselves and on their friends a;,d see how far the noxieus things can nnp and show how deep they can sling. Have no such scrapbook. Keep aothing in your possession that is disa ,Jreeable. Tear up the falsehoods and t;te islanders and the bypercriticisms.
 How to Be A;ippy.
 Initiate the Lord in ny text and for get, actually forget, ssblimely forget There is no happiness for you in any other plan or procedure. You see all around you in the church and out of the church dispositions acerb, mahgn, cynical, peasimistic. Do you know how these men and women got that di3po- sition? It was by the embalmment Of things pantherine and vigorous. They have spent much of their time in call ing the roll of all the rats that have nibbled at their reputation. Their soul is a cage of vultures. Everything In them is sour or imbittered. The milk of human Kindness has been curdled. They do not believe in anybody or any thing. If they see two people whisper ing, they think it is about themselves IT they see two people laughing, they think 1t Is about themselves. Where there Is one sweet pippin in their or chard there are fifty crabapples. They have never been able to forget. They do not want to forget. They never will forget. Their wretchedness Is supreme, for no one can be happy if he carries perpetually in mind the mean things that have been done him. On the oth- CT hand, you can find here and there a man or woman for there are not many of them) whose disposition Is genial and summery. Why2 Have they al- u,aua I,aen treated well? Oh no Hard