Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-24

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Quit this folly. do not ask you
less TO realize the turpitude of sin, but
/ ask you to have a higher faith In
the promise OF God and the full deliv-
erance of his mercy He does not give
a receipt for part payment or so much
received en- account, but receipt in full
God having for Christs sake decreed
your sins and your iniquities will |
remember no MORE AS far as possi-
bic let the disagreeables of life drop.
We have enough things in the present,
and there will be enough in the future,
to disturb us without running a special
train into the great Comedy to fetch us
as special freight things left behind.
Let the train OF your thoughts throw
off the worse than useless freight of a
corrupt and destroyed past and load
up with gratitude and faith and holy
determination. We do not please God
by the cultivation of the miserable.
He would rather see us happy than to
see us depressed. You would rather see
your children laugh than to see them
cry. and your Heavenly Father has no
fondnes1 for Mysteries
Not only forget your pardoned trans
gressions, but allow others to forget
them. Tue chief stock on hand of
some people is to recount in prayer
meetings and pulpits what big scoun-
drels they once were They not only
will not forget their forgiven deficits.
put they seem TO be determined that
the church and the world shall not for
get them. If you want to declare that
you have been the chief of sinners and
extol the grace that could save such
wretch as you were, do so. but do not
go into particulars. If you have any
scars got in honorable warfare, show
them, but II you have scars got in igno-
BILE warfare do not display them. |
know you will quote the Bible rerer-
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. Some
times | have felt in Christian meetings
discounted 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 never swore
a word or ever got drunk or went to
compromising places or was guilty of
assault and battery or ever uttered a
slanderous word or ever did any one
hurt, although | knew my heart was
sinful enough, and l said to myself,
There is no use of my trying to do
any good. for ! never went through
those depraved experiences. But
afterward | saw consolation in the
thought that no one gained any ordi-
nation by the laying on of the hands
of dissoluteness and infamy.
And though an ordinary moral life,
ending in Christian life, may not be
as dramatic story to tell about, let us
be grateful to God rather than worry
about II If we have never plunged into
outward denominations. 1t may be ap-
propriate in meeting of reformed
drunkards or reformed debauchees to
quote for those not reformed how des-
perate and nasty you once were, but do
not drive scavenger's cart into as
semblages of people the most of whom
have always been decent and respect
able. But l 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 IKE 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 cut-throat-
cry. II your sins have been forgiven
and your life purified. forget the way
wardness of the past and allow others
to forget 1t.
But what / most want in the light of
this text to impress is that we have a
sin-forgetting God. Suppose that on
| the last day-called the last day be-
cause the sun will never again rise up
on our earth. the earth itself being
flung into fiery demolition-supposin
that on that last day 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
ness? Why. they said 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 snnnose God should deign To an