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

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WAsHNuToN, March 9.-From the let
ter to the Hebrews DR.. Talmage takes
text and illustrates how all offenders
may be emancipated: text, Hebrews
viii, -, Their sins and their inlqulues
will | remember no more"
The national flower Of the Egyptians
Is the helotrope, of the Assyrlans Is
the water lily, OF the Hindoos is the
marigold. OF the Chinese Is the chrys-
anthemum. We have no national How
er, 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 mlsfortunes Is
that there are so many things we can
not remember MnemOnics, or the art
of assisting memory, is an important
art 1t 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 professions have through
this art had their memory REINFORCED
TO an almost incredible extent. a good
memory is an invaluable possession.
BY all means cultivate it. | had an
aged friend who, detained all night at
n miserable depot In waiting for rail-
train fast in the snowbanks. enter
tanned a group Of some ten or fifteen
clergymen, likewise detained on their
way home from meeting Of presby-
terry, by first with Il piece OF chalk
drawing out on the black and sooty
walls Of the depot the characters or
Walter Scotts "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 ask
ed him II this story Of the railroad de
pot was true he said. 81 do not remem-
ber now, but 1t was just like me.
"Let me see" said he to me. Have l
ever seen you beforeT Yes" ! said;
you were my guest last night, and
was with you an hour ago" What an
awful contrast In that man between
the greatest memory | ever knew and
no memory at all.
The Art of Forgetting.
But right along with this art Of rec
ollectiOn, which | cannot too highly
eulogize, Is one quite MS important, and
yet never heard it applauded. | mean
the art Of forgetting. There Is splen-
did faculty In that direction that we
all need to cultivate. We might through
that process be ten times happier and
more useful than we now are. We
nave been told that forgetfulness Is q
weakness and ought to be avoided by
all possible means. So far from
weakness, my text rascribes .t to God.
1t is the very top OF omnipotence that
God Is able to obiterate part OF his
own memory. II we repent Of sin and
rightly seek the divine forgiveness,
the record Of the misbehavlor Is not
only crossed off the books but God ac-
tually lets 1t pass out OF memory.
Their sins and their lniqultles 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 80 great that II two
men appeal to him and the one man,
after a life all right. gets the sins OF
his heart pardOned and the other man.
after q life Of abOminatlOn. gets par
doned God remembers 10 more against
one than against the other. The entire
past Of both the moralist, with his i'm
perfections. and the prOhigate, with
his debaucheries is as much Obliter-
ated in the one case as In the other.
Forgotten forever and forever. Their
sins and their iniqulties will remem-
Der no more"
This sublime attribute Of forgetful-
ness on the part OF God you and |
need. in our finite way to initiate. You
will do well to cast out Of your recol-
lection all wrongs done you. During
the course Of ones life he Is sure to be
to be lied about. to be
injured. There are those who keep
these things fresh by frequent re-
hearsal II things have appeared In
print. they keep them In their scrap
book. for they cut these precious para
graphs out Of newspapers or books and
at leisure times look them over. or they
have them tied up In bundles or thrust
IN pigeonholes and they frequently re-
gale themselves and their friends by
an inspection OF these fllngs. these sar-
casms. these falschoOls. these crueltles.
| have known gentlemen who carried
them In their pOcketbOOks, 40 that they
could easily get mt these lrritations, and
they put their right hand In the inside
of their coat POCKET over their heart
and say: Look here! Let me show
you something" Scientists catch wasps
and hornets and poisonous Insects and
transfx them In curiosity bureaus for
study, and that Is well, but these OF
whom speak catch the wasps and the
hornets and poisonous Insects and play
with them and put them on themselves
and on their friends and see how far
the noxlous things can jump and show
how deep they can sting. Have no
such scrapbook. Keep nothing In your
possession that Is dlsagreeaSle. Tear
up the falsehoods and the ISLANDERS and
the hypercriticisms.
How to BE Happy.
Initiate the Lord in my text and for
get, actually forget, subllmely forget.
There is no happiness for you In any
other plan or procedure. You see all
around you in the church and out or
the church dispositions acerb. malign,
cynical. pessimistlc. DO you know how
these men and women got that dispo-
gition? 1t was by the embalmment OF