The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-15

Two people whispering, tHey tuihh 4
is about themselves. If they see two
people laughing, they think it is about
themselves. Where there is one sweet
pippin in their orchard there are 81
~crabapples. They have never been able
to forget. They do not want to forget
They never will forget. Their wretch
edness is supreme, for nc n can be
happy If he carries p~erpetually in mind
the mean things that have been done
him. On the other hand, you can find
here and there a man or woman (for
there are not many of them) whose
disposition is genial and summary,
Why? Have they always been treated
well? Oh, no.. Hard things have been
said against them. They have been
charged with officiousness, and their
generosities have been set down to a
desire for display, and they have many
a time been the subject of little ~tattle,
and they have had enough small as
sau!ts like gnats and enough great at
tacks like lions to have made them per-
petually miserable if they would have
consented to be miserable. But they
have had enough divine philosophy to
cast off the annoyances, and they have
kept themselves in the sunslight of
God'sfavorandhave realized that these
oppositions and hindrances are a part
of a mighty discipline by which they
are to be prepared for usefulness and
heaven. The secret of it all is they
have, by the help of the Eternal God,
learned how to forget.
Another practical thought: When
our faults are repented of let them go
out of mind. If God forgets them, we
have a right to forget them. Having
once r%epented of our infelicities and
misdemeanors, there is no need Of our
repenting Of them again. Suppose 1
you a large sum of money, and you
are persuaded 1 am incapacitated to
pay and you give me acquittal from
that obligation. You say: 81 cancel
that debt. All is right now. Start
again." And the next day 1 come in
and say: "You know about that big
debt 1 you. 1 have come in to get
you to let me off. l feel SO bad about
it / cannot rest. Do let me off" You
reply with a little Impotence: 81 did
let you off. Don't bother yourself and
bother me with any more of that dis
custom" The following day l come in
and say: my dear sir, about that debt
can never get over the fact that I
w you that money. 1t is something
that weighs on my mind like a mill
stone. Do forgive me that debt" This
you clear lose your patience and
say: you are a nuisance. What do
you mean by this reiteration of that
affair? l am almost sorry l forgave
you that debt. Do you doubt my
'eracity or do you not understand the
plain language in which I told you
debt was canceled?" Well, my
friends, there are many Christians
of worse folly than that. While
It is right that they repent of new sins
md of recent sins, what is the use of |
oothering yourself and insulting God
~ asking Him to forgive sins that long
lgo were forgiven? God has forgotten
Why do you not forget them?
No; you drag the load on with you, and
'o5 times a year, if you pray every day,
'ou ask God to recall occurrences
'hich He has not only forgiven, but
Quit this folly. / do not ask you less
o realize the turpitude of sin, but l
Isk you to a higher faith in the prom
of God and the full deliverance of
lis mercy. He does not give a receipt
or part payment or so much received
n account, but receipt in full, God
for Christ's sake decreed "your
ms and your iniquities will | remem-
'er no more" AS far as possible let
he disagreeables of life drop. We
enough things in the present, and
will be enough in the future, to
isturb us without running a special
rain into the great Comedy to fetch us
s special freight things left behind.
ago, when there was n great
abroad strike, / remember seeing all
long the route from Omaha to Chica-
o and from Chicago to New York
undreds and thousands Of freight
ars switched on the sidetracks, those
ars loaded with all kinds of perishable
Material, d~ecaying and wasting. After
strike vas over did the railroad
.mpanies bring all that persisted
laterial down to the markets? No;
hey threw it off where it was de-
troyed and loaded up with something
lse. Let the long train of your
houghts throw off the worse than use
sss freight of a corrupt and DESTROYED
asst and load up with gratitude and
aith and holy determination. We do
ct please God by the cultivation of
he miserable. He would rather see
S happy than to see us depressed.
GU would rather see your children
than to see them cry, and your
.Ieavenly Father has no fondness for
ysterics. !.
Not only forget your pardoned
'ansgressions, but allow others to
them. The chief stock on hand
I some people is to recount in prayer
lettings and pulpits what big scoun-
rels they once were. They not only
i'll not forget their forgiven deficits.
Mt they seem to be determined that
church and the world shall not