The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-05-14

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scious of their peril
and ignorant Of the
blessing to be found
in fellowship with
God, and on the other we behold God In
His infinite mercy and love addressing
the one who has forgotten Him, plead
ing with him and warning him OF his
awful peril, and then pointing him to the
way of salvation. 1t is a marvellous dis
play of the Divine grace that God should
go after those who have spurned and
forgotten Him. And it is a mystery OF
mysteries how the undying soul OF man
can be Indifferent to it's Creator and GOD,
how it can forget Him and pay no heed
to the Divine warning Of peril and the
offer of salvation. But there are those
who forget God and perish. The people
of NOah's time forgot God, and treated
His warnings of judgment and destruc-
ton with Indifference and contempt.
and they persisted. Sodom and GOmor-
rah forgot God and God licked them
with His scOurge Of fire from the face OF
the earth. Nations and individuals
throughout the ages have forgotten God
and persisted miserably. And to-day
there are multitudes of precious souls
that have forgotten God. They have
turned their backs upon Him, they have
thrust their fingers in their ears that
they may not hear His warning mes
sage, and they are facing the world and
destruction. Forgetters of God, but not
forgetters Of self. Forgetters of God,
but not forgetters of the world and all its
attractions and distractions. Forget
tiers of God and His claims, but not for
getters of the fleshly desires and appe-
tites. Forgetters of God!
NOU may draw your own portrait or
i the Forgotten of God. You probably
would be able to fill in a good many Of
the lines and features. You probably
would picture the diSsolute or the GRIM
inal, and say there is your Forgotten OF
God. And it would be true, sadly true,
but do the law breaker and the moral
outcast represent the sum total of this
God-forgetting class? Shall we say that
when you have pointed out those who
ere known and read of all men as posi-
A:-ol,x -r;oIyoI ond had in fhnjr nIIrnHCpS
and habits, you have told all the story?
Mans moral census would be sure to in
.clude all those who were SCARED and
marred by sin, but it is equally certain
that many, many who are known to COD
as Forgetters of Him would be left out.
do not need to go to the drunkard and
tell him that he is a Forgotten Of God.
He knows it. The consciousness OF 1t
haunts him day and night. l do not
need to go into the slums of the city
into the gambling dens and places OF
fniouity and tell the poor victims there
that they have forgotten God. They
know it, and try to drown the troubling
thoughts of their condition by more
madly plunging into the giddy whirl OF
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ward boy or girl, to that man or woman
who is travelling the pathway of sin, and
tell them they are among those who
have forgotten God. They will admit 1t
and declare they want to forget. VIII
are the Forgetters of God? Not these
alone. then, who need no badge to dis
tinguish them, but multitudes whom
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getful Of His claims upon them. For
getters of God may be we'll and favorably
known to each other, they may stant
high in the estimation of the world, the!
NAV be socially and financially among
the four hundred, but in Gods sight the!
are classed with the Forgetters.
THE Psalmist takes pains to describ'
as Forgetters of God those whom
nerhaps YOU or | would be last to in
clude as such. God is represented a
speaking, and He declares: ""ho
--latest instruction Cor correction, as it i
in the marginal reading), and easiest M,
words behind thee. When thou saves
a thief. thou c~onsentedst with him, an
hast been partaKer Win duulIeIeis
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and tn
tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest an
speakest against thy brother; tho
~slanderest thine own mothers Sol
Thou thoughtest that / was a.
together such a one as myself" A
we examine carefully and critically thi
portrayal we find that the positivel
wicked and bad are not mentioned. Tn
PsaImist did not go fishing around i
cesspools of sin for his specimens, b
did not trot off to the corrupt heathe
nations about to find his man who ha
forgotten God. He found him rigl
near at hand, and among those who PEI
haps stood highest in the communit
He was the man who recognized the al
thority of the law; who took a prit
and satisfaction In his moral rectitut
and his clean citizenship; who held h
head high and was ready to preao
moral standards unto others. tt
psalmist speaks of his going so far