Milford chronicle., 1904-08-19
why we Do Not Forrtrs.

Why We Do Not Forgive.
Why is that lifetime friendship be-
tween you ana your school chum
broken up: You We're both born in
the same country village. You grew up
together You played ball together.
flew kites together, went fishing in the
old brook together. SAT side by side be-
hind the same school desk and ate your
lunches out of each others basket.
You came 70 the city on the same train.
lived in the same boarding house and
went to work at the same city store on
the same day Why are you estrauged?
Will tell you. You both fell in love
/ with the same girl In order to win
] that girls affections you lied about
/ your Old friend. You circulated evil re-
/ ports about his past life, when You
knew that no squarer, truer man ever
lived. You said his family was not re-
spectacle when his mother used 10 be
a second mother to you and helped
nurse you when you were sick. You
hate your old school friend not because
he has done an injustice TO you. but be-
cause you have done an injustice to
him. What is the matter with Mr..
So-and-so" ! once asked my father.
He never comes around the house as
he used to do" No" said father. che
IS my enemy. I loaned him some moa-
ey. lie would not pay me back How.
ever, for old times sake I forgave him
the debt and said it was all right. But
he has never forgiven me the injustice
he has done me-"
But again learn that our first an
ceStors sought other refugees besides
leaf and flower and cinging vine and
tree trunk and bush. 1t is true that
the tropical forests are so dense that
they make excellent hiding places. Sir 1
Gordon Cumming, the great hunter Of q
wild beasts, tells US that the Ceylon S
jungles in places are so impenetrable a
TO the eye that the keenest and most p
experienced hunters may sometimes be T
unable to distinguish the wounded D
elephantine monster only a few yards G
away though the valleys and the u
mountain sides may be thunderous a
With the bellOwings Of the dying wild b
'east. But sin never tries to cover up v
i'm by the curtain of leaf alone Sin Il
-lways tries to conceal sin behind the Il
of other sins. Thus. when W
Adam and Eve hid themselves from te
ne presence Of God in the garden, they "a
RED TO conceal their sin with the sin 81
falsity They pretended they did Ut
OF hear God when he called. They sa
RED to conceal sin by saying. "The 10
aason we have not answered thee. o Oh
cd, is because we were unclothed and pc
are not appear before thee naked. as yc
lou didst create US" They tried to
'nceal sin in exactly the same way ne
thousands and tens Of thousands of ar
wing men try TO conceal sin with sin. 70
h, the poisonous ivy" behind which gl'
dam and Eve concealed themselves ne
as not an arbor Of oak. but an arbor VI
lies and deceits. If they had spoken III
e truth, they would have said. THE an
anne we feel. the shame that forced to
TO hide ourselves from thy presence, url
due to our consciousness of wrong sci
ing" keC
COnceaIing Sin. tina
How does man try to conceal his first lice
behind a mighty bulwark of many
isF Here is young man who has 1
en- brought up in country home. bill
! was raised up right. He had his sho
II gospel lessons instilled into him one
the family altar, in the Sunday ribl
lool' and in the church pew, where, the
a little child, he used to be taken chu
hear the service, and would sleep und
ough the long sermon, clasped in his sale
theirs arms. Away from home he wit
Is into bad cOmpanionship. He are
dually gets into the habit of spend abO
his evenings in billiard halls, and arm
Sundays ON excursion trains and cast
iic parties. He drinks a little. He star
rs cards little. He dresses a little wor
er than he can afford. He runs a mise