The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26

rope. Then you went as a correspondent of newspaper. You used to write weekly articles for your country paper. What was the result? You saw the same stones and spires and groves as you did before, but you saw these in a new light. In describing them for others you fixed those facts hdelibly in your own mind. The reason Benjamin Franklin had such a marvellous memory and such wonderful clearness of thought and expression was due to one custont From the time he was a young man he never read an im- portant book, he never heard an impor tant speech he never listened to an i'm portant conversation but he always went home, took his pen and paper and made | q clear and succinct abstract of the thoughts he wished to remember. Now, my friends, how can you and l by "gos- | pei mnemonics'' ever be able to hold clearly and distinctly in our minds and hearts the benefits which God has placed about us usless we are able to write them down and also are able by long practice to tell them to some one else? But, though this fact is true, some people never think of telling their friends what God has done for them. They do not care whether any one else knows their divine blessings or not. If these same people have received an honorary degree from some college they have their diplomas framed and hung up in their studies, where every visitor can see them. If they belong to some secret order and are high up in the councils they always have the lodges pictures or their badges | in conspicuous places to let you know their positions. They seem to care but little whether you know the benefits they have received from God The result is that as they do not talk about their dl- vii 1nGG flo,r arc ant to fAr get them. The weakest memory l ever knew belonged to a bookworm. He read about everything He did nothing but read. But no sooner would lie read than he would forget. If you would not for get the benefits with which God has sur rounded you you must talk about them. Write them down In the letters which you send through the mails Tell them to your friends and neighbors. Tell them if for no other purpose than that the Davidic prayer of my text may be an- swered in your life.
 Gospel Mnemonics.
 The theme, gospel mnemonics," is suit able for all. How especially Is 1t appro- priate for the young The older a man grows the harder 1t is for him to start as new student in school or college The grandfather has ten times, aye, fifty times. as hard work to learn how to read and to spell as has his 1O-year-old grand son. The younger a boy the easier it is foe him to commit the gospel lessons and talk about the benefits of what God has done for him. Therefore, young man, would advise you to matriculate now in Gods great university, called his church. l would have you come at once as a stu dent, because now learning the lessons of Christ will be to you such an easy task.
 My boy. would you not like to start to learn the gospel language when you are young? Would you not sit at the feet of Christ and learn to think as Christ thought? Do you not see how much easier 1t is for you now to learn the Christ tongue instead of for the old sinner after speaking the language of sin for years to learn the language of Christ? We do not want to translate thought to express our thoughts.
 l have spoken to the young, so I would speak one word In closing to the old. Sometimes brainy man may have blow upon the head which will for a time bar and bolt the chambers of memory and turn his mind into a dark cavern filled only with the bats and the owls and the Vermin of a hopeless insanity. Sometimes by a blow of sinful tempta- tion the thoughts of God and the benefits of Christ's atonement may be plotted out from some of us for time. But thank God all losses of memory are not for ever. Oh, man! Oh, womanl You who have been groping about in the darkness of sin, will you not today come back to your right senses? Will you not again see the divine and the loving and the for giving face of your Saviour? Will you not remember again all that Christ has done for you? As He has forgiven your sins in the past, will you not feel and see that He Is forgiving your sins now? Copyright 1907 by Louis Klopsch)