Milford chronicle., 1907-05-24

- ,'sl ciearly and distinctly recoe
| niZe them and have them impresse,
! iuiiy and deeply upon your hearts
! Just an Imitation.
| But to have first impressions of God
love is not enough. An idiot can get
great impression upon the mind. an,
this mental impression will do him bu
little good. For many years there la.
! been going up and down the world
strange genius. He goes by the name
5 Of Blind Tom" He is n full bloodeC
; negro. as black as coal. He has a
. wonderful musical memory. He comes
into the public auditorium with the
peculiar smile of the mental incompe-
tent upon his lips. Any musician in
the audience who wishes to volunteer
can go forward, seat himself at the
piano and play there the most difficult
classical music. He can play any one
Of Beethoven's sonatas, or Iiszt's
rhapsodies, or Chopin's ballads, or
Hummefs concertos. Then at once this
Ignorant black man, who cannot spell
his own name, will sit down at the
ivory keys and duplicate the same mu-
sic. Then as soon as the rendition is
over as little child he will laugh and
clap his hands and call: Good for you.
Blind Tom! Good for you. Good for
you! Then almost Immediately he
will forget what he has done and how
he does it. oh, yes, in order to have
true gospel mnemOnics" you must
nave more than mere mental impress
sions. You must be able to combine
your first impressions Of Gods love
with the great mnemonic law of asso-
citation of ideas. Then you will re-
member Gods love, because like the |
links of great chain that link is held /
by other links.
Then, too, you must have a central /
thought Just as each constellation of
the heavens revolves about some one
center, and you cannot think of that
center unless you think of the stars
that compose that constellation. each
thought by the law of the association
of ideas brings up other thoughts
which revOlve about that Thought
When l mention to you the name of
your dead mother at once you picture
all the scenes of your childhood. You
see the ola homestead. You hear the
laughter Of your brothers and sisters
at play. You see yourself true ing
away to the village school. You pic
ture the family pew in church and the
evening hour Of family prayers. You
think of her funeral and the lonesome
ness of the house after she was gone.
When l mention the name of your dead
wife at once there comes before you
he picture of the girl you courted and s
he marriage altar and of the first '
lome You set up and of the first baby Y
md of the struggle of young manhood. /
Jne name, seemingly an insignificant {
lame, may marshal before your mind
Whole regiments, whole brigades, v
Whole armies of incidents and facts.
he law of association makes them c
ne and all cohesive entity. The old @
oct well expressed my idea by asking t
bis question: Il
Why should at times a passing scent, u
Just shifted a moment on the breeze, r
It's sensuous power so swiftly spent, p,
Come laden with more memories -
Than the low hum of h0neybees, u
UT sound OF old familiar strains es
Or rustling of the autumn grain,
Or voices OF the whispering trees. y
Or running brooks or pattering rain?
On the fatal night when Abraham
ncoln was shot in FOrds theater a dr.
Jung man was seated by the side of a Et
Jung lady. She was Offering to him II
tie flower at the moment that John in
likes Booths pistol shot rang out Sc
Tough this young man lived to be an siC
man, yet so powerful was the law co
the association of ideas that he nev-
saw that kind of a flower which gin
s young lady offered to him that ia siz
night than there rushed through be,
mind the awful scene OF a dying fro
esident; of the young tragic actor mi
lping across the stage; Of the blanch- foo
faces Of men and the fainting forms thr
women dropping under the horror ing
the tragedy. Thus, my brother, If pro
] and l would remember the bene-
which God has given to us we must
lember them by the law of the as Sur
iatiOn Of ideas.
Law Of Association.
1e must find these benefits every rieC
ere. When you and go to the din per
table we must see Gods mercies the
re. We must look for him and find ors
. We must in our blessings say, joel
Lord, as thou dost feed the birds Of the
air and clOthe the lily Of the field owe!
Z we find thee feeding us today" the
an we, as pedestrians, go swinging thou
n the street in perfect health may ed
say: 20 Lord thou didst heal the sire
in olden times. We thank thee win
thou hast done more for us. Thou II 81
kept us well that we may not a LEI
v the pangs of physical suffering" was
n we come home at night after a cour
days work in the store to greet a The
wife or a little child may we say:
Lord gave and the Lord gives to
1r dear ones. We thank thee, Fa- Ne
that thou hast not taken them Jone