The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-20

over the record of my past life and
found written there things that were
almost new oto me. so strange thcv
seemed at the first, and vet TO myself /
could not deny them; the record was
too plain and the writing too familiar
! Every day | come To Il perfectly clean
page, not mark upon il, but every
night find that same page written
full of something. and as | look over
1t ! find some things that | wish |
could erase, but I find ii impossible
10 do SO, aud there il stands against
me. ! may turn that leaf from me
and busy myself filling up another
record of this particular day is apIa-.
entity rs though it had not becu, buf
bye and bye something comes up !
hardly know how aud | am brought
into contact with that particular page.
and there the very thing that I wanted
erased and thought had passed out for
ever stares me in the face and try MS
! hard as ever ] may I can ye; away
i from if, 1T haunts me still. No one
need tell me now that an angel in
heaven wrote that record: | know that
| wrote it myself, and no one else is
responsible for its writing. What /
have written | have written,
| read .in Revelations where il saws.
referring TO the final Judgment day,
- And ! saw the dead. small and great,
stand before God. and the books were
opened, and the dead were Judged ont
of those things which were written in
the books, according TO their works -
My record book viii be there for in
spectlon; your record book will he
there for inspection. And ] want 10
say to YOU if the opening of my record
causes me as much uncasiness and
heartache as it has caused me here, it
Will be no picnic. There are many
things which I wish had not been writ
ten. There are a few things which
wish l could forget.
Gou remember those unkind words
which you spoke to your mother, or
maybe your wife? You would like to
take them nack7 Have you ever tried
TO unsay them or make it inst as
though they had never been said9 Have
YOU succceded9 Are they not like a
milestone about your neck? Does. not
Just one such unkind sentence mar the
whole record. Can You feel -ood as long
as it remains TO haunt you9 Do You
not feel like saying now that what
You have written most surely you have
written? Are there not some things
in your life for which you would
give everything YOU possess If they had
not been said or done? 1t is hard
enough to bear the shame and remoTse
here how will it be when we cross
over the Jordan of death9
What 7 have written, ] have written
and there is no escape from it. so far
as | am able TO effect an escape.
have tried it; YOU have doubtless tried
il. If help doesn't u come from some
where else We are all miserable crea-
lures in the consciousness of what we
; have written. But there is way Of
} escape. God has made a way; the blood
of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses from
all sin. And whosoever believeth in
Him hath everlasting life. And where
: read that l am to be JUDGED out OF
the things written in the book of my
own record there was another book
open, which is the book Of life, and if
my name. if your name, is written
there il means escape from the sec
: ond death. "What / have written
| / have written