Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-06-05
CHRISTIAN ERDEAVOR
Prayer Meeting Topic For the Week
Beginning June 9, 1919.


Beginning June 9, 1912.
Topic.-Happy memories: how to make
sure of them.--i Thess, t. lilo tAbseat and
former members letter meeting1 Edited
by Rev. Sherman H Doyle. ID. d.
There Is no attribute of the human
mind more wonderful than that of the
memory. An event happens today,
years pass by. with countless interven-
ing events and experiences taking
place, and yet by this marvellous facul-
ty of the mind. called the memory,
that event stands out as clearly before
us as when it happened Truly man
is wonderfully and fearfully made"
but the wonders Of his physical being
do not compare to the wonders Of his
mind. Science tells us that nothing Is
ever forgotten. Every event every ex-
perience of life, leaves an indelible i'm
preston upon the brain. which under
certain conditions will. as It were. live
again, be wildly recalled. In an In
slant all the events In the life of
drowning man stand out before him.
This seems Incredible. and yet there
are countless testimonies to its truth
fulness. and 1t only corroborates the
testimony of science that nothing is
ever forgotten. IL all that we do,
therefore. abides forever with us and
may be recalled. may live again in
memory. how anxiously we should de-
sire to live so that we may have only
happy memories.
The part that memory plays in the
life of the aged here and in the life Of
the future should increase our desire
and determination to have only happy
memories. The aged live In the past
The present has little hold upon them.
The events Of yesterday make little or
no impression upon them. They are
soon forgotten. But the incidents of
the years long gone by are constantly
lived over again. Moreover. the Bible
teaches that memory is to play O part
in the happiness or the misery of the
future life.
To Dives in hades Abraham said,
'Son. remember that thou in thy life
time hadst thy good things" Memory.
therefore, is not to perish in the grave.
1t is immortal. In view OF these facts
how transcendently important is every
act OF our life. II some day we may
only live in the recollection of the
events of today and II In the never
ending future there ia still to be a
memory of the events of the present.
how careful we should be to do today
only that which we would want to re-
member in old age or in the future.
There is only one possible way to
make sure of happy memories, and
that is to think and say and do only
what it will be pleasant to remember.
1t is for us to decide, then. what men,
cries will make US happy and to live
such lives now. VIII 1t be pleasant to
remember evil thoughts, unkind words
and selfish and sinful deeds! II not,
then these things should not be part
of our life today. We should think
only ennobling thoughts. speak only
pleasant words and do only right
deeds. OF the Thessalonians Paul re-
membered their work of faith and
labors of love and patience Of hope in
the Lord Jesus Christ" happy
memories for him and also for them.
Let US I'll our lives with works Of
faith. with self denying labors OF love
and patience of hope In Christ, and In
all days to come in this life and In the
future memory will be a friend and
not foe: it will be a source Of pleas
ure and Of happiness rather than Of
regret and of remorse.