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ART W SOBfiEHQfGL,
I Ills merer. Be does not aire a receipt for
part payment, or so mnoh reoeived on ao-
count, but reoelpt In foil, God having for
rChrlst'i sain dftcreed. "vour tins, and vour
J'orgtren.SinSiJLT&Jfot tO Be TreaS-ltwUHwniember no more." A
jar as powioie, in me aiiareeauiea ui mo
mdi'UjKAgainsttlie Sinner,
Olffi CONFESSION IS SUFFICIENT.
Tonr Neighbors Faults Must Be-Banlshed
From lour Memory.
TA1MAGFS EEGULAK SUNDAY SERMON
rsrECUL TELEGRAM TO TBX DI8rJLTCB.l
Beookltk, June 5. Dr. Talmage's'tert
this morning was Hebrews viii., 12i "Their
tins and their iniquities will X remember no
Jnore."
The national flower of the Egyptians is
the heliotrope, of the Assyrians is the water
lily, of the Hindoos is the marigold, of the
Chinese is the chrysanthemum. We have
no national flower, but there is hardly any
flower more suggestive to many of us than
the "forget-me-not." "We all like to be re
membered, and one of our misfortunes is
that there are so many things that we can
not remember.
Mnemonics, or the art of assisting mem
ory, is an important art. It was first sug
gested by Simonides of Cos 500 years before
Christ. A good memory is an invaluable
possession. Bv all means cultivate it. I
had an aged friend, who, detained all night
at a miserable depot in waiting for a rail
train fast in the snowbanks, entertained a
group of some 10 or 15 clergymen, likewise
detained on their way home from a meeting
of Presbytery, by first, with a piece of
chalk, drawing out on the black and sooty
walls of the depot the characters of Walter
Scott's "Marmion," and then reciting from
memory the whole of that poem of some 80
pages in fine print.
A Man "Who Bad Lost Hl Memory.
My old friend through great age lost his
memory, and when I asked him if this story
of the railroad depot was true he said: "I
do not remember now, but it was just like
me." "Let me see," said he to me, "have
I ever seen you before?" "Ye," I said,
"you were my guest last nizht and I was
with you an hour ago." What an awful
contrast in that man between the greatest
memory I ever knew and no memory at alL
But right along with this urt of recollec
tion, which I cannot too highly eulogize, is
one quite as important and yet I never
heard it applauded. I mean the art of for
getting. There is a splendid faculty in that
direction that we all need to cultivate. We
might, through that process be ten times
happier and more useful than we now are.
We have been told that forgetfulness is a
weakness and ought to be avoided by all
possible means. So far from a weakness,
my text ascribes it to God. It is the very
lop of Omnipotence that God is able to ob
literate a part of his own memory. If we
repent of sin and rightly seek the divine
forgiveness, the record of the misbehavior
is not only crossed off the books, but God
actually lets it pass out of memory. "Their
sins and their iniquities will I remember no
more." To remember no more is to forget,
and you cannot make anything else out of
it.
God's Faculty of Forcetfolneis.
God's power of forgetting is so great that
if two men appeal to him, and the one man,
alter a life all right, gets the sins of his
heart pardoned, and the other man, after a
life of abomination, gets pardoned, God re
members no more against one than against
the other. The entire past of both the
moralist, with his imperfections, and the
profligate, with his debaucheries, is as
much obliterated in the one case as in the
other. Forgotten, forever and forever.
"Their sins and their iniquities will I re
member no more."
This sublime attribute of forgetfulness on
the part of God you and I need, in onr finite
way, to imitate. You will do well to cast
out of your recollection all wrongs done
you. During the course of one's life he is
sure to be misrepresented, to be lied about,
to be injured.
There are those who keep these things
fresh by frequent rehearsal. If things have
appeared in print they keep them in their
scrap book, for they cut these precious para
graphs out of newspapers or books and at
leisure times look them over, "or they
have them tied up in bundles or thrust
in pigeon holes, and they frequently regale
themselves and their friends by an inspec
tion ot tnese nmgs, tnese sarcasms, these
falsehoods, these cruelties. I have known
gentlemen who carried them in theirpocket-
books, so that they could easily get at these
irritations.
Keep Ko Scrap-TJook of Noxious Things.
Scientists catch wasps and hornets and
poisonous insects and transfix them In
curiosity bureaus for study, and that is
welL But these of whom I speak catch
the wasps and the hornets and poisonous
insects and play with them and put them on
themselves and on their friends and see
liow far the noxious things can jump and
show how deep they can stingy Have no
such scrap-book. Keep nothing in your
possession that is disagreeable. Tear up
the falsehoods and the slanders and the
hypercriticisms. Imitate the Lord in my
text and forget, actually forget, sublimely
forget. There is no happiness for you in
any other plan of procedure.
You see all around you in the church and
out of the church dispositions acerb, malign,
critical, pessimistic. Do you know how
these men and women got that disposition?
It was by tiie embalmment of things pan
therine and viperous. Tliey have spent
much of their time in calling the roll ot all
the rats that have nibbled at their reputa
tion. Their soul is a cage ot cultures.
Everything in them is sour and embit
tered. The milk of human kindness has
been curdled. They do not believe in any
body or anything. If they see two people
whispering, thev think it is about them
selves. If they see two people laughing,
they think it is about themselves.
Horn Bitter Frnlt Than Sweet.
Where there is one sweet pippin in their
orchard there are 50 crab apples. They
have never been able to forget They do
not want to forget. They never wiU'for
get. Their wretchedness is supreme, for
no one can be happy if he carries perpet
ually in mind the mean things that have
been done him.
On the other hand, you can find here and
there a man and woman (for there are not
many of them) whose disposition is genial
and summery. Why? Have they always
been treated well? O' , no. Hard things
hare been said against them. They have
been charged with officiousness, and their
generosities have been set down to a desire
lor display, and they have many a time
been the subject of tittle-tattle, and they
have had enough small assaults like gnats
and enough great attacks like lions to have
made them perpetually miserable if they
would have consented to be miserable. But
they have had enough divine philosophy to
cast ofl the annoyances, and they have kept
themselves in the sunlight of God's favor
and have realized that these oppositions
and hindrances are a part of the migbtydis1
cipline by which they are to be prepared
lor useluiness and heaven. The secret of it
all is, they have by the help of the Eternal
God learned how to forget.
F rcet Tour Faults ThatAre .Atoned.
Another practical thought: when our
faults are repented of let them go out of
mind. If God forgets them, c have a right
to forget them. Having once repented of
our infelicities and misdemeanors, there is no
need of our repenting of them again. While
it is right that people repent of new sins
and of recent sins, what is the use of both
ering yourself and insulting God by asking
him to forgive sins that long ago were for
given? God has forgotten them. Why do
vou not forget them? No; you drag the
load on with you and 365 times a year, if
you pray everv day, you ask God to recall
occurrences which he has not only forgiven
but forgotten. Quit this folly.
I do not ask you to realize the turpitude
of sin, but I ask you to a higher faith in the
promise of God and the full deliverance of
drop. We have enough things in the pres
ent and there will be enough in the future
to disturb us without running a speoial train
Into the great Gone-By to fetch us as speoial
freight things left behind.
Keep Fresh Goods In Tour Memory.
Some ten years ago, when there was a
great railroad strike, I remember seeine an
along the route from Omaha to Chicago and
from Chicago to New York hundreds and
thousands of freight cars switched on the
side tracks, those cars loaded with all kinds
of perishable material, decaying and wast
ing. After the strike was over did the rail
road companies bring all that perished
material down to the markets? No, they
threw it off where it was destroyed, and
loaded up with something else.
Let the long train of your thoughts throw
off the worse than useless freight of a cor
rupt and destroyed past, and load up with
gratitude and faith and holy determination.
We do not please God by the cultivation
of the miserable. He would rather see us
happy than to see us depressed. You would
rather see your children laugh than to see
them cry, and your heavenly Father has no
fondness for hysterics.
Not only forget your pardoned transgres
sions, but allow others to forget them. The
chief stock on hand of many people is to
recount in prayer meetings and pulpits
what big scoundrels they once were. Ihey
not only will not forget their forgiven de
ficits, but they seem to be determined that
the church and the world shall not torget
them. If you want to declare that you
have been the ohief of sinners and extol
the grace that could save such a wretch as
you were, do so, but do not go into par
ticulars. Do Hot Parade Ignoble Soars.
If you have any scars got in honorable
warfare, show them; but If you have scars
got in ignoble warfare, do not display them.
I know you will quote the Bible reference
to the horrible pit from which you were
digged. Yes, be thankful for that rescue,
but do not make displays of the mud of
that horrible pit, or splash it over other
people. Sometimes I have felt in Christian
meetings discomfited and unfit for Christian
service because X had done none of those
things whloh seemed to be, in the estima
tion of many, necessary for Christian use
fulness, for I never swore a word or ever
got drunk, and I said to myself: "There is
no use of my trying to do any good, for 1
never went through those depraved experi
ences," but afterward I saw consolation in
the thought that no one gained any ordina
tion by the laying on of the hands of dis
soluteness and mlamy.
And though an ordinary moral life, end
ing in a Christain life, may not be as dra
matic a story to tell about, let us be grate
ful to God rather than worry about it if we
have never plunged into outward abomina
tions. It may be appropriate in a meeting
of reformed drunkards or reformed de
bauchees to quote for those not reformed
how desperate and nasty you once were, but
do not drive a scavenger's cart into assem
blages of people, the most of whom have
always been decent and respectable.
Suspicions of Superfluous Confession.
But I have been sometimes in great evan
gelistic meetings where people went into
particulars about the sins that they once
committed so much so that I felt like put
ting my hand on my pocketbook or calling
for the police lest these reformed men
might fall from grace and go at their old
business of theft or drunkenness or cut
throatery. If your sins have been forgiven
and your life punned, lorget the wayward
ness of the past and allow others to forget it.
But, what I most want in the light of
this text to impress upon my hearers and
readers is that we have a sin-forgetting
God. Suppose that on the Last Day
called the Last Day because the sun
will never again rise upon our earth, the
earth itself being flung into fiery demoli
tion supposing that on -that Last Day a
group ot internal spirits should somehow
get near enough the gate of heaven and
challenge our entrance, and say: "How
cants Thou, the Just Lord, let those souls
into the realm of surpernal gladness? Why,
they said a great many things they never
ought to have said, and they did a great
many things they ought never to have done.
Sinners are they; sinners all. " And sup
pose God should deign to answer, He might
say: "Yes, but did not my only Son die
for their ransom? Did he not pay the
price? Not one drop of blood was retained
in his arteries, not one nerve of his that was
not wrung in the torture. He took in his
own body and soul all the suffering that
those sinners deserve.
Their Sins Were Forgiven Them.
Thev pleaded that sacrifice. They took
the full pardon that I promised to all who,
through my Son, earnestly applied for it,
and it passed out of my mind that they were
offenders. I forgot all abovt it. Yes, I tor
got all about it 'Their sins and their in
iquities do I remember no more.' "
A sin-forgetting GodI That is clear be
yond, and lar above a sin-pardoning God.
How often we hear it said: "I can lorgive,
but X cannot forget." That is equal to say
ing: "I verbally admit it is all right, but" I
will keep the old grudge good." Human
forgiveness is often a flimsy affair. It does
not go deep down. It does not reach far
up. It does not fix things up. The con
testants may shake hands, or, passing each
other on the highway, they may speak the
"Good morning" or the "Good night," but
the old cordiality never returns. The rela
tions always remain strained. There is
something in the demeanor ever after that
seems to sav: "I would not do you harm;
indeed, I wish you well, but that unfortu
nate affair can never pass out of my mind."
There may no hard words pass between
them, but until death breaks in the same
coolness remains. But God lets our par
doned offenses go into oblivion. He never
throws them up to us again. He feels as
kindly toward us as though we had been
spotless and positively angelic all along.
A Child Rescued From the Storm.
Many years ago a family, consisting of
the husband and wife and little girl of 2
years, lived far out in a cabin on a Western
prairie. The husband took a few cattle to
market. Before he started his little child
asked him to buy for her a doll, and he
promised, tie could, alter the salo of the
cattle, purchase household
certainly would not forget the doll he had
promised. In the Tillage to which he went
he sold the cattle and obtained the groceries
for his household and the doll for his little
darling.
He started home along the dismal road at
nightfall. As he went along on horseback,
a thunderstorm broke, and in the most
lonely part of the road and in the heaviest
part of the storm he heard a child cry.
Bobbers had been known to do some bad
work along -that road, and it was known
that this herdsman had money with him,
I the price of the cattle sold. The herdsman
first thought it was a sirategem to nave mm
halt and be despoiled of his treasures, but
the child's cry became more keen and rend
ing, and so he dismounted and felt around
in the darkness and all in vain, until he
thought of a hollow that he remembered
near the road where the child might be, and
for that he started, and, sure enough, found
a little one fagged out and drenched of the
storm and almost dead. He wrapped it up
as well as he could and mounted his horse
and resumed his jdurney home.
The Lost Child Was Hli Own.
Coming in sight of his cabin, he saw it all
lighted up, and supposing his wife had
kindled all these lights so as to guide him
through the darkness. But, no. The house
was full of excitement and the neighbors
Mere gathered and stood around the wife of
the house, who was insensible as from some
great calamity.
On inquiry the returned husband fonnd
that the little child of that cabin was gone.
She had wandered out to meet her lather
and get the present he had promised, and
the child was lost. Then the father un
rolled from the blanket the child he had
found in the fields, and, lol it was his own
child, and the lost one ot the prairie home,
and the cabin quaked with the shout over
the lost one found.
How suggestive of the fact that once we
were lost in the open fields, or among the
mountain crags, God's wandering children,
and he found us, dying in the tempest, and
wrapped us In the mantle of his love and
fetched us home, gladness and congratula
tion bidding us welcome. The fact is that
the world does not know God, or they would
all flook to him.
Through their own blindness, or the fault
of some rough preaching that he has got
abroad in the centuries, many men and
women have an idea that God is a tyrant,
and oppressor, an autocrat, a Nana Sahib,
an Omnipotent Herod Antipas.
Gloomy Preaching That Slanders God.
It is a libel against the Almighty: it is a
maimer against tne neavens; it is a aejama
tion of the infinities. I counted in my
Bible 301 times the word "mercy," single
or compounded with other words. I counted
in my Bible 473 times the word "love."
single or compounded with other words.
Then X got tired counting. Perhaps you
might count more, being better at figures.
But the Hebrew and the Greek and the En
glish languages have been taxed till they
cannot pay any more tribute to the love,
and mercy,and kindness, and grace, and
charity, andtenderness, and friendship, and
benevolence, and sympathy, and bounteous
ness, and fatherhness, and motherliness,
aud patience, and pardon ot our God.
There are certain names so magnetio that
their pronunciation thrills, all who hear it.
Such is the name of the Italian soldier and
liberator, Garibaldi. The Commander of
the Hosts ot heaven turned aside from bis
glorious and victorious march through the
centuries of heaven, and said: "I will go
and recover that lost world, and that race of
whom Adam was the progenitor, and let all
who will accompany me." And through
the night they came, but I do not see that
the angelic escort came any further than the
clouds, but their most illstrious leader came
all the way down.
The Beoord of Fast Sins Destroyed.
By the time his errand is done our little
world, our wandering and lost world, our
world fleecy with the light, will be found
in the bosom of the Great Shepherd, and
then all heaven will take up the cantata
and sing, "The Lost Sheep Found." So I
set open the wide gate ot my text, inviting
you all to come into the mercy and pardon
of God; yea, still further, into the ruins of
the place where once was kept the knowl
edge of your iniquities. The place has been
torn down and the records destroyed, and
you will find the ruins more dilapidated
than the ruins of Melrose or Kenilworth,
for from these last ruins you can pick up
some fragment of a sculptured rflone, but
after your repentance and your forgiveness
you cannot find in all the memory of God a
fragment of all your pardoned sins so large
as a needle's point "Their sins and their
iniquities will X remember no more." And
none of that will surprise you if you will
climb to the top of a bluff back ot Jerusalem
and see what went on when the plateau of
limestone was shaken by a paroxysm that
set the rocks, which had been upright,
aslant, and on the trembling crosspieoes of
the split Inmber hung the quivering form
of him whose life was thrust out by metallic
points of cruelty that sickened the noonday
sun till it fainted and fell back on the black
lounge of the Judean midnight.
Sounds at the Crucifixion of Christ.
Six different kinds of sounds were heard
on that night which was interjected into
the daylight of Christ's assassination; the
neighing of the war horses, for some of the
soldiers were in the saddle, was one sound;
the bang of the hammers, was a second
sound; the jeer of malignants was a third
sound; the weeping of friends and coadju
tors was a fourth sound; the plash of blood
on the rocks was a fifth sound; the groan of
the expiring Lord was a sixth sound. And
they all commingled into one sadness.
Over a place in Bussia where wolves
were pursuing a load of travelers, and to
save them a servant sprang from the sled
into the mouths of the wild beasts and was
devoured, and thereby the other lives were
saved, are inscribed the words: "Greater
love hath no man than this, tbat a man lay
down his life for his friend." Many a
surgeon in our own time has in trache
otomy with his own lips drawn from the
windpipe of a diphtheritic patient that
which cured the patient and slew the sur
geon, and all have honored the self-sacrifice.
But all other scenes of sacrifice pale
before this most illustrious martyr of all
time and all eternity. After that agoniz
ing spectacle in behalf of our fallen race
nothing about the sin-forgetting God is too
stupendous for my faith, and 1 accept the
promise, and will you not all accept it?
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Specialties
This Week I
IN MILLINERY
We acknowledge no equal. This week we offer in LADIES'
AND MISSES' STRAW HATS
8,000 STRAW HATS AND BONNETS.
This lot includes some extra fine Hats, principally in blacks; some
with Milan Crowns; some with Fancy Lace Brims; some are of all. Lace.
In brief, it is a lot which includes some of the best shapes and qualities of
the season, which have been sold at 50c, 75c, $1, $1.25 and J1.50. We
shall sell all at
25 CENTS EACH.
3,000 HATS FOR THE GARDEN f FOR THE SEASHORE!
FOR THE MOUNTAINS I Worth from 50c to $1. All at the uniform
price of
15 CENTS EACH.
400 LEGHORN FLATS, both in white and black, ONLY
50 CENTS EACH.
Trimmed Hats
FOR LADIES AND MISSES.
Baby Carriage
Specialties
This Week!
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LADIES' SUMMER UNDERWEAR.
Ribbed Cotton Vests, pink, blue, cream and white "jc
Ribbed Cotton Vests, ecru only 18 c
Fancy Cotton Vests, all colors 25 c
Ribbed Cotton Vests, high neck and long, sleeves 1
Ribbed Cotton Vests, high neck and short sleeves ) 35 c
Swiss Ribbed Vests, all colors 38 c
Fancy Ribbed Lisle Vests, colors 50 c
Fancy Ribbed Lisle Vests, all colors 50 c
Fancy Ribbed Lisle Vests, extra quality 63 c
Fancy Swiss Lisle Vests, long'sleeves 75 c
Fancy Swiss Lisle Vests, extra quality $1.00
Plain Gauze Vests, long or short sleeves .. 35 c
Gossamer Merino Vests, long or short sleeves 63 c
French Balbriggan Vests, long or short sleeves 63 c
Silk Vests, fancy colors 4. 75 c
Silk Vests, black and fancy colors $1.00
Silk Vests, -black and fancy colors S1.00
Silk Vests, black and fancy colors, extra quality Si. 25
Fine Silk Vests, fancy colors 1.98
Pure Silk Vests, pink, blue and cream 2.50
Ribbed Cotton Drawers, knee length, white and ecru 38 c
Ribbed Lisle Drawers, knee length, white and ecru 50 c
Ribbed Lisle Drawers, knee length, white and ecru 63 c
Ribbed Lisle Drawers, extra quality 75 c
CHILDREN'S BLACK LEGHORN HATS, as represented above,
flower wreath, worth fully $2.25, will be sold
trimmed with ribbons and
this week
A.T $1.00.
Another lot of CHILDREN'S TRIMMED LEGHORN HATS, in
black, white and colors, well worth 2.50, will also be sold
AT .1.00.
MISSES' TRIMMED HATS.
A special Q i QP This is a beauty, and compares favorably with
drive at liOUa what other establishments sell at $3.
LADIES' TRIMMED HATS AT $3.90.
Vastly superior in style and quality to the 5 Hats sold elsewhere.
Artificial Flowers!
2,000 SAMPLE SPRAYS OF FLOWERS.
No two alike, worth from 50c to 1 a Spray, at
25 CENTS EACH.
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120 FINE FRENCH WREATHS, worth $1 to $2 each,
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UNDERWEAR
Seven lines of Medium Weight Underwear, just the thing for early
spring wear, neither too heavy nor too light. These lines in
clude White, Gray, Camel's Hair, Brown, Tan Mottled and
Balbriggan 50 c
Five lines, including White, Gray, Tan, Mode and Balbriggan 75 c
Five lines, including White, Tan, Blue, Brown and Balbriggan $1.00
Several lines of Light-weight Wool and Balbriggan Underwear,
at 1.25, $1.50 and upward
Pepperell Jean Drawers, with buttons and strings 50 c
Pepperell Jean Drawers, with elastic anklets 50 c
Pepperell Jean Drawers, with elastic anklets .. 75 c
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Ribbed Jersey Vests, 9c each, or 3 for 25 c
Fancy RibbedVests 25 c
Fancy Ribbed Vests, extra quality .. 40 c
Ribbed Cotton Underwaists 25 c
Gauze Vests, long or short sleeves, price ranges according to size,
from i2c to 40c
Boys' French Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers; price ranges accord
ing to size, at 38c, 40c and 45c
Boys' Short Jean Drawers, elastic bottoms 60 c
Infants' Jersey Ribbed Vests, 9c or 3 for 35 c
Infants' Jersey Ribbed Vests 20 C
Infants' Fine Ribbed Vests , 38 c
Infants' Fine Ribbed Vests 40 c
Infants' Merino Shirts, all sizes 50 c
Infants' Merino Shirts, according to size, 50c to $1
Infants' Zephyr Shirts .' 1 50 c
Baby Carriages.
Only 50 Cents Each !
1,000'ASSORTED WREATHS
At 5, 10 and 25 cents each; worth, two or three times what we ask for them.
800 FINE FRENCH SPRAYS,
At 25 and 50 cents each. The most beautiful
ever shown for the price.
Hat and Bonnet Frames,
Made of Wire and Lace, the regular 50 and 60-cent qualities, only
19 Cents Each.
HAT PINS AND ORNAMENTS,
Worth 25c, 50c and 75c; all go at the ridiculously low price of
. 10 Cents Each.
We show five hundred Baby Carriages this week, and of this vast
number we select three styles as LEADERS:
LEADER NO. 1 Is a Baby Carriage with reed body, wire wheels, cretonne
upholstery, strong and serviceable,; never sold before un
der 7.50. This week we shall sell them at
STRAW BRAIDS,
worth 50 cents a
yard, only
10
CENTS
A YARD.
Only $5.
LEADER NO. 2 Is a very pretty Carriage, reed body, both in cherry and
white; plush upholstery, wood or wire wheels, extra fine
finish, and worth from 10 to $12. This week the price is
Only $7.89.
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you must, indeed, be hard to suit. This Baby Carriage is
simply superb, and is worth from $15 tcj $18. This week
Only $10.
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