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Thursday, January 12, 1939.
THE SOWER
A Weekly Department of Religious
and Secular Thought Contributed
by REV. JAMES A. TURNER,
Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa.
“FORGETTING THE PAST—
AND PRESSING ON.”
Some one has said, “Life is what
you make it.” True! But suppose, in
making it, you make a mistake? What,
then? The answer is: Life, like a lead
pencil, has an eraser on it.
That's one of the most beautiful and
comforting things about life. If, while
writing a letter, you make a mistake,
you can turn your pencil over and use
the eraser on the mistake, and—go on
writing. And if, while living, you make
a mistake, you can turn the day, or
THE UNION PRESS-COURIER,
vear, over, forget the past, and go on
living.
One doesn’t have to give up and quit
because one makes a mistake. Every-
body makes mistakes. That's why we
have days in the year, and years in the
length of life— so we can make quick
and frequent changes, and go on to
the things that are worth while.
One can’t live and grow, without
making mistakes. We learn by the trial
and error method. In one sense of the
word there is no such a thing as a mis-
take, anyhow. A “mistake” is, after all,
oniv the thing that you thought you
ought to do at the time you did it,—
and therefore the only thing you could
do at the time. If it was only till af-
terward that you discovered that it
was a mistake, that doesn’t alter the
moral quality of the act, for the act
was performed in the light of your best
understanding at the time, and before
the results determined its real charac-
ter. So we shouldn’t worry too much
| about our mistakes. who are doing big things, make big
When one comes to KNOW, definite- | mistakes, and press on. A President or
ly and finally, without any possibility | the United States makes big mistakes |
of doubt or deception, and beyond all | because he is a big man in a big |
argument and debate, that an act is | job, doing big things,—while little peo-
wrong,—then one will definitely de- | ple in little jobs doing little things sit
lete that act from the curriculum of | around and criticize him. If the little
one’s life activities, and it will never | people were in the big President's
| bother one again. It is on that principle place they would make little mistakes
of action that we grow to perfection, | —and do little.
—we try a thing, and if it is right we Paul reached forth to the things
continue it; if it is wrong, we discon- | which were before, pressing forward
tinue it. If there .is any uncertainty |i the mark for the prize. One must
about the moral quality of any act we always be climbing. Even the goal is
keep on experimenting until we KNOW | not stagnation, but progress, ’
it is either right or wrong beyond! There is hope for any person who
any question or argument. Not until | js dissatisfied with present attainments,
then can we have any certainty ab- | Some people do not wish to be both-
out the rungs in the ladder of life, or i ered by anything or any person that
any assurance as to the true nature of | represents struggle or effort.
the life we are living,—whether we! The expression, “Let us alone,” oc-
are climbing up, standing stil, or sli- | curs only twice in the Bible. The fool-
ding down. | ish Israelites said to Moses, “Let us
Of course people differ very mater- aione, that we may serve the Egypt-
ially in the degree of their perceptive | ians.” In the synagogue at Capernaum
PAGE THREE
Do You Know? The trained nurse is believed to
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| 5 t was engaged b,
cently become familiar with industrial | when Ada M, Stewar gaz 3
diseases such as silicosis, this condition
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Century, described dust conditions in About 500 unclaimed wild horses
dry mines and warned that dust “pen- ded b hd lane in Ore-
etrates into the windpipe” and “ease” were rounded up by rp
away the lungs and implants consump- | on Iast year and removed from graz-
tion in the body. ing districts.
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and their families.
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endowments. Some people have keen |
insight and learn quickly, and act ac-
cordingly. Others have to do, or see.
or hear a thing over and over again
before they are able to determine its
true value. It takes them a longer time
lo come to a knowledge of truth or er-
ror than their more highly endowed
brethren, and therefore they make
more mistakes in a given length of
time.
But, sooner or later, and ingvitably,
they come to a knowledge of the tru-
th,—and to a right way of living. Only
they need more time than the more
favored.
One should remember, of course,
that some people will make a lot of
mistakes during a lifetime for the
simple reason that they move faster
and cover more territory than others.
They come into contact with life on a
larger scale, touch it at more points,
move with it on more fronts, see it in
larger segments, fathom it more dep-
ly, and scale it to greater heights than
others,—and therefore, of very necess-
ary, run into more chances of error
twen the common run of people.
Some people are too negative to
manke any mistakes, too indolent, too
circumscribed in heart and mind, too
lazy and indifferent, too limited, too
small. Big people make big mistakes;
little people make little mistakes; hate-
ful people make hateful mistakes,
generous people make generous mis-
takes. Loving people make loving
mistakes—everybody make mistakes
according to their temperament, con-
stitution and spirit.
A famed preacher of time gone, the
great F, W. Robertson, said: “Life, like
war, is A series of mistakes, and he is
not the best Christian nor the best
general who makes the fewest possi-
ble false steps. Poor mediocrity may
secure that, but he is best who wins
the most splendid victories by the re-
trieval of mistakes.”
So the disgrace does not lie in the
making of mistakes,—they are inevit-
able,—it lies in not trying to live life
to the full, in not forgetting the
things that ought to be forgotten and
pressing on. It's a disgrace to stumble
through life with a mill stone of un-
forgotten mistakes, errors, sorrows,
sins, faults, failures, enmities, spites,
resentments, losses, bereavements, and
sad memories bearing one down and
ruining one’s happiness and peace, and
spoiling one’s effectiveness and active
participation in all jthe worthwhile
things of life.
the devils cried out, “Let us alone;
what have we to do with thee, thou
Jesus of Nazareth?”
That is what lazy people and the
devils of crime and wrong always say
—"“Let us alone.” But the sons of God
always reply, “Carry on.”
A man once offered himself for ser-
vice to the Foreign Mission Board, sta-
ting that he was entirely consecrated,
was fully baptized with the Holy Spir-
it, and felt wholly qualified for the
work required of him. The Board's
Secretary’s first comment was: ‘Now
what can you do with a man like this?
Is there any hope left for such a man?”
The trouble with the man was, that
he had caught up to his stars. He for-
got that an ideal is by hypothesis un-
reliable. Give us men of the long look
and the distant vision.
The Gospel of Christ says that a
man may forget his past. Jesus said to
the dying thief, ‘Today, thou shalt be
with me in Paradise,”—the man’s en-
tire past forgotten.
Christianity is the annihilation of
yesterday. A man said to Moses, “Are-
n't you the man who slew the Egypt-
ian yesterday?” A man does not be-
long to Yesterday. God owns it, and is
willing to forget all blood red yester-
days.
Col. Hadley’s plan in the Water
Street Mission was never to inquire in-
to the record of anyone no matter how
dark; for God was willing to forget,
and why not he?
The thing that makes any life worth
while is to have a goal so high before
it that life becomes a continual strug-
gle to attain it. When Wu Ting Fang
was in this country, he said that his
criticism of Christianity was that it
offered an unattainable goal, while
Confucianism did not. But this is the
blessing of Christianity instead of its
curse.
Let the old year die and be buried
—and with it everythig that should be
forgotten. Don't be a rotten morgue
with a lot of festering corpses in your
soul that should have been buried with
the year,—and forgotten. Bury them,
and put on the stone: Gone, AND
forgotten. Then you can go on free,
glad, happy, fresh, and feeling light as
the air,—and as sweet. Happy New
Year to you.
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Paul made big mistakes, forgot them
—and pressed on. So do all big people |
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