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OAPE MAY HERALD, THURSDAY, 06f6SEB 22,1208

THE JOY OF FORGIVENESS

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I’LACE -J*rua.l«n. Comment and 8u9a** ,lv * Thought Some time In Dartd't later life, look|D( back from the Beulah land height* of the reatored favor of Ood. aa the Prodigal Son after ho had returned to hla father'* home and love. King David put* Into a hymn hla o»i perleoce for the comfort and encouragement of all who have alnned and long to be motored to their father'* home and heart For like Adam and Eve. be had been driven out of Par*di«e for diaobeylag Ood. and the flaming cherubim had kept him ‘ the Tree of Ufe. But he had at

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V. 1. “Bleeaed-" The word here, aa In Psa. 1:1 and Prov. 3:1S. la In the plural. Oh the blesaedneaaea of whoat. etc., "to denote the moil prema and perfect bleaaedneaa," "to ezpresa the manifold nature of the bleasedneea. at all time*, from ad ' i all depart menu of life.

and In aoul. In time and In eternity.” "Treaagreealon . . . aln . - . Iniquity" <*>. "Sin U here (at In Ex. 24:7) spoken of under three appellaUoni. ao aa to Include the whole Idea of aln In all lu manifestation*”—Perowne. "Forglren " That la given away, removed. Thla Is, according to the Hebrew conception, the taking up of transgression aa a harden, a heavy load, resting upon the tinner, and bearing It away from him to a place where It will trouble him no more." —C. A. Briggs, In let Crtt Com. "Covered." ao aa to hlda It and obliterate It “It la commonly used la connection with sacrifices, aa staining and defiling the divine altars, was covered over by the application to them of the blbod of the victim of the tin offering."—Prot C. A. Briggs. V. t. "Imputeth not" "Doea not eatimate, consider, or think of In connection with the sinner."—Professor Brier* "in whose spirit there U no guile." no deceit, who conceals hla aln neither from Ood nor himself."— Prof. 8. R. Driver. Other Bible words for forgiveness are remit, send aWSV destroy, wash away, cleanse, make them aa If they had never been. V. 3. “When t kept alienee." Trying to hide hi* tin; refusing to acknowledge It to himself, to ©there, or to Ood. My bones (the moat aolld and enduring part of hla body) waxed e Increasingly) old." Exhanst-

out and made him sick, roaring all ths day “The figure Is drawn from the □d on res trait ad outcries of one Intolerable and unremitting forced from him sob* and • that Ije could not stifle."—W.

"A aln concealed U Uke a hidden Are. It eats into the very life"—Van Dyke "The Spartan boy hid the fox be nesth hie coat, and denied the theft until be dropped deed, the fox eD the while gnawing at hla vitals. David fait the gnawing of reasons, and It was eating out hla' heart."—Dr. W. E. Barton. V. 4. "Thy hand was heavy upon me." “God would not leava him to go on In tin. God's band was heavy upon him In chastisement In order to bring him Into a better mind, ac a father chastise* hi* child In love (Hcb 12:6».r "Not merely by lu pressure of

erful baud, ao aa with the agony of A- Briggs.

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lion) Into misery aa when thorns smite me." The blow* of God * hands are very appropriately compand wtth the smiting ot the body with thorns, aa when Gideon taught the riders of Buccoth with thorns and briers (Jndg. •tWJ - ic V. i. "1 acknowledged my aln." We have seen above bow (he bittern ©a* of concealment and tha reproof of the prophet led David to take this atep. "Sin . . . Iniquity . . . transgressions." The three forms of sin mentioned In va. 1, Z. "Acknowledged . . . not bid . . - confess." The three words expressing the completeness and thoroughness ot the confession. Nothing was withhold. - Forgiveness. 1. We all need forgiveness, for sin keeps os from nearness to God; 7* cannot look him In the face. 2. Forgiveness takes away the harrier between us and Ood- it U a restoration to God's family. - 1. Forgivenesa Includes the washing away of aln and (be tore of •)*. It will be remembered, no more. 4 Forgiveness. wheiMr hy OOd'or

lenccs of ala. at less it It doea remove, (ha punlihtnent of q In time: It does ImmedUlaly take ray 1U bitterest Sting

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AMENDMENTS PROPOSED TO THE CONSTITUTION OP TMt STATE OP NEW JEHSEY-EY THfl LEGISLATURE OP IMS.

■TATE OF NEW JERBET.

8a rr Raaouven (tha House of A»sf bly concurring). That tha following o lb. constitution of thla

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I*ha affael and go Into operation on tha . •ret day ef Ftbruarr. ta tha year sf our Lorg OM thousand alas hnndred and taa

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AMENDMENTS PROPOSED TO THE CONSTITUTION OP THE STATE OP NEW JERSEY BY THE LEGISLATURE OP IKS.

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tha aanta aheU be agreed to by a m*)orIty of tha member* *1 acted to ib* Be—*and to tha House ef Assembly, the amendment shall be entered on I Journals, with tha pass a ' thereon, end referred to < next to be chotta. hod three months provloua to iftar tha Brat Mon In at laa* on* n

for such public*Uon to be mads by tha Treeaurer < srarrwnt of the CnoaptroUer First—Strike oat Paragraph Bectlon VII of Artiel* IV. and tha numbers of tha following

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