. Guiness gives us four beautiful thoughts in this text concerning
our sins.

First: They are blotted out from God's Book.

Second: They are blotted out with God's hand.

Third: They are blotted out for his sake.

Fourth: They are blotted from his memory.

A more admirable outline of a text of Scripture I do not know, a more
cheering message to a child of God I have never found.

I

Not long ago, in Chicago, a young man was induced to confess to one
whom he thought was his friend the killing of his father and mother.
As the confession was being made, as he supposed to but one person, it
was all being taken down by those who were near enough to hear him
speak, and when he appeared before the court his own confession was
used against him and sent him to a life imprisonment in the
penitentiary. What was true of this young man is true of us. Every
sermon the minister preaches is recorded, every word an individual
speaks is put down. It is a solemn thought to realize, that at the
judgment we shall give account for even our idle words.

Science has proven that our acts, our words and even our thoughts make
their indelible record.

Not long ago in our home we came across a long-unused phonograph. We
started it going, placing upon it one of the cylinders which had been
packed away with the phonograph, and were startled to hear the voice of
one who had been dead for years. We heard the message he dictated, the
song in which he joined and the laugh with which he closed it, and yet
his voice has long been silent in death. There is not a sin of your
youth which has not made its record, not a passion of your mature years
that does not stand somewhere against you, not an act, a feeling or an
imagination that has not been indelibly written; not all the changes of
time, not all the efforts of man, can wipe these things out.

In the British Museum there is a piece of stone not larger than the
average Bible at least four thousand years old, and in the center of
the stone there is a mark of a bird's foot; four thousand years ago the
track was made, and for four thousand years the record has stood. If
these things are true of us--and they are, according to the Word of
God--then what prospect is there for us but that of eternal punishment?
For when we stand at the judgment there shall appear before us the sins
of omission and the sins of commission, the sins we have forgotten and
the sins we have but recently committed