The morning times., 1896-05-18

God who said: vengeance is mine, will
repay
You may say: Il will make him sweat for
that yet; will make him squirm; l mean
to pursue him to the death, but you are
damaging yourself more than you daE.age
him, and you are making heaven for your
own soul an impossitility. If lie Will rot
be reconciled to you, be reconciled to
him. Iu six or seven hours it will lie
sundown: The dahias will bloom against
the western sky. Somewhere between
this and that take shovel and bury
the old quarrel at least six feet deep.
lie: not the sungo odownuponyo your wrath,
THE JOY OF IT.
Oh, il makes one feel sp!endidly to be
able by GODS help to practice unlimited
forgiveness. 1t improves ones body and
soul. Ii Will make you measure three or
four more inches around the chest and
improve your respiration, SO that you can
take deeper and longer breath. II i'm
proves the c0unteHauce by scattering the
gloom and makes you some what like God
Himself.
He is omnpotcnce, and we cannot copy
that. He is independent Of ali the universe,
and we cannot copy that. He is creative,
and we cannot copy that. He is omni-
present and we cannot copy that. But He
forgives with a broad sweep all faults.
wroug-doings, and in that way we may
copy Him with mighty success. Go har-
ness that sublime action Of your soul 10
an autumnal sunset-ttc hour when the
gate OF heaven opens to let the day pass
into the cternties. ana some OF the glorles
escape this way through the brief opening.
We talk about the Italian sunsets. and
sunset amid the Apennines, and sunset
amid tie Corderillas. but | Will tell you
any mere lover of nature ever beheld;
that is, by flfnging into il all your hatreds
and animCSt:es. and let the horses OF
fire tramplc them. and the sChariotS of fire
roll over them. and the srearmen Of fiTe
stab them, and the beach of fire consume
them, and the biliows Of fire overwhelm
them.
MAY BE MISUNDERSTOOD.
If we are misinterpreted, the God of
! the many-colored sunset can put the right
! color on our action. If all the garniture
| of the Western heavens at eventide is
| but the upholstery of one of the window VS.
| of our future hCme, what small business
| for us TO be chasing enemies. Let not
| this Sabbath sun go down upon your
| wrath.
And now l wish for all Of you beauti-
| full sunset in your earthly existence. WitA
some of yCu il has been a long day of
1
be far from calm When the sun rose AT
O'Clock it was the morning of youth,
and a fair day was prOphecicd, but by
the time the MONDAY Of middle life had
come, and the cock Of your earthly
existe nee had struck twelve, cloud-racks
gathered and tempest beloved III the
| track of tempest
But as the evening Of olG-age ap-
| proaches, I pray God the skies may
brighten and the clouds be piled up into
pillars as OF celestial temples 10 which
! you 90, or move as with mounted cohorts
come TO take you home.
And as you sink out of sight below the
horizon. may there be a radiance Of Chris
tian example lingering long after you arc
gone. and on the heavens be written in
letters Of sapphire. and on the waters in
letters Of opal, and On the hills in letters
of emerald
Thy sun shan no more GO down
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself
for the Lord shall be thine everlasting
light and the days Of thy mourning shall
be ended So shall the sunset of earth
become the sunrise of Heaven.