The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-12-13

in my own experience that God has SO
arranged IL that the greatest oppor-
tunities of usefulness that have been
opened before me were opened by enc
mics. So you may harness your antGg-
oDists 70 your best interests and COM
pei them to draw you on to better work
and higher character. Suppose, in
stead Of waiting until 80 minutes after
four this evening, when the sun will
set, you transact this glorious work of
forgiveness at meridian.
Again, we ought not to let the sun go
down on our wrath, because we viii
sleep better If we are at peace with
everybody. Insomnia is getting to be
one of the most prevalent of disorders.
How few people retire at ten o'clock at
night and sleep clear through TO six in
the morningI To relieve this disorder
an narcotics and sedatiyes and NOR
phine and choral and bromide Of potas-
sium and cocaine and iDtOxicants are
used, but nothing is more important
than a quiet spirit If we would win
somnolence. How is a man going to
sleep when he is in mind pursuing an
enemy? With what nervous twitch he
will start out of a dreamI That new
plan of cornering his foe viii keep him
wide awake while the clock strikes II,
u, /, 2. l give you an unfailing
prescription for wakefulness: Spend
the evening hours rehearsing your
wrongs and the best way of ayeDging
them. Hold a convention of friends on
this subject in your parlor or Office at
eight or nine o'clock. Close the evening
by writing a bitter letter expressing
your sentiments. Take from the desk
or pigeonhole the papers in the case to
refresh your mind with your enemy's
meanDess. Then lie down and wait for
the coming Of the day, and it will come
before sleep comes, or your sleep will be
worried quiescence and, if you take the
precaution TO lie fat on your back, a
frigbtful nightmare.
Why not put a bound to your animos-
ity? Why let your foes come into the
sanetities of your dOrmitory? Why let
those slanderers who have already torn
your reputation to pieces or injured
your business bend over your midnight
pillow and drive from you one of the
greatest blessings that God can offer
sweet, refreshing, all inyigorating
sleep? Why not fence out your enc
mics by the golden bars of the sunset?
Why not stand behind the barricade of
evening cloud and say TO them: Thus
far and no farther" Many man and
many woman is having the health of
body as well as the health of soul eaten
away by the malevolent spirit. have
in time OF religious awakening had per-
sons night after night come into the
inquiry room and get no peace of soul.
After awhile have bluntly asked them:
as there not some one against whom
you have a hatred you are not willing
TO give up?" After little confusion,
they have slightly whispered: Yes"
Then / have said: you will never find
peace with God as long as you retain
that virulence."
Again, we ought not to allow the sun
to set before forgiveness takes place
because we might not live to see an,
other day. And what il we should be
Ushered into the presence of our Maker
with a grudge upon our soul? The ma.
jority of people depart this life in the
night. Between IL o'clock p. m. and
tbree o'clock a. m. there is something
in~fhe atmosphere which relaxes the
grip which the body has on the soul
and most people enter the next world
through the shadows of this world
Perhaps God may have arranged il that
way so as TO make the contrast the more
glorious. l have seen sunshiny days
in this world that must have been al
most like the radiance of Heaven. But
as most people leave the earth between
sundOwn and sunrise they quit this
world at its darkest, and Heaven, al
ways bright, will be the brighter fol
that contrast. Out of darkness into ir.
radiation.
Shall we then leap over the roseatt
bank of sunset into the fayorite hunt
ing ground Of disease and death carry.
ing our animosities with us? Who
would want 10 confront his God, against
whom we have all done meaner things
than anybody has ever done against
US, carrying old grudges? How car
we expect His forgiveness for the great
er when we are not willing TO forgive
others for the less? Napoleon was en-
eOuraged TO undertake the crossing oi
the Alps because Cbarlemagne had pre-
viOusly crossed them. And ali thil
rugged path Of forgiveness bears tn,
bleeding footsteps of Him who con
quered through suffering, and we ouehi
10 be willing 10 follow. On the nigh
of our departure from. this life int
the next our one plea wiz have to b,
for mercy. and il will have to be Offered
in the presence Of Him who has said
IF you forgive not men their trespasses
neither will your Heavenly Father for
give your trespasses."
What a sorry plight If we stand ther,
hating this one and hating that one ant
wishing that one a damage and wishing
some one else calamity. and We our
selves needing forgiveness for 1900
obliquities Of heart and life. When ou
last hour comes. we want il 10 find u
all right.
Hardly anything affects me so rucI
in the uneOEering Of Pompeii as the aC
count Of the soldier who. after the cit,
had for many centuries been covere'
with the ashes and scoriae of Vesnyius