The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-12-20
HATE BRINGS UNHAPPiNESS,
Dispositions.

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Ephesiaps iv, Sc, Let not the sun 50
down upon your wrath.
What a pillow, embrioder,d Of al
colcrs, hath the dying day! The cradle
of clouds from which the sun rises Is
beautiful enough, but it IS surpassed by
the many colored mausoleum IN which
at evening 1t is buried.
Sunset among the mountains. it al.
most takes ones breath away to recall
the scene. The long shadows stretch
ing over the plain make tie glory OF the
departing light on the tiptop crags and
struck aslant through the tohagc the
more conspicuous. Saffron and golq1,
purple and crimson commlng!ed. All
the castles of cloud in coofagration.
Burning Moscows on the sky. Hang,
ing gnrdens Of roses al their deepest
blush. Banners Of vapor, red as It
from carnage, in the battle Of the ele-
ments. The hunter among the Adlron-
dacks and the Swiss yillager among the
Alps know what is sunset among the
mountains. After storn! at sea the
rolling grandeur into which the sun
goes down to bathe at nightfall IS some
thing to make weird and splendid
dreams out of for lifetime. Alezan-
der Smith in his poem compares the
sunset to ''the barren beach Of hell,
but this wonderful spectacle Of nature
makes me think of the buanished wall
of heaven. Paul in prison, writing my
text, remembers some of the gorgeous
sunsets among the mountains of Asia
Minor and how he had often seen the
towers of Damascus blaze in the close
Of the oriental days. and he flashes out
that memory in the text when he says,
Let not the sun so down upon your
wra'h.
Sublime, all suggestive duty for peo-
pie then ard people nov. Forgiveness
before sundown! He who never feels
the throb of indignation is imbecile.
He who can walk among the iDjustices
of the world inflicted upon himself aud
others without flush of cheek, or fash
of eye, or agitation Of nature, is either
in sympathy with wrong or semiidiotic:
When Ananias, the high priest, ordered
the constables Of the courtroom to
smite Paul on the mouth, Paul fred
up and said, ''God shall smite thee.
thou whited wallp' In the sentence
Immediately before my text Paul com
mands the Ephesians, 'Be ye angry
and sin not. 1t all depends on what
you are mad at and how long the feel
ing lasts whether anger is right or
wrong. Life is full Of exasperatioDs.
Saul after David, Succoth after Gideon,
Korah after Moses, the Pasquins after
Augustus, the Pharisees after Christ,
and every one has had his pursuers,
and We are swindled or belied or mis-
represented or prosecuted or in some
way Wronge6, and the danger is that
healthful indignation shall become
baleful spite and that our feelings set
tie down in prolonged outpouring Of
temper displeasing to God and ruinouS
to ourselves, and hence the important
Injunction Of the text, LET not the
sun 60 down upon your wrath.
Why that limitation to ones anger?
Why that period Of flaming vapor set 70
punctuate flaming disposition? What
has the sunset got to Go with ones re
sentful emotions? Was it hapbazagd
sentiment written by Paul without spe-
cial significance? No, no; think Of
FIVE reasons why We should not let the
sun set before oUr temper.
First, because y hours is long enough
to be cross about any wrong inflicted
upon US. Nothing is so exhausting to
physical health or mental faculty as a
protracted indulgence Of i'll humor. 1t
racks the nervous system. 1t hurts
the digestion. It heats the blood in
brain and heart until the whole body
is first overheateG and then depressed.
Besides that, it sourS the disposition,
turns one aside f.om his legitimate
work, experds energies that ought to
be better employed aud DIS Us more
harm thar it does our antagonist.
Paul gives US a good, wide allowance
Of time for legitimate denunciation,
from s o'clock to 6 o'clock, but says,
Stop there. Watch the descending
orb Of day, and when it reaches the
horizon take reef IN your disposition.
Unloose your collar and cool off.
Change the subject to something de-
lightfully pleasant Unroll your tight
Est and shake hands with some one.
Bank up the fires at the curfew bell.
Drive the growing dog Of enmity back
to its kenuel. The hours of this morn.
ing will pass by, and the afternoon will
arrive, and the sun will begin to set,
and, | beg you, on its brsziug hearth
throw all your feuds, invectives and
satires.
O:her things being equal, the man
who preserves good temper will come
out ahead. An old writer says that the
celebrated John Henderson Of Bristol,
England, was at dining party where
political excitement ran high and the
debate got angry, and while Henderson
was speaking his opponent, unable to
answer his argument, dashed a glass Of
wine in his face, when the speaker de-
libe-ately wiped the liquid from his
face md said: This, sir, is digres
sion. Now, if you please, for the main
argument. While worldly philosophy
could help but very few to such eQui
coise of spirit, the Slace Of God could
help any man to such triumph. I'm
possible, you say. I would have
either left the table in anger or have
knocked the man down. But | have
come to believe that nothing is impos-
sible if God help.
Aye, you will not postpone till sun
down forgiveness Of enemies If you can
realize that their behavior toward you
may be put into the catalogue Of the
ell 1hinren that sswnrk tncatier for