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

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But, SAYS some nan, that fellow
who cheated me out Of those goods or
damaged my business credit or started
that lie about me in the newspapers OF
By his perfdy broke up my domestic
happiness. forgive him I cannot, for
give him | will not" Well, brother,
take Your choice. You will never be
q, peace with God till you are at peace
with man. Feeling as you now do, YOU
would not get Sc near the hsrbor Of
heaven as to see the ightship. Better
leave that man with the God who said,
"Vcngence is mine, | will repay.
You may say, Il will make him sweat
forth at yet; will make him squirm; |
mean to pursue him to the death, but
YOU are damaging yourself more than
you damage him, and you are making
heaven for your sout an impossibility.
If he will not be reconciled to you, be
reconciled to him In five or six
hours ii will be sundown. The dahllas
will bloom against the western sky.
Somewhere between this and that take
q shovel and bury the old quarrel at
least six feet deep ''Let not the sun
60 down upon your wrath.
But" you say, i have more than
can bear; too much is put upon me,
and | am Lot to blame if | am some
what revengcful and un,elenting.'
Then | think of the little child at the
noving Of some goods from store.
The father was putting some soils OF
goods on the child's arm, package after
package, and some one said, THAT
child is being overloaded, and SO much
ought rot to be put upon her, when
the child responded, Father knows
how much can carry. and God, our
Father, will not allow to much i'm
position on his children. In the day
Of eternity it will be found you had not
one annoyance it will be found you had
not one annoyance too many; not one
evaporation too many; not one outrage
too many. You Heavenly Father
knows how much you can carry.
Again, we ought not allow the pas
sage of the sunset hour before the dis
missal Of all our afronts, becaus we
may associate the sublimest action OF
the soul with the sublimest spectacle in
nature. tits most delightsome thing
to have our personal experience allied
with certain subjects. There is tree
or river band where God first answered
,our PRAYER. You will never pass that
place or think Of that place without
thinking Of the glorious communion.
There was some gate or some rorm or
some garden wall where yon were
afianced with the companion who has
chief Joy 10 lise. You never spead &
tha place but with smile. Some {;
you have pleasant memories connecte.'
with the evening star, or the moon i
its first quarter, or with the sunrise.
because you saw it just as you were
arriving at harbor after tempestuouS
voyage. Forever and forever, 0 hearer,
associate the sunset with your maguani
nous, out aod out, unlimited renuncia
of all tatred and forgiveness Of all foes
admit it is the most difficult Of all
graces to practice, and at the start ycu
may make complete failure, but keep
on in the attempt to practice 1t.
Shakespeare wrote ten plays before he
reached Hamlet aud II plays before
he reached Merchant Of Venice ard
20 plays before he reached Macbeth. "
and gradually you will come from the
easier graces to the most difficult.
Besides that, it is not matter Of
personal determination so much as the
laying hold of the almighty arm of
God, who will help US to do anything
we ought to do. Remember that in all
controversies the one least to blame
will have to take the frrt step at paci
6cation if it is ever effectee. The
contest between -E5chines and Aris-
tippus resounds through history, but
Aristippus, who was least to blame,
went to -Eschines and said, 'Shall We
not agree to be friends fefore We make
ourselves the laughing stock Of the
whole country And -Eschines said,
Thou art far better man than |, for
| | began the quarrel, but thou hast been
the first in healing the breach, and
they were alwa-S friends afterwards.
So let the ore of yc, that is least to
blame take the icst step toward recon
ciliatiop. The one most in the wrong
will never take It.
Oh, it makes one feel spelndid to be
able by Gods help to practice uufimit-
ed forgiveness. 1t improves ones
body and soul. My brother, it will
make you measure three or four more
inches around the chest and improve
your respiration so that you can take a
deeper aud longer breath. It improves
the countenance by scattering the
gloom and makes you somewhat like
God himself He is omnipotent of all
the universe, and We cannot copp that.
He is creative, and we cannot copy
that. He IS omnipresent, and We can
not copy that. But he forgives with
broad sweep all faults, and all negiects,
and all insults, and all wrong doings,
and in that We may copy him with
mighty ouccesS, w HdiuesS lHae
sublime action of your soul to the sun
set-the hour when the gate of heaven
opens to let the day pass into the
eternities, and some Of the glories
escape this way through the brief open-
Ing. We talk about the Italian sna-
sets ano sunset amid the ApcaI!ur>
and sunset amid the condille:as, but |
will tell you how you may see a graIdvr
sunset than any mere lover Of nature
ever beheld; that is by Ainging into it
all your hatreds and animosities, and
let the horses of FIRE trample them, and
the spearmen of fire stab them, and the
chariots Of the FIRE roll over them, and
the snearmen of fire stab them, and the