Connecticut western news., 1899-12-14
GTARDYOITR TEMPER
DR. TALMAGE RECOMMENDS REPRES-
 SION OF WRATH.

the Joy or Lfyfng-DOnt Waste Health RehearsIng Wrongs and Scheming Revenge.
 ICopyright, Louis Klopsch. 1Ss9.l
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage placates the worlds reyenges and recommends more of the saccharine and less of the sour in human dispositions; text, Ephesians iv, 26. "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
 What a pillow, embroidered of all colors, hath the dying day! The era dle of clouds from which the sun rises is beautiful enough, but it Is surpassed by the many colored mausoleum in which at evening it 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 the glory of the departing light on the tiptop crags and struck aslant through the foliage the more conspicuous. Saffron and gold, purple and crimson com mingled All the castles of cloud in confiagration. Burning Moscows on the sky. Hanging gardens of roses at their deepest blush. Banners of va DOT, red as If from carnage, in the bat tie of the clements. The hunter among the Adirondacks and the Swiss viii lager among the Alps know what is a sunset among the mountains. After a storm at sea the rolling grandeur into which the sun goes down to bathe at nightfall Is something to make weird and splendid dreams out of for n lifetime. Alexander Smith in his poem compares the sunset to "the bar ren beach of he'll" but this wonderful spectacle of nature makes me think of the furnished 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 Da- mascus blaze in the close of the orient al days and he flashes out that mem ory in the text when he says, "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath"
 Sublime all suggestive duty for peo- pie then and people now! Forgive ness before sundown! He who never feels the thrOb of indignation is imbe cile. He who can walk among the in- justices of the world inflicted upon himself and others without flush of cheek or flash of eye or agitation of nature is either in sympathy with wrong or semi-idiotic. When Ananias, the high priest, ordered the constables of the courtroom to smite Paul on the mouth, Paul fired up and said, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall" In the sentence immediately before my text Paul commands the Ephe- sians, Be ye angry and sin not" It all depends on what you are mad at and how long the feeling lasts whether anger is right or wrong. Life is full of exasperations. 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 misrepresented or persecuted or In some way wrOnged, and the danger Is that healthful in- tlignation shall become baleful spite and that our feelings settle down into a prolonged outpouring of temper dis
  selves, and hence the important in junction of the text, Let not the sun so down upon your wrath"
 Why that limitation to one's anger? Why that period of flaming vapor set to punctuate flaming disposition? What has the sunset got to do with ones resentful emotions? Was it a haphazard sentiment written by Paul without special significance? No, no. l think of five reasons why we should not let the sun set before our temper.
 Away With Feuds.
 First, because 12 hours is long enough to be cross about any wrong inflicted upon us. Nothing is so ex- hausting to physical health or mental faculty as a protracted indulgence of ill humor. 1t racks the nervous sys- tenn. 1t hurts the digestion. It heats the blood in brain and heart until the whole body is first overloaded and then depressed. Besides that, it sours the disposition, turns one aside from hls legitimate work, expends energies that ought to be better employed and does us more harm than it does our antagonist. Paul gives us good, wide allowance of time for legitimate denunciation, from 6 o'clock to 6 o'clock, but says, "Stop therer' Watch the descending orb of day, and when 1t reaches the horizon take a reef In your disposition. Unloose your col lar and cool off. Change the subject to something delightfully."- pleasant Unroll your tight fist and shake hands with some one. Bank up the fires at the curfew bell. Drive the growing dog of enmity back to its kennel. The hours of this morning will pass by, and the afternoon will arrive, and the sun will begin to set, and, beg you, on its blazing hearth throw all your feuds, invectives and satires.
 Other 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 dinner 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 deliberately wiped the liquid from his face and said: ''This, sir, is a digres- sion. Now, if you please, for the main argument" While worldly philosophy could help but very few to such equi- boise of spirit the grace of God could help any man to such triumph. ''Im- possible" you say. T would have ei- ther left the table in anger or have knocked the man down." But I have come to believe that nothing is impossi. ble if God help.
 Aye, you will not postpone till sum- down forgiveness of enemies if you can realize that their behavior toward you may be put into the catalogue of the "all things that work together for good to those that love God" l have had multitudes of friends, but l nave found in my own experience that