The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-12-15
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between this and that take a shovel and
bury the old quarrel at least six feet
deep. Let not the SUI SO down UPON
your wrath"
But" you say. II have more than 7
can bear: o much is put upon me, and
! am not 10 blame if | am somewhat re-
vengeful and unrelentirg,' Then ]
think Of the little child at the moving
of some goods from a store. The father
was putting some rolls of goods on the
child's arm, package after package, and
some one said: That child is being
| overloaded, and so much ought not to
be put upon her" when the child rc-
sponded: Father knows how much [
can carry and God, our Father, will
not allow too much imposition on His
children. In the day of eternity it will
be found you had not one annoyance
too many; not one evaporation too
many; not one outrage too many. Your
Heavenly Father knows how much you
! can carry.
Again, we ought not TO allow the pas
| sage of the sunset hour before the dis
missal of all our affronts. because we
may associate the sublimest action Of
the soul with the suhlimest spectacle
in nature. It is a most delightsomc
thing to have our personal experiences
allied with certain subjects. There is
a tree or river bank where God first an
swered your prayer. You will never
pass that place or think {" that place
without thinking Of the glorious cont
munion. There was some gaze or some
room or some garden wall where You
were atiianced with the companion who
has been your chief JOY in life. You
never speak of that place but with a
smile. Some of you have pleasant mem
cries connected with the evening star,
or the moon in its first quarter. or with
the sunrise, because you saw it just as
you were arriving at larhor after a
tempestuOus voyage, Forever and for
ever. O nearer, associate the sunset
with your magranimous. out and cut.
unlimited Remuneration of all hatred
and forgiveness of all foes.
Oh. it makes one feel splendid to b"
able by Gods help to practice UUIin-
tied forgiveness. II improves ou"'s body
aud soul. My brother, if viii make You
measure three or four more inches
around the chest and improve your
respiration SO that you can take Il deep
er aud longer bEeath. It improves the
countcnance by scattering the gloom
and makes you somewhat like God
| himself. lie is omnipotcrt. and we
cannot copy that. He is independent
of all the universe, and we cannot copy
that. He is creative, and we cannot
copy that. He is omnipreseut, ard we
cannot copy that. But lie forgiycs with
a broad sweep all faults, and all neg
lects, and all insults, and all wrong
doings, and in that way we may copy
Him with mighty success. Go harness
that sublime action of your soul to the
eunset-the hour when the gate Of
Heaven opens to let the day pass into
the eternitics, and some Of the glories
escape this way through the brief open
ing. We talk about the Italian sunsets
and sunset amid the Apprentices and
sunset amid the cordilIeras. hut | will
tell you how you may see grauder sun
set than any mere lover of nature ever
behcld: that is. by flirginG into il all
your hatreds and arimosities, and let
the horses Of fire trample them, and the
chariots Of fire roll over them. and the
spearmrn of fire stab them, and the
beach of fire consume them, and the bill
lows of fire oycrwhcIm them.
Again, we should not let the sun 90
down on our wrath, because it is Of lit
tie importance what the world says Of
YOU or does to you when you have the
a~1lluent God of the sunset as your pro-
wider and defender. People talk aS
though it were a fixed spectacle Of ma
turc and always the same, But no one
ever saw two sunsets alike, and If the
world has existed 5000 wears there have
been about 2,190,0CO sunsets. each Of
them as distinct from all the other pic
lures in the gallery of the sky as
Titian's Last SUPPER" Rubcns' "De-
scent From the CrosS.' R~aphael's
"Transfgurati0n"n and Michael Angeles
Last Judpmentr are distinct from
each other. If that God is of such infinite
| resources that he can put on the wall Of
the sky each evening more than the
Louvre and Luxembourg galleries all
in one is my God and your God, our
| provider and protector, what is the use
of our worrying about any human an
tagonism? If we are misintcrpreted,
the God of the m~any-coiored sunset
can put the right color OF our action.
If all the garniture Of the western hcav-
ems at eventide is but the upholstery Of
what small business for us to be cAaS-
ing enemic-' Let not this Sabbath sun
go down upon your wrath.
Mohammcd said: "Jhc sword is the
key Of Heaven an1 he'll But, my hear
ers. in the first day We will find just
the opposite of that to be uH". and that
the sword never unlocks Heaven, and
that he who heals wounds is greater
than he who makes them, and that on
the same ring are two keys-God's for
! giveness Of us and our forgiveness Of
, encmies-and these two keys unlock
paradise.
And now | wish for all OF you a beau
'iful sunset to your earthly existence.
With some Of you it has been a long
day Of trouble, and with others of you
! it will be far from calm. When the sun
rose at six o'clock, IT was the morning
Of youth, and a fair day was prophcsicd,
but by the time the MONDAY or middle
life had CONF and the clock Of your
eartAly existence had struck IL, cloud