Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-12-13
A FORGIVING SPIRIT.
OT. Talmage Placates the Worlds
Revenges.
He Recommends More of the sncchn-
rine and Less OF the Sour I'm HUI
man OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ness Before shutdown
Copyright. 1893. by Louis Klopsch.,


sour in human dispositions; text. Ephe-
SLAMS. 1926: Let not the sun 20 down
upon your wrath
What pillow, embroiG cred of a II COL
ors, hath the dying day! The cradle of
clouds from which the sun rises is beau
uful enough. but il is surpassed by the
many colored mausoleum in which at
evening it is buried.
Sunset among the mountains! 1t al
most takes ones breath away to recaE
the scene. The long shadows stretching
over the plain make the glory of the de-
parting light on the tiptop crags and
struck aslant through the foliage the
more conspicuous. Saffron and gold,
purple and crimson commipgled. All
the castles of cloud in confiagration.
burning Moscows on the sky. Hanging
gardens of roses at their deepest blush.
banners of vapor, red as if from car
mage, in the battle of the elements.
The hunter among the Adrondacks and
the Swiss vllager among the Alps know
what is sunset among the mountains.
After storm at sea the rolling gran
Geur into which the sun goes down
TO battle at nightfall is something to
make weird and splendid dreams out
OF for a lifetime. Alexander Smith in
his poem compares the sunset TO the
barren beach of hell" but this wonder
iul spectacle Of nature makes me think
OF The FURNISHED wall of Heaven. Paul
IN his prison, writing my text, remem-
bers some of the gorgeous sunsets
among the mountains of Asia Minor
and how he had often seen the towers
OF Damascus blaze at the close of the
oriental days, and he flashes out that
\ memory 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! Forgiveness
before sundown! He who never feels
the Fhrob of Indignation is imbecile.
He who can walk among the injustices
of thesyorld inflicted upon himself and
others without flush of cheek, or fash
of eye.or agitation of nature, is either
in sympathy with wrong or semi-idiotic.
When Ananias, the high priest, ordered
the copstabes of the courtroom 10
smite Paul on the mouth. Paul fired up
and said: God shall smite thee, thou
whited WALL" In the sentence before
my text Paul commands the Ephesians:
BE ye angry and sin not" 1t all de-
ponds on what you are mad al and how
long the feeling lasts whether anger
is right or wrong. Life is full of OK
ASPIRATIONS. Saul after David, Succoth
after Gideon, korah after Moses, the
Pasquins after Augustus, the Phari-
sees after Christ, and everyone has had
his pursuers, and we are swindled or
belied or misrepresented or prosecuted
or%in some way wronged, and the dan
ger is that healthful Indignation shall
become baleful spite and that our feel
ings settle down into a prolonged out
pouring of temper displeasing TO God
and ruinous to ourselves, and hence
C4he~important injunction of the text:
LET not the sun go down upon your
wrath"
Why that Limitation TO ones anger?
Why that period of flaming vapor set
10 punctuate flaming disposition?
What has the sunset to do with ones
resentful emotions? Was it a haphaz-
ard sentiment written by Paul without
special significance? No, no; | think
of five reasons why we should not let
the sun set before our temper.
First, because 10 hours is long enough
to be cross about any wrong inflicted
physical health or mental faculty as a
protractcd indulgence Of i'll humor. 1t
racks the nervous system. II hurts the
digestion. 1t heats the blood in brain
and heart until the whole BODY is first
ovcrhcatcd and then depressed. Besides
! that. il sours the disposition. turns one
aside from his legitimate work. expends
scne.gies that ought to be better en-
sPloyed and docs us more harm than il
does our antagonist. Paul gives us
good, wide allowance Of time for le-
ultimate dciLuciation. from six o'clock
10 six o'clock, but says: stop thcrc,"
Watch the descending orb OF day, and
when il reaches the horizon take reef
IL your disposition. Uulo -c your col
lar and cool Oh. Change the subject 10
something delightfully."- pleasant Tn
roll your tight fist and shake hands
with some one. Bank UP Tie fires at The
curfew belt Drive the growing dog
OF cnmity back 90 its Kennel The
hours Of this morning Will pass by, and
the afternoon viii arrive. and the sun
VIII begin 90 set. aud, beg you. ON its
. b-azirg hearth throw all your feuGs. in
yectiycs and satircs.
Other thirrs being equal. the man
who preserves good temper will come
ont ahead. An old writer SAYS that the
celebrated John Henderson. of Bristol.
England, w1s at q 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 n glass Of
vine ia his face, when the speaker de-
HOerateiy wiped the liquid from his
face ard said: "This. sir. is q diores.
sion. Now, if you please, for the main
argument While worldly philosophy
could help but very few Of such equi-
poisc &C spirit the grace Of God could