Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-12-12
GUARDYOUR TEMPER
DR.. TALMAaE RECOMMENDS REPREs-
SION OF WRATH.

A Sweet Disposition Adds Much to
the JOY of LivinE-Don't Waste
Health RehcarsinE Wrongs and
schemins Revenge.
copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1891
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-In this dis
eourse DR.. Talmage placates the
worlds revenges and recommends
more Of the saccharine and less of the
sour in human dispositions; text,
Ephesians iv, 20, Let not the sun go
down upon your wrath"
What n pillow, embroidered of all
colors, hath the dying day! The era
die of clouds from which the sun rises
is beautiful enough, but 1t is surpassed
by the many colored mausoleum In
which at evening 1t is buried.
Sunset among the mountains! 1t 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
contlagration. Burning Moscows on the
sky. Hanging gardens Of roses Mt
thsiy deepest blush. Banners of va
por, red as IL from carnage. In the bat
tie Of the elements. The hunter among
the Adirondacks and the Swiss viii
lager among the Alps know what is
a sunset among the mountains. After
n storm at sea the rolling grandeur
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 bar
rem beach Of hell" 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 men,
ory in the text when he says, "Let not
the sun 60 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 fred up and said, God
shall smite thee, thou whited wall"
In the sentence Immediately before
my text Paul commands the Ephe-
slams, "Be ye angry and sin not" 1t
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 prosecuted or In some way wronged,
and the danger is that healthful in
dignation shall become baleful spite
and that our feelings settle down into
prolonged outpouring Of temper dis
pleasing to God and ruinous to our
selves, and hence the important in
junction 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
to punctuate a flaming disposition?
hot hao hn IN In
ones resentful emotions? Was 1t a
hnphazard sentiment written by Paul
without special Significance? No. no.
i think of five reasons why we should
not let the sun set before our temper.
Away With Feuds.
First, because IL 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 q protracted indulgence Of
Ill humor. 1t racks the nervous sys-
TEN. 1t hurts the digestion. 1t heats
the blood In brain and heart until the
whole body is first overheated and
then depressed. Besides that 1t sours
the disposition, turns one aside from
his 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 9 o'clock to 9
o'clock, but says. stop there" 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 enmlty 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,