The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15
A FORGIVING SPIRIT.
Dr.. Talmage Placates the Worlds
Revenges.
He Recommends More of the sncchh-
rine and Less Of the Sour in HUI
man DispositIons-Forg
ness before SuDdOwn.
copyright, 1893. by Louis Klopsch.1
Washington, Dec. 10.

more of the saccharine and less of the
sour in human dispositions; text, Ephe-
slams. Ago: Let not the sun 80 down
upon your wrath"
What a pillow, embroidered of all col
ors, hath the dying day! The cradle of
clouds from which the sun rises is beau
tiful enough, but it 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 recall
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 commingled. All
the castles of cloud in conflagration.
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 Adirondacks and
the Swiss villager among the Alps know
what is a sunset among the mountains.
After storm at sea the rolling gran
deur into which the sun goes down
to battle at nightfall is something to
make weird and splendid dreams out
of for n lifetime. Alexander Smith in
his poem compares the sunset TO 1.-The
barren beach of hell" but this wonder
full 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 suggestiv duty for peo-
pie then and people now! Forgiveness
before sundownl He who never feels
the throb of Indignation is imbecile.
He who can walk among the injustices
OF the world 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 conslables of the courtroom to
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 We angry and sin not" 1t all de-
ponds on what you are mad at and how
long the feeling lasts whether anger
is right 90 wrong. Life is full of tx
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 o.
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 u prolonged out
| pouring of temper displeasing to God
and ruinous to ourselves, and hence
the important injunction of the text:
"Let not the sun 60 down upon your
| wrath"
Why that limitation to ones anger:
Why that period of flaming yapor sci
to 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 lei
the sun set before our temper.
First, because 70 hours is long enough
TO be cross about any wrong inflicted
upon us. Nothing is so eXhausting tC
physical health or mental faculty as {
protracted indulgence of i'll humor. 1
racks the nervous system. 1t hurts thu
digestion. 1t heats the blood in braiI
and heart until the whole body is frs
overheated and then depressed. Beside
that, it sours the disposition, turns on,
aside from his legitimate work, eXpend
energies that ought to be better EN-
ployed and does us more harm than i
does our antagonist. Paul gives us
good, wide allowance of time for lie
ultimate denunciation, from six o'clocl
10 six o'clock, but says: stop there!'
Watch the descending orb of day, ant
when it reaches the horizon take rec
in your disposition. Unloose your col
lar ant cool off. Change the subject Il
something delightfully."- pleasant. I'm
roll your tight fist and shake hand
with some one Bank up the fires at tn
curfew bell. Drive the growing do,
of eumity back to its kennel Tn
hours of this morning will pass by, an,
the afternoon will arrive, and the SUI
will begin to set, and, | beg you, on it
brazing hearth throw all your feuds, in
vectves and satires.
Other things being equal, the ma,
who preserves good temper will com
out ahead. An old writer says that tn
celebrated John Henderson, of Bristo
England, was at a dining party wher
political excitement ran high and tn
debate got angry, and while Henderso
was speaking his opponent unable I
answer his argument, dashed glass q
wine in his face, when the speaker de
liberately wiped the liquid from hi
face and said This, sir, is a digrei
sion. Now, if you please, for the mai
argument" While worldly philosoph
| cOuld helm but very few of such eou