Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-12-20
SERMON
Rev. DR.. Calm1a9e

1--WE UU> SWuuuuVSyS\
Subject: Guard Your Temper-A Sweet
Disposition Adds Much to the Joy of
Livine-Don't Waste Health Rehears-
ing Wrongs and scherning Revenge.
Copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1891
WASHINGTON, D. C.-In this discourse DR..
falmage placates the worlds revenges and
recommends more of the saccharine and
less of the sour In human dispositions; text,
Ephesians iv., Is, Let not the sun 60 down
upon your wrath
What a pillow, embroidered OF all colors,
hath the dying dayI The cradle of clouds
from which the sun rises Is beautiful
enough, hut it Is surpassed by the many
colored mausoleum In which at evening 1t
Is bnried.
Sunset among the mountains! 1t almost
takes ones breath away to recall the
scene. The long shadows stretching over
the plain make the glory of the departing
light on the tiptop crags and struck aslant
through the foliage the more conspicuou
Saffron and gold. purple and crimson COM
mingled. All the castles Of cloud In con-
hagration. Burning Moscows on the sky.
Hanging gardens Of roses ut their deepest
blush. Banners Of vaPor, red as IL from
carnage, in the battle Of the elements. The
hunter among the Adirondacks and the
Swiss viIlager 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 night
fall Is omething to make weird and splen-
did dreams out Of for a lifetime. Aiexan-
der Smith, in his poem, compares the sun
set to "the barren 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 Damascus blaze
In the close Of the oriental days, and he
he says, LET not the sun go down upon
your wrath"
sublime all suggestive duty for people
then and people now! Forgiveness befo re
sundown! He who never feels the throb
of Indignation Is imbecile. He who can
walk among the injustices OF the world in
hicted upon himself and others without
flush OF cheek or fash of eye or agitation
OF nature Is either In sympathy with wrong
or semi-idfotic. When Ananins, the high
priest, ordered the constables OF the court
room to smite Paul on the mouth, Paul
fred up and said, "God shall smite thee
thou whited WALL" In the sentence imme-
diately before my text Paul commands the
Ephesians, "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 exaspera-
tions. Saul after Dnv''. Succoth after
Gideon, Korah after Moses, the Pasquins
after Augustus. the Pharisees after Christ
and every one has had his pursu ers. and
wa are swindied or belied or misrepresent-
cd or perss or In some way wronged,
and the danger is that healthful indigna-
tion shall become baleful spite, and that
our feelings settle down into prolonged
outpouripR 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 angeri
Why that period OF flaming vapor set to
punctuate q flaming disposition? What
iui emotions? Was 'zard senti.
mont Wfitts euecial
sar lsss 81
reasons Why We should not Il the sun Sc,
before our temper.
First. because twelve hours is long
enough to be cross about any wrong in
hicted upon US. Nothing Is so exhausting
to physical health or mental faculty as q
protracted Indulgence of i'll humor. 1t
racks the nervous system. 1t hurts the
digestion. 1t heats the blood in brain and
heart until the whole body Is first over
heated and then depressed. Besides that,
1t sours the disposition, turns one aside
that ought to be better employed and
does US more harm than It does our
antagonist. Paul gives us a good, wide
allowance Of time for legitimate denuncia-
tion, from O'Clock to O'Clock, but says,
'Stop therer' Watch the descending orb
OF day, and when It reaches the horizon
take reef In your disposition. Unloose
your collar and cool Off. Change the sub
ject to something delightfully."- pleasant
Unroll your tight fist and shake hands
with some one. Bank up the fires at the
curfsw bell. Drive the growing dog of
enmity back to its kennel. The hours Of
this morning will pass by, and the after
noon will arrive, and the sun will begin to
se&, and, beg you, on Its blazing hearth
throw all your feuds, invectives and
satires.
Again, We ought not to let the sun go
down on our wrath. because We will sleep
better II we are at peace with everybody.
Insomnia is getting to be one of the most
prevalent Of disorders. How few people
retire at 10 o'clock at night and sleep clear
through to 6 in the morningi To relieve
this disorder all narcotics and sedatives
and morphine and chloral and bromide OF
potassium and cocaine and intoxicants are
used, but nothing is more important than
quiet spirit II We would win somnolence.
How is a man going to sleep when he Is in
mind pursuing an enemy? With what ner-
vous twitch he will start out of a dreami
That new plan of cornering his foe will
strikes II, IL. l., 2. give you an unfailins
prescription for wakefulness: Spend tbs
evening hours rehearsing your wrongs and
the best way Of avenging them. Hold II
convention Of friends on this subject in
your parlor or ofice at or 9 O'Clock.
Close the evening by writing litter letter
expressing your sentiments. Take from
the desk or pigeonhole the papers In the
case to refresh your mind with your en-
emy's meanness. Then lie down and wait
for the coming OF the day, and 1t will come
before sleep comes or your sleep will be
worried quiescence and, II You take the
precaution to lie Fat on your back, 3
frightful nightmare.
Why not put bound to your animosityi
Why let your foes come into the sanctities
Of your dormitory2 Why let those slnnd-
erers who have already torn your reputa-
tion to pieces or injured your business
bend over your midnight pillow and drive
from you one OF the greatest blessings that
God can offer-sweet, refreshing, all In
sleep? Why not fence out your
enemies by the golden bars OF the sunset?
Why not stand behind the barricade Of
evening cloud and say to them, "Thus far
and no farther" Many a man and many
a woman is having the health of body No
we'll as the health of soul eaten away by
spirit. I have in time of relig-
ious awakening had persons night after
night come into the inquiry room and get
no peace OF soul. After a while I have
bluntly asked them, sis there not some one
against whom you have a hatred that you
are not willing to give up?" After little
confusion they have slightly whispered,
"Yes." Then have said. You will never
ind peace with God as long rs you retain
that virulence."
The rabbins recount how that Nebuchad-
nezzar's son had such spite against his
father that after he was dead he had his
iather burned to ashes and then put the
! l,hes into four sacks and tied them to four
eagles necks which flew away in opposite
directions. And there are now domestic
that seem forever to have scat
tered all parental memories to the four
winds OF heaven. How far the eagles fly
with those sacred ashes! The hour OF sun
Down makes to that family no practical
Thomas Carlyle, in his biog-
,aphy of Frederick the Great, says the
Did king was told by the confessor he must