The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15

multitudes of friends, but ! have found
in my own experience that God has so
arranged it that the greatest oppor-
tunities of usefulness that have been
opened before me were opened by enc
mics. So you may harness your antag-
onists TO your best interests and COM
pei them TO draw you on to better work
and higher character. Suppose, in
stead of waiting until 80 minutes after
four this evening, when the sun will
set you transact this glorious work of
forgiveness at meridian.
Again, we ought not to let the sun go
down on our wrath, because we will
sleep better If we are at peace with
everybody. Insomnia is getting to he
one of the most prevalent of disorders.
How few people retire AT ten o'clock at
night and sleep clear through to six in
the morning! TO relieve this disorder
all narcotics and sedatives and NOR
phine and choral and bromide of potas-
stun and cocaine and intoXicants are
used, but nothing is more important
than a quiet spirit if we would win
somnolence. How is man going to
sleep when he is in mind pursuing an
enemy? With what nervous twitch he
will start out of a dream! That new
plan of cornering his foe will keep him
wide awake while the clock strikes IL,
~, /, 2. l give you an unfailing
prescription for wakefulness: Spend
the evening hours rehearsing your
wrongs and the best way of avenging
them. Hold convention of friends on
this subject in your parlor or Office al
eight or nine o'clock. Close the evening
by writing a bitter letter expressing
your sentiments. Take from the desk
or pigeonhole the papers in the case to
refresh your mind with your enemy's
meannesS. Then lie down and wait for
the coming of the day, and it will come
before sleep comes, or your sleep will be
worried quiescence and, If you take the
precaution to lie fiat on your back, a
frightful nightmare.
Why not put bound to your animos-
ity? Why let your foes come into the
sanctities of your dormitory? Why let
those slanderers who have already torn
your reputation 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 invigorating
sleep? Why not fence out your enc
mics by the golden bars of the sunset?
Why not stand behind the barricade of
evening cloud and say 10 them: Thus
far and no farther" Many n man and
many a woman is having the health OF
body as well as the health of soul eaten
away by the malevolent spirit. ! have
in time of religious awakening had per
sons night after night come into the
inquiry room and get no peace of soul
After awhile have bluntly asked them
as there not some one against whom
you have a hatred you are not willing
to give up?" After little confusion
they have slightly whispered: Yes.
Then have said: "You will never FIND
peace with God as long as you retain
that virulence."
Again, we ought not to allow the sur
to set before forgiveness takes place
because we might not live to see an
other day. And what il we should b,
ushered into the presence of our Maker
with Il grudge upon our soul? The ma
jority of people depart this life in TIT
night. Between II o'clock p. IN. anC
three o'clock Il. m. there is something
J in the atmosphere which relaXes tn,
grip which the body has on the soul
: and most people enter the next worlC
through the shadows of this world
Perhaps God may have arranged ii tina
: way so as to make the contrast the NOR
I | .-I, IL,
! in this world that must have been al
5 most like the radiance of Heaven. Blu
= as most people leave the earth between
| shutdown and sunrise they quit thi
K world at its darkest, and Heaven, al
| ways bright, will be the brighter 70
that contrast. Out of darkness into il
b radiation.
d Shall we then leap over the roseat
o bank of sunset into the favorite hunt
a ing ground of disease and death, carry
I ing our animosities with us? VIII
e would want to confront his God, agains
n whom we have all done meaner thing
i than anybody has ever done agains
S us, carrying old grudges? How ca
e we expect His forgiveness for the great
S er when we are not willing to forgiv
l. others for the less? Napoleon was en-
Il couraged TO undertake the crossing O
a the Alps because Charlemagne had pre-
= viously crossed them. And all thi
k rugged path of forgiveness bears tn
" bleeding footsteps of Him who cor
d quered through suffering, and we ough
# TO be willing to follow. On the nigh
l. of our departure from this life int
o the next our one plea WIKI have to b
r. for mercy, and it will have to be offere
Is in the presence of Him who has said
e IF you forgive not men their trespass6
g neither will your Heavenly Father TO
e give your trespasses."
d What sorry plight if we stand thel
n hating this one and hating that one an
Is wishing that one damage and wishin
D some one else a calamity, and we on
selves needing forgiveness for 1O,Ol
n obliquities of heart and life. When OF
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