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down on our wrath. because We will
sleep better IL we are at peace with
everybody. Insomnia is getting to be
one of the most. prevalent of disorders.
How few people retire at ten o'clock At
night and sleep clear through 10 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 a 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
vide awake while the clock strikes II,
II. l. =. l give you an unfailing
prescription for wakefulness: Spend
the evening hours ~rehearsing your
wrongs and the best way of avenging
them. Hold a convention of friends on
this subject in your parlor or office at
eight or nine O'Clock. Close the evening
by writing a bitter letter expressing
your sentiments. Take from the desk
or p~igeonhole the papers in the case to
refresh your mind with your enemy's
Then lie down and wait for
the coming of the day, and il 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 a 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 Ii 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 moi 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 as well as the health Of soul eaten
away by the m~alevolent 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 | nave biuntiy asked them;
is there not some II against whom
YOU have a hatred YOU are not willing
to give up?" After a little confusion.
they have slightly whispered: Yes"
Then | have said: You Will never find
peace with God as long as you retain
thai virulcncc.'
Again, we ought not to allow the sun
to set before forgiveness takes PLACE,
because we might not live to see an
other Gay. And what if we skhld be
',ushered into the presence of Maker
\ Jth a erudge upon our souIAThe ma
: Notify CT people depart thi3Efe in the
}, 1ight. Between ii o'cloe|p M. and
O'Clock a, III. thereE something
IN the atmosphere whil relaxes the
grip which the body on the soul,
ana Tpost seople ente9Eh next world
through shodowfof this world.
Perhaps God MAJ ~I%-S arranged it that
way SO as to make the contrast the more
glorious. ] have seen sunshiny days
in this world that must have been al
| most like the radiance Of Heaven. But
! rs most people leave the earth between
shutdown and sunrise|they quit this
world at It's darkest. and Heaven, al
ways bright, will be the brighter for
that contrast. Out OF darkness into ir-
recitation.
Shall we then leap over the roseatc
hank Of sunset into the tavorite hunt.
lpg ground ofdisease and death, carry
il our aniHosities with us? Who
uuid want to confront his God, against
won we have all done meaner things
q tan anybody has ever done against
i, carryingt bid grudges? How can
W expect His forgiveness for the great
ciwhen we are not willing to forgive
ohers for the less? Napoleon was en-
culraged TO undertake the crossing of
tie Alps because Charlemagnc had pre-
v0usly crossed them. And all this
rugged path of forgiveness bears the
Sbleediu9 footsteps Of Him who con-
bquered through suffering, and We ought
10 be wiling TO follow. On the night
r our. departure from this life into
pc neNt or one plea will have to be
'tttr mercy, aud it will have to be offered
" the presence Of Him who has said:
il.yon forgive not men their trespasses,
neither will your Heavenly Father for
give your trespasses."
What a sorry plight If We stand there
mating this one and hating that n and
wishing that one a damage and wishing
some one else a calamity, and we our-
serves needing forgiveness for 1O.OGH
ooiIq4ities Of heart and life. When our
i.S' -FOUR comes, We want it TO find us
all right.
'l4rdly anything affects me so much
III fhe uncovcring Of Pompeii as the ac-
/ cofri,of the soldier who. after the city
had for hlany centuries been covered
with the ashes aud scoriae Of Nesu?ids.
was found standing in lis place on
guard, hand on spear and helmet on
head. Others fed at the awful sub
enlargement, but the explorer, 1.TC0
Mears after, found the body of that
Alve fellow in right position. And it
be a grand thing if, when our last
Ant cor1es, we are found in right
Yon toward God, on guard and IN
3hteG by the descending ashes
the mountains of death. | do not
$.pose that | am any more of a cow
I'd than most people, but. declare to
you that | would not dare to sleep to-
night if there were any being in oil tn"
earth with whom | would not gladl +;
shake hands, lest during the night hou 3
my spirit dismissed to other realms, l
should, because of my u~nfOrgiving sFir-