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transact this glorious work of forgive
ness at meridian
We VIII sleep Better.
Again, we ought not to let the sun 70
down on our wrath, because we will sleep
better If we arc at peace with everybody.
Insomnia is getting to be one Of the most
prevalent OF disorders. How few people
retirc at 10 O'Clock at night and slceu
clear through to 6 in the morning! To
relieve this disorder all narcotics and
scdatiyes and morphine and choral and
bromide of potassium and cocaine and in
toXicants are used. but nothing is more
important than n quiet spirit If we would
win somnocncc. How is a man going to
sleep when he is in mind pursuing an en-
envy? With what nervous twitch he will
start out of n dream. That new plan of
cornering his foe will keep him wide
awake while the clock strikes II, 10. /, ..
| give you an unfaiing prescription for
wakcfulness: Spend the evening hours
rchcarsing your wrongs and the best way
of avcnging them. Hold convention of
friends on this subject in your parlor or
office at s or Q o'clock. Close the evening
by writing a bitter letter expressing your
sentiments Take from the desk or pi-
gconholc the papers in the case to re-
fresh your mind with your cncmy's mean
ness. Then lie down and wait for the
coming of the day, and it will come be-
fore sleep comes, or your sleep will be
worried qucsccnce and, if you take the
prccaution to lie fiat on your back, n
frightful nightmare.
Why not put bound to your animos-
ityt Why let your foes come into the
sauctities OF your dormitory? Why let
those slandercrS who have already torn
rOur reputation TO pieces or injured your
business bend over your midnight pillow
gnd drive from you one of the greatest
blessings that God can offcr-swcct, re-
frcshing. all invgoratng sleep? Why
not fence ont your enemies by the golden
bars of the sunset? Why not stand be-
hind the barrcadc Of evening cloud and
say TO them. Thus far and no farther"
Many man and many woman is hay
ing the health of body as well as the
health Of soul eaten away by n Llalcv-
olent spirit, | have in time of religious
awakening had persons night after night
come into the inquiry room and get no
peace OF soul After awhile have blunt
ly asked them, is there not some one
against whom YOU have a hatred that
you are not willing to give up?" After
little confusion they have slightly whis-
percd, Yes" Then l have said, "You
will never find peace with God as long
as you retain that virulence."
Get Rid of Hidden Resentment.
y boy in Sparta having stolen fox
kept him under his coat and. though the
fox was gnnwinG his vitals. he submitted
TO it rather than expose his msdeed.
Many man with 4 smiling face has un-
der his jacket an animosity that is gnaw-
ing away the strength Of his body and
the integrity OF his soul. Better get ritl
Of that hidden fox as soon as possible.
There are hundreds of domestic circles
where that which most is needed is the
spirit of forgiveness. Brothers apart
and sisters apart and parents and chill
dren apart, Solomon says a brother Of
Tended is harder to be won than a strong
city Are there not enough sacred mem
cries of your childhood to bring you to-
gether?
The rabhins recount how that Nebu-
chadnezzar's son had such a spite against
his father that after he was dead he had
his father burned to ashes and then put
the ashes into four sacks and tied them
to four eagles necks, which flew away in
opposite directions And there are now
domestic antipathies that seem forever to
haze scattered all parental memories to
the four winds of heaven. How far the
eagles fly with those sacred ashes The
hour of shutdown makes to that family no
practical suggestion. Thomas Carlyle
in his biography of Frederick the Great
says the old king was told by the CON
fessor he must be at peace with his enc
mics if he wanted to enter heaven. Then
he said to his wife, the queen, Write to
your brother after l am dead that l for
give him" Roloff, the confessor, said,
Her majesty had better write him i'm
mcdiately." NO" said the king; after
| am dead. That will he safer SO he
let the sun of his earthly existence go
down upon his wrath.
Again, we ought not to allow the sun
to set before forgiveness takes place, be-
cause we might not live to see another
day. And what If we should be ushered
into the presence Of our Maker with q
grudge upon our soul? The majority Of
people depart this life in the night. Be
tween II o'clock p. IN. and 3 O'Clock n. m.
there is something in the atmosphere
which relaXes the grip which the body
has on the soul, and most people enter
the next world through the shadows of
this world. Perhaps God may have ar
ranged it in that way so as to make the
contrast the more glorious. | have seen
sunshiny days in this world that must
have been almost like the radiance OF
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