The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-12-16

bury the old quarrel at least six fee
deep. Let not the sun go down upon
your wrath"
But" you say, 81 have more than
can bear; TOO much is put upon me, and
/ am not TO blame If | am somewhat re-
yengefu and uurelentiug," Then
think Of the little child AT the moving
OF some goods from store. The father
was putting some rolls of goods on the
Nchild's arm, package after package, and
some one said; THAT child is being
overloaded, and so much ought not to
be put upon her." when the child re-
sponded; Father knows how much
can carry" and God, our Father, will
not allow too much imposition on His
children, In the day of eternity it will
be found you had not one annoyance
too many; not one evaporation too
many; not one outrage too many. Your
Heavenly Father knows how much you
can carry.
Again, we ought not TO allow the pas
sage of the sunset hour before the dis
missal of all our affronts, because we
may associate the sublmest action of
the soul with the sublimest spectacle
in nature. II is a most delightsome
| thing to have our personal experiences
allied with certain subjects. There is
tree or river bank where God first an
severed your prayer. You will never
| pass that place or think of that place
without thinking of the glorious COM
muniou. There was some gate or some
room or some garden wall where you
were ailianced with the companion who
has been your chief joy in life. You
never speak of that place but with
smile. Some of you have pleasant men,
| cries connected with the evening star,
or the moon in its first quarter, or with
the sunrise, because you saw it Just as
you were arriving at harbor after a
tempestuous voyage. Forever and for
ever, hearer, associate the sunset
with your magnanimous, out and out,
unlimited remuneration of all hatred
and forgiveness of all foes.
Oh, it makes one feel splendid to be
able by Gods help to practice unliu-
tied forgiveness. Itimproves ones body
and soul. My brother, it will make you
measure three or four more inches
around the chest and improve your
respiration so that you can take deep
er and longer breath. It improves the
counteuauce by scattering the gloom
and makes you somewhat like God
himself. He is omnipotent, and we
cannot copy that. He is independent
of all the universe, and we cannot copy
that. He is creative, and we cannot
copy that. He is omnipresent, and'we
cannot copy that. But He forgives with
broad sweep all faults, and all neg
lects. and all insults, and all wrong
doings, and in that way we may copy
Him with mighty success. Go harness
that sublime action of your soul to the
sunset-the hour when the gate of
Heaven opens to let the day pass into
the eternities, and some of the glories
escape this way through the brief open
ing. We talk about the Italian sunsets
and sunset amid the Apprentices and
sunset amid the cordilleras, but | will
tell you how you may see a grander sun
set than any mere lover of nature ever
beheld; that is, by flinging into it all
your hatreds and animosities, and let
the horses of fire trample them, and the
chariots of fire roll over them, and the
spearmen of fire stab them, and the
beach of fire consume them, and the bill
lows Of fire oyerwhelm them.
Again, we should not let the sun go
down on our wrath, because it is of lit
tie Importance what the world says Of
you or does to you when you have the
affluent God of the sunset as your pro-
wider and defender. People talk as
though it were a fixed spectacle of ma
ture and always the same. But no one
ever saw two sunsets alike, and if the
world has existed 5000 years there have
been about 2,19O,OOO sunsets, each of |
them as distinct from all the other pic
lures in the gallery of the sky as
Titian's Last Supper" Rubens' DE
scent From the Cross" Raphaers |
TRANSPORTATION and Michael Angeles |
Last Judgment" are distinct from |
each other. If that God is of such infinite |
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