The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-12-16
A FORGIVING SPIRIT.
Dr.. Talmage Placates the Worlds
Revenges.
He Rec LEmends More of the sacchD-
rine and Less of the Sour In Iu-
man Dispositions-Forgiy
ness Before shutdown.
Copyright. 1899, by Louis Klopsch.l

more of the saccharine and less of thc
sour in human dispositions; text, Ephe-
slams, APO: Let not the sun 90 down
upon your wrath"
What pillow, embroidered of all col
ors, hath the dying day! The cradle OF
clouds from which the sun rises is bean
tiful enough, but it is surpassed by the
many colored mausoleum in which at
evening it is buried
Sunset among the mountains! 1t al
most takes ones breath away to recaH
the scene. The long shadows stretching
over the plain make the glory of the de-
parting light on the tiptop crags and
struck aslant through the foliage the
more conspicuous. Saffron and gold,
purple and crimson commingled All
the castles of cloud in coniagratiou.
Burning Moscows on the sky. Hanging
gardens of roses at their deepest blush.
Banners of vapor, red as If from car
mage, in the battle of the elements.
The hunter among the AdironGacks and
the Swiss villager among the Alps know
what is n sunset among the mountains.
After a storm at sea the rolling gran
deur into which the sun goes down
TO battle at nightfall is something TO
make weird and splendid dreams out
of for lifetime. Alexander Smith in
his poem compares the sunset to 1.-THE
barren beach of hell" but this wonder
full spectacle Of nature makes me think
Of the FURNISHED wall of Heaven. Paul
in his prison, writing my text, remem-
% 1a eia4e
among the mountains of Asia Minor
and how he had often seen the towers
of Damascus b.lze at the close of the
oriental days, and he flashes out that
memory in the taXt when he says: Let
not the sun go GOWN upon your wrath"
Sublime, all Suggestive duty for peo-
pie then and people now. Forgiveness
before sundown! He who never feels
the throb of Indignation is imbcci!e.
lie who can wall; among the injustces
of the world inflicted upon himself and
others without flush of cheek, or fash
of eye, or agitation of nature, is either
in sympathy with %rong or semi-idiotic
When Ananias, the high priest, ordered
the constables OF the courtroom TO
smite Paul on the mouth. Paul fired up
and said: God shall smite thee, thou
whited WALL" In the sentence before
my text Paul commands the Ephesians:
"Be We angry and sin not" 1t all de-
ponds on what you are mad at and how
long the feeling lasts whether anger
is right or wrong. Life is fpiD of OK
aspirations, Saul after David, Succoth
after Gideon, Korah after Moses, the
Pasquins after Augustus, the Phari-
sees after Christ, and everyone has had
his pursuers, and we are swindleG or
belied or misrepresented or prosecuted
or in some way wronged, and the dan
ger is that healthful Indignation shall
become baleful spite and that our feel
ings settle down into a prolonged out
pouring of temper displeasing to God
and ruinous 10 ourselves, and hence
the important injunction of the text:
LET not the sun go down upon your
wrath"
WHY that limitation TO ones anger?
Why that period of flaming vapor set
10 punctuate n flaming disposition?
What has the sunset to DO with ones
resentful emotions? Was il haphaz-
ard sentiment written by Paul without
special significance? No. no; l think
of five reasons why we should not let
the sun set before our temper.
First, because l2 hours is long enough
to be cross about any wrong inflicted
upon us. Nothing is so exhausting to
physical health or mental faculty as a
protracted indulgence of i'll humor. 1t
racks the nervous system. 1t sine
digestion. 1t heats the blood in brain
and heart until the whole body is first
overheated and then depressed. Besides
that. it souys the disposition. turns one
aside from his Legitimate work. eNpends
energies that ought to be better em-
ployed and does us more harm than II
does our antagonist. Paul gives US n
good, wide allowance of time for le-
Ultimate denunciation. from six o'clock
10 six O'Clock, but saSs: stop there.
Watch the descending orb of day, and
when it reaches the horizon take reef
in your dispositions. Unlocse your col
lar and cool Off. Change the subject to
something delightfully."- pleasant. I'M
roll your tight fist and shake hands
with some one. Bank up the fires at the
curfew bell. Drive the growing dog
of enmity back to its kennel. The
hours of this morning will pass by, and
the afternoon will arrive. and the sun
will begin to set. and, | beg you, on its
brazing hearth throw all your feuds, in
vectives and satires.
Other things being equal. the man
who preserves good temper will come
out ahead. An old writer says that the
celebrated John Henderson, OF Bristol
England, was at n dining party where
political excitement ran high and lie
debate got angry, and while Henderson
was speaking his opponent, unable TO
answer his argument, dashed glass OF
wine in his face, when the speaker de-
liberately wiped the liquid from his
face and said: This, sir. is n digres-
sion. Now, IL you please, for the main
argument" While worldly philosophy
could help but very few OF such equi-
poise of spirit, the grace of God could
help any man TO such triumph. I'm
possible" you say. IL would have
either left the table in anger or have