Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-22
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
FORGIVENESS BEFORE SUN
DOWN SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From Ephesisn-. Chapter -Four. Verse
Twenty-six. a. Follows: Let Not tn"
sun Go Down Upon Your Wrath
Flea to Mans NobIest Iastincis.


colors. hath the dying day: The era
die of clouds from which the sun rises
is beautiful enough, but ii is surpassed
by the many-colored mausOleum in
which, at evening il is buried.
Sunset among TIC mountains. 1t
almost takes ones breath away to re
call the scene. The long shadows
stretching over tie plain make the
glory OF the departing l:gat OF the tip
top crags and struck ashanti. through
the foliage the more conspicuous. SAT
from and gold. purple and crimson
commingled. All the castles Of cloud
in confagration. Burning Moscows or
the sky. Hanging garden on roses a
their deepest blush. Banners OF va
por red as if from carnage, IN the bat
tie of the elements. The hunter
among the Adirondacks. and the Swiss
villager among the Alps. know what is
q sunset among the mountains. After
a storm at sea. the rolling grandeur
into which the sun goes down to battle
at nightfall. is something to make
weird ana splendid dreams out of for
lifetime. Alexander Smith, in his
poem, compares the sunset 10 the
barren beach of hell" but this wonder
full spectacle OF nature makes me
think OF the FURNISHED wall OF heaven.
Paul. in prison, writing my text, re
members some of the gorgeous sunsets
among the mountains Of Asia Minor,
and how he had often seen the towers
of Damascus blaze in the close Of the
oriental days, and he flashes out that
memory in the text when he says, Let
not the sun go down upon your
wrath
Sublime ali-sugestiyc duty for peo-
pie then and people now, Forgiveness
before shutdown, He who never feels
the throb of Indignation is imbecile.
He who can walk among the iDi,s-
tices oil the world inflicted upon him
self and others. without flush Of
cheek. or Cash az eve, or agitation Of
nature is either in sympathy with
wrong or semi-idiotic. When Ananias,
the high priest. ordered the c0nstabies
Of the court room 10 smte Paul on the
mouth, Paul fired up and said: God
shall smite thee, thou Wnited wall.
In the sentence Immediately before my
text Paul commands the Ephesians:
BE ye angry and sin not Il all de-
ponds or what you are mad at and how
long the feeling lasts. whether anger is
right or wrong. Life is full OF exas-
perations. Saul after David. Succoth
after Gideon. korah after Moses. the
Pasquins after Augustus, the Pharisees
after Christ. and every one has had his
pursuers, and We are sUindled, or be-
lied. or misrepresented, or prosecuted
or in some way wronged. and the
danger is that healthful Indignation
shall become baleful spite. and that
cur feelings settle down into a pro
lOnged outpoUring OF temper displeas-
ing TO God and ruinous to ourselves,
and hence the important injunction Of
the text. Let not the sun 20 down
/ upon You" wrath
Why that limitation tO ones anger?
what chat period of flaming vapor set
to punctu1te a flaming disposition
What has the sunset got t. do with
ones rcsentnl emotions? Was it a
hapbazagG sentiment writtea by Paul
! without special significance? No no.
think Of FIVE reasons why We should
not let the sunset before our temper.
First: Because twelve hours is lon-
enough 20 be cross about any wrong
inflicted upon rs. Nothing is 50 eX-
hausting 10 phySica, health or menta.
! faculty as a prOtrdrtcd Indulgence Of
/ iu-humOr. II racks the nervous system.
It hurts the digestion. Il heats inc
blood in brain ana heart untu the
whole body Is first 0rcrhoated and
| then depressed. beside that. it sours
I the disposition. turns one aside from
! his legitimate work. exrenGS energies
that ought To be better employed. ana
| does us more harm than it does our
antagonist. paIl gives us q good, wid
/ allowance or time for legitimate de-
nunCiati0n, from o'clock TO o'clock,
! but says: stop there" Watch the
descending orb OF day. and when il
! reaches the horizon, take n reef in
your disposition. Unioose your collar
and cCol oil Change he subject to
| something delightfully."- pleasant. tn
roll your tight fist and shake hands
with some one. Bank mp the fires at
TIE curfew bell. Drive the growing
Gos OF enmity back 20 its kennel. The
hours Of this morning viii pass by,
| and the afternoon will arrive, and the
sun Will begin 10 set. and. l beg you,
| on its LlaZiuv hearth fltrow all ycur
feuds. invectiveS 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 a dinner party where
political excitement ran high and the
! debate got angry, and while Hender-
son was speaking, his opponent, I'M
able to answer his argument, dashed a
| glass OF wine in his face, when the
speaker deliberately wiped the liquid
from his face and said: This, sir. is
| the main argument" While worldly
philosophy could help but very few to
such equipoise Of spirit. the grace OF
God could help any man To such a tri-
umph ''inlpossibc." you say, 81
would have either left the table in
anger or have knocked the man
down" But l have cone to believe
that nothing is impossible if God help
Aye ycu viii not postpone till sun
down forgiveness OF enemies if you can
realize that their behavior towards