The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-14

contrast. Out OF darkness into irradia.
| tion.
"But," says some woman, "there Is o
horrld sreature that has so injured me
| that rather than make up with her ]
would die nrst." Well, sister, you may
| take your choice, for one or the other II
| will be--your complete pardon Of her OF
| Gods eternal banisnment OF you. But
| says some man, "that fellow who cheated
me- out OF those goods, or dumaged my
| business credit, or started that lie about
| me in the newspapers, or by his perfidy
| broke up my domestic happiness, forgive
| him / cannot. forgive him l will notl'
| Well, brother, take your choice. You will
never be at peace with God till you are ut
| peace with man. Feeling rs you now do,
| you would not get so near tho harbor OF
| heaven as to see the lightship. Better
leave that man with the God who said;
| vengeance is Mine. / will repay" You
| may say; 81 will make him sweat for that
yet. l will make him squirm. mean to
| pursue him to the death" But you are
| damaging yourself more than you damage
| him, and you are making heaven for your
| own soul an impossibility. II he will not
| be reconclled to you, be reconclled to him.
| In five or six hours II will be sundown.
| The dahlias will bloom against the west
ern sky. Somewhere between this and
| that take n shovel and bury the old
| quarrel at least six feet doep. Let not
the sun 60 down upon your wrath"
Again, we ought not to allow the passage
| OF the sunset hour before the dismissal OF
all our affropts, because we may associate
| the subllmest action OF the soul with the
| subllmest spectacle In nature. 1t Il most
delightsome thing to have our personal
experiences allied with certain subjects.
There is u tree or river bank where God
first answered your prayer. You will never
pass that place or think OF that place with
| out thinking Of the glorious communion.
| There was some gate or some room or some
garden wall where you were aftianced with
| the companion who has been your chiuf
| 10 in life. You never speak OF that place
yut with n smile. Some OF you have pleas
ant memories connected with the evening
| star, or the moon In its first quarter, OF
| with the sunrise, because you saw It just as
| you were arriving Mt harbor after TEN.
| pestuous voyage. Forever and forever.
1 admit It is the most difficult OF all
| graces to practice, and ut the start you may
make Il complete failure, but keep on in
| the attempt to practice 1t. Shake, bsare
| wrote ten plays before he reached Ham
| let" and seventeen plays before he reached
| "Merchant OF Venice" and twenty. eight
| plays before he reached Macbeth" And
| gradually you will come from the easier
| graces to the most difficult. Besides that,
II Is not n matter OF personal determination
so much as the laying hold of the al.
mighty arm OF God. who will help us to do
| anything we ought to do. Remember that
in all personal controversies the one least
to blame will have to take the first step at
I
test between Eschines and Aristlppus re.
sounds through history. but Aristippus,
who was least to blame, went to Eschinea
and said, "Shall we not agree to be friends
before we make ourselves the laughing
| stock of the whole country2" And Eschines
snid, "Thou art q far better man than 1,
for l began the quarrel. but thou has been
the first in healing the breach" And they
were always friends afterwards. SO let
| tho one OF you that is least to blame take
QF1 nhu
! one most in the wrong will never take It.
Oh. 1t makes one feel splendid to be able
by Gods help to practice unlimited for
| gtveness. 1t improves ones body and soul.
My brother. 1t Will make you measure three
or four more Inches around the chest and
improve your respiration so that you can
take deeper and longer breath. 1t i'm
proves the counteDancei by scattering the
gloom and makes you somewhat like God
| himself He ia omDipotent, 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 n broad sweep all faults,
aud all neglects and all insults, and ali
| wrongdoings. and in that we may copy Him
| with mighty success. Go harness that sub
| lime action OF your soul to the sunset-the
hour when the gate of heaven opens to let
| the day pass into eternities and some OF
the glorles escape this way through the
| brief opening. We talk about the Italian
sunsets, aud sunset amid the Apennines,
and sunset amid the oordilleras, but will
tell you how you may see grander sunset
than any mere lover OF nature ever beheld
that is, by flnging into IL all your hatreds
and animosities, and let the horses of fire
trample them, and the charots OF nrs roll
over them, and the spearmen of fire stab
| them, and the beach of fire consume them
| and the blllows of fire overwhelm them.
Again, we should not let the sun go down
on our wrath, because 1t is OF little i'm
portance what the world says OF you or
! does 10 you when you have the nfluent
| God of the sunset as your provider and
defender People talk as though 1t were
fixed spectacle OF nature and always the
| same. But no one ever saw two sunsets
| Mike, and IL the world has existed 6O0O
yenrs there have been about 2.190, 900 sun
sets, each OF them as distinct from all the
other pictures in the gallery of the sky as
| Tltian's Last Supper" Rubens' descent
From the Cross" Raphael's "Transfgura-
tion" and Michael Angelo's Last Judg-
ment" are distinct from each other. IL
that God of such infinite resources that
He can put on tho wall OF the sky each
| evening more than the Louvre aud Luxem-
/ 6ourg galleries all In Que is my God and
your God. our provlder and protector,
| what Is the use of our worrying about any
| human nntngonism2 If we are misinter-
! preted, the God of the many coored sun
| set cnn put the right color on our action.
Ii all the garnture OF the western heavens
| Ut cNcutiuc 10 put tue upholstery OF one OF
| the windows OF our future home. what
/ small business for us to be chasing en-
emies Let not this Sabbath sun 20 down
| upon your wrath.
And wish for all Of you beautiful sun -
! set to your earthly existence. With some
| OF you II has been u long day OF trouble,
| and with others of you it will be far from
| calm. When the sun rose at 6 O'Clock. ii
was the morning OF youth, and a fair day
| was prophesied, but by the time the noon
| day or middle life had come and the clock
OF your earthlyexlstence had struck twelve
| cloud racks gathered and tempest beloved
| IN the track OF tempest. But as the even
ing of old age approaches pray God tho
skies may brighten and the clouds be piled
| up Into pillars as OF celestial temples to
| which you go or move as with mounted
cohorts come to take you home. And as
| you sink out OF signt below the horizon
| may there be radiance OF Christian ex-
ample lingering long after you are gone,
| and on the heavens be written In letters of
| sapphire, and on the waters In letters OF
| opal, and on the hills Ia letters of emerald
''Thy sun shall no more 20 down, neither
shall thy moon withdraw itself, for tho
Lord shall be thine everlasting light and
the days nj thy mourning shall be ended"
So shall the sunset OF earth become tho
| sunrise OF heaven
A .Iananasa GaIsoa GIr1.