The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-12-16

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But" says one woman, there is
horiid creature that has so injured me
that rather than make up with her
would Gle first" Wen, sister. you may
| take your choice, for one or he OF her ii
will be-your complete pardon OF her
or Gods eternal Punishment of you.
But" says some man. that fellow who
| cheated me out of these goods or dam
| aged my business credit or started thai
| lie about me in the newspapers by
| his perfidy broke up my domestic hap.
piness, forgive him carrot forgive.
| him | will not" Well, brother. take
your choice. You will never he al peace
with God ill YOU are al peace with man.
| Feeling as you now do, you would not
| get so near the harbor of Heaven MS TO
see the light ship. Better leave that man
| with the God who said: vengeance is
mine, win repay" You may say: II
will make him sweat for that yet; will
make him squirm; mean to pursue
| him to the death" but you are damag-
| ing yourself more than you damage
him, and you are making Heaven for
your soul an impossiblity. If he will
not be reconciled to you, be reconciled
to him. In five or six hours ii will be
shutdown. The dahlas will bloom
| against the western sky. Somewhere
between this and that take n shovel and
bury the old quarrel at least six feet
deep. LET not the sun go down upon
| your wrath"
Oh, it makes one feel splendid TO be
able by Gods help TO practice unlim-
tied forgiveness. 1t improves ones body
and soul. My brother, il will make you
measure three or four more inches
around the chest and improve your
respiration so that you can take deep
err and longer breath. II improves the
| countenancc by scattering the gloom
and makes you somewhat like God
himself. lie is omnipotent, and we
cannot copy that. lie is independent
of all the universe. and we cannot copy
that. He is creative, and we cannot
copy that. He is omuipresent, and we
cannot copy that But lie forgives with
a broad sweep all faults. and all neg
! lccts, and all insults, and all wrong,
doiugs, and in that way we may copy
Him with mighty success. Go harness
that sublime action Of your soul TO the
sunset-the hour VIXEN the gate Of
! Heaven opens TO let the day pass into
! the etcrnities. 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 grander sun
set than any mere lover of nature ever
beheld; that is. by ningiug into it all
! your EatreGs and animosties, and let
the horses of fire trample them, and the
| chariots Of fire roll over them, and the
spearmeu of fire stab them, and the
beach of fire consume them, and the bill
lows of fire overwhelm 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
ailluent God of the sunset as your pro-
wider and defender. People talk rs
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 G.00O years there have
been about 2,l90,0OO 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" Raphaefs
CHARACTERIZATION" and Michael Angeles
Last Judgment" are distinct from
each other. If that God is Of such infinite
| IL haIn t,tt no a nf
the sky each evening more than the
Louvre and Luxembourg galleries all
| in one is my God and your God, our
provider and protector, what is the use
Of our worrying about any human an
tagonsm? II we are misinterpreted,
the God of the many-colored sunset
can put the right color on our action.
| If all the garnture of the western heav-
ems at evcntide is but the upholstery of
one Of the windows of our future home,
what small business for us to be chas-
| ing enemies! Let not this Sabbath sun
go down upon your wrath.
Mohammcd said: THE sword is the
| KEY of Heaven and he'll" But, my hear
crs. in the first day we will find just
the opposite Of that TO he true. and that
the sword never unlocks Heaven, and
! that he who heals wounds is greater
! than he who makes them. and that on
the same ring are two kcys-God's for
! giyeuess of us and our forgiveness OF
| enemics-aEd these two keys unlock
| paradise. -
And now wish foTall of you beau
| Nfu sunset to your earthly existence.
| With some OF you it has been long
| day Of trouble, and with others of you
| il will he far from cain. Wien the sun
rose At six O'Clock, il WAS the morning
Of youth. and fair DAY was prophesed.
| but by the time the MONDAY or middle
| life had come aud he clock OF your
| earthly existence had struck IL, cloud
racks gathered, and tempest beloved
! in the track of tempest. But as the
evening of old age approachos%t pray
God the skies may brighten ard the
clouds he pied up into pillars It's OF &C.
lestiaI temples TO which you go. or
move as with mounted cohorts come TO
| take you home. And us You sink out
| of sight below the horizon. may there
| ba n ruIinurp pf { N riSf inn pxn,ptIe lin.