The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-01-18
FoRGIVING SPIRIT.
q. ralmage Placates the Worlds
Revenues.

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.,a Less of the Sour In HUI
=, Dispositfons-FOrg
ness Before sundown.
.c.nvrixht. 1899, by Louis Kfopsch.1
tssS' Washington,
s.. .h;s discourse DR.. Talmage placates
8 S.. 8 ~orld's reyenges and recommends
-. e of the saccharine and less OF the
..r; q human dispositions; text, Ephe-
~ 80 4.a6: "Let not the sun go down
upon Jour wrath"
What pillow, embroidered OF all col.
s " n h,th the dying day! The cradle OF
3 .,oras from which the sun rises is beau
.;sul enough, but it is surpassed by the
~. colored mausoleum in which at
eytning it is buried.
& cunset among the mountains! 1t al
.ost takes ones breath away TO recall
4. scene. The long shadows stretching
$ ...r Inc plain make the glory of the de-
,..,t;no light on the tiptop crags and
.s-uck asiant through the foliage the
-. conspicuous. Saffron and gold.
.s,nle and crimson commingled. All
&. 70 castles of cloud in confiagration.
pr,pinr Moscows on the sky. Hanging
.,rdens Of roses at their deepest blush.
auners of yapor, red as it from car
,.se. in the battle of the elements.
M hunter among the Adirondacks and
she Swiss villager among the Alps know
:.hat il sunset among the mountains.
/ Amer 4 storm at sea the rolling gran
der into which the sun goes down
81 bathe at nightfall is something to
eake weird and splendid dreams out
4 for lifetime. Alexander Smith in
il poem compares the sunset to "the
larren beach Of HE'LL" but this wonder
III spectacle of nature makes me think
L tie FURNISHED wall of Heaven. Paul
& Lis prison, writing my text, remems-
~ some Of the gorgeous sunsets
tnong the mountains of Asia Minor
"a how he had often seen the towers
- Damascus blaze at the close of the
sliental days, and he flashes out that
nenory in the text when he says: LET
81 the sun 60 down upon your
o1sfh."
oublime, all suggestive duty for peo-
Ie then and people now! Forgiveness
leaore sundown! He who never feels
slke throb of indignation is imbecile.
& Who can walk among the injustices
= he world inflicted upon himself and
IlAers without flush of cheek, or fash
IL re, Or agitation of nature, is either
hsympathy with wrong or semi-idiotic.
6ien Ananias, the high priest, ordered
~ constables of the courtroom to
unite Paul on the mouth, Paul fred up
nd said: @God shall smite thee, thou
shited wall!" In the sentence before
~ text Paul commands the Ephesians:
b ye angry and sin not" 1t all de-
pends on what you are mad at and how
~ the feeling lasts whether anger
= right or wrong. Life is full of ex-
s6peatiops. Saul after David, Succoth
sftef Gideon. Korah after Moses, the
aaquins after Augustus, the Phari.
- sfter Christ, and everyone has had
~ pursuers, and we are swindled Or
eehed Or misrep-esented or prosecuted
= y some way wronged, and the dan
81 y that healthfui indignation shall
oeeome baleful spite and that our feel
ings settle down into a prolonged out
Ronring OF temper displeasing to God
sad ruinous to ourselves, and hence
oe important Injunction of the text:
nrath.r
nv that limitation to ones anger:
~ that period of flaming vapor sci
81 puncfuatc q flaming disposition
snat has the sunset to do with ones
entful emotions? Was it a haphaz.
= sentiment written by Paul without
eeaai significance? No, no; I think
"a 3. nve reasons why we should not lei
sun set before our temper.
ss, because 10 hours is long enough
8 g cross about any wrong inflicted
81 j. q. Nothing is so exhausting te
cl health or mental faculty as q
! seted indulgence of i'll humor. Il
saan the nervous system. It hurts th.
s. sstion. It heats the blood in brair
aeart until the whole body is frs,
nsated and then depressed. Beside,
'.sa y scurs the disposition, turns on,
nom his legitimate work, expend'
,es that ought to be better EN-
su and does us more harm than i
opf antagonist. Paul gives us
wide allowance Of time for lie
ste denunciation, from six o'clocl
g O'clock, but says: .stop there!'
sssa me descending orb of day, ant
y reaches the horizon take a rec
dlsposition. Unloose your col
sad cool of. Change the subject t,
,a eaing delightfully pleasant. Un
- ~. -FOUR tight fist and shake hand
- some one.
- things being equal, the ma,
- reserves good temper will com
s;fas. -. An old writer says that tn
ed John Henderson, of Bristol
"a, vas at dining party wher
! q settlement ran high and Il
8 ot angry. and while Henderson
eaking his opponent, unable t
as argument, dashed glass,o
g ais face, when the speaker de