The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-01-05

tunities of usefulness that have hoe,
opened before me were opened by enc
Inles. SO you may harness your antag
onists TO your best interests and com
pei them 10 draw YOU on TO better worl
ana higher character. Suppose, in.
stead of waiting until 80 minutes after
four this evening, when the sun will
set You transact this glorious work OF
forgiveness at meridian.
Again, we ought not to let the sun 20
DOWN on our wrath, because we will
sleep better If we are at peace with
everybody. Insomnia is getting to be
one of the most prevalent Of disorders.
How few people retire at ten o'clock At
night and sleep clear through TO six in
the morning. TO relieve this disorder
all narcotics and sedatiyes and NOR
phne and choral and bromide OF potas-
SUM and cocaine and intoxicants are
used. but nothing is more important
than a quiet spirit if we would win
somnolence. How is man going to
sleep when he is in mind pursuing an
enemy? With what nervous twitch he
Will start out of a dreaml That new
plan Of cornering his foe will keep him
wide awake while the clock strikes II.
u. 1, 2. l give you an unfailing
prescription for wakefulness:X Spend
the evening hours rehearsing your
wrongs and the best way of ayenging
them. Hold convention of friends on
this subject in your parlor or Office at
eight or nine o'clock. Close the evening
by writing a bitter letter expressing
your sentiments. Take from the desk
or pigeonhole the papers in the case to
refresh your mind with your enemy's
meanness. Then lie down and wait for
the coming Of the day, and it will come
before sleep comes, or your sleep will be
worried quiescence and, if you take the
precaution 10 lie fiat on your back, a
frightful nightmare.
Why not put bound to your animos-
ity? Why let your foes come into the
sanctities of your dormitory? Why let
those s.anderers who have already torn
your reputation TO pieces or injured
your business bend over your midnight
pillow and drive from you one of the
greatest blessings that God can offer
sweet, refreshing, all inyigorating
sleep? Why not fence out your enc
mics by the golden bars of the sunset?
Why not stand behind the barricsde Of
evening cloud and say 10 them: Thus
far and no farther" Many man and /
many woman is having The health of /
body as well as the health of soul eaten |
away by the malevolent spirit. have |
in time of religious awakening Lad per- /
sons night after night come into the |
inquiry room and set no peace of soul. /
After awhile have bluntly asked them: I
rs there not some one against whom
you have a hatred you are not willing
10 give upg" After little confusion,
they have slightly whispered Yes"
Then have said: You will never find
peace with God as long as you retain
that virulence."
Again, we ought not TO allow the sun
to set before forgiveness takes place,
because we might not live 10 see an
other day. And what il we should be
ushercd into the presence Of our Maker
with grudge upon our soul? The ma
jority of people depart this life in the
night. Between IL O'Clock p. m. and
three o'clock a. m. there is something
in the atmosphere which relaxes the
grip which the body has on the soul.
and most people enter the next world
through the shadows of this world.
Perhaps God may have arranged it that
way so as to make the contrast the more
glorious. / have seen sunshiny days
in this world that must have been al
most like the radiance Of Heaven. But
as most people leave the earth between
sundOwn and sunrise they quit this
world at its darkest, and Heaven, al
ways bright, will be the brighter for
that contrast. Out of darkness into ir-
radiation.
Shall we then leap over the roseate
bank Of sunset into the fayorite hunt
ng ground of disease and death, carry
ng our animosities with US? Who
would want to confront his God. against
whom we have all done meaner things
han anybody has ever done against
is, carrying old grudges? How can
ye expect His forgiveness for the great
II when we are not willing to forgive
'thers for the less? Napoleon was en-
.ouraged to undertake the crossing Of
he Alps because Charlemagne had pre-
iously crossed them. And all this {
ugged path of forgiveness bears the
bleeding footsteps of Him who con- ]
Iuered through suffering, and we ought
o be willing TO follow. On the night I
f our departure from this life into '
he next our one plea wiA have TO be 4
or mercy. and it will have TO be offered j
b the presence of Him who has said: r
II you forgive not men their trespasses. q
either viii your Heavenly Father for |
i've your trespasses." Ii
What sorry plight if we stand there e
ating this one and hating that one and r
fishing that one damage and wishing Il
ome one else calamity, and we our e
slves needing forgiveness for 10000 G
bliqutes of heart and life. When our c
ist hour comes, we want il TO find us Il
\ right II
Hardly anything affects me so much Il
the uncovering Of Pompeii as the ac- o
,unt of the soldier who, after the city b
nd for many centuries been covered z
it'll the ashes and scorae of Vesuvius, 4
as found standing in his place on a
lard, hand on spear and helmet on o.
.ad. Others fed at the awful sub e.
but the explorer, LOO d