The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-02-10

am dead that forgive him." Rolof. the
confessor, said, "Her majesty had better
write him Immediately" mo-, said the
king, "after am dead; that will be safer"
So he let the sun OF his earthly exlstence
60 down upon his wrath.
Again, we ought not to allow the sun to
set before forgiveness takes place. because
we might not live to see another day. And
what ii we should be ushered into the
presence OF our Maker With grudge upon
our soul2 The majority OF people depart
this life in the night. Between IL o'clock
o. m. and 8 o'clock a. m. there Is some-
thing In the atmosphere which rela xes the
grip which the body has on the soul, ana
most people enter the next world through
the shadows of this world. Perhaps God
NAV have arranged 1t In that way SO rs to
make the contrast the more glorious. !
have seen sunshiny days In this world that
must have been almost like the radiance OF
heaven. But as most people leave the
earth bet ween sundown and sunrise they
quit this world at its darkest, and heaven
always bright, will be the brighter for that
contrast. Out Of darkness into irradia-
| ton.
"But," says some woman, "there is
| horrld creature that has 80 injured me
that rather than make up with her l
would die first" Well, sister, You may
take your choice, for one or the other it
| will De--your complete pardon OF her or
| Gods eteI nal Punishment OF you. But"
says some man, "that fellow who cheated
me out OF those goods, or damaged my
business credit, or started that lie about
me in the newspapers, or by his perfdy
| broke up my domestic happiness, forgive
him I cannot, forgive him I will notl"
| Well. brother, take your choice. You will
never be at peace with Col till you are at
peace with man. Feeling as you now 40,
YOU would not get so near the har5or OF
heaven as to see the lightship. Better
l hat
| vengeance Is Mine. I will repay" You
NAV say: 81 will make him sweat for that
vet. I 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 i'm possibiity. II he will not
be reconciled to you, bs reconciled to him.
In five or six hours it will be shutdown.
The dahlias will bloom against the west,
ern sky. Somewhere between this ana
that take a shovel and bury the old
quarrel at least six feet deep. Let mol
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 affronts, because We may associate
the sublimest action OF the soul with the
sublimest spectacle In nature. 1t Is most
delightsoms thing to have our personal
experiences allied with certain subjects.
There is 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 afHanced with
the companion who has been your chiei
> 10 In life.. You never speak OF that place
. vut with a smile. Some OF you have pleas
ant memories connected with the evening
star, or the moon in its first quarter, or
: with the sunrise. because you saw IL JUST as
you were arriving at harbor after tenn
> pestuous VOYAGE. Forever and forever.
; admit 1t Is the most difficult OF all
4 craces to practice, and at the start you may
4 make q complete failure, but keep on IN
a the attempt to practice 1t. Shakespeare
let ;" and seventeen plays before he reached
;, Merchant OF Venice" and twenty eigh,
= PLAYS before he reached Macbeth" And
y gradually you will come from the easiel
!. graces to the most difficult. Besides that
!. it is not matter OF personal determination
Al so much rs the laying ho'a OF tne u,
"a mighty arm OF God. who will help US TO az
A. anything we ought to do. Remember tina
in all personal controversies the one leas
:, | to blame will have to take the first step
!. paciication II 1t Is ever effected. Inc con
:, test between Eschines and Aristippus re
q sounds through history. but Aristippus
~ who was least to blame, went to Eschlne
~ and said, "Shall we not agree to be friend
a before we make ourselves the Laughing
- stock OF the whole country" And Eschine
: said, "Thou art far better man than
Ia for began the quarrel. but thou has bee
a. the first in healing the breach" And the
a were always friends afterwards. so lie
~ the one OF you that is least to blame tax
Ia the first step toward reconciliation. Th'
~ one most in the wrong will never take 1t.
q Oh. 1t makes one feel splendid to be abb
n by Gods help to practice unlimited foI
N giveness. 1t improves ones Doay ana SOU
"a My brother, 1t will make you measure thre
h. or four more inches around the chest an
: improve your respiration SO that you ca
!. take q deeper and longer breath. 1t In
70 | proves the countenance1 by scattering tn
NJ gloom and makes you somewhat like Go
=. copy that. He is independent OF ali tn
10 universe, and we cannot copy that. He
IN | creative and we cannot copy that. he
n omnipresent, and We cannot copy that. Blu
~ H. forgiyes with a broad sweep all faults
N aud all neglects, and all insults, ana a.
81 wrongdoings, and In that we may copy Hit
r. with mighty success. Go harness that sui
,. lime action of your soul to the sunset-th
10 hour when the gate OF heaven opens to le
ar the day pass into eternities and some
~ the glories escape this way through tn
s oo brief opening. We talk about the Italia
% % sunsets. and sunset amid the Apenninei
u and sunset amid the cordilleras, but l wi
an tell you how you may see a grander sunse
' than any mere lover OF nature ever Denel
IN that is, by finging into 1t all your hatred
~ | and amin osttieS, and let the horses oi III
-, trample them, and the chariots OF FIRE 70
mi over them, and the spearmen OF fire sta
al al them, and the beach Of fire consume then
o ~. and the pillows Of fire overwhelm them.
rs Again, we should not let the sun 90 dow
n na on our wrath, because 1t is OF little In
portance what the world says OF you {
"a does to you when you have the af1ueI
a. God OF the sunset as your provider an
pa. defender. People talk as though 1t were
,o fixed spectacle Of nature and always tt
~, same. But no one ever saw two sunse
no alike, and II the world has existed 60'
~. years there have been about 2,19O, 900 sui
a., sets, each of them as distinct from all II
hho other pictures In the gallery of the sky
pS Titian's Last Supper" Rubens' "Descel
nc From the Cross" Raphael's "Transfgur
lion" and Michael Angeles Last Jud
inent" are distinct from each other.
~; ~ that God OF such infinite resources tn
Is. ,aS lie can put on the wall OF the sky ea'
t ta evening more than the Louvre and Luxer
va "a bourg galleries all In one Is my God al
e ;H your God, our provider and protecto
i've what is the use Of our worrying about al
a ,a human antagonism2 II We are misinte
IN preted. the God Of the many colored su
JUL set can put the right color on our actto
e.. II all the garniture OF the western beaye
20. ol at eyentide is but the upholstery OF one
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