Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-11

am dead that Iforgive him." Roloff, the
write him immediately" mo-" said the
king, "after am dead; that will be safer"
So he let the sun of his earthly existence
go 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 IL we should be ushered into the
presence OF our Maker with grudge upoD
our soul! The majority Of people depart
this life IN the night. Between II O'Clock
p. IN. and O'Clock Il. IN. there is some
thing in the atm osphere which rela xes 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 in that way so as tc
make the contrast the more glorious.
have seen sunshtny days In this world that
must have been almost like the radiance oil
heaven. But as most people leave the
earth bet ween sundown and sunrise they
quit this world at its darkest. and heaver
always bright, will be the brighter for thai
contrast. Out Of darkness into irradia
tion.
But" says some woman, "there is
horrid creature that has SO injured me-
that rather than make up with her
would die first" Well, sister, you may
take your choice, for one or the other i
will be-your complete pardon OF her OF
Gods eternal banisnment of you. '.But,'
says some man, "that fellow who cbeated
me out OF those goods, or damaged mi
business credit, or started that lie aboui
me In the newspapers, or by his per6d,
broke up my domestic happiness forgive
him cannot, forgive him will notl'
never be at peace with Col till you are a,
peace with man. Feeling as you now do
you would not get so near the har5or ol
heaven as to SEQ the lightshIp. Bette,
leave that man with the God who said,
Vengeance Is Mine. I will repay Yor
may say: 81 will make him sweat for that
yet. will make him squirm. mean te
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 ne will not
be reconciled to you, be reconcled to him.
In five or six hours 1t will be sundowp
The dahlias will bloom against the west
ern sky. Somewhere between this
that take shovel and bury =
quarrel at least six feet deep
the sun 60 down upon your wr,
Again, we ought not to allor
Of the sunset hour before the
all our uffronts, because we
the sublimest action of the
sublimest spectacle In nature
delightsome thing to have
experiences allied with cert
There Is tree or river ba
first answered your prayer.
pass that place or think of (
ont thinking Of the glorio,
There was some gate or sor
garden wall where you wer
va companion who has
10 In life. You never sp'e,
lit with Il smile. Som vi -
star, or the moon in its first quart OF
with the sunriSe, becPfuse you saw IL Just as
You were arriving at harpor after tenn
/ admit it VS. the most difficult of all
cruces TO nro A6tice. and ut the start you may
mako coSnplete failure, but keep on in
the attevnpt TO practice it. Shakespeare
wrote ten plays before he reached Ham;
uvsierchant Of Venice" and twenty eight
I plays Lefore he reached Macbeth And
gradually you will come from the easier
| graces to the most difficult. Besides that,
1t is not u 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
pacilication If 1t is ever effected. The con.
test between Eschtnes and Aristippus re-
sounds through history. but Aristippus,
who was least to blame, went to Eschnei
and said, "Shall we not agree to be friends
before we make ourselves the laughing
stock OF the whole country?" And Eschines
said, Thou art fur better man than 1
for 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
the first step toward reconciliation. The
one most in the wrong will never take it.
Oh. 1t make, one feel splendid to be able
by Gods help to practice unlimited for.
Siveness. 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
tnke il deeper and longer breath. 1t i'm
proves the couatenancei by scattering the
gloom and makes you somewhat like God
himself. He Is omnipotent, and we cannot
copy that. He is independent of all the
universe, and we cannot copy that. Heis
creative, and We cannot copy that. He is
omnipresent, and we cannot copy that. But
He forgives with q broad sweep all faults,
and all neglects, and all insults. and all
wrongdoiDgs. 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 glories escape this way through the
brief opening. We talk about the Italian
sunsets, and sunset amid the Apennines
and sunset amid the cordilleras, but will
tell you how You may see grander sunset
than any mere lover of nature ever beheld
that is, by flinging into it all your hatreds
and animosities, and let the horses of fire
trnmple them and the chariots of ( re roll
over them, and the spearmen of fire stab
them. and the beach OF fire consume them,
and the pillows 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 to you when you have the affluent
God OF the sunset as your provider and
defender. People talk as though II wereta
fixed spectacle of nature and always the
same. But no one ever saw two sunsets
alike, and II the world has existed 6000
years there have been about 2.l90, 900 sun
sets, each Of them as distinct from all the
other pictures in the gallery Of the sky as
Titian's Last SUPPER" Rubens' Descent
From the Cross" Raphael's "Trans1gura-
tion" and Michael Angeles Last Judg-
ment" are distinct from each other. II
that God OF such infinite resources that
He can put ON the wall of the sky each
evening more than the Louvre and Luxem-
bourg galleries all in one is my God and
xnur Col our nroyider and nrotactor