HT a DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. Forgiveness Before Sundown, “let not the sun go down upon your w rath." Eph. 4: 5. WHAT a pillow, embroidered of all golors, hath the dying day! The cradle of clouds from which the sun rises is beautiful enough, but it is surpassed by {he many-colored mausoleum in which, at evening, it is buried. SUNSET AMONG THE MOUNTAINS | It almost takes one’s breath away to recall the scene. The long shadows stretching over the plain make the glory of the departing light, on the tiptop crags. and struck aslant though the foliage, the more transpicuous. Saffron and gold, purple and crimson com- mingled. All the castles of cloud in nilagration. Burning Moscows Hanging gardens of roses at Banners of vapor, "0 he sky. ir deepest blush, the Adirondacks, among the A among 1 atl The and the Ips, know what is a nountaii the rolling grandeu the sun goes down to bathe at : to weird | splendid dreams out « "Alexander Smith, in the hell, elements, villager in vf Swiss 18, make fe 4 . i ¥ + | » thier iLiail 1s somelning sunset ”? but rememi sunsets among the ir. and how he the towers of Damascus rs which sounded through the building: “I do believe,” And then she laid her twisted arm and hand out as straight ad your arm and hand, or mine. If 1 had seen her rise from the dead, 1 would not have been much more thrilled, Since then I believe that God will do anything in answer to our prayer and in answer to our faith, and He can heal pur bodies, and if our soul is all twisted and misshapen of revenge and hate and inflamed with sinful proclivity, He can straighten that also and make it well and clean. Aye, you will not postpone till su down forgiveness of enemies if youcas realize that their behavior towards you may be Pull i I of I of the ** I= have had multitudes of friends, but my own exj ged arral opportuniti been Oped Chris to prea toresis a s1yerl on our wrath, that memory pie { hen and people now! In before sundown! Ile ver feels the throb of indignatio becile, He who can walk among the of the world inflicted i without flush of itatin fF ation of O88 18tiees : ' : on the fired up « thou innedl hee ee, fore my minanas +t Je MS s € 3 SUN Will its and the afternoc 1 . i ot feuds, $ DIGRESSION her gs being equal, good An old essayist the celebrated John Henderson, « tol, England, where political excitement ran high and the debate got angry, and while Hen- derson was speaking, his opponent, un- able to answer his argument, dashed a glass of wine in his face, when speaker deliberately wiped the liquid from his face and said: **This, sir, is a digression; now, if you please, for the main argument.” While worldly phil- osophy could help but very few to such equipoise of spirit, the grace of God could help any man to such a triumph, “Impossible,’’ you say, ‘I would have either left the table in anger or have knocked the man down.” gome to believe that nothing is lmpossi- le if God help, since who 1% ahs out ahead, preserves WHAT I SAW AT BETHSHAN faith cure in London, England, two summers ago, While the religious ser- vice was going on, Rev, Dr. Boardman, glorious man! since gone to his heaven- ly rest, was telling the scores of sick people present that Christ was there as of old to heal all diseases, and that, if they would only believe, their sickness would depart. 1 saw a woman near me, with hand and arm twisted of rheumatism, and her wrist was flery with inflammation, and it looked like those cases of chronde rheumatism which we have all seen and sympathized with, «cases beyond all human healing, At the preachier’s reiteration of the words: “Will you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe now?” I heard this woor sick woman say, with an emphasis than ugh sa 4 3 TTY 2 1 ood to bring you “a ’ I vour chil together? that Nebuch- against ha was dead, he burned to ashes and then into four sacks and tied which And there OW adi / h a spite his father t had his father put the ashes four eagles’ necks i i i i i | to have scattered all parental memories to the four winds of heaven. How far the eagles fly with that sacred ashes! The hour of sundown makes to practical suggestion, was told by the confessor he must be at enter heaven. Then he said to his wife the Queen : “Write to your brother after I am dead that I forgive him.”’ Roloff, the confessor, said: “Her Majesty had better write him immediately.”” ‘‘No,” will be safer.” 8o he let the sun of his earthly existence go down upon his wrath. i must have been almost like the radiance of heaven, ut as most people leave the earth between sundown and sunrise they quit this world at its darkest, and heaven always bright, will be the bright- er for that contrast, Out of darkness into irradiation, ground of disease and death, carrying our animosities with us? Who would want to confront his God, against whom we have all done meaner things than anybody has ever done against us, carry- forgiveness for the greater when we are not willing to forgive others for Napoleon was encouraged to undertake less? magne had crossed them. And all bears who we ough previously fooists rough wi Wi bleeding juered tl t to be the night of our departure from next, our one plea will | COI 1 Hine HIE WO into the 1 and it will wnee of 111 he ire 107 Mercy, have { Him vou forgive not mn diary GERTILSNS nay THE SUBI with the It is a most our personal certain subjects, There is river ba God your prayer. You will never pass that place ol that pl glorious ASSO CXperniences nk where first anss 5 $ Ce it withou in uni fHinl ¢ WHDK Of of the i Comin Soe room On. some gate or O1 your chief joy in life, of vou have pleasant nected with the evening moon in its first quarter, or with the sunrise. Decause you saw it just as you were arriving at harbor after tempest. uous voyage. Forever and forever, Oh memories cone magnanimous, out and out, renunciation of all hatreds and forgive- ness of all foes, I admit it is the most difficult of all sun to set before forgiveness takes place. BECAUSE WE MIGHT NOT LIVE to eee another day. And what if we should be ushered into the presence of our Maker with a grudge upon our soul? The majority of people depart this life in the night. Between eleven o'clock r. a. 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 of people en- ter the next world through the shadows of this world, Perhaps God may have arranges it in that way so as to make the contrast the more glorious, 1 have seen sunshiny days in this world that may make a complete failure, but keep on in the attempt to practice it, Shake- speare wrote ten plays before he reached “Hamlet,” and seventeen plays before he reached “Merchant of Venice,’ and twenty-eight plays before he reached “Macbeth,” And gradually you will come from the easier graces to the most difficult. Beside that, it is not a mat- ter of personal determination so much as the laying hold of the almighty arm of God, who will help us to do anythin we ought to do. Remember that in al personal controversies THE OXE LEAST TO BLAME will have to take the first step at paciti i | cation, if it is even test between effective, Aeschines and Arist) resounds through history, but pus, who least to blame Aeschines and said: “Shall agree to be friends before we make selves the laughing stock of the And Aeschines sald : * pp A ristip Wis went wo whole JEEATL the quarrel, but thou hast been the first and they were afterwards, So let ig least to blame tep toward conciliation, in the wrong will in healing the always friends you that breach,” one ol take The take the first One most 11eVel it. Oh ble it makes one feel splendidly to | a by God’s help to practi forvivern ; HProves and make more inch Hnprove your it take a d 10d wlence CKS gathers the track of old age shail the Vacant Heaven, ——-— American Cann y Sunrise North ibals, Dr. Frank Boas, in a report on tl Indian tribes of British Columbia, that the principal figure in the mytho- logy of several of them is a raven, created all things, not for the benefit of mankind, but to ‘“‘revenge himself ie one of their ancestors descended from bal ceremonies. The ceremonies have been adopted only in part by the Qomaks, who content themselves with eating “artificial’’ bodies, which they prepare “py sewing dried halibut to a human skeleton,” Versatility can do little for a young man in the race for permanent pros perity. It is no advantage to him if he can turn his band to anything. He should be able to do rome one thing thoroughly and well, The finer the nature, the more flaws will It show through the clearness of it, The best things are seidom seen in thelr best form, The wild grass grows well and strongly one year with another; but the wheat is, by reason of its greater nobleness, liable to a bitter blight, SUNDAY SCHOOL, LESSON. Buxpay, Nov. 13, Christ's Witness to John. LESSON TEXT. 2-15. 1847, 11 Memory verses, & LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE QUARTER : King in Zion. GorpeEs Text yor THE | Thine, O Lord, {8 the greaines power, and the glory, and th victory, | and the majesty: for all that is the | heaven and in the earth is thine; | | Matt i i | { | in thine is 1 Chron, 29 18 head above : 11. 1 Tle King ng's Message 10 1! “4, ng's Quest! Mualtitude Ax to the Herald's Office 3 14 ia orrent if FOAL Ol =~ The dominating and much ophet of God: (2) The herald of + (3) The awakener of Messiah Israel. “My messenger.’ (1) Foretold by prophecy ; (2) Accredited of God ; 3) Honored by men; (4) Com- mended by Christ, THE KING'S COMMENDATION HIS HERALD, I. As Personally Great: There hath not arisen a greater than John (11). Whosoever would be first, ....shall be servant of all (Mark 10 : 44). He shall be great in the sight of the Lord (Luke 1 : 15). There is none greater than John (Luke 7 : 98). He that is least among you all, the same is great (Luke 9 : 48). 1. As Historically Pivotal : From the days of John... until now . ++ » Prophesied until John (12 : 13). The kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matt. 3 : 2). From that time began Jesus to preach (Matt, 4: 17). The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand (Mark 1 : 15). { HL, OF | i John (Luke 16 : 16), ITI, As Like Elijah : This is Elijah i I, I will send (Mal. 4:5). Behold prophet EE ——— SUPERSTITIOUS TERROR. Ihe Stren Power It May lxert gth and Even 1 LU pon dle ofa Man crest } Brandywine, wwse and hill which « he suddenly checked his he ed about him in silence for a few mo- nents. He then said to a friend: “I dreamed of this place before I left Eng- land. Isaw itall, in every detail. I here.” He called his servant, and gave him his money, watch and a message for his mother. He was one the frst men to fall in the engage- The coincidence was singular, But when we consider that probably ninety men in every hundred go inlo a battle believing that they shall fall in 100K ~ w : ments is not established by one or two fulfilled premonitions, No record is preserved of the cases in which a very strong presentiment is followed by events which bear no re- semblance to those anticipated. These, "nevertheless, constitute so large a pro- portion of the whole #hat when the matter is viewed merely as a problem of chances, it is extremely improbable that any particuler presentiment will be fulfilled. Oatmeal porridge 18 one of the best things to begin the day with. Those who dislike it should take it as a medi- cine, ‘I'he good we have received from a man should make us bear with the ill he does us. It is not enough to possess great qualities; we must also have the man agement of them,
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