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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
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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 **
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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
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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
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ood to bring you
“a
’
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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
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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 |
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into the
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and it will
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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
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nk where first anss
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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
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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;
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thine is
1 Chron, 29
18 head above : 11.
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King
ng's Message 10 1!
“4,
ng's Quest!
Mualtitude
Ax to the Herald's Office
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orrent if
FOAL Ol
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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
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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 ~
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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,