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Can the lightnings and the sunbeams play together in a garden at the*same hour? Can the blackness of midnight and the brightness of mid- noon lie wedded at the same altar? Is not anger a sin? Is not anger’s ebon featured twin sister, wrath, condemned again and again In sacred Scripture? ‘Wrath Is cruel, and auger Is out rageous,’ is the Solomonic arraignment of hate’s evil companions. And yet here today by this suggestive caption you are going to talk about ‘twilight forgiveness’ as though It was right sometimes to angry until sunset. Why, such a sermonic theme is not Biblical. It is not according to Hod’s will. Once let the egg of anger be incubated by the Satanic fires and the germs be allowed to lire even for a little while, and before sundown those minute particles of life will grow Into huge, hissing, venomous serpents that will poison with spiritual death the hand Uigt.i -tures them. Bettor make a fire In *•£ der magazine to cook an evening eal than allow anger to rest in your heart until the twilight.” “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath, for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God." Anger always a sin? Wrath always under divine condemnation? Oh, uo, my brother, you are wrong. Righteous Indignation has a right to live by di vine commandment. Supposing I go down the street and see a great, burly, drunken loafer abusing and kicking a little, helpless cripple. If I have the heart of a man shall not my eyes Hash and my cheeks flush and my fists clinch in the protection of that suffering child? Did not Christ in auger drive the mon ey changers out of the temple? Sup posing 1 should be called to my front door by a ring of the bell and there I should meet a man who, with cowhide or club, should begin to beat me and to knock me down. Must 1 quietly sub mit to being knocked down? Oh, uo. That is not the gospel. It is not Chris tian common sense. 1 should probably do as that Sunday school scholar re solved whose teacher one day said to him, “Charley, what does the Blb’.e teach you to do if one of your little playmates slapped you on one cheek?” *T would turn to him the other cheek," said the boy. “Then what would you do if he hit you on the other cheek?” ‘Thou,” said Charley, “I would hit him back as hard as I could.” Faul says: "Be ye angry and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” That means that there are times when we have a right to be indignant. There are times when we have a right to strike back. There are times when you and I must stand up for our rights. We are not doing justice to others when we al low others to be unjust to us. “But,” says my text, “there comes a time when your anger must cool and when jour striking hack must cease. With the setting sun you must hear uo mau a hard, a bitter or an angry thought or else that anger will do you more spiritual damage than It can ever do your adversary.” I hope I have made myself clear. I hope I have not dis honored God by laying down the broad premise—easy to be misunderstood— that It Is wrong to let others trample upon your rights, as It Is wrong for you to trample upon the rights of oth ers. A Practical Qacittlon. This fact, then. I think we may take for granted. Now comes a practical question. How are you and I going to treat those people who have been unjust to us In the past? There are scores of them who have done us wrong. At the time we did all we could to counteract this evil. Shall we continue to bear them a grudge? Shall we continue to be unforgiving and to bear malice toward them? Oh, no. Having done our best to counteract the evil deeds they have done to us, we should forgive and forget. Let each day that is dead bury the injustices of the past. “Twilight forgiveness" in the store, in the home, in the church, in our professional careers and on the playground and In the schoolroom. May Cod help me to show you that ev ery resentment harbored will curse you as well as curse your fellow men. I’ei haps when we attempt to pluck the motes out of our brother’s eyes we overlook huge beams In our own. There Is so much bad In the b< st of us. There Is so much Rnod In the worst of us. It hardly behooves any of us To think ill of the rest of us. “Anger in itself is no sin.” once wrote Dr. Goulburu, "but It lias a tendency rapidly to become so if it be harbor*' 1 too long. Like the manna of the wil derness. it corrupts and breeds worms if kept ovc . in the close chambers of the heir:, i .en it will appear In the morbid shapi >f spite, malice and revenge. Hie ( mi rule Is to , | I “H-W throw it all away before fermentation | Oh. my sister, your words are tragical commences." Why? Because inevlta- What! You have no use for the church niy if a person harbors ill will toward ! of Jesus Christ merely because you are another ho will focus his vision simply and entirely upon the evil which a mau does and not upon the good he la capa ble of doing and has done. He is like a ranchman or a farmer who peevishly goes forth and with his ax hews down a whole orchard merely because the San Jose scale honeycombs a few trees. He is like a lapidary who throws awav a valuable jewel because he has found one Haw in it. Because of some fault of character, because of some harboring a bitterness against some church members who did not do as they ought to do? Do you mean to tell me that you today have divorced all your Interests from the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which has done o much for your spiritual life and Is do ing so much for the salvation of the world, merely because you do not like a few members in it? TurniMl AaniuHt Chun-h. When I speak to you thus I am not weakness of nature, because of some ■ talking at random. There are hundreds meanness, because of some poor, little. g U( j thousands of Just such people as petty, fault finding disposition or som deprecatory jealousy in the makeup of you who have turned their backs upon the church, God’s mightiest agency for your friend j'ou are ready to turn your , (doing good, merely because they have back upon him and let the future part had an unfortunate experience with you as the waves of the sea separate some of its members. The other day I the new hemisphere from the old. j was talking to a noble man. He gives Only Firm* oiTenne. away hundreds and thousands of dd- One offense is often sufficient to J lars each year. Within his large mer- break up a lifetime of friendship. ; enntile establishment he runs a school. “What is the matter, Mr. So-and-so?’’ that his girl clerks and his boy clerks I ask. "Has any one done you au in i who have to earn a living at the time jury? You look angry enough to make somebody suffer.” “Well, I should say so,” you answer. "You know my o!d friend, John Newman. We have b' en for j’ears the closest of associates. Wo grew up together as boys. We ha\e had many business dealings in com mon. Some months ago he came to they should be in the schoolroom should not be entirely deprived of an education. He gives hundreds of dol lars annually for the temperance cause. No man who is trying to do right and Is flung on his back ever appealed to him for help in vain. Yet that man. with all his vast influence, has not for me and said:’Harry, I have a fine herd 1 years darkened church doors. Years of 'cattle out In western Kansas. 1 ago there was a church difficulty which want jam to help me weather the win ter through.’ I lent him 8500. He has not only lost every cent of It, but as far as I can make out he lied to me about the cattle. He never owned a horu or a hoof. He squandered my monej' In Wall street." "Is that so? What are you going to do?" “Noth Ing,” you answer. “What can I do ex cept contemptuously leave him aloneV Yes. j*ou can do that if you will. But tell me, friend, has John Newman ever failed you before? I grant that he w 1 j not truthful. I grant that he did not do right. But are you going to let that one act, that one sin. blot out the five hundred good deeds he lias done you in the past and the five hundred good deeds he would do for you in the fu ture if j’ou would only forgive him this once ami give him another chance? I revolved about him and his family. 1 Sad. sad. Infinitely sad, that he should ! refuse to be one with the church be cause of a bitter grudge In* holds ' against some church members who did not treat him right! For, in spite of all l he has done, I eonfidentlj’ assert that ' the seed he had sown would have mul tiplied a thousandfold instead of. as now, producing only sixtyfold had he been working inside of the church of G »d instead of outside. That man for years has held aloof from the church ; because be cherished resentment ! against some of its members. He dis obeyed tin* injunction of my text. “Let uot the sun go down upon your wrath." "Nerw inf tol>e a member of tin* Jwsaty rfjpucv - <«ld the wife of one of my elders a short time ago. "Why not?” “About ten years ago I Because a gun misses fire once or | went to one of their mmdings. Of all twlee or thrice shall the hunter throw it aside as useless? Yet that is the way some of us deal with those who have done us wrong. Suppose you were In the position of a very dear friend of mine some years ago. He took a young man into his employ and made him his right hand man in tin* business. He confided to him his most treasured secrets and purposes. One day that young man, under great temptation, betrayed my friend. He tried to start a rival business and to entice away all his clerks and steal Ids employer’s agencies. He failed. What would you do under such conditions? For the one error, the one mistake, would you blind your eyes to man* j’ears of faithful service? "Lot uot the sun go down upon jour wrath.” You had a right to be angry for a little while. In one sense, j’ou had a right to strike back. But do not bear that grudge any longer. "Forget and for give” Is the meaning of the Fauliue commandment. Home Hule’n Waterloo. But the danger of harboring resent ment is not limited to the breaking of friendships; we may suffer it to preju dice us against good causes. Trj’ as hard as we will, we must and do asso ciate the success or tin* failure of the onward movements of great principles and causes with the personalities of our friends and neighbors. When Charles Stewart Parnell was dethroned from the respect and affections of his colleagues tin* Irish cause of home rule met its Waterloo. Home rule was de feated at the time when the palm of victory was about to be grasped by the outreuchiug hands of its advocates. When Mark Antony loved his sinful Egyptian enchantress more than he loved Rome, then the mightiest war chieftain who ever trod In the foot steps of Julius Caesar saw his follow ers flee his standards, even as the birds of tin* forests seek the shelter of their nests before the tempest blasts of the onsweeping tornado. When Mirabeau breathed his last and was thought to be untrue by his henchmen, then the royalists’ cause was defeated in France, and the guillotine had to be drenched with the blood of a Marie Antoinette and a Louis XVI. Suj’ what j’ou may, every man naturally represents a cause or a principle apart from his personality. When you bear grudge^ against men you bear grudges against causes. When you divorce your affections from individuals you lose your fidelity to the causes and move ments which those men, in more than one sense, may typify. Let me Illustrate. Why are you prej udiced against the church of the Lord Jesus Christ? You are uot bad. You believe In Jesus as your Saviour. You were reared in a Christian home. Some of the best and happiest recollections of your life are of the Sunday school and of the church of which your moth er was a member. "I know it,” yon answer. "I never think of the church of mj’ youth but with moistened eyes and tremulous lips. I would not be the woman I am today bad I not had that past church training. But about ten j’ears ago we bad an awful church row. They sa. the worst rows on earth are church row’s, and I believe It The people in our church divided them selves Into fact ms. My husband was a trustee. They charged him with dis honesty and no more honest man ever lived than he. The minister might have stopped the dlflieuliy, bu! he did not. W»* left the church. We took our letters Th * result? My husband and I have never been h*. ah* of 1 church Hint*'. We are uot Inti ':*' •. ho ve er We pra>. \fe p"i ’ 1' e Ri'u’o | !T q flro simply have no use for church people." the backbitings and censorious criti cism ever heard theirs were the worst.” Oh, friend, is such a state ment right? Because Judas betrayed Christ, Is that any reason you should refuse to be a disciple of Christ? Be cause last year one of our missionary leaders or one of. the trustees of an orphan's home proved a rascal and was found to be a defaulter, is that any reason we should refuse our aid to ward those beneficent institutions? In your hatred for man you are blinding your ejes to the goo l j’ou can do to institutions and great reformatory movement You are acting as foolish ly as the a trim nner who would refuse to climb the stellar ladder of the night and walk with God amid the Infinities of space merely because a lly speck gets upon the lens of his telescope. O man, grow bigger! Widen your horizon. Do not peevishly stop your tramp up the heights of Mount Wash ington, where you can see all New Eng land under jour feet, merely because a snarling puppy comes out of a barn yard and barks at you as you walk along the country highway. Do not sap j’our life's usefulness by your grudges against a few men. Live for principles. Live for movements. Live for institutions. If some people who are working by your side for those causes are not what they ought to be. then do not us a coward desert your post ou the picket lines of the world's great armies in the time of mortal combat. Drop Your Hatreds. But there Is yet another reason why you should drop all your hatreds and animosities as kindlings into the great conflagrations of the setting sun. You may be purified by the divine fires of trouble. But no man was ever able to make a brother better and truer and purer by hatred and malice and wrath and contempt. You have tried It in tin* past. You have piled up your ex coriating remarks In great heaps. You have rolled down great avalanches of denunciation. You have exhausted your whole vocabulary and roamed throng 1 hundreds of dictionary pages to find ver biage sulphurous enough to depict your withering contempt. But did it do any good? Have you made your brother love you any better? Have you made him a truer or a better man? Have you belli ed j’our relationship with him in the least? For fifteen years you have walked down the street and met him on an average at least once a week. You stare at him. What good are you accomplishing by such bitter actions? Absolute!* - none. Absolute!*’ no good results for yourself. Absolutely no good results for him. Motive For Crime. What is the purpose bidden In your heart of liarboring up that grudge or malicy or hatred against j’our neigh bors or your past friend? One of the first moves of a prosecuting attorney In trying a criminal Is to find a motive for the crime. The district attorn y says to himself, "Here Is murder com milted. Who would he benefited by tin* death of this victim?” Ib* always looks for a motive to trace crime. When Senator Lei air I Stanford’s wld ow died In Honolulu the news was flashed over the kind that she hud bi*<*u murdered with strychnine. Post nior tern examination proved that poison had boon absorbed by tin* deceie-od But when the motive of the suppo -l tgiuse was sought non If Mrs. Stanford wu orlmHial has gone f; tectlve ran find a li the murderer. L*ci * has a motive. Wh.it for the slnfti! hair neighbor? Be • u:m i ntild tie found, is murdered (lie ,- bcenu>c no de dive to trace out crime, as a rule, motive have you "1 ' vour v >u li.'io him ib you think he will be inspired by love t > return to you fourfold of what he took? Because you hate him do you think he will be influenced to be a better and a nobler character? Because you hate him do you think the old bonds of affection will be knitted to- gether again? Oh, no. Continued wrath may destroy, but It never j’et purified. Dr. Adams once said, “The angry man is like a ship sent to sea which hath a devil for a pilot!” I say in our dealings with a brother, a bitter, . indietlve. hating man Is like a pirate sailing under a black flag, whose only purpose is to wreck and not to help or rescue or save. We should renounce all our hatreds and bitternesses and animosities to ward our brothers because these ha treds are cursing our spiritual lives as well as theirs. You can denounce your neighbor for doing wrong. You can hate him or despise him. Oh, j’es. But ! when you do, he well aware that jour owu spiritual life is gradually ebbing away. Week by week, month by month, year by year/on account of that bitterness you have been lifting higher ! and higher and higher an unsurmount- able wall between you and God. Brother, sister, it is high time you tore down that obstructing wall. It Is high time you eonsumed that hatred in the conflagration of tin* setting sun. It is destroying your spiritual hopes. There is no doubt about it—you cannot love your God with all your soul and mind and strength and hate your neighbor at the same time. Foriflvciipni* of Othern. Can you not forgive others as you would have Christ forgive j'ou? Not many years ago, wrote a famous writ er, a missionarj’ was preaching to a crowd of natives in faroff India. Sud denly a native who stood behind him lifted a huge stick to crush in the mis sionary's skull, but happily the blow fell short. The crowd would have torn this would be murderer to pieces, but the speaker commanded them to stop. 1 “Kill him! Kill him!" cried the multi tude. "No.” saiil the missionary, “I will not allow jou to kill him.” Then, turning to the affrighted mau, he said: “Brother, my religion commands me to love my enemies and to do good to those *\lto injure me. I forgive you, brother. But remember that though you escaped punishment at my hands you cannot escape punishment at the hands of God unless you repent of your sins.” Men. women, can you forgive as this missionary forgave? ChrNt bids you to forgive. Can you not feel, as the m X'ion ary taught, that when you a** U’ltlng y^ur brother you are hating Chri't? 'Lhere Is na escape from eternal punishment aniens you repent of yiir sins and forgive fliosc- who flare injured j’ou. See, the sun is set! It is now the twilight hour. Hear ye uot the divine commandment: “Be ye angry and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath? In closing I would draw a picture of the evening hour which we used to spend in our childhood days and tind in it a synio d of our evening relation ship with God. The breakfast was nearly always a hurried meal. The children had to get off to school. The father had to rush away to business. The mother had no servants In those days, and all the housework had to be done with her own hands. Many cares came with their imminent demands and said, “ 'Tend to me; ‘tend to me now.” Then when the lunch hour rolled around the dining room table was set only for two or three. Most of the fam ily were away. But in the evening hour father came home from the store. Then mother had her work finished. Sin* had put on her clean dress. The boys were home from school or work, and the girls were all ready for the games and innocent pleasures of the | evening. “How did you get ou, father?" mother asked. "Oh,” said he, "things were kind of toptj’ turvy at the store. It did seem as though I had to scold and find fault an awful lot. But after all. mother, 1 think the boys at the store will impr< e if I only continue to teach them right.” Then mother told her experiences of the day. The chil dren had all their happy stories to re peat. Then one of the girls began to tell bow some one had treated her bad ly,'and she said, “Mother, I am Just ns mad at Clara as I can be." “There, there, there, child,” said your mother; “stop that. You have uo right to bring home disagreeable things and feel un happy toward any one. Let us leave all our cares and worries and bitter nesses on our front doorstep. Tills Is familj’ night. I^*t us all love every body and love one another and be hap py.” I,ove One Another. Love one another and be happy you did. No one who ever came* in touch with mother’s sweet smile could ever do anything but love. Thus Go 1 want-i us to come to him In the twilight hour. Employer, you have scolded that clerk enough because he broke the glass counter; check your anger. Business man, many hours ago you denounce' that buslne^ associate who did you wrong. lie knows that you will not al low li m to be unjust again. L'*t flie mat'er drop Schoolgirl, no me I <>f telling the irvan things that j’ou know about your < l.i smate. Forget and for give. R'*n mber ibis h the even ng Inur. Tin* twilight has grown darke!* and dark ■:•. The myriads of stars, as torches In tin* heavens, have been llg'it ed. “Con e!” says Christ. "Come an I sit by in*' side, my child. Leave all of tin* Injindlc s of the past behind. I! moriilur, son. that as you have he niisrciireseiiiec', s<» have I. Remetnhc" dau ht r. a o !■■ rs hive 111 used j’ .• • > have lli y HI used jour Christ. Fo get and fo g' - ,’!* t!"* trespasses of 0M1 era, as I jiui b tting out your s! -• In my hi ,i>! Thl< Is the twilight lion • Come and t and talk with me I a y<>ur friend and Snviou . 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