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Dk.TALriAGE’S SERnONf
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The Eminent Divine’s Sunday?
Discourse.
Subject - Control Sour Temper—Why One
May Mace a Wholesome Indignation-*
Sins That We Should Be Aunty With
—Pity the Sinner.
ICopjrright 1901.1
Washington, D. C. A delicate and
difficult duty is by Dr. Tahnage in this
discourse urged upon all and especially
upon those given to quick temper; text,
Ephesians iv, 26, "Be ye angry and sin
not.”
Equipoise ot omper, kindness, patience,
forbearance, are extolled by most of the
radiant pens of inspiration, but my tejct
contains that which at first sight is start
ling. A certain kind of anger is approved;
ave, we are commanded to indulge in it.
The most of us have no need to cultivate
high temuer. and how often rve say
things and do‘things under affronted im
pulse which we are sorry for Avhen per
haps it. is ton late to make effective apol
ogy! Why, then, should the apostle Paul
dip his pen in the ink horn and trace
upon paper for all ages, the injunction,
"Be ye angry and sin not?”
My text commends a Avholesome indig
nation. It discriminates between the of
fence and the offender, the sin and the
sinner, the crime and the criminal.
To illustrate, alcoholism has ruined
more fortunes, blasted more homes, de
stroyed more souls than any evil that I
think of. It pours a river of poison and
fire through the nations. Millions have
died because of it, and millions are dying
now, and others will die. Intemperance is
an old sin. The great Cyrus, writing to
the Lacedemonians of himself, boasted of
many of his qualities, among others that
lie could drink and bear more Avine than
his distinguished brother. Louis X. and
Alexander the Great died drunk. The
Parliament of Edinburgh in. 1661 is called
in histor\ r ‘'the drunken Parliament.”
Hugh Miller, fix-st stonemason and after
v.-ard a Avorld renowned geologist, writes
of the drinking habits of his day. saying:
"When the foundation Avas laid, they
drank. When the Avails Avere leveled for
laying, they drank. When the building
Avas finished, they drank. When an ap
prentice joined, they drank.” In the
eighteenth century the giver of an enter
tainment boasted that none of the guests
Avent home sober. Noah, the first ship
captain, avus Avreckcd not in the ark, for
that Avas safely landed,but he was wrecked
Avitk strong drink. Every man or woman
rightly constructed Aviil blush Avith indig
nation at the national and international
and hemispheric and planetary curse. It
is good to be aroused against it. You
come out of that condition a better man
or a better woman. Be ye angry at that
abomination, and the more anger the more
exaltation to character. But that aroused
feeling becomes sinful Avhen it extends to
the victim of this great evil. Drunken
ness vou are to hate Avith a vivid hatred,
but the drunkard you are to pity, to help
to extricate.
• lust lake into consideration that there
are men and Avomen who once Avere as
upright as yourself avlio have been pros
trated by alcoholism. Perhaps it came of
a physician's prescription for the relief of
pain, a recurrence of the pain calling for
a continuance of the remedy. Perhaps
the grandfather wag an inebriate, and the
temptation to inebriety, leaping ov r er a
generation, has swooped on this unfortu
nate. Perhaps it Avas a A’ery gradual
chaining of the man with the beverage
Avhich Avas thought to be a servant, Avhen
one day it announced itself master. Be
humble now, and admit that there is a
strong probability that under the same
circumstances you yourself might have
been captured. The two appropriate emo
tions for you to allow are indignation at
the intoxicant Avhich enthralled and sym
pathy for the victim. Try to get the suf
ferer out of his present environment.
Becommend any hygienic relief that you
know of, and. above all. implore the di
vine rescue for the struggle in which so
many of the noblest and grandest have
been worsted. Do not give yourself up to
too many philippics about what the man
ought to have been anitbught to have
done. While your check flushes Avith
wrath at the foe that has brought the
ruin, let your eye lie mositened with tears
of pity for the sufferer. In that Avay you
will have fulfilled the injnetion of the text,
"Be ye angry and sin not.”
There is another evil the abhorrence of
which you are all called to, and it is on
the increase—the gambling practice. Re
cent developments show that much of this
devastation is being Avrought in ladies’
parlors. It is an evil which sometimes is
as polite and gracious as it is harmful.
Indeed there never Avere so many people
trying to get money Avithout earning it.
But it is a haggard transgression that
comes doAvn to us from the past, blighting
-all its Avav.
I have seen in the archives of the nation
in this national capital a large book in
Avhich one of the early Presidents of the
United States kept an account in his OAvn
handwriting of gains and losses at play
ing cards, on one page the gains and on
the other the losses, and there are many
pages. In other days many of national
reputation Avent from the halls of Con
gress and the Senate chamber to spend
the night in notorious gambling saloons.
In Spiun a don lost in twenty-four hours
what equals $12,000,000. t Twenty years
ago it Avas estimated that the average
gambling exchange of money throughout
Christendom exceeded $123,100,000,000 a
year, but statistics twenty years ago would
be tame compared Avith the present statis
tics if we could lind any one able enough
at figures to tabulate them. It is all the
same spirit of gambling Avhether the in
struments arc cards or the clicking chips
or the turning Avheel or the bids of the
Stock Exchange, where people sell Avhat
they never OAVned and fail because they
cannot get paid for it. A prominent
banker tells me that he thinks 50,000 peo
ple were financially prostrated by the re
cent insanities in Mai! street. Here and
there a case is reported, but the vast ma
jority suffer in silence. The children are
brought home from school; the Avardrobe
Aviil be denied replenishment, the table
will have scant supply; Avild generosity
will be turned into glim Avant. Forty
years from now Aviil be felt the disaster
of last month's black Thursday.
But, Avhile you are hotly indignant
■'’gainst the crime, how do you feel about
those Avho were fleeced and slain? They
"lid not know that their small boat Avas so
near the maelstrom. Some of them Avere
born Avith a tendency to recklessness and
experiment and hazard. They inherited
a disposition to tempt chance. Do not
heap on them additional discouragements.
Do not deride their losses. Help them to
start again. Show them that there are
more fortunes to be gained than have yet
been gathered, and that with God for
their friend they will he provided for
here, and through the Saviour's mercy
they may reign forever in the land where
there are no losses and infinite gains.
While you may redden in the face at the
fact that gambling is the disgraceful moth
er of multiludious crimes, of envies, jeal
ousies, revenges, quarrels, cruelties, false
hoods, forgeries, suicides, murders and de
spair, be careful what you say to the vic
tim of the vice and Avliat you do. He
needs more sympathy than the man who
came up from inebriety and debauch and
assassination, for many such repent and
are saved, but confirmed gamblers hardly
ever reform. During the course of a pro
longed mmistry 1 ha\-e seen thousands re
deemed, ur.KV |of them who Avere clear
t'one in sin, bv Almighty grace rescued,
in all parts of this land and in some parts
of other lauds I have seen those who were
Riven up as incorrigible and lost recov
ered for God ami heaven, but how many
confirmed gamblers have I seen converted
from their evil ways? A thousand? No.
hundred? No. Fifty? No. Two?
ro. One. Ro. I read in a book of one
such rescued. I have no doubt there have
ueen other cases, but no e\-il does its work
so thoroughly and eternally as gambling.
&UC P. . moi ß hopelessness of reformation
♦ i l . to forth from you deeper sympa
thy than you feel for any other unfortu
nj. • * By. by all means, for those who,
shipwrecked and bruised among the tim
bers, have nevertheless climbed up to the
fisherman s cabin and found warmth and
shelter, but more pity for those who never
reach shore, but are dashed to death in
the breakers. Be angry at the sin, but
with its A’ictims.
there is another sin that we are often
times called to be angry Avith, and that is
fraud. \Ve all like honesty, and Avhen it
is sacrificed Ave are vehement in denuncia
tion. We hope that the detective will soon
come upon the track of the absconding
bank official, of the burglar Avho bIeAV lip
the sate, of the clerk who skilfully changed
the figures in the account book, of the ful
siher who secured the loan on valueless
property, of the agent who because of his
percentage wrongfully admits a man to
the benefit of a life insurance policy when
Ins heart is ready to stop and who comes
from an ancestry characteristically short
var . e °f f rau d told of in big
headlines in the morning papers rightfully
arouses the nation’s wrath. It is the in
terest of every good man and good Avoman
avlio reads of the crime to have it exposed
and punished. Let it go unscathed, and
you put a premium on fraud, you depress
Public morals, you induce those Avho are
on the fence between right and wrong to
go down on the Avrong side, ar.d you put
the business of the world on a down grade.
J| he constabulauy and penitentiary must
“° Ihe if work. But while the merciless
a I I ii fpdless, cry, “Good for him —lam
glad lie is Avithin the prisop doors!” be
it your work to find out if that man is
worth saving and what were the causes
of his moral overthrow. Perhaps he
started in business life under a tricky
firm, who gave him Avrong notions of busi
ness integrity; perhaps there Avas a com
bination of circumstance* almost unpar
alleled for temptation, perhaps there Avere
alleviations, perhaps he was born wrong
and never got over it. perhaps he did not
realize what he Avas doing, and if you are
a merciful man you will think of other
perhapses Avhich. though they Aviil not ex
cuse, Aviil extenuate. Perhaps he has al
ready repented and is Avashed in the blood
of the Lamb, and is as sure of heaven as
you are.
What an opportunity you have now for
obeying my text! You Avere angrv at the
misdemeanor, but you are hopeful for the
recovery of the recalcitrant. Blessed ail
prison reformers! Blessed are those Gov
ernors and Presidents Avho are glad Avhen
they have a chance to pardon! Blessed
the forgiving father Avho welcomes home
the prodigal! Blessed _ the dying thief
whom the Lord took Avith Him to glory,
saying, “This day shalt thou be with Me
in paradise.”
There is another evil thatvwe ought to
abhor while Aye try to help the victim, and
that is infidelity. It snatches the life pre
server from the man afloat and affords
not so much as a spar or a plank as sub
stitute. It Avould extinguish the only
light that 'has ever been kindled for the
troubled and the lost. Let the spirit of
infidelity take hold of a neighborhood,
and in that toAvn the marriage relation is
a farce, and good morals give place to all
styles of immorals. Let it take possession
of this earth, and there Avould he no vir
tue left in all the Avorld's circumference.
I think if a famous infidel of our time
instead of being taken away instanta
neously had died in his bed after weeks
and of illness he ivould have re
voked his teachings and left for his be
loved family consolations Avhich they
could not find in obsequies at Avhich not
one Avord of holy' Scripture Avas read efr at
Fresh Pond crematory, where no Chris
tian benediction Avas pronounced. I do
not positively sav that in a prolonged ill
ness there Avould haA-e been a retraction,
but I think there would.
I say to all young men hoping to achieve
financial, moral or religious success, con
trol your tempers. Do not let criticism
or rebuff defeat you. Verdi, the great
musician, applied to become a student in
the Conservatory of Music at Milan, and
he Avas rejected by the director. avlio said i
that he could make nothing of the neAV- j
comer, as he showed no disposition for
music. But the criticism did not exasper- j
ate or defeat him. The mosWof those Avho 1
have largely succeeded in all departments
Avere characterized by self control. In
battle they could calmly look at the bomb
throAvn at their feet, Avondering whether
it would explode. In commercial life,
Avhen panics smote the city, these men
were placid. Avhile others were yelling
themselves hoarse at the Stock Exchange.
While others nearly swooned because a
certain stock had gone 100 points down j
they calmly waited until it Avould get 100
points up. While the opposing attorney
in the courtroom frothed at the moutn
with rage because of something said on the j
other side he of the equipoise put a glass
of Avater to his lips in refreshment and I
proceeded Avith the remark, “As I was !
saying Avhen the gentleman interrupted j
me.” Self control! What a glorious j
thing! We AA'ant it in the doctor feeling j
the pulse of one desperately ill; Ave wa*nt
it in the engineer Avhen the headlight of
another train comes round the curve on
the same track; Ave want it in Christian
men and women in times Avhen so much
in church and state seems going to demo
lition—self control!
Surpassing all other characters in the
world’s biography stands Jesus Christ,
wrathful against sin, merciful to the sin
ner. Witness His behavior toward tile
robed ruffians Avho demanded capital pun
ishment for an offending Avoman —denun-
ciation for their sinful hypocrisy, pardon
for her_ sweet penitence. He did not
speak of Herod as “his highness” or “his
royal highness,” but dared to compare
him to a cunning fox, saying. “Go ye and I
tell that fox.” But, alert to the cry of ;
suffering. He finds ten lepers, and to how j
many of the ten aAvful invalids did He j
give com-alescence and health! Ten. Re- ;
nuking Pharisaism in the most compressed
sentence in all the vocabulary of ana
thema: “Ye serpents! Ye generation of
vipers! How can ye escape the damna
tion of hell?” Yet looking upon Peter
with such tenderness that no Avord Avas
spoken, and not a word Avas needed, for
tne look spoke louder than words. “And
the Lord looked upon Peter, and Peter
went out and Avept bitterly.”
Defying the mightiest GoA-ernment of
the world. the Roman Government, yet
rubbing His hand just below the forehead
of the blind until the optic nerve of him
who Avas born sightless is created, and
the sunlight has two new paths to tread.
Best illustration the world ever saw of
anger without sin, anger against the abom
inations which have mauled and blasted
the earth from its deepest cavern to its
highest cliff, but so much pity for the sin
ning and suffering nations that He allowed
them to transfix Him upon tAvo pieces of
wood nailed across each ether on a day
that Avas dark as night, the windows of
heaven shut because the immortals could
not bear to look down upon the assassin- .
ation of the loveliest being thai ever |
walked the shore of the lakes or without
pilloiv or blanket slept on the cold mount
ains.
Like Him, let us hate iniquity with com
plete hatred, but like Him mas- we help
those who are overthrown and he willing
to suffer for their restoration. Then, al
though at the opening of this discourse
our text may have seemed to command us i
to do an impossible thing. AVe will at the j
close of this sermon, Avith a prayer to !
God for help, be more rigid and deter- ;
mined than ever before against tlfat which !
is wrong, while at the same time we shall j
feel so Kindly toward all the erring and
work so hard for their rescue that we will j
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Himalayan height of my text, which en
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