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Dk.TALriAGE’S SERnONf > 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 realize that we haA-e scmled the Alpine, the j Himalayan height of my text, which en THE WEEKLY NEWS. CARTERBVILLE. GA. SHE WAS WILLING HE SHOULD START. “Darling,” he sighed, “I would go to the end of the world for you. Speak j but the word, and I will flee to the utter- | most corner of the universe to prove my i devotion.” “Well,” smiled the fair young girl, Avhile the tender light of her soul bask ed in lambent radiance in her glorious eyes, "suppose you trot along. Henry. That new trust magnate is coming this afternoon, and I den’t want you moon ing around and spoiling a good catch.” —Haitim ore A ntcricau. 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