Meekness is not weakness. The temperate person is self-controlled and a person of moderation. The temperate use self-restraint in conduct, expressions , and are moderate in lifestyles. A. Time and experience should teach us the value of temperance. B. Self-control is a subject that ought to be taught in the church, the home and the schools.
People seem to have little self-control.
Therefore, it seems more and more, people are less satisfied with what they have. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.