The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-09
CHURCH OF TIE MESSIAH.


Not Letting the Little Ansry Passions Rise.
Mr.. Herworth's text was taken from Ephesians,
w., 26-"Be We angry and sin not" He began by
saying-l am very giad that God as not interdiced
as wholly wrong all ebulltions OF anger, because
there are undoubtedly times in every mans expe.
rience when 1t "a quite Impossible to lie cool AMI
patient There are circumstances which naturally
rouse one to such o pitch that both language and
acts are the result and inevitably So OF very strong
feeling and very strong Indignation. Indeed, there
were times III the life OF Christ when lie took mat
ters into Ills own hands and used language which
made the crowd stand back with kind OF awe, "a
though an avenging God were present, ana made
the culprts shake and tremble as though they were
before the bar OF judgment. What Indignation
prompted His acts and deeds when He saw the
Temple Of the Most High used o. place. OF traffic
Though He had no legal right to drive the bulls and
hears Of Jerusalem from their ofices, yet He did
have what we acknowledge to be the
SACRED RIGHT OF REVOLUTION"
and tho crowd as vel the culprits yielded as the
holy man vlndlcated the outraged laws OF God.
There are, then, two kinds OF anger. The one IL
caused By principle outraged, by the presence OF
error In the place OF truth and by the sight OF des
potism on the throne OF liberty. 1t is not self.
seeking and has no element whatever OF revenge In
It, 1t takes possession OF one just In proportion
the loyeoI righteousness in the soul rebels against
and denOunces the wrongs OF the world When the
lips speak for God, no matter how Indignantly the
heart is not likely to be sinful. When we wage war
against evil ana not against persons we can be
ever 80 angry and vet commit no SIN. The other
Kind OF anger, that kiud which We are warned
against, but IN which we generally indulge, Is
wholly selfish. 1t causes US TO do an injury to one
who has harmed us IN some way and has strong
dash OF revenge in II. When some one strikes US
we strike back AMI in heat ana when some Que IN
suits us we answer back, our object belg simply 10
make INN feel little worse than ne has made us
Accommodates
good, and Indicates q lack OF seli-conroL 1t Is
sometimes very senseless. too. | saw driver once
let his horse get his leg over the trace, and When
the poor beast was too Ignorant TO put his leg BACK
again tue driver lost his temper and beat him with
real BRUTE and wanted to see hia harnessed TO the
would have made as good y driver as the blped.
Again, how often, when we are
DRIVING A NAIL
and happen through cur own cAreles'ness to hit
our own fingers, do we strike few irrioas blows
which knock the nail all to pieces and dent the
board. These things show how foolish a man can
te and how small a thing can tempt him to say and
do foolish things.
This loss Of temper, should prefer to call It l-ss
., ones c otsp uss re trsendons
citemcnt, In which, under some sting we have said
the bitterest ana meanest things we could get hold
OF, done some rash act whose sole object was 10
lnnict pain--I say after the excitement has passed
ana we grow cool again how utterly and heartily
some dark corner in which TO hide. II seems as
though Lhe worlds finger were pointed at us In
ter OF self control with some exceptions, marks the
difference between baroarlsm and civilization and
between classes OF society," The farther down you
get as general rule, the less you see OF II. The
savage is man whose temper runs away with him.
while the Christian Is the man VINO runs away with
his temper. The dangerous classes. as they are
called, are composed Oh men who stand on the Mo-
saio law OF tooth for tooth, and their rule Is to
strike back hard and as quickly as they cam The
Christian, on the other hand, when suddenly ex-
cited, holds himself in check, and conquers a. last
with ennrely different weapons. THIS selfcontro IS
perhaps hal deSt task which God has set
TO some it is comparatively easy, there are some
men who seem W have no sensibiiiiy no nerves.
They are cold, wet and clamlny AL the time; they
nearly Impossible as any hing can Well be, Tor they
seem TO be
rather OF ntro-gycerine for at the slightest
usual jar they explode ana woe to ALL vile chi.
drcn. who happen to be near. Now, the ideal man
Is the man who Is wei poiscd-who has himself, 50
TO speak, well III hand II, Is developed all
round the circle, and not In spots as most OF Us
his examples. This Is the Christ man. The object
OF revelation Is TO reach man to educate himself in
all directions, and not to exaggefate his seioye 10
such degree That he explodcs with foolish anger
whenever his pleasures or MS sO-caed rights are
infringed upon. A man needs to have temper 10 get
on in this world, but it Is very bad when his
interest depends upon Keeping cool, upon refining In
our impulses upon keeping silent when we are
And how much or the happiness OF home depends
on your ability TO bear, and very patiently, too ~tn
things which seem TO you 10 he very but
which Will turn out to be not quite SO bad II you
Will
ONLY KEEP COOL
More OF your happiness In domestic life, and very
much more OF your success in business than YOU
think, depends your keeping your temper and
never doing anything rash or mpulsIve or revenge
full Jesus Christ Is your schoolmaster In tins mat
ter. II you can clothe yourself with His spirit II
You can be charitable as he was and gentle and low
Ing and trustfu You would lind that lille would be-
come at once more beautiful ana your happiness
increased tenfOd.