The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06
Foolishness of Getting Angry.

NOW, there is no woman in this
house that has anything in her heart
but what she could turn it out right
here. Every woman in this house
who is mad with somebody, or that
don't speak to somebody, stand up.
Let us see how many there are here.
After pausing about minute. You
need not be looking; she would die
before she would get up. She is here.
She is here, and if you stood where
do, and with the eye / haye, you
could pick them out all over this
house right now. Oh, what thought
What thought! Mad! Oh, love,
love, come back again. Implant thy
self in my heart, and / will gather
from all sources and cultiyate the
spirit of love toward all mankind.
Let love rule you in your words and
in your ways. Let love do all for you,
and remember that love thinketh no
evil, and love vaunteth not itself, and
love is all that God expects. l will
tell you what 1 will do: If there is a
person in this world mad with me
this morning. l believe l would go
and hunt that man if it took me until
sundoWn. | had two brothers in one
of my churches once who fell out,
quarreled, and like to have fought. L
tried my best to settle their difficulty,
and they would not do it. Then
tried to get them to fight it out, and
they would not fight. About six
months after that, on the day re-
ylval meeting started, after the meet
ing ! gazed out over the crowd and
saw those two brothers hugging one
another. They had made up all their
differences. J. TOOK one of them to one
side after the service and said "Now
brother, answer me an honest ques-
tion. You have been mad with him
six months, haven't you 2" YES"
"God says first be reconciled to thy
brother. then offer the gift. Now,
how did you pray while you were
mad ?" He replied: "Now, Brother
Jones, if l have acted rascally, 1
haven't acted the fool. l haven't been
on my knees since l have been mad"
Some people will get down on their
knees and pray while they are mad
at somebody. l would rather get
down on my back, and pray, as to get
down and pray while mad at some
body. l have found out this much :
Whenever | get mad the joke is all
on me. l am hurting nobody but
myself. Let the Lord take care of
your enemies; you cannot do it.
When Simon Peter took up that
sword and cut off the ear of his per-
secutor, Jesus said: "Put up thy
sword; they that take up the sword
shall perish by the sword" But he
said, 81 will show you how to con-
quer this world. Come up with me
to Calvary and see me die for it,"
Love will suffer love will work, and
love will conquer. The fruit of the
spirit is love.
Now, all fruit of the spirit is loye.
This is the fruit that blossoms high
est up the tree. This is the fruit that
grows highest on the spiritual tree,
and sheds its fragrance on all below.
The fruit of the spirit of love. Every
Christian woman, every Christian
man in this world in the hour oftheir
conversion have budded and bios
somed into this Christian fruitage of
love. If there is anything that is
Christianity in the concrete it is love.
If there is anything that is contrary
to Christianity it is ill-wilI, hatred,
wrath. l don't know how you feel,
but | can tell you this much, the hour
l was converted / blossomed into
this Christian fruitage of love, l
recollect in my town there was a man
there that | had the supremest dis
like for. and contempt for. | literal
ly hated that man, and 1 had no
reason for it, either. Hayen't you
seen persons you just didn't like, and
you just sort of hated them, whether
you wanted to or not? L think the
Lord loves everybody, but l have
thought many time there are some
people the Lord don't admire. And
| was that way. / didn't admire
this man, l disliked him very much.
Well, when l was seeking religion /
never once thought of HIM at all.
But after | was converted in about q
week | met him, and l at once loved
him just as well as any man, and |
never had anything against him
from that day to this. If religion
does anything for man or woman
it makes him love everybody God
loves, and that means everybody.
Fourteen years ago | budded and
blossomed into Christian love. There
are great many Intervening diff.