The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-11
<aE PULPIT AND PEW.
q George on the Different
fsmperaments Of Men.
- GOD CONSIDERS THEM.
1880 Of the Divinity 81 Christ
xev Pastor for Grace n. E.
Church Notes.

mp. George yesterday preached to
:. .snrregation Ut the First Presbyterian
- ! sermon which in oil probability
- !. oue of the last delivered In the old
1s.rh building. since services viii be held
! e new church Sunday IL possible.
- suhjers was "Temperaments." and
- xrt was Luke il :5l-62. DR.. George
- d part:
.rhrs: recognized the great differences
. snmsnisy and did not treat them on .
- Ievel OF uniformity. Many Of MS
s-lsnxs seem strange when read bat on
~ ssrsace, while being more closely
s,saped they display His Infinite wisdom.
r rsding the four gospels We are treated 70
sn,rses of surprises and have often 20 deal
- seeming paradoxes In speech and
srsiDu. Like wise physician He suited
q treatment TO the individual case.
4The f.rs, temperament, illustrated by
fen,es and John, the Boanerges. or sons
4 Thunder, was choleric temperament.
YAess men wished to call fire from heaven
= eousume the inhospitab.e Samaritan viii
- that xouid not receive their Lord. To
can Christ uttered The rebuke: 'Ye know
81 what manner of spiri; ye are made OF.
fhe Son OF man has not come 10 destroy
neu,s lives, but to save Aem.' To destroy
Rka'f lives has ever DetD man > CuURentak
royk. Even under Christian civilizations
sbseh have mistaken the spirit OF the
Master they have been more ready Ia kill
fhsn 10 save. II a man developed So
nlled heresy, which was often but adj
vsnced thought or real Christian truth,
fss rough and ready mode was TO harm
I'm. destroy him, torture him. In any
car get rsd OF him IL he oppose popu.
Isf prejudice or preconceived notion. So
he best OF men and women have been
scriaced aud men have ever been, from
Tie crusaders downward. more ready TO
aght for Christianity than to practice its
virtues.
.Ths second temperament IL the san.
rune, Illustrated by the scribe who said
Lord, will follow Thee whithersoever
Thou goest' Men of this class, warm,
ssaeni, plethorie. see no difficulty and are
sasaiy inspired 10 enthusiasm by pictures
ia glowing future. To them Christ says:
Take time, consider. count the cost. /
On willing to receive you. but il must be
On the terms of the fullest conservation.
Toxss have holes, the birds of the cir have
rests, but the Son of Man hath not where
% lay his head Whithersoever with you
mast mean Oivet, Gethsemane and-tal-
nary. Is well as Mount Zion; the cross be-
fore the crown. We meet often mush-
nom and dollhouse Christians, whose
sonsscration. like the seed by the wayssde,
dsuly. Enthusiasm Is good, but principle
batter. Never join the church for hopes
Il temporal advantage, but consecrate
ourselves for better and worse, for richer
nd for poorer, for life and death, for earth
md heaven.
ITO the third man Christ had different
nessage. He had the mslancholic TEN per-
nent, and said, Lord suffer Ne first to
70 and bury my father Him the Lord
urged forward, even at the sacrifice OF
sersonal feelings. The Lord did not wish
70 BE- unkind, but this mans temperament
would lead Him to dwell in the part to
snfse secret sorrow: to let the troubles
II yesterday interfere with the duties Of
tdsy."
Dr.. George here spoke eIoquently of the
ng1ssity Of persons who were troubled
hathis third man throwing of their sor-
~ and not allowing IL TO stand in tho
w of life of usefulness aud Christian.
b. He spoke of Queen Victoria's long
ersinued mourning over her husband az
a example Of this melanchoIic temper
ssnt lie then continued:
The fourth temperament, the phleg.
natie, Is illustrated in the man who said.
Safer me first To go and bid farewell to
hose in my house To him Christ SAID /:
No man having put his hand 10 the piow
cad looking back is tit for the kingdom IF
6pd' With this man il was now or never.
Instant decision. Ii he returned home To
consult his friends the probability is no
sould never return to Christ We may
spend too much time in consulting our
parents. brothers aud sisters, first and sec
M nd n
strikes but crooked furrow. Fix your
eyes on Jesus and steer straight for Him.
md IN the iurrow that you plow SOW
foodly seed which shall blossom into an
abundant harvest"