Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-07-11
BE YE NOT ANGRY,
DR.. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON.
The Distinction Betw zen Anger and
Irdignation-The Latter is Often a
Proper FeeIirg
copyright 1901. !

Ephesians iv, 26, BE We angry and sin |
not |
Equipoise of temper. kindness, patience, |
Iorbearance, are extoled by most of the |
radiant pens OF inspiration, but my text |
contains that which at first sight Is start |
ling A certain kind of anger IS approved; |
aye, we are commanded to indulge IN 1t. |
The most OF Us have no need to cultivate |
high temper, and how often we say |
things and DO things under affronted I'M |
pu.se which we are sorry Tor when per |
haps it IS too 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 We angry and sin mott
Ny text commends a wholesome indlg !
nation 1t discTimnates 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 moro homes, de
stroyed more souls than any evil that |
think of. 1t Pours a river Of poison and
| fire through the nations. Millions have
now, and others will die. lEtemperance IL
| an old sin. The great Cyrus, writing to
| the Lacedemonians Of himself, boosted OF
| many of his qualities, among others that
| he could drink and bear more wine than
| his distinguished brother. Louis X. and
| Alexander the Great died drunk. The
| Parliament of Edinburgh in 1861 is called
| in history ''the drunken Parliament
| Hugh Miller. first stonemason and alter
| ward a world renowned gcologist, writes
| Of the drinking habits Of his day, saying:
! when the foundation was laid, they
| drank When the walls were leveled for
| laying, they drank. When the building
was finished, they drank. When an APP
| prentice Joined, they drank In the
eighteenth century the givcr Of an enter
| tainmcnt boosted that none OF the guests
went home sober Noah, the first ship
captain, was wrecked not in the ark, for
| that was safely landed, but he was wrecked
| with strong drink. Every man or woman
rightly constructed will blush with lndig
nation at the national and international
| and hemisphere and planetary curse. 1t
is good to be aroused against it. You
| come ont of that condition a better man
or a better woman. Be yc angry at that
| abomination, and the more anger the more
| exaltatiOn to character. But that aroused
| feeling becomes sinful when it extends to
the victim of this great evil. Drunken
ness YOU are to hate with d vivid hatred,
but the drunkard you are to pity, to help
to extricate
just take into consideration that there
are men and women who once were as
upright as yourself who have been pros,
trated by alcoholism. Perhaps 1t came OF
| a physician prescription Tor the rellet or
| pain, a recurrence Of the pain calling Tor
continuance of the remedy. Perhaps
the grandfather was an lncbrate, and the
temptation to inebriety, lcaplng over
generation. has sWooped on this untortu-
nate. Perhaps it was very gradual
claiming Of the man with the beverage
| which was thought to be a servant, when
one day it announced itself master. BE
humble now, and admit that there $ a
strong probability that under the same
circumstances you yourself might have
been captured. The two appropriate emo
tons for You to allow are Indignation at
the intoxcant which enthraIled and SYM
pathy for the victim Try to get the SUI
c l.. --f.Yat
Recommend any hygienic relief that You
know Of, and, above all, lmpiCrc the d.
vine rescue for the struggle IN when 20
many Of the nOblest and grandest have
been worsted Do not give yourself W to
too many phIippics about what the man
ought to have been and ought to have
done While your cheek fushes with
wrath at the foe that has brought the
ruin let your eye be mostened with tears
of pity for the sufferer. In that way You
will have fulfilled the INDUCTION OF the text,
"Be We angry and sin not"
} There is another evil the adherence @
which YOU are all called to, and it Is OH
. the increase-the gambling practice, Re
cent developments show that much OF tins
devastation is being wrought IN ladies
parlors 1t is an evil which sometimes Is
as polite and gracious as It Is harmful
Indeed there never were 50 many people
| trying to get money without earning u
But it IS a haggard transgressl0n that
|
all its way.
[ have seen in the archives Of the nation
in this national capital Il large book lii
| which one of the early Pre- identS OF the
United States kept an account IN his owl
handwriting of gains and losses at play
ing cards, on one page the gains and or
the other the losses, and there are many
pages. In other days many OF natona
reputation went from the halls OF Con
gress and the Senate chamber to spenc
the night in notorious gambling saloons.
In Spain a don lost in tWenty-tOur hours
what equals $l2, eco, 000. Twenty year!
ago it was estimated that the average
gambling exchange of money Throughout
Christendom exceeded $l23, l0O.O0O,O00 I
| year. but statistics twenty years ago would
be tame compared with the present stats
| ties if we could find any one able enough
at figures to tabulate them. 1T IS all the
same spirit of gambling whether the III
| struments are cards or the clicking chlps
| or. the turning wheel or the bids OF tho
| Stock Exchange, where people sell what
| they never owned and fail because they
cannot get paid for it. \ prominent
banker tells me that he thinks 10000 PEG
| pie were financially Frustrated by the re
cent insanities in Wall street. Here end
| there a case is reported, bus the vast ma
jority suffer in silence. The children ara
brought home from school; the wardrobe
: will be denied replenishment; the table
will have scant supply: Wild generosity
| will be turned into grim want. ortN
! years from now will be felt the disaster
of last months black Thursday.
Put, while you are hotiy indignant
against the crime, how do YOU feel about
those who were feeced and slain? They
did not know that their small boat was SC
near the maeisrrom. Some of them were
born with tendency to T2cIlesSuess aDC
experiment and hazard They i4herit ed
a disposition to tempt chance. Do not
heap on them additional discOuragements
Do not deride their losses. Help them tc
! start again. Show them that there are
more fortunes to be gained than have YET
been gathered, and that with God ion
| their friend they will be provided tol
here, and through the Saviours mercy
they may reign forever in the land where
there are no losses and infinite gains
= While Won may redden in the face at the
fact that gambling is the dlsgraceful moth
er Of multitudious crimes, OF envies, ,indi
ousies revenges, quarrels, crueltlcs, falls
hoods. fOrgerleS, suicides, murders and de
spair, be careful what you say to the VIC
tim of the vice and what YOU do. Ii
] needs more sympathy than the man Wh'
t. came up from inebriety and dehauch ant
assassination, for many such repent ant
are saved, but confirmed gamblers hard!
l. ever reform. During the course OF pro
= longed ministry have seen thousands re
NJ | deemed. many OF them who were ciea
" gone in sin, by Almighty grace resc'.ed
| In all parts of this land and III some part
:. OF other lands [ have seen those who Wer
C given up as incorrigible and lost recov
e cred for God and heaven, but how nan
confirmed gamblers have 1 seen conyerte
T. f:oya their evil ways? A thousand? Nc
Five hundred? No. Fifty? No. Two
No. One? No. l read in a book Of ont
such rescued | have no doubt there havt
been other cases, but no evil does its ,worl
: SO thoroughly and eternally as gambling
= Such almost hopeessness Of reformation
ought to call forth from you deeper sympa
thy than you feel for any other unfortu
or nate Pity. by all means, for those who
% shipwrecked and bruised among the tim
CO beers, have nevertheless climbed up 10 tn
a. fsherman's cabin and found warmth an
shelter, but more pity for those who neve
reach shore, but are dashed to death, i
= the breakers. Be angry at the sin, bu