Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-07-01

per; text, EploSlanS ", 20, be We az
CRY and sin not"
Equipoise of temper, kindness, pa
thence, fCrbearance, are .eXtOlled by
most of the radiant pens of inspiration,
but my text contains that which at first
sight is startling. A certain kind of
anger is approved; aye, we are COM
manded to indulge in it. The most OF
us have no need to cultivate high tenn
per, and how often we say things and
do things under affronted impulse
which we are sorry for when perhaps
it is too late to make effective apology
Why, then, should the apostle Paul dip
his pen in the ink horn and trace upon
parchment, afterward to be printed up
on paper for all ages, the injunction,
'.Be We angry and sin not?"
My text cOmmendS 4 wholesome in
dignatiOn. 1t discriminates between the
offense and the offender, the sin and
the sinner, the crime and the criminal
To illustrate, alcoholism has ruined
more fortunes. blasted more homes, de-
stroyed more souls than any evil that
/ think Of. 1t pours river of poison
and fire through the nations. Millions
have died because of it, and millions
are dying now, and others will die. In
temperance is an old sin. The great
Cyrus, writing to the Lacedemonians
of himself, boosted Of many of his quail
tiles, among others that he could drink
and bear more wine than his distin
guished brother. Louis Y and AleXan-
der the Great died drunk. The parlia-
ment of Edinburgh in 1861 is called in
history ''the drunken parliament"
Hugh Miller, first stOnemason and aft
erward 4 world renowned geoIogist,
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 apprentice joined, they
drank" In the eighteenth century the
giver Of an entertainment boosted that
none Of the guests went away sober
Noah, the first ship captain, was wreck
ed 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 Indignation
at the national and international and
hemisphere and planetary curse. 1t is
good to be aroused against it. You
come out Of that condition a better man
or q better woman. G5e ye angry at
that abOminatiOn, and the more anger
the more eXaItation to character. But
that aroused feeling becomes sinful
when it extends to the victim Of this
great evil. Drunkenness you are to
hate with vivid hatred. but the drunk
ard you are 10 pity, TO help to eXtricate.
Indignation and Sympathy.
Just take into consideration that
there are men and women who once
were as upright as yourself who have
been Frustrated by alcoholism. Per
haps it came of Il physicians prescrip-
ton for the relief of pain, 4 recurrence
of the pain calling for 4 continuance of
the remedy. Perhaps the grandfather
was an inebriate, and the temptation to
inebriety. Icaping over generation,
has swoOped on this unfortunate. Per
hapS it was under an attempt to drown
trouble that the benumbing and mar
cotic liquid was sought after. Perhaps
it was a very gradual claiming of the
man with the beverage which was
J.
it announced itself master. Be hum
BILE now and admit that there is a
strong probability that under the same
you yourself might have
been captured. The two appropriate
emotions for you to allow are indigna-
ton at the intoXicant which enthralled
and sympathy for the victim. Try to
get the sufferer out of his present en-
Recommend any hygienic
relief that you know Of, and, above all,
implore the divine rescue for the strug
gle in which so many of the noblest
and grandest have been worsted. Do
not give yourself up to too many phi
Iippics about what the man ought to
have been and ought to have done.
While your cheek Pushes with wrath
at the foe that has brought the ruin,
let your eye be moistened with tears
Of pity for the sufferer. In that way
you will have fulfilled the injunction of
the text. BE We angry and sin not
There is another evil the adherence
Of which you are all called to, and it
is on the increase-the gambling prac-
tice. Recent developments show that
much of this 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 so many people trying to
get money without earning it. But it
Is q haggard transgression that comes
down to US from the past. blighting all
Its way.
1 have seen in the archives of the na-
ton in this national capital a large
book in which one of the early presi- |
dents of the United States kept an ac-
count in his own handwriting of gains |
and losses at playing cards. on one
page the gains and on the other the |
losses. and there are many pages. In |
of hnr darS many of nafinnal rnnI1t.l-