The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-07-05


a retraction, but think there would.
Tho Work OF an Instant.
A man thoroughly mad can say
enough in two minutes to damage him
for 20 years. II took only Ave minutes
for the earthquake to destroy Caracas.
One unfortunate sentence uttered In
affront in a speech in the United States
senate shut forever the door of the
White House against one of the most
brilliant men of the last century fou
can never trust horse that has once
run away, and you do not feel ike
trusting a man who has just once lost
his equilibrium. You need to drive
your temper as q man drives frac-
tious span amid the explosions OF "a
Fourth OF July morning or the pyro-
technics OF the Fourth OF July night,
with curbed bit, taut rein, commanding
voice-mastering yourself and master
ing what you drive II you are natur-
ally high tempered. do not unnecessar-
lily go among irritations and provoca-
lions. Do not build blast furnace
next to gunpowder mill. Then, also,
such demonstrations of ungovernabil-
ity belittle one. Men take out their
lead pencils and in estimating such
one take so per cent off. About the
most hideous spectacle on earth is an
angry man or woman burning not with
anger commanded in my text, but with
the sin represented After such a dis
play of gall, irrascibility, virulence. his
influence with many is forever gone,
The world is full of politicians, doctors
lawyers, merchants, mechanics, min
listers, housewives, who have by sucn
explosions been blown to pieces.
l say to all young men hoping to
achieve financial, moral or religious
success-control your tempers. Do not
let criticism or defeat rebuff you. Verdi,
the great musician. applied to become
a student in the Conservatory of Music
at Milan and he was rejected by the di-
rector, who said that he could make
nothing of the newcomer, as he showed
no disposition for music. But the crit
icism did not eXasperate or defeat MIN.
The most of those who have largely
succeeded in all departments were
characterized by self control. In battle,
they would calmly look at the bomb
thrown at their feet wondering whether
it would explode. In commercial life.
when panics smote the city, these men
were placid, while others were yelling
themselves hoarse at the Stock Ex-
change While others nearly swooned
because certain stock had gone lou
points down they calmly waited until
it would get 100 points up. While the
opposing attorney in the courtroom
frothed at the mouth with rage because
of something said on the other side, he
of the equipoise put glass of water to
his lips in refreshment and proceeded
with the remark, las | was saying
when the gentleman interrupted me,
Self control, What a glorious thing!
We want it in the doctor feeling the
pulse of one desperately i'll, we want
If in the engineer when the head
light of another train comes round the
curve on the same track. We want 1t
in Christian men and women in times
when SO much in church and state
seem going to demoition-self control!
What are you going to be good for, U
man or woman in a world like this.
ever and anon your dander up, and so
often in the sulks2 We admit that you
have many things to stir your blood
and fill you with wholesome indigna-
ton, but going to such extremes you,
I offend my text, which says you must
discriminate and not lose your self
, control, BE we angry and sin not.
Mercy for the Sinner.
Surprising all other characters in
the worlds biography stands Jesus
Christ, wrathful against sin, merciful
to the sinner Witness his behavior to-
ward the robed ruffians who demanded
capital punishment for an offending
woman-denunciatio for their sinful
hypocrisy, pardon for her sweet peni-
tence. He did not speak of Herod as
his majesty or his royal highness,
but dared to compare him to
cunning fox saying GO ye and tell
that fox" But, alert TO the cry of suf-
fering, he finds ten lepers, and to how
many of the ten awful invalids did he
give convaIescence and health? Ten.
kebuking Pharisiaism in the most
compressed sentence in all the vocab-
ulary of anathema-"Ye serpents, ye
generation of vipers, how can we escape
the damnation of hell?"-yet looking
upon Peter with such tenderness that
no word was spoken-and not word
was needed, for the look spoke louder
than words. And the Lord looked up
on Peter. and Peter went out and wept
bitterly" Oh. what a look it must have
been to break down the swarthy fish
erman apostle! 1t was such hurt look.
such a beseeching look, such loving
look. such forgiving look! Was there
in any other being since time began
such a combination of wrath against
wrong and compassion for the wrong
doer? Lion of Judah's tribe" Hear
that! Lamb of God who taketh away
the sins of the world" Hear that.
Former Lady OF White House.
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