Milford chronicle., 1901-07-05

radiant pens OIL INSPIRATION, out my text
contains that which at first sight is
startling. a certain kind of anger is APP
proved-aye, we are commanded to in
dulge in it. The most Of us have no need
to cultivate high temper, and how often
we say things and do things under af-
fronted impulse which we are sorry for
when perhaps it is too late to make eff
fective apology! Why, then, should the
apostle Paul dip his pen in the ink horn
and trace upon parchment. afterward to
be printed upon paper for all ages, the in
junction. BE We angry and sin notY'
My text commends wholesome indig
nation. 1t discriminates between the Of
tense and the offender, the sin and the
sinner, the crime and the criminal.
To illustrates: Alcoholism has ruined
more fortunes, blasted more homes, de-
stroyed more souls, than any evil that l
think Of It pours n river of poison and
fire through the nations. Millions have
died because of it, and millions are dying
now. and others will die Intemperance
is an old sin. The great Cyrus. writing
to the Lacedemonians of himself, boast
ed Of many of his qualities, among 9TH
ers. that he could drink and bear more
wine than his distinguished brother
Louis Y and Alexander the Great died
drunk. The parliament of Edinburgh in
/ 1861 is called in history 'the drunken
parliament" Hugh Miller, first stone
mason and afterward a world renowned
| geologist, writes of the drinking habits of
his day, saying: when the foundation
was laid, they drank. When the walls
were leveled for laying the joists. they
drank. When the building was finished
/ they drank. When an apprentice joined
/ they drank" In the eighteenth century
the giver of an entertainment boasteC
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 con
structcd will blush with Indignation a
the national and international and hemi
sphcric and planetary curse. 1t is gooC
to be aroused against it. You come on
of that condition better man or a bette
woman. Be ye angry at that abomna
ton, and the more anger the more ex
altation to character. But that aroused
feeling becomes sinful when it extends T.
the victim of this great evil. Drunken
ness you are to hate with vivid hatred
but the drunkard you are to pity, to he'll
to eEtricate.
Frustrated by Alcoholism.
Just take into consideration that Their
are men an6 women who once were a
upright as yourself who have been pros
trated by alcoholism. Perhaps it came c
physicians prescription for the relief Q
pain, recurrence of the pain calling fC
a continuance of the remedy; perhaps tn
grandfather was an inebriate and ii
temptation to inebriety, leaping over
5 generation, has swooped on this unfOrtl
nate: perhaps it was under an attempt
r drown trouble that the benumhing an
narcotic liquid was sought after; perhal
! it was a very gradual claiming Of ii
= man with the beverage which WI
thought to be n servant, when one day
announced itself master. Be humble nON
and admit that there is a strong prObah
ity that under the same circumstanc
you yourself might have been capture
The two appropriate emotions for you
allow are Indignation at the intoXica
(. which enthralled and sympathy for Il
victim. Try to get the sufferer out of
present environment; recommend al
hygienic relief that you know of an
above all, implOre. the divine rescue f
the struggle in which so many of the L
:, blest and grandcst have been wOrstC
. Do not give yourself up to too MAJ
V philippics about what the man ought
IN have been and ought to have done. VIII
:, your cheek nushes with wrath at the (
es that has brought the ruin, let your eye
'e. mOistened with tears Of pity for the 81
es ferer. In that way you will have
IS filed the injunction of the text, ''Be
MS angry and sin not"
There is another evil the abhorreI
or OF which you are all called TO, and it
lis on the increas0-the gambling practi
=, Recent developments show that much
in this devastation is being wrought in
dies parlors. 1t is an evil which sor
L, times is as polite and gracious as it
harmful. Indeed. there never were
many people trying to get money with
earning it. But it is a haggard ira
gression that comes down to us from
reh. past, blighting all its way.
ry. have seen in the archives of the
Ioh ton in this national capital a large b.
a in which one Of the early presidents
the United States kept an account in
L. own handwriting Of gains and losses
- playing CARLSON one page the gains
on the other the losses. and there
many pages. In other days many of
tional reputation went from the halls
congress and the senate chamber to sp
the night in notorious gambling Salot
sF,y' One of the ablest men Of the centuI
All Charles Fox, got ready for his spC
,wn against 1.-THE Petition of the Clergy
pending 80 hours at the gaming ia
- irving's life of Oliver Goldsmith says
- the great poet lost $50, all his earni
~ in a short tour to see the world. Glib
the author of ".S'he Decline and Fal
M the Roman Empire" came. to his
N decline and fall through gaining pract
and in letter in 1TT6 said: Il have
done myself. and it is to no purpos
conceal from you my abominable mad
~ and folly ! have never lost so niue
TO- five days as have tonight. and al
debt to the house for the whole"
.ggt Fhe Spirit of Gambling.
n In Spain don lost in "a hours '
SSS equals S12.O00,Q00. Twenty years a
y was estimated that the average gam
~ exchange of money throughout Chri
dom exceeded S123. 100.000,000 a
u But statistics 20 years ago would be
~ compared with the present statisti
ton we could find any one able enoug
Z. figures to tabulate them. 1t is al
same spirit of gambling, whether tn
struments are cards or the clicking
Del. or the turning wheel or the bids o
. Stool; Exchange, where people sell
re they never owned and fail because
'LO1 cannot get paid for it. A prom
banker tells me that he thinks $4,000
pie were financially Frustrated by Il
cent insanities in Wall street. Her
. there a case is reported, but the vas
jority suffer in silence. The childre
brought home from school, the wal
crate will be denied replenishment, the
- will have scant supply, wild gene
CT, will be turned into grim want.
, esti- years from now will be felt the di
llders' of last months black Thursday.
1 otber Can you hear the story Of the u
wenty cipled manipulators of stocks and
rences devices Of the gambling saloon to
iiioiU the verdant aud unsuspicious W
having your pulses Jingle, and your
thump, and your entire nature 81
with the villainy2 If so, you are moi
OF a man or much of a woman.
- ought to be angry, for there is no
such vehement disElSe. You ought
filings 30 angry that you could not repres
and at feelings in the presence of yOun
alHays who are inst forming their life IL