The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-12
TALMAGE's SERMON.
DR.. Talmage Pleads With Those Given
to Quick Anger.

a dellcate and difficult duty is by
DR.. Talmago in this discourse urged
upon all, and especially upon those
given to quick temper; toxt, Ephosiana
iv, rs, "Bo yo angry and sin not"
Equiposo Of tempor, kindnoss, patti.
onoo, forbearanoe, arc extollcd by most
Of tho radiant pens Of inspiration, but
my text contains that which at first
sight is startling. a oortain kind Of
angor is approved -ayo, wo arc com
msnded to Indulge in it. Tho most Of
us hayo no mood to cultivate high tom
por, and how ofton we say things and
do things under affronted impulse
which we are sorry for whom perhaps il
is too leto to mako effective apology
Why, thon, should tho apostle Paul
dip his pom in tho ink horn and traco
upon parchment, afterward to bo printed
upon paper for all agos, tho Injunction,
"Be yo angry and sin not?"
My text commcnds awholesomc in
dignation. 1t disoriminatcs bctwcon
tho offonso and the oifondor, tho sin
and tho sinner, the crime and tho Grim
inal.
To illustrate: Alcoholism has ruined
moro fortunes, blasted moro homes, dc,
stroyed moro souls, than any evil that
l think Of. 1t pours river Of poison
and fire through tho nations. Millions
havo died because Of it, and millions
arc dying now, and others will die.
incompetence is on old ain. Tho groat
Cyrus, writing to tho Laoedemonians
Of himaelt, bosstcd Of many of his
qualitios, among othora, that ho could
drink and bear moro wine than his dis
tinguishod brother Louis X and AL
exandor tho Great died drunk. The
parliament Of Edinburgh in 1861 is
called in history 'tho drunken parlia-
mont" Hugh Miller, first stonomason
and afterward world renowned goolo-
gist, writes Of the drinking habits Of his
day, saying: 'Whcn tho foundation
was laid, thoy drank. When tho walls
were levoled for laying tho joists, they
y drank. Whom the building was fin
Il ishod, they drank. Whom an apron,
/; tiooI Joined, they drank" In the eigh.
teonth century the givor Of an onter.
j!Stainment boasted that mono Of the
doBts went q way sober, Noah, the
4 first Hhip captain, was Wreokod-not in
,,8 the ark, for that was safely landed ~
s. but ho was wrecked with strong drink.
livery man or woman rightly construct.
cd will blush with Indignation at the
national and international and homi.
spheric and planetary curse. 1t is good
to be aroused against 1T. You come
out Of that condition better man o. a
botter woman. BE ye angry at that
abomination, and the moro anger the
more exaltati0n to character. But
that aroused feeling becomes sinful
when it oxtends to tho victim Of this
great evil. Drunkenness you arc to
& hate with a vivid hatred but the drunk
ard you are to pity, to help to oxtri-
cato.
Z just take into consideration that
there are mon and womon who on9o
wero as upright as yourself who have
been .prostratod by alcoholism. Por-
haps it came of physioian's proscrip-
tion for tho relief of pain, recurrence
Of tho pain calling for continuance Of
the remedy; perhaps tho grandfather
was an inobriate and tho temptation to
inobriety, leaping ovor a generation,
has swoopod on this unfortunate; por-
haps it was undor an attompt to drown
trouble that tho benumbing and marco. .
tic liquid WAS sought after; perhaps it
was very gradual ohaining Of tho man
with tho beverage which was thought
to be o servant, whom ono day it an.
nounoed itself master. Bo humble now,
and admit that thoro is strong prob
ability that under tho samo ciroum-
stancos you yourself might have boon
captured. Tho Two appropriate ono
tions for you to allow arc indignation
at the intoxioant which onthrallod aud
sympathy for tho victim. Try to got
the sufferer out Of his present environ
mont; reoommond any hygionio rcliof
that you know Of and, above all, i'm
ploro the divine rescue for tho struggle
in which 30 many of tho noblest and
grandest havo been worstod. DO not
give yourself up to too many philippios
about what the man ought to havo boon
and ought to have dono. While your
check flushos with wrath at tho foe that
has brought tho tuin, lot your oyo bo
moistoned with tears Of pity for tho
eufforer. In that way you will have
fulfilled tho injunction Of tho tcxt,
"Bo ye angry and sin not"
There is another evil tho abhorrenoo
OF which you arc all called to, and it
is on the incroaso tho gambling prao.
tioe. Keoont developments show that
much OF this devastation is boing
wrought, in ladios' parlors. 1t is an
evil which sometimes is rs polito and
/ gracious as it is harmful. Indood,
thero novor woro 30 many people try
ing to get money without earning it.
But 1t is haggard transgrossion that
oomos down to us from the past, blight.
ing all its way.
I have soon in tho archives Of tho
nation in this national capital largo
book in which ono OF tho carly prosl-
donts of tho United States kept an 40
count in his own handwriting Of gains
and losses at playing oards--on ono
page tho gains and on tho othor tho
lossos, and there arc many pages. In
othor days many Of national reputation
went from tho halls of congress and
tho senate ohamboi to spond tho night
in notorious gambling balloons. Ono
Of tho ablost mon of tho centuries,
Charles Fox, got roady for his spooob
against THE Petition of tho Clergy
by spending 90 hours at tho gaming
table. lrviDg's lifo Of Oliver Goldsmith
says that tho great poot lost c3O, all
his earnings, in short tour to 500 tho
world, Gibbon, tho author Of Tho
Decline and Fall Of tho Roman EN-
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