The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-10
TALMAGEs SERMON.
Dr.. Talmage Pleads With Those Given
to Quick Anger.

to Quick Anger.
a delicate and difficult duty is by
DR.. Talmage in this discourse urged
upon all, and especially upon those
given to quick temper; text, Ephesians
", 26, "Bs ye angry and sin not. :"
Equipose Of temper, kindness, patti,
ence, forbesrance, are extol!ed 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
msnded to indulge il it. The most OF
US have no need to cultivate high TEN.
Der, and how often We say things and
do things under a6rontsd 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
upon paper for all sges, the Injunction,
''Bs ye angry and sin not?"
My text commenos wholesome IN
dignstion. It discriminates between
the offense and the offender, the sin
and the sinner, the crime and the Grim
inal.
To illustrate: Alcoholism has ruined
more fortunes, blasted more homes, de-
stroyed more souls, than any evil that
I think Of. It pours 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 Lscedemopians
Of himself, boosted Of many Of his
qualities, among others, that he could
driak and bear more wine than his dis
tinguished brother. Louis x and Al
e1sndeZ the Great died drunk. The
parliament Of Edinburgh in 1851 is
called in history ''the drunken parlia-
ment." Hugh Miller, first stonsmason
and aftervsrd world renowned geolo-
gist, 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 fo-
ished, they drank. When an appren-
tice joined, they drank" In the eigh-
teenth century the giver of al enter
tainment boasteG that none OF the
guests went awsy sober. Nosh, the
frst 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 construct
ed will blush with indignation at the
national and international and heml-
sphe1ic and planetary curse. 1t is good
to be aroused against 1t. You come
out Of that condition better man o. 8
better woman. BE ye angry at that
abominstion, 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. Drunkenness you are to
hate with s vivid hatred; but the drunk
ard you are to pity, to help to extri-
cate.
Just take into consideration that
there are men and women who en'e
were as upright as yourself who have
been prostrased by alcoholism. Per-
haps il came Of physioisn's prescrlp-
tion for the relief Of pain, recurrence
Of the pain calling for continuance o.
the remedy; perhaps the grandfather
vas an inebriate and the temptation to
inebriety, leaping over generation,
has swooped on this unfortunate; per-
hsps it was under an attempt to drown
trouble that the benum5ing and marco
tic liquid was sought after; perhaps it
was very gradual chaining Of the man
with the beverage which was thought
to be a servant, when one day it an.
nounced itself master. Be humble now,
and admit that there is strong prob
ability thst under the same cjrcum-
stances you yourself might have been
captured. The two appropriate emo
tions for you to allow are indignation
at the intoxicant which enthralled and
sympathy for the 7.csin. Try to get
the sufferer out of his present environ
ment; recommend any hygienic relief
that you know of and, above ali, i'm
plore the divine rescue for the struggle
in which so many Of the noblest and
grsndest have been Worsted. Do not
give yourself up to too many phillpplcs
about what the man ought to have been
and ought to have done. While your
cheek fashes with wrath at the foe that
has brought the 1uia, let your eye be
moisteneo with tears Of pity for the
sufferer. In that way you will have
fulfilled the Injunction Of the text,
BE ye angry and sin not"
There is another evil the abhorrence
Of which you are all called TO, and it
is on the incresse-the gambling prac-
tice. Recent developments show thst
much Of this devastation is being
wrought in ladies' parlors. It is an
evil which sometimes is as polite and
gracious as it is harmful. Indeed,
there never were SO many people try
ing to get money without earning 1t.
But it is q haggard transgression that
comes down to US from the past, blight
ing aII 1ES TSy'
I have seen in the archives Of the
nation in this national capital a large
book in which one Of the early presi-
dents Of the United States kept an &C.
count in his own handwriting Of gslns
and losses at playing csrds-on one
page the gains and on the other the
losses, and there sre many psges. IN
other days many Of national reputation
went from the halls Of congress and
the senate chamber to spend the night
in notorious gambling saloons. One
Of the ablest men Of the centuries,
Charles Fox, got ready for his speech
against The Petition Of the Clergy"
By spending q hours at the gaming
table. Tr7ing's life Of Oliver Goldsmith
says that the great poet lost $50, all
his earnings, in short tour to see the