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 WASHINGTON, June BOA delicate and difficult duty Is by Dr. Talmage in this discourse urged upon aA and espe- cially upon those given to quick tenn per; text Ephesans iv, 26, Be ye an gry and sin not"
 Equipoise of temper, kindness, pa tience. forSearancc. are extolled by most of the radiant pens of inspiration, but my text contains that which al first sight Is startling. X certain kind of anger is approved; aye. we are com handed 10 indulge iu 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 1t 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 ye angry and sin notY
 My text comments a wholesome in- dlgnation. It dscriminates between the offense and the offender, the sin and
 
 To illustrate, alcoholism has ruined more fortunes, blasted more homes, de- stroyed more souls than, any evil that l think of. It pours a river of poison and fire through the nations Millions have died because of 1t, and millions are dying now, and others will die. In temperance Is an old sin The great Cyrus, writing to the Lacedemonians of himself, boasted of many of his qual- ities, among others that he could drink and bear more wine than his distin- guished brother. Louis X and Alexan- der the Great died drunk. The parlia- ment of of-Edinburgh in 1861 is called in history "the drunken parliament" Hugh Miller, first stonemason and aft erward 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, they drank. When the building was finished, they drank When an apprentice joined, they drank" In the eighteenth century the giver of an entertainment boasted 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 hemispheric and planetary curse. It is good to be arounsed against it. You come out of that condition better man or better woman. Be ye angry at that abomination, 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 vivid hatred, but the drunk ard you are to 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 prostrated by alcoholism. Per haps 1t came of a physicians prescrip- tion for the relief of pain, recurrence of the pain calling for continuance of the remedy. Perhaps the grandfather was an inebriate and the temptation to inebriety, leaping over a generation, has swooped on this unfortunate. Per- haps it was under an attempt to drown trouble that the benumbing and nar- cotic liquid was sought after. Perhaps it was a very gradual chaining of the man with the beverage which was thought to be servant, when one day it announced itself master. Be hum- ble now and admit that there is strong probability that under the same circumstances you yourself might have been captured. The two appropriate emotions for you to allow are indigna- tion at the intoxicant which enthralled and sympathy for the victim. Try to get the sufferer out of his present en- vironment Recommend any hygienae 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. D0 not give yourself up to too many phk lippics about what the man ought to have been and ought to have done. While your cheek flushes 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 ye angry and sin not"
 There is another evil the abhorrencg of which you are all called to, and h is on the increase-the gambling prac- tice. Recent developments show that much of this devastation Is being wrought in ladies' parlors. It is an evil which sometimes is as polite ants gracious as it is harmful. Indeed ther0 never were so many people trying to get money without earning it. But 1t is haggard transgression that comes down to us from the past, blighting all its way.
 I have seen i'll the archives of the na- ton in this national capital 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 other days many of national reputa- tion went from the halls of congress and the senate chamber to spend the night in notorious gambling saloons.
 Help the Unfortunate.
 
 equals S12,000,000. Twenty years ago it was estimated that the average gam bling exchange of money throughout Chrlstendom exceeded $123, 10000 OOC year, but statistics 20 years ago would be tame compared with the pres en1 statistics if we could find any one able enough at figures to tabulate them. It is all the same spirit of gam bling whether the instruments are cards or the clicking chips or the turn ing wheel or the bids of the Stock Ex- change, where people sell what they never owned and fail because they can. not get paid for it. A prominent bank, CT tells me that he thinks 50,0OO people were financially prostrated by the re- cent insanities in Wall street. Here fI,n,.A fa fn6 hut