The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-07-19
COMMENDABLE ANGER
1aimage on How to Be Angry and
Still Sin Not.
DiNcriminntes between the oncpse
aud the OGendcr-We should
lie Indignant at One and
Pity the other.

delicate and difficult duty is b
j. Dr. Ialmage in this discourse URGE,
d upon all, and especially upon tbos
j. given to quick temper; text Ephe
slams iv., 20: BE ye angry and sil
not"
3. Equipose of temper, kindness. pa
uence, forbearance, are extolled b,
most OF the radiant pens of inspira
uon but my text contains that which
al hrst sight is startling. \ certain
KIND of anger is approyed-aye, we
are commanded to indulge in it, The
most of us have no need to cultivate
nigh temper, and how often we saw
things and do things under affront-
ed impulse which we are sorry for
When perhaps il is too late to make
effective apologyl Why, then, should
the apostle Paul dip his pen in the ink
norm and trace upon parchment, after
ward TO be printed upon paper for
all ages, the injunction, BE We angry
and sin not?"
MY text cOmmcnds a wholesome in
dignation. 1T discriminates between
the oifense and the offender, the sin
and the sinner, the crime and the
criminal.
To illustrate: Alcoholism has
ruined more fortunes, blasted more
homes, destroyed more souls, than
any evil that l think of. 1t pours
a river of poison and fire through the
nations. Millions have died because
OF H. and millions are dying now, and
others will die. Intemperance is an
old sin. The great Cyrus, writing
to the LacedemOnians of himself.
boosted of many of his qualities.
among others, that he could drink
and bear more wine than his distin-
guished brother. Louis Y. and Al
eXander the Great died drunk. The
parliament of Edinburgh i'm 1861 is
called in history "the drunken par
lament" Hugh Miller. first stone
mason and afterward world-re-
nowned geolOgist, writes of the drink |
ing 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 boast
ed that none of the guests went away
sober. Noah, the first 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 constructed
will blush with Indignation at the ma
tiOnal and international and hemi-
sphcric and planetary curse. 1t is
good TO be aroused against it, You
come out of that condition a better
man or a better woman. BE We an
CRY 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. Drunk
enness you are to hate with a vivid =
hatred; but the drunkard you are
to pity, to help to eXtricate.
Just take into consideration that
there are men and women who once =.
we're as upright as yourself who =
nave been prostrated by alcoholism -
Perhaps it came of a physicians pre- -
for the relief of pain, re- h
'urrence of the pain calling for q
continuance of the remedy; perhaps 5,
he grandfather was an inebriate and -
he temptation to inebriety, leaping n
ver generation, has swooped on =
his unfortunate; perhaps it was un- =,
er an attempt TO drown trouble that d,
fas sought after; perhaps it was 4,
very gradual claiming of the man =,
'ith the beverage which was thought -
D be a servant, when one day it an "
Ounced itself master. BE humble 20
ow, and admit that there is a ~
rong probability that under the II
ime circumstances you yourself nj
light have been captured. The two v
emotions for you to al h,
w are Indignation at the intoxicant 90
hich enthralled and sympathy for re
he victim. Try to get the sufferer er
1t of his present environment; rec ,yl
nmend any hygienic relief that YOU IN
low of and, above all, implore the %
vine rescue for the struggle in .h
hich so many of the noblest and ,,,i
andest have been worstcd. Do not 81.
We yourself up to too many phil ,
pies about what the man ought to -.
We been and ought to have done. -.
lille your check fushes with wrath ~
the foe that has brought the ruin, -.
your eye be moistened with tears
pity for the sufferer. In that way 80
u viii have fulfilled the Injunction ~,
the text: "Be ye angry and sin a~, a'r,
- del
There is another evil the abhor- an,
nee of which you are called to, ,io,
d 10 is ON the increase The gam MIA.
ng practice. Recent developments tal
NV that much of this devastation the
being wrought in ladies' parlors. wo,
is an evil which sometimes is as reh
l'e ana gracious as u Is harniui' wol
Iced, there never were so many sba
'ple trying to get money without ear
ming il. But il is a haggard do
nsgression that comes down to us itv
IN the past blighting all its way. cha
have seen in the archives of the Of ,
ion in this national capital a large lauf
* in which one of the early pres won
lts of the United States kept an iocu