The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-07-05
COMMENDABLE ANGER
Talmage on How to Be Angry and
Still Sin Not.
0fscrfminates Between the ORense
and the ORender-We Should
he Indignant 1t One ana
Pity the Other.


"A delicate and difficult duty is by
Or. Talmage in this discourse urged
unon all, and especially upon those
given to quick temper; text. Ephe-
slams w., &c: "Be ye angry and sin
not"
Equipose of temper, kindness. pa
thence, forbearance, are extolled by
most Of the radiant pens of inspira-
ton, but my text contains that which
at first sight is startling. A certain
kind of anger is approved-aye, we
most of US have no need to cultivate
high temper, and how often we say
things and do things under affront-
ed 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, after
ward to be printed upon paper for
Alleges, the injunction, "Be We angry
and sin NOTE"
MY text commends q wholesome in
dignation. 1t discriminates between
the offense and the offender, the sin
and the sinner, the crime and the
criminal.
To illustrates: Alcoholism has
ruined more fortunes, blasted more
homes, destroyed 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
boasted of many of his qualities,
among others, that he could drink
and bear more wine than his distin-
guished brother. Louis K. and Al
exander the Great died drunk. The
parliament of Edinburgh in 1861 is
called in history "the drunken par
Lament" Hugh Miller, first stone
mason and afterward a 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-
spheric and planetary curse. 1t is
good to be aroused against it. You
como out of that condition 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 drunl<ard you are
to pity, to help to extricate.
Just take into consideration that
there are men and women who once
were as upright as yourself who
have been Frustrated by alcoholism.
Perhaps it came of physicians pre-
scription for the relief of pain, a re-
currence Of the pain calling for
of the remedy; perhaps
the grandfather was an inebriate and
the temptation to inebriety, leaping
over generation, has swooped on
this unfortunate; perhaps it was un-
der an attempt to drown trouble that
was sought after; perhaps it was
= very gradual claiming of the man
with the beverage which was thought
to be q servant, when one day it an
nounced itself master. Be humble
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 al
low are indignation at the intoxicant
which enthralled and sympathy for
the victim. !, Try to- get the sufferer
out OF his present environment; rec
ommend any hygienic relief that you
know of and, above all, implore the
divine rescue for the struggle in
which so many OF the noblest and
grandest have been worsted. Do not
give yourself up to too many phil
tppics about what the man ought to
have been and ought to have done.
While your cheek Pushes 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 win have fulfilled the injunction