Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-03

IN by Dir. .aimage this discourse
S<S urged ,fpon III. and especially up
on those given To qeick temper; text
Ephesians * %. BE We angry and sin
not
Eauipose of temper, Kindness. patience
forbearance, are extolled 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 APP
proved-aye, we are commanded TO in
dulge i'll il. The most Of us have no need
to cultivate high ten per. and how often
We say things and do things under af-
fronted impulse which We are sorry for
when perhaps it is too late to make eff
tective apology! Why, then, should the
apostle Paul dip his pen in the ink horn
and trace upon parchment, afterward 10
be printed upon paper for all ages, the in
junction. BE angry and sin notT
My text commends a wholesome indig-
nation. 1t discriminates between the Of
Tense and the offender, the sin and the
sinner. the crime and the criminal.
To illustrate: Alcoholism has ruined
more fortunes, blasted more homes. de-
stroyed more souls, than any evil that |
think of. 1t 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 Lacedemonians of himself, boast
ed of many of his qualities, among 9th
ers. that he could dring and bear more
wine than his distinguished brother.
Louis y. and Alexander the Great died
drunk. The parliament of Edinburgh in
1861 is called in history 1.-THE drunken
mason and afterward 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 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 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
lsoded-but he was wrecked with strong
drink. Every man or woman rightly
constructed will blush with indignation
at the national and international and
hemisphere and planetary curse 1t is
good to be aroused against it. You come
out of that condition better man OF a
better woman. Be We angry at that abom-
nation, and the more anger the more ex
altation TO character. But that aroused
feeling becomes sinful when it extends to
the victim of this great evil. Drunken
ness. Won are to hate with vivil hatred;
but the drunkard you are TO pity, to help
to extricate4-<
PROSTATE by Alcoholism.
Just take into consideration that there
are men aud women who once were as
upright as yourself who have been pros
trated by aicoholism. Perhaps it came
of physicians prescription for the re-
lief of pain. recurrence of the pain call
ing for continuance of the remedy per-
haps the grandfather was an inebrate
aud the temptation to inebriety. leaping
over a generation, has swooped on this
unf0rtunate perhaps it was under an at
tempt to drown trouble that the benumb-
ing and narcotic liquid was sought af
ter. perhaps it was a very gradual chain
ing of the man with the beverage which
was thought to be a servant, when one
day it announced itself master. Be hum
BILE now. and admit that there is strong
probability that under the same circum-
stances you yourself might have been
captured. The two appropriate emotions
for you to allow are Indignation at the
intoxicant which enthralled and sympa-
thy for the victim. Try to get the suf-
ferer out of his present environment:
recommend any hygienic relief that you
know of and, above all, implore the di-
vine rescue for the struggle in which so
many of the noblest and grandest have
been worsted. Do not give yourself IN
to too many philippcs about what the
man ought to have been and ought TO
have done. While your cheek flushes
with wrat at the foe that has brought
the ruin, let your eye be moistened with
tears of pity for the suff erer. In that
way you will have fulfilled the injunc-
tion of the text. Be ye angry and sin
not"
There is another evil the adherence
of which you are called 10. and it is
on the increase--the gambling practice
Recent developments show that much of
iris devastation is being wrought in la
lies parlors. 1t is an evil which some
times is as polite and gracious as it is
harmful. Indeed, there never were so
many people trying to get money without
earning it, But it is a haggard trans
gression that comes down to US from the
past, blighting all its way.
The Spirit of Gambling.
Twenty years ago it was estimated that
the average gambling exchange of money
throughout Christendom exceeded Sf23,- |
100000.000 a year. But statistics fven-
~ years ago would be tame compared
with the present statistics if we could
find any one able enough at figures TO
tabulate them. Ii is all the same spirit
OF gambling. whether the instruments
are cards or the clicking chips or the
turning wheel the bids of the Stock
Exchange, where people sell what they
never owned and fail because they can
not get paid for it. A prominent banker
tells me that he thinks $4,000 people |
were financially Frustrated by the recent
insanities in Wall street Here and
there ease is reported. but the vast
majority suffer in silence. The children
are brought home from school. the ward
robe will Ae denied replenishxient, the
table viii have scant supply, wild geneF-
osity will be turned into grim want. |
Forty years iram now will be felt the dis
Aster Of last months black Thursday.
Can YOU hFar the story Of the unprin
eipled mauip.tiators of stocks and Of the
devices of the gambling saloon 10 entrap
abe verdant AMI unaaspieieus without
having your pulses Jingle, and your heart
thump. and yo1r entire nature shocked
with the yiIainyf IL 50, you are not
much OF a man or much OF a woman.
You ou=h: Ia be angry. for there u no
sin ia such vehement dislike. You ought