Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-01
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS D!scouRsEBY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: Control Your Temporarily One
May Have a Wholesome Indi ynatton-
Sins That We Should Be Angry With
PITY the Sinner.
Copyright 1901.

| -HAty tne S-dners
Copyright 1901
| WASHINGTON, D. CA delicate and
difficult duty is by DR.. Talmage in this
| upon those given to quick temper; text,
| Ephesians iv, 26, BE we angry and sin
| not"
Equipoise 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 start
ling. A certain kind of anger is approved; ;
aye, we are commanded to indulge in it.
The most OF us have no need to cultivate
! high temper, and how often we say
things and DO things under affronted i'm
pulse which we are sorry for when per-
ogy! Why, tnan, should the apostle Paul
dip his pen in the ink horn and trace
upon paper for all ages, the injunction,
BE ye angry and sin not?"
My text commends a wholesome indis-
nation. 1t discriminates between the Of
fence 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 It pours river Of poison and
fire through the nations. Millions have
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 distinguished brother. Louis X. and
Parliament OF Edinburgh in 1861 is called
in history the drunken Parliament"
Hugh Miller, first stonemason and after
ward a world renowned geologist, writes
of the drinking habits of his day, saying:
When the foundation was laid, they
laying, they drank, When the building
was finished, they drank. When an APP
prentice joined, they drank In the
eighteenth century the giver of an enter
tainment boasted that none of the guests
went home 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 indig-
nation 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
or 4 better woman. Be We angry at that
abominatic>, 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. Drunken
ness you are to hate with vivid hatred,
but the drunkard you are to pity, to help
to eXtricate.
are men and women who once were as
upright as yourself who have been pros.
trated bv alcoholism. Perhaps it came of
a physicians prescription for the relief of
pain, a recurrence of the pain calling for
a continuance of the remedy. Perhaps
the grandfather was an inebriate, and the
temptation to inebriety, leaping over a
generation, has swooped on this unfortu-
nate. Perhaps it was a very gradual
claiming of the man with the beverage
which was thought to be a servant, when
one day it announced itself master. Be
strong probability that under the same
circumstances you yourself might have
been captured. The two appropriate emo
tions for you to allow are Indignation at
the intoxicant which enthralled and SYM
pathy 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 up to
too many philippics about what the man
ought to have been and ought, to have
done; While your cheek fushes with
wrath at the foe that has brought the
ruin, let your eye be mositened with tears
of pity for the sufferer. In that way you
will have fulfilled the INDUCTION of the text,
BE we angry and sin not"
There is another evil the adherence of
which you are all called to, and it is on
cent developments show that much of this
devastation is being wrought in ladies'
parlors. 1t is an evil which sometimes is
as polite and gracious as it is harmful.
Indeed there never were so many people
trying to get money without earning it.
But 1t is a haggard transgression that
comes down to us from the past, blighting
all it's way.
l have seen in the archives of the nation
in this national capital large book in
which one of the early Presidents of the
United States kept an account in his own
ing cards, on one page the gains and on
the other the losses, and there are many
pages. In other days many of national
reputation went from the halls of Con
gress and the Senate chamber to spend |
the night in notorious gambling saloons.
In Spain don lost in twenty-four hours
what equals Sl2,000,000. Twenty years
ago it was estimated that the average |
gambling, exchange of money throughout
Christendom exceeded SIPS l00, ,000, 900 |
year, but statistics twenty years ago would |
be tame compared with the present statis- |
tics if we could find any one able enough !
at figures to tabuate them 1t is all the |
same spirit of gambling whether the in
struments are cards or the clicking chips |
or the turning wheel or the bids of the |
Stock Exchange, where people sell what
they never owned and fail because they
cannot get paid for it. A prominent
banker tells me that he thinks 50, 900 peo-
pie were financially Frustrated by the re-
cent insanties in Wall street Here and
there case is reported, but the vast ma
jority suffer in silence. The children are
brought home from school, the wardrobe
will be denied replenishment; the table
will have scant supply; wild generosity
will be turned into grim want. Forty
years frcm now will be felt the disaster
Of last months black Thursday.
But, while you are hotly indignant
against the crime, how do you feel about
hose who were heeced and slain? They
lid not know that their small boat was so
hear the maelstrom. Some of them were
BORN with tendency to recklessness and
experiment. and hazard They inherited
| disposition to tempt chance. Do not
reap on them additional discouragements
DO not deride their losses. Help them to
tart again. Show them that there are
more fortunes. to be gained than have yet
,een gathered, and that with God for
heir friend they will be provided for
lere, and through the Saviour's mercy
hey may reign forever in the land where
here are no losses and infinite gains
While you may redden in the face at the |