The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-08-08
COMMENDABLE ANGER
Talmag. Oh !7ow to Be Angry and
Still Sin Not.
piscriminatea Between the Odense
and the OGender-we Should
Ne Ina. uEut at One and
Plty the Other.
copyright, 1901. b. Louis Klopsch. N. IL
Washington, June 80


Washington. June 80
A delicate and difficult duty is by
DR.. Talmage in this discourse urged
upon all, and especially upon those
given to quick temper; text. Ephe-
slams iv., 26: BE ye angry and sin
not" ,.,,.
Equipose of temper. kindness, pa
tieuce, forbearance, arc extolled by
most of the radiant pens of inspira-
tion, but my text contains that which
at first sight is startling. 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 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
all ages, the injunction, BE ye angry
and sin notY'
My text commends wholesome in
diguation. 1t discriminates between
the offense 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
river Of poison and fire through the
aations. Millions have died because
OF it, and millions are dying now, and
others will die. Intemperance is an
old SIM The great Cyrus. writing
70 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 X. 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 worh-r>
nswnsd geologist, writes Of the drink
Ing habits Of his day, sayine. "Whsa
the foundation was laid, they drank.
When the walls were leveled for
laying the joists. they drank. When
the hailding was finished, they drank
Whsa an apprentice Joined. they
drank." In tho eighteenth century,
the giver Of an entertainment boast
ed that nens q the guests went away
ssbes. Noah. the hrst ship captain,
was wresked-not in the ark, fer
that was safely lsndsd-bus he was
wrecked with strsng drink. Every
man or woman rightly constructed
will blush With indignation ct the ns-
tsonal and international and hemi-
spherio and planetary curse. Il is
good TO be aroused against II. You
come out Of that condition o better
man or q better woman. Be 70 an.
gry At that abomination. and the
moro anger the moro exaltation to
character. But that aroused feeling
becomes sinful when IL extends to
the victim Of this great evil. Drunk
enness you are to hate with a vivid
hatred; but the drunkard you are
70 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 prostrated by alcoholism.
Perhaps 1t came Of q physicians pre-
scription for the Ieliet of pain, a re-
eurrence of the pain calling for a
continuance Of tho remedy; perhaps
tne grandfather was an inebriate and
tho temptation to inebriety, leaping
over q generation, has swooped on
this unfortunate; perhaps It was un.
Ger an attempt to drown trouble that
was sought after; perhaps IL was
very gradual claiming Of tho man
with tho beverage which was thought
70 DO servant. when ono day II an
nouncsd itself master. Be humble
now. and admit that there y
sVong probability that under the
same circumstances you yourself
might hsvs been captured. Tho two
appropriate emotions for you to al
!ow are indignation at the intoxcant
which enthralled ana sympathy for
vac Hotfm. Try to got the sufferer
WV OF hls present environment; rec
Snmend say hys.enio relief that you
Know OF and, above all. implore the
1l'.ns rescue for the struggle in
which 20 many Of the noblest and
raadsst have been worsted. Do not
g'e yourself up to too many phA-
,PP'cs about what the man ought to
,1 nave been and ought 10 have done.
while ysvr cheek Aushes with wrath
:. tho foe that has brought the ruin,
.s' your eye be moistened with tears
o' pitY for the sufferer. In that way
!ou viii have fulhlled the injunction
net"
fnere h another evil the abhor-
renee Of which you arc called to,
sa sao u 10 on the increase-the gam.
Jung practice. Recent developments
.uo" that much Of this devastation
:. oe'nS wrought IN ladies' parlors.
"m an evil which sometimes Is a.
ro.'s and gracious o. IL is harmful.
.Aueeo' there never were 90 many
r.opie trying to got money without
.erning Il. But II IL . hapsard