Connecticut western news., 1901-07-04

man race and give them no direct com munication for their guidance and, If they did wrong, tell them of no way of recovery.
 I think if famous infdel of our time instead of being taken away in- simultaneously had died in his bed after weeks and months of illness he would have revoked his teachings and left for his beloved family cancellations which they could not find in obsequies at which not one word of holy Scripture was read or at Fresh Pond crematory, where no Christian benediction was pronounced. l do not positively say that in a prolonged illness there would have been retraction, but I think there would.
 The renowned iniidel, Mir. Barker, after spending his long life in featuring 4 against Christianity in all our cities and in publishing large aud elaborate books iu depreciation of the Scriptures. in the closing years of his life wrote me that he had changed and that he would like to stand in my pulpit and undo ihe evil that he had wrought for the most of his lifetime. l wrote him in congratu- lation for his souls sake that he had turned back from intidelity, but that l thought he could not undo the work of a lifetime and that he had talked so long on the wrong side I did not think he could do anything by talking on the right side. The mercy of God is so great that many of the mightiest antag- onists of our religion have in their last days been brought to repentance and eternal life. Let the thunder of your wholesome indignation be followed by the kindly rain of pity and love. ''Be ye angry and sin not"
 The Sin of Hate.
 But let me confess at this crisis of my sermon that there Is not an injunc- tion in the Bible more difficult to obey than the words of the text. While 1t applauds wholesome indignation, 1t warns against sinful anger. And there
 is in all the realm of passion nothing more destruGtive than indiscriminate hate. First of all, it frenzies the nerv- ous ganglia. Those people who easily flare up on little provocation, go into high dudgeon, take umbrage without reason, snap you up quick, have ruined their nerves, and there Is only one thing worse to ruin, and that Is the brain, and we say of one that Is given to frequent ebullitions of temper that he Is an unbalanced man. A business mansof cur acquaintance said, Il can not afford to get mad; it hurts me so." And if sinful anger damages the body hnx rfu hn tion! There are thousands of men clerks in stores who would have been members of great business firms, and undermechanics who would have been boss carpenters, and attorneys who would have been leading advocates, and preachers to congregations who are starving them to death who might have had apprcciative surroundings who have been kept back and kept down by ungovernable tempers. The outbreak lasted only little while, but it impeded lifetime.
 A man thoroughly mad can say enough in two minutes to damage him for 20 years. It took only five minutes for the earthquake to destroy Caracas. One unfortunate sentence uttered in affront in a speech in the United States senate shut forever the door of the White House against one of the most brilliant men of the last century. You can nev- CT trust horse that has once run away. and you do not feel like trusting a man who has just once lost his equi- librium. You need to drive your tenn per as a man drives fractlous span amid the explosions of a Fourth of July morning or the pyrotechnics of 1 Fourth of July night, with curbed bit, taut rein, commanding voice, master ing yourself and mastering what you drive. If you are naturally high tenn pered, do not unnecessarily go among irritations and provocations. Do not ! build a blast furnace next to gun powder mill. Then also such demon strations of ungovernability belittle one. Men take out their lead pencils and In estimating such a one take 90 per cent off. About the most hideous spectacle on earth is an angry man or woman, burning not with the anger commended in my text, but with the sin reprehended. After such display LII gull, lIdSClDlllty, VII uithNSJ hio HI | fluence with many is forever gone. l The world Is full of politicians, doc | tors, lawyers, merchants, mechanice. 1 ministers, housewives, who have V such explosions been blown to pieces. Keep Control of Temper.
 I say to all young men hoping 70 achieve financial, moral or religtoso | success, control your tempers. Do nee | let criticism or rebuff defeat you. Yes di, the great musician, applied to be- | come a student In the Conservsltory oR Music at Milan, and he was rejected by | the director, who said that be could | make nothing of the newcomer, as he I showed 10 disposition for music. But the criticism did not exasperate or de | feat him. The most of those who have 1 largely succeeded In all departments | were characterized by self control. In battle they could calmly look at the bomb thrown at their feet, wondering whether it would explode. In commer- cial life, when panics smote the city, these men were placid, while others were yelling themselves hoarse at the | Stock Exchange. While others nearly swooned because a certain stock had gone 100 points down they calmly walt ed until 1t would get 100 points up.
 While the opposing attorney In the courtroom frothed at the mouth with rage because of something said on the other side he of the equipoise put 0 glass of water to his lips in refresh ment and proceeded with the remark, AS was saying when the gentleman interrupted me-" Self control! What n glorious thing! We want 1t in the doctor feeling the pulse of one desper- ately Ill; we want 1t in the engineer
 when the headlight of another train
 comes round the curve on the same
 track; we want 1t in Christian men and
 women in times when so much In
 church and state seems going to demo-
 lition-self control! What are you go- | ing to be good for O man or woman, in