The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-08-20
CONTROL YOUR TEMPER.
Or. TalnaSe in his Discourse Urges a
Delicate Duty Upon Those Given
TO Quick Temper.
Sins That We Should Be Angry With
Pity the Sinner
IcopyriSht 1901 I

Ephesians Nv, 20, BE ye angry and sin
net"
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
Ugh temper, and how often we say
llngs and do things under affronted inn
pulse which. we are sorry for when per-
maps lt rs too late to make effective apol-
ogy! Why, then, should the apostle Paul
dip hjs pen in the ink horn and trace
upon paper for all ages, the injunction,
BE We angry and sin not!"
] My text commends q wholesome indiR-
nation. It 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 I
FIRE through the nations. Millions have
died because of it, and millions are dying
an old SIN. The great Cyrus, writing 60
the LacedemOniuns of himself, boosted of
MANY of his qualities, among others that
ne could drink and bear more wine than
Alexander the Great died dSSS.ik The
Parliament of Edinburgh In J5oI - called
in history "the drunken Parliament"
Hugh Miller, first stonemason and after
Of the drinking habits of his day, saying:
when the foundation was laid, they
drank. When the walls were leveled for
laying, they drank. When the building
prentice Joined, they drank" In the
eighteenth century the giver of an enter
tainment boosted that none of the guests
went home sober. Noah, the first ship
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
rs good to be aroused against it. YOu
come out of that condition better man
or a better woman. BE We angry at that
Rbomination, and the more anger the more
exaltAtion to character. But that aroused
feeling becomes sinful when 1t 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.
Just take into consideration that there
are men and women who once were az
upright as yourself who have been pros
trated by alcoholism. Perhaps it came of
physicians prescription for the relief of
pain, a recurrence OF the pain calling for
q continuance of the remedy. Perhaps
the grandfather was an i1ebriate, and the
temptation TO inebriety, leaping over q
generation, has swooped on this unfortu-
nate. Perhaps 1t was q very gradual
claiming of the man with the beverage
which was thought to be a servant, when
one day 1T announced itself master. BE
humble now, and admit that there is a
strong probability that under the same
circumstances you yourself might have
been captured. The two appropriate emo
tons 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 hygenic 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 tlushes 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
the increase-the gambling practice Re
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 q haggard transgression that
comes down to us from the past, bhghting
al it's way.
/ have seen in the archives of the nation
IN this national capital a large book in
which one of the early Presidents of the
United States kept an account in his own
handwriting of gains and losses at play.
ing cards, on one page the gains and on
the other the losses, Nad 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 Span don lost ia twenty-four hours
what equals 00O Twenty years
ago 1t was estimated that the average
nF .l....,A
Chrlstendom exceeded $l23, 100 600, 600 a
year, but statistics twenty years ago would
be tame compared with the present statis-
tlcs II we could ind any one able enough
at hgures to tabulate them. it is all the
same spirit of gambling whelher the m
Btruments are cards or the clicking chips
or the turning wheel or the bids of the
btock Exchange, where people sell what
they never owned and fail because they
eannot get paid for it. prominent
banker tells me that he thinks $4,000 peo-
pie were financially Frustrated by tho re-
rent lnsamtics 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
viii have scant supply; wild generosity
VIII be turned INTO grim want. Forty
years from now will be felt the disaster
Of last months black Thursday
But, while you are notify indignant
against the crime. how do YOU feel about
muse WHO we're UGeCeQ ana SAM lneT
did not know that their small boat was so
near the maelstrom. Some of them were
born with a tendency TO reckessness and
experiment and hazard They inherited
disposition to tempt chance. Do not
heap on them additional discouragements.
DO not deride their losses Help them to
start again Show them that there are
more fortunes 10 be gained than, have yet
been gathered, and that with God for
their friend they viii be provided for
here, and through the Saviour's mercy
they may reign forever in the land where
there are no losses and infinite gains.
While you may redden in the face dt Che
tact that gambling is the disgraceful moth
~ on ns'lhtydious crimes, Of envies ieal-
9unss' FevebgW quarres, cruelties, false
hooas' forgery suicides murders and de.
spar, pc care what you say to the vic
TIM OF the W. and what you do He
heeos more pathy than the man who
came up IRON Iebriety and debauch and
ebsaBslnatOp p many such repent and
are saved, but confirmed gamblers hardly
ever reform. During the course of a pro-
longcd ministry j have seen thousands re.
seemed, many of them who were clear
gone in sin, by Almighty grace rescued
N AZ parts OF this land and In some parts
pt other lands have seen those who were
gwen up ~ incorrigible and lost recov.
red for God and heaven, but how many
confirmed gamblers have I eeun Convene
their evil ways? A bousandY No
hundrrTe ~ re.ft.s ~