The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04
CONTROL YOUR TEMPER.
Or. TaImage in His Discourse Urges
Delicate Duty Upon Those Given
10 Quick Temper.
Sins That We Should Be Angry Wlth'-
Pity the Sinaer


WASHINGTON, ID. c. "A delicate and
difficult duty is by DIR. Talmage in this
discourse urged upon all and especially
upon those given to quick temper; text,
Epbesians iv, 26, "Be yc angry and sin
not"
Equipoise of temper, kindness, patience,
forbearance, are extollcd 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 IL.
The most of us have no need to cultivate
high temper, and how often we say
things and do things under affronted inn
pulse, which we are sorry Tor when per-
haps il " too late to make effective apol-
ogyi Why, then, 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 notg
My text oommends wholesome indig-
nation. IL 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
died because of il, and millions are dying
now, and others win die. Intemperance is
an old sin. The great Cyrus, writing to
the Lacedemonians Of himself, boasted of
many of his qualities, among others that
he could drink and bear more wine than
his distinguished brother. LS;Iss \. and
Alexander the Great died tkyik. The
Parliament OF Edinburgh in 1851 is called
in history "the drunken Parliament"
Hugh Miller, first stonemason and after
ward 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, they drank. When the building
Dsoqs oned they ybey aIand dran Mn In he d
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 a better man
or O better woman. Be ye angry at that
abomination, and the more anger the more
exaltation TO character. But that aroused
feeling becomes sinful when il 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 as
upright as yourself who have been pros
trated by 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
generation, has swooped on this unfortu-
nate. Perhaps it was a very gradual
chaining of the man with the beverage
tyb thptInbf IN 10 when
one day it 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
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 no, give yourself up to
too many philippics about what the man
ought to have been and ought to have
done. While your cheek husnes 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 ye 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, blighting
all its way.
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
handwriting OF gains and losses at play.
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 $l2,O00,000. Twenty years
ago il was estimated that the average
gambling exchange of money throughout
Christendom exceeded Sl23 100, 900 COO
year, but statistics twenty years ago would
be tame compared with the present stats
y. aes g. II we could lind any one able enough
at figures to tabulate 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 whet
they never owned and fail because they
cannot get paid for it. A prominent
banker tells me that he thinks $4,000 peo-
pie were financially prostrated by the re-
cent insanlties in Wall street. Here and
there case IS reported, but the vast ma
lorty suffer in silence. The children are
brought home from school; the wardrobe
Will be denied replenisbment; the table
Will have scant supply; wild generosity
will be turned into grim want. Forty
years from 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
those who were fieeced and slain? They
did not know that their small boat was SO
near the maelstrom. Some of them were
born vita tendency to reclxlessness 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, to be, gained than have yet
been gathered, and that with God for
their friend they will be provided for
they may reign forever in the land where
While you may redden in the face at the
fact that gambling is the disgraceful moth;
er of multitudious crimes, OF envies, jeal-
ousies, revenges, Quarrels, oruelties, false
hoods, forgeries suicides, murders and de-
spair, be careful what you say TO the vic
tim of the vice and what you do. He
needs more sympathy than the man who
came up from inebriety and debauch and
ASSASSINATION for many auQb ranant and