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| man of our acquaintance said: can | not afford to get mad; it hurts me so. I And if sinful anger damages the pouy how much more it rives the oisposi- tion! There are thousands or men - | clerks in stores who would nave peen members of great business firms, ana undermechanics who would have been boss carpenters. and attorneys Wno would have been leading advocates and preachers to congregations wno are starving them to death, who misn' have had appreciative surrounoinss | who have been kept back and Kept down by ungovernable tempers. lhe outbreak lasted only a little while, put
 it impeded a lifetime.
 A man thoroughly mad can say
 enough in two minutes to damage nim | for 20 years. It took only five nm utes for the earthquake to destroy Caracas. One unfortunate sentence ut- tered in affront in speech m the United States Senate shut forever the door of the White House against one or the most brilliant men of the last cen tury. You can never trust horse that has once run away. and you oo no. feel like trusting a man who mas Just
 once lost his equilibrium. You need 10 drive your temper as a man drlVes LfdCtiOuS Spdu dttliu lHC 0- Fourth of July morning, or the pyro- technics of a Fourth of July night, wf:i curbed bit, taut rein, commanding volce, mastering yourself and master ing what you drive. If you are natur- ally high tempered, do not unnecessar- lily go among irritations and provoca- tions. Do not build blast furnace next to a gun powder mill. Then also such demonstrations of ungovern- ability belittle one Men take out their lead pencils and in estimating sucn one take 90 per cent. oil. About the
 most hideous spectacle on earth IS an | angry man or woman. burning not wltn the anger commended in my text' put with the sin reprehended. Alter such display of gall, irascibility. virulence, his influence with many is forever gone. The world is full of politicians, uoc- | tors, lawyers, merchants. mechanics, | ministers. housewives. who have oy such explosions been blown to pieces. Keep Control of Temper.
 I say to all young men hoping to l achieve financial. moral or religious | success, control your tempers. Do not | let criticism or rebuff defeat you. yer | di, the great musician, applied to pc- | come a student in the Conservatory or | Music at Milan, and he was rejected py | the director, who said that he couio make nothing of the newcomer, as ne
 showed no disposition for music. Bu' | the criticism did not exasperate or oe- feat him. The most of those who nave | largely succ. eded in all departments | were characterized by self control. IT
 battle they could calmly look at the bomb thrown at their feet, wondering
 whether it would explode. In commer- l iaI noYipS SmntP the CltV
 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 it would get 100 points up 1 While the opposing attorney in the | court room frothed at the mouth with
 rage because of something said on the other side he of the equipoise put a | 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
 a glorious thing! We want it in the
 doctor feeling the pulse of one desper- ately i'll; we want 1t in the engineer
 when the headlight of another tram | comes round the curve on the same
 track: we want it in Christian men and women III tlIlCo "hSh oS AAHo~', '- | lition-self control! What are you go-
 church and state seems going to demo- l ing to be good for, O man or woman, In
 fl world like this, ever and anon your dander up and so often in the sulks | We admit that yes have many things
 to stir your blood and fill you with wholesome indignation, but going te
 such extremes you offend my text which says you must discriminate and not lose your self control. Be ye an gry and sin not"
 Christ's Mercy.
 l Surpassing all other characters ip the worlds biography stands Jesus Christ,
 wrathful against sin, merciful to the l sinner, Witness his behavior toward | the robed ruffans who demanded cap-
 itaI punishment for an offending wo-
 man. denunciation for their sinful hy- procsy, pardon for her sweet peni-
 tence. He did not speak of Herod as
 This highness" or his royal highness,
 but dared to compare him to a cunning | fox, saying, GO ye and tell that fox. ' l But, alert to the cry of suffering. he
 finds ten lepers, and to how many of | the ten awful invalids did he give | convalescence and health? Ten. Rebuk- | ing Pharsaism in the most compressed
 sentence in all the vocabulary of an-
 athena: "Ye serpents! Ye generation | of vipers! How can ye escape the dam
 nation of hell?" Yet looking upon Peter
 with such tenderness that no word was spoken. and not a word was needed,
 for the look spoke louder than words. And the Lord looked upon Peter, and
 Peter went out and wept bitterly. y ] What look it must have been to break
 down the swarthy fisherman apostle! | It was such hurt, such beseeching | look. such a loving look. such forgiv-
 ing look! Was there in any other being
 since time began snch a combination of
 wrath against wrong and compassion | for the wrongdoer? Lion of Judah s
 trbe!" Hear that! Lamb of God who
 taketh away the sins of the world!
 Hear that!
 Defying the mightiest government of
 the world. the Roman government, yet
 rubbing his hand just below the fore
 head of the blind until the optic nerve 1 of him who was born sightless is cre-
 ated, and the sunlight has two new
 paths to tread. Best illustration the | world ever saw of anger without sin | anger against the q 0h0miDati0nS whic h