Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-07-05
'TALMAGE'S SERMON.
"BE We ANGRY AND SIN NOT"
-EPH. Nv: 20.
6he Sin of Alcoholism-The Spirit OF
~ambling-Aid for the Unbeliever-
Indignation Over Fraud-Mercy for
the Erring One.

Washington, June 30.-A delicate
and difficult duty is by DR.. Talmage In
this discourse urged upon all, and eS-
pecially upon those given to quick
temper; text, Ephesians Nv, &c, "Be ye
angry and sin not"
Equipose of temper, kindness, pa
dence, forbearance, are extolled by
most of the radiant pens Of inspiration,
but my text contains that which at first
Sit is startling. A certain kind of
anger is approved AYE, we are COM
manded to indulge in it. The most or
Us have no need to cultivate high tenn
per, and how often we say things and do
things under affronted impulse which
we are sorry for when perhaps 1t is
too late to make effective apology!
Why, then, should the apostle Paul dip
his pen in the ink horn and trace upon
parchment, afterward to be printed
upon paper for all ages, the injunction,
~Be ye angry and sin not?"
Ny text commends a wholesome in
Aignation. It 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. de-
stroyed more souls, than any evil that
think of. It pOurs a river of poison and
fire through the nations. Millions have
died because Of if. and millions are dy-
ing now, and others will die. Intem-
perance is an old sin. The great Cyrus,
writing to the Lacedemonians Of HIM
self, boosted Of many Of his qualities,
among others, that he could drink and
bear more wine than his distinguished
brother Louis X and Alexander the
Great, died drunk The parliament of
Edinburgh in 1861 is called in history
"the drunken parliament" Hugh Mil
Ter, the first stone mason and after
ward a 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 the joists, they
drank. When the buildings were fin
ished, they drank. When an apprentice
Joined, they drank" In the eighteenth
century the giver of an entertainment
boasted that none of the guests went
away sober Noah, the first ship cap
tain, 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 Indignation at the national
and international and hemisphere and
planetary curse It is good to be
aroused against it. You come out of
that condition a better man or a better
woman. Be We angry at that abomina
ton. and the more anger the more ex-
altation TO character. But that aroused
feeling becomes sinful when it extends
to the victim of this great evil. Drunk
enness you are to hate with a vivid
hatred; but the drunkard you are to
pity, to help to extricate.
Frustrated by AIcohoIism.
Just take into consideration that
there are men and women who once
were as upright as yourself who have
been FRUSTRATED by alcoholism. Per-
haps 1t came of a physicians p!escrip-
ton for the relief Of pain, a recurrence
of the pain calling for continuance
of the remedy; perhaps the grandfath-
er was an inebriate and the tempta-
ton to inebriety, leaping over a gen.
Grafton, has swooped on this unfortu-
nate; perhaps it was under an at
tempt to drown trouble that the be-
numbing and narcotic liquid was
sought after; perhaps 1t was a gradual
claiming of the man with the bever-
age which was thought to be a SER
want, when one day 1t announced it
self master Be humble now, and admit
that there is strong probability that
under the same circumstances you
yourself might have been captured.
The two appropriate emotions for you
TO allow are Indignation at the intoxi-
cant which enthralled and sympathy
for the victim. Try TO get the sufferer
out of his present environment; rec
ommend 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 not give your
self up to too many philippics about
what the man ought to have been and
ought to have done. While your cheek
Pushes with wrath at the foe that has
brought ruin. let your eye be moisten-
ed with tears of pity for the sufferer.
In that way you will have fulfilled the
injunction of the text, BE we angry
and sin not"
The Spirit OF Gambling.
In Spain don lost in "a hours what
equals So 900, 600. Twenty years ago
it was estimated that the average gam
bling exchange of money throughout
ChristendOm exceeded $123, 100 900 900
a year But statistics 20 years ago
would be tame compared with the pres
ent statistics if We could find any one
able enough at figures to tabulate
them. 1t is all the same spirit of gam
bling, whether the instruments are
cards or the clicking chips or the turn
ing wheel or the bids OF the Stock Ex-
change. where people sell what they
never owned and fail because they
cannot get paid for it. prominent
banker tells me that he thinks 90, 900
people financially Frustrated by the
recent insanites in Wall street Here
and there a case is reported, but the
vast majority suffer in silence The
children are brought home from school
the wardrobe be denied replenishment
the table will have scant supply, wild
generosity will be turned into grim