Milford chronicle., 1903-10-09
TALMAGE.
i SERMON
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by Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. DID,
Pastor Of Jefferson Park Presby'
:. teriAn Church. Chicago
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Chicago. Oct. 4.-In this sermon tht !
teaches timely lesson on
the wisdom of exercising tolerance and |
forbearance between man and man |
and reminds us that the faults and |
weaknesses which we condemn in 9th |
ers may find a parallel in ourselves.
The text is Philippians iv. 5, Let your |
moderation be known unto all men,
What does the Pauline word mod
Grafton" mean? Il know" says one
eIt means: Do not be an extremist. 10
not ride hobby to death DO not focus
YOUR eyes upon one truth so long thar
Won become blinded to the relative I'M
Dortance of other truths. nor upon one
error until you lose sight Of the evll
efYects of all other errors. Virtue is
road which has a hedge and a dltch
on both Sides once wrote Famous
writer A man may be moderate in one
thing and not in another. y man may
he an ascetic as far as eating and drink
ing are concerned, and yet he may oe
Iicentious. A man who has no ambition
may he avaricious." 1t is not enough
10 be right in one matter if you arr
careless on other matters equally I'M
portant.
s.T.et your moderation be known unto
olI men" means: Do not he tanauc'
a one sided monstrosity, like a dove
with one wing cropped. Tapping about
in the barnyard and yet unable TO rise
ten feet into Gods great heaven OF
biue Do not expend all your ener-
,ies preaching against the evils OF IN
toxication and at the same time be
glutton. Do not preach against gam
bling with cards when you gamble with
railroad stocks. Do not berate the thleI
who steals a loaf of bread and honor
the thief who cheats his neighbor IN
real estate deal. Do not advocate pHys-
icaI culture to such an extent that you
ride 100 miles a day on bicycle OF De
sucb fresh air fiend' that your open
window in the railroad train will be
blowing a dangerous draft upon the
passengers who sit in your rear. BE a
well rounded man. Be like a plant
with leaves and pistils and stamens
and sepals and petals growing upon a
supple stem, able to bend every whith-
er vet with roots anchored in the solid
earth. and not like a balloon filled with
n poxious gas, tossed about in the air.
the plaything of every stray wind.
wisdom of Moderation.
That the Pauline idea? No, my
friend, you are wrong. When Paul
81 AT . .-o,,- t,,odnrofion bn known
unto all men," he was not, as Bishop
Villfers once expressed it. "alluding to
the qualification of our desires general
ly. but especially temperance or sell
restraint in our relation TO others, IN
our abstinence from anger and harsh
ness and vengeance" He is saying
as the revised version translates the
sentence. Let your fOrbearance oI
rentleuess be known unto all men,
Today instead of preaching upon whai
you should eat and drink and where
with you be clothed and how muct
exercise you should take shall preacl
upon how you should smile and tall
and shake hands and forgive and love
This sermonic theme is not how we
should live. but how we should be will
ing to let others live.
BE patient in the first place. ever
with the irritating idiosypcrasies anI
the offensive mannerisms that are
found in almost every one with whom
we come i'm contact. BE patient will
their peculiarities. especially if theJ
are nOnessentials In reference to thl
honesty aud noble characteristics Of ;
man. Be patient especially because
wrong types OF marked individuality
If harnessed in the right way. will of
ten mean great success for us and 70
those whom it is our privilege to in
auence.
A strange law DEGREES that insanit.
Is sometimes the handmaid Of genius
The inspired eye, which afar off ca
DIS over star. is often so nearsight
ed lat ii cannot see a diamond gilt
teriu- close at hand. Samuel JOhnso
once sal in reference to the blind poe
of England, Milton. madam. was
genius who could cut a colossus fror
a rock. but could not carve heads upO
cherry stones" Joseph Cook was th
intellectual and the mental and spil
itual Hercules who stood year afte
year in old Boston forging Scripture
thunderbolts and dammlng back I'll
pernicious and dangerous teachings {
the leaders Of i-Christian doctrine
Yet Joseph Cook. great as he wa
would have been utterly untitled Il
an ordinary pastOrate. His last day
were passed in a sanitarium, in pla'
consecrated to the work Of caring Il
mental incompetents. Joseph Cook
brain was magnificent piece Of me-
tai machinery, that, like other delica
machinery. was easily thrown out
gear. Thus we find that the create
poets and musicians and artists ar
sculptors, statesmen. dramatists. laV
yers. physicians and ministers ha'
sometimes been men Of startling wea
mess rs we'll as Of startling strengt
Like I.tias, their shoulders were b
and strong enough to carry a wor
upon their backs. Like Alfred Il
Great. their fingers were too elum
,and forgetfuI to care for IRE Whl