New-York tribune., 1905-08-10
THE VIRTUE OF TEMPERANCE

But then in your knowledge you are to take care
snat there be always patience and temperance
@ seil-eohtnehd as we call it philosophicay; and it
means that command over the natural man that
ton while there virtue or courage there is never
sc ssst.e8nceIt but there is always the holding back
And the man man Sho IS h9bhing M but the Goo is all
reaT a. rs one whom every one Of US COM
And then there comes the fourth of these stages
because it is perfect certain that az w We paenes
10 "iIol We pIoceeu
shall be BY our fellow o men and bS the
must be ready by the grace of God in exercising
cur faith to show that patience which glorihes the
Now, take those four, will you first for we have
whether those four things which Saint Peter
levers in the Lord Jesus Christ do not constitute
were to exhibit these four thngs-courage knowis
edge temperance. patience-we should at once
say, What a splendid specimen OF human nature
But now that suftces not for the apostle. for
hibt godliness There is your relation to the Lord
God Almighty. reverence that bows before God In
ties. and acknowledging the weakness and un-
worthness Of humanty In your godliness exhibit
the Church Of Cod nc more comparison OF one
one party as against another. no more of condeni-
nation for our brother Christian because he does
have thought it right to do but in brotherly kind
ne dcijes one until as we meet In the lanes
around this hall simply meet as brethren of
they may be And from brophery kindness pass
on in your faith TO exhibit lastly charty or lQHe &
in the broadest sense Of the world toward all the
world ,
And so you have your relation TO God, your rela-
ton to the Church and your relation 10 the world,
while your Inherited manhood has been exhibiting
( courage. in knowledge. in Temperance ara IN
ait be precious I that is powerful in its activities
II claims of God what God provides, and God S mas
For" then goes on the apostle in the eighth
veren
wonder whether we have apprehended that hy lhhey
things abound it means that I have got enough and
to If haze hs sne not ony enough for
my own table and household. but that can com,
IF haHe Of 5G h he aoe S9F OF Of
visions until they are not only found IN me- & out
ever You read It in the Scripture-t means that
eheTs hefs IS to paTe for 9F my my brotRer
on the gifts Of God to fbne a You fba
ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitfu two most most
neither be worthless frutless.
[ wish by the mercy Of Cod in my opening ad,
dress to set before you at least high standard
ana is e Closing words to say that there are some
on Ono N seem eg 10 have forgotten these things they
are blind and they cannot see afar off, ana so they
s0n grgU9 n to 's hsve The eyes ceansed by the of
HSy Spirit that we bsa dy vear eef eyes have You
not? and then opened them again NM, ana & eaio was On;
oint T9f Wom could not discern because your eyes
were ciogged and hampered. and when me process re @
What was invisible before. Oh brethren mere are
,ary Who come 10 conventions who have got tEer
me- drfed; they cannot see afar OIL, ana .hey
,a,-a forroften that they once purged IRON.
,ai ttiT old sins and they ought never 10 have gone
back to them
A MARVELLOUS EXPRESSION
put now says the apostle seeing that all . this
T. gi,5e Ali diligence; let IL be your eHort from
rs II ,,o matter what the apparent hindrance,
to make your calling and election sure t i"r osf ye
90 90 Tjne atiTj PROMISES in Bihle--ye snail never
fa That is indeed maryeiloqs o, e4presSi9h, In fs
ard present you fnutless before @ 1ne preseSe pr 1ao
OF Iils So cod has said and claim at last the
most blessed fuflment that a., can De known OF the
PA "a now He lands US away IN eternity. l or so
ana ., iIor 80 shall be mnistered unto you abun.
an entra ii t sTerIasing kingdom OF our Lord and
ssHioyr Jesus Christ" We began low doWn: W we
Seea in The corruption that Is IN me Wotia trough
lust We passed into the gift OF + rs n1e2usness n
.bic &c rbe very Righteousness or Coo we found
mide ~ that there were all things pro-
I'm to