The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-27
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 this sermon the preacher rebukes
 1 the prevalent vice of loose and cen- serious utterances, and especially of sian der in business and social life. The text Is James fiji, 8, Full of deadly poison
 Never did inspired writer feather his verbal arrows of truth with more dra- matic comparisons than the author oi my text. He seems to take Us out iJ the corral of an eastern Bedouln chief Me- thinks I see the leader of this nomad tribe looking over his herd of fine limbed high spirited, mettlesome thoroughbreds. Then he turns to one of his men and says
 John. think we will bridle wonder colt today and break her to the saddle.
 Aye" answer the man. That is sooner said than done. Never did we have q higher-strung, uglier four-legged beast than that colt. She will kiok and bite and snort and foam at the mouth whenever we go near her." 'Is that sop answered the chief. Then the sooner we break her the better"
 l see the ropes flung over the colts neck. l see her attempt to kick and bite the hand that puts the bit into her mouth and the saddle upon her back. l See her eyes ash. l see her rear, plunge and roll on the ground and afterward bolt, and for miles run away over the hills. Then see her gradually subdued until at last that nomad chief makes her his pet rid ing mare. I see her finally under per- feet control, like Jobs mighty war char ger, smelling the battle from afar, and as l see all this transformation the author of my text says. "Behold, w put bits h the horses mouths that they may obey us and we turn about their whole body but the tongue can no man tame.
 Then the author places us upon the deck of one of the Alaxandrian corn ships. He pictures one of those awful Mediterranean euroelydons that played such havoc with the shipping of old. and which destroys so many ships of the present day The wind is blowing a hurricane. The sails are whipped into shreds But though that ship Is tossing about in the mighty, heaving pillows, yet she is under complete control of the steersman, who, with his single hand, moves the rudder to the right or to the left. Then the author of my text says, Behold also the ships, which though trey may be so great and are driven to fierce winds yet are they turned about with n very small helm, vhitherso- ever the governor listeth. but the tongue no man can tame"
 Then he takes us away up in the mountains He gathers together a few dried grasses md strikes spark and ignites them. No sooner are the grasses afire than the evening winds fan them into a great conflagration, which sets ;.il the forests of those noun tans ablaze. Aye for nights you can see them burning, as we have seen the noun tain fires burning up in the Adirondacks or upon the Berkshire hills. Then he says, "The tongue is little member. Ii is almost as insignificant looking as Il small spark But ''behold how great natter little fire lSindletn The asn- aer which the tongne or the srark can dc Is Infinite Then ne compares the evils of the tongue to the awful ravages of physical disease-to those of hideous leprosy or cholera or the bubonic plague "It defleth the whole body
 Then, In the four words of my text he compares the evil tongue of man to the poisonous fangs of a hissing ser pent. The reason l have drawn for you all these different comparisons. used In connection with the comparison of my text. Is this: I want you to konw that no symbol Is too demonlac, no compari- son Is too destructive or too repnlsive for the author to cite as a criterion by which to judge the fatal effects of the human tongue when 1t is evil. May God help me today to show you some of the dark dens and caverns in which this evil tongue of man as a serpent's fangs. hides itself. and where 1t Is most able to strike its deadly poison into the flesh and hearts of it's helpless victims.