The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-04-05

| the infamed procllvities of some dissc
lutte ancestor. When we try to COVER
ourselves we find that we are like
mettlesome high strung horse, read
at a moments notice to take the bit il
his teeth and rush madly away. TIL
cold blooded man of phlegmatic TEN
permanent cannot understand why tn
quick tempered, high strung, nervous
passionate nature can so easily kicl
over the traces and do what it ough
not to do. The phlegmatic man is
mound Of wet sand slowly being driet
by the rising sun. The passionate maj
is a gunpowder magazine, ready to bt
exploded by a spark. And yet the
power of God can come in and make
1t possible for weak man to overcome
the temptations of drink and all the
unspeakable temptations of the flesh
Yes, the power of God has been able
to help thousands of men in the past
to triumph over the cup and over the
morphine habit and over libertinism
The power Of God can help you now
to triumph over your evil desires of
the flesh. Your temptation is not an
extraordinary case. There have been
many men of the past even more dis
solute than you who have been saved
from the sins of the flesh. Have you
forgotten Pauls statement? "There
hath no temptation taken you but such
as is common to men, but God is faith
full who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that We are able, but
will, with the temptation, also make a
way to escape, that We may be able to
bear it."
But there are mental temptations as
we'll as physical. Just the same as a
man may have a uniformed body he
can have a malformed mind. His
thinking apparatus may be all askew.
In Bulgaria short time ago there died
young woman Of thirty years of age.
She had the mind of q matured, devel-
oped woman. She could talk as a wo-
man, but she had the body of a little
six-months-old baby. She never grew
| physically after she was few months
old. She had to sleep in a cradle. She
had the mind Of a woman, yet the
body of little child. In direct antithe-
sis to this we often find men of fully
matured physical bodies who are
worse than children in intellect Their
minds are warped and twisted out of
form. They have such malformed in
tellects that they cannot think Alright.
They cannot tell the difference be-
tween right and wrong. In their own
strength they are intellectually color
blind.
Defective Color Sight.
You know what mean by a man
having defective color sight When
the applicant for a locomotive engi-
neer's position applies to the railroad,
what is the first and the chief rule by
which the official tests the applicant?
He takes him into room where there
are a lot of worsted yarns all jumbled
up together. Now, you go and pick
me out the blue skeins," says the eX-
aminer. NOW pick me out the red"
The difference between the colors of
red and white may involve the safety |
Of hundreds Of passengers which an |
engineer may have in his charge. Some |
of you may be surprised to learn that |
hundreds of would be engineers have |
been rejected because the optic nerves
which connect their eyes and their
brains could not carry their messages
Alright. So there are hundreds and
thousands of men whose brains are de-
formed. They cannot think Alright.
They cannot tell right from wrong
when they see it. These men have
intellects, just the same as
others have malformed bodies OF
course l am here using the brain in the
broad moral sense and not in the mar
row.
/ was never more impressed with
his thought than some time ago when
was reading the most marvellous ser
non, l think, Henry Ward Beecher
ever preached. 1t is called 1.-The Cour-
.esy of Conscience" In this discourse
Mr.. Beecher shows how each man by
education as well as by hereditary law
becomes an entity to himself or an
Individual different from all other in
1ividuals. Each man to a great eX-
,ent judges the world by giving voice
o the predominant characteristics of
ls own heart and mind and life
Now" says Mr.. Beecher. "take a man
If large benevolence. That is the pre-
quality of his mind. 1t
,vershadows everything else. AS he
,oes through the Bible everything that
nagniies the goodness of God and the
mercy of God will come after his mag
let. Whenever he comes to assure
where there is smoke or wrath he
jumps it and will not touch it. while,
N the other hand. the man who has
lot such benevolence, but has a good
leal of the sense of justice of govern
nent ard of rules and regulations,
,oes through the Bible, and when he ,
eturns he has on his back pack filed
With the texts of fire."
A Law Unto Itself
Mr.. Beecher was showing that ev- r
f that mind is a uniformed or one Y
ided mind in its color blindness, it Y
will cover with false colors every NOR +
] object its eyes focus. just the same C
s the locomotive engineer with color v
blindness may think the red light of a
warming is the white light of safety. t
Now, the power of the Holy Spirit Q
lay come into our lives and teach us
D think Alright. Through the Holy
pirit we can get revelation of what
lie divine sacrifice means. Through
i'm we can truly get an infinite grasp II
what the words Jesus Christ our le
aviour" mean to the troubled, sinful w
nort oh the sine of tha ,nindI oh