Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-04-04
Like a Powder Magazine.

! mettlesome, high strung horse. ready
at moments notice to take tho bit ir
his teeth and rush mady away. The
cold blooded man of phlegmatic TEN.
permanent cannot understand why the
quick tempered, high strung, nervous
passionate nature can so easily kicl,
over the traces and do what It ought
not to do. The phlcgmatic man IS n
mound OF wet sand slowly being dried
by the rising sun. Tho passionate man
Is n gunpowder magazine. ready TO be
exploded by a spark And vet the
power of God can come in and mako
1t possible for weak man 10 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
from the sins of the flesh. Have YOU
forgotten Paul's statement? There
hath no tenpte ton taken you but such
as is common to men, but God is faith
full who will not suffer you to he
tempted above that ye 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
well as physical. Just the same as n
man may have a uniformed body he
can have uniformed mind. His
thinking apparatus may be all askew.
In Bulgaria a short time 90 there died
a young woman Of thirty years of age.
She had the mind of a maturcd devel-
oped woman. She could talk as a wo.
man, but she had the body OF n little
-months-old baby. She never grew
physically after she was few months
old. She had to sleep in cradle. She
had the mind Of woman, yet the
body of a little child. In direct antlthe
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 uniformed in
tellects that thcy cannot think Alright.
They cannot tell the difference be-
tween right and wrong. In their own
strength they are intellectually color
blind.
Reflective Color Siuht.
You know what l mean by q man
having defective color sight. When
the applicant for 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 lot of worsted yarns all junibled
up together. Now, you so and pick
me out the blue skeins." says the ex-
aniner. Nov pick me out the rcd"
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
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
inte.lects, Just the same as
others have uniformed 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 !
mon, l think, Henry Ward Beecher
,ver preached. 1t is called THE Cour- |
esy OF Conscience" In this discourse !
Mr.. Beecher shows how each man by |
education as we'll as by hereditary law
becomes an entity TO himself or an
Individual different from all other in
lividuals. Each man to great ex-
ent judges the world by giving voice
o the predominant characteristics Of
lis own heart and mind and life.
Now" says Mr.. Beecher take a man
# large benevolence. That IS the pre-
dominating quality Of his mind. 1t [
everything else. As he
oes through the Bible everything that
lagnifies the goodness of God and the
lercy Of God will come after his mag.
let. Whenever he comes to a assure
where there IS smoke or wrath he
jumps 1t and will not touch IT, while.
n the other hand the man who has
ot such benevolence, but has good
cal OF the sense Of justice Of govern
lent ard Of rules and regulations,
oes through the Bible, and when he
eturns he has on his back pack filed
nth the texts of fire"
A Law Unto Itself.
Mr.. Beecher was showing that ev-
~ mans mind is law unto itself.
that mind Is uniformed or one
ided mind in It's color blindness, it
Ill cover with false colors every NOR.
object its eyes focus, just the same
8 the locomotive engineer with color
Kindness may think the red light Of
'arning is the white light Of safety.
Now, the power of the Holy Spirit
'ay come into our lives and teach US
think Alright. Through the Holy
spirit we can get q revelation of what