The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07
 DIR. TAlMAGE'S SERMON ;
  BY THE TNLMAeE, D.

notice to take the bit in his teeth and rush madly away. The cold blooded man of phlesmatic temperament cannot un- derstand why the quick tempered high strung nervous, passionate nature can so easily kick over the traces and do what it ought not to do The phlegmatic man is a. mound of wet sand slowly being dried by the rising sun. The passionate man is a gunqowder magazine, ready to be exploded by a spark. And yet the power of God can come in and make it possible for weak man to overcome the temptations of drink and all the un- speakable 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 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 in the past even more dissolute than you who have been saved from the sins of the flesh. Have you for gotten Paul's statement? "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is com mon to men, but God is faithful who Will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the tempta- ton, also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it'
 But there are mental temptations as well as physical. Just the same as a mann may nave q 1DdlIOlultu DULY He can llaVe a maformed mind. His think ing apparatus may be all askew. In Bulgaria a short time ago there died a young woman of thirty years of age. She had the mind of a matured, devel- oped woman. She could talk as a wo- men, but she had the body of a little six -months-old baby. She never grew physically after she fas a few months old. She had to sleep in a cradle She had the mind fo a woman yet the body of a little child. In direct antithe- sis of 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 intelects that 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 I mean by man hay ing defective color sight. When the ap- plicant for a locomotive engineers posi- ton applies to the railroad, what is the first and the chief rule by which the of fcial 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 sl<eins," says the examiner. 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 engi- neers have been rejected because the optic nerves which connect their eyes and their brains could not carry their mes sages alright. So there are hundreds and thousands of men whose brains are de- formed. They cannot think alright. They f,I1 tInay see it.. These men have malformed intel lects Just the same as others have mal- formed bodies Of course I am using here the brain in the broad moral sense and not in the narrow
 l was never more impressed with this thought than some time ago when I was reading the most marvellous sermon, I think Henry Ward Beecher ever preach- ed. It is called "The Courtesy of Con science" In this discourse MT. Beecher shows how, each man by educationas well as by hereditary law becomes an entity to himself or an individual different from all other individuals. Each man to great extent, judges the world by giving voice to the predominant characteristics of his own heart and mind and life. Now" says MT Beecher take a man of large benevolence. That is the pre- dominating quality of his mind. It overshadows everything else. As he goes through the Bible everything that magnifes the goodness of God and the mercy of God will come after his mag net. Whenever he comes to Assure where there is smoke or wrath he jumps it and will not touch it, while, on the other hand, the man who has not such benevolence, but has a gool deal of the sense of justice of government and of rules and regulations, goes through the Bible, and when he returns lp hos hiS han aalr lad xyit ha texts of fire"
 A Law Unto Itself.
 Mr. Beecher was showing that every mans mind is law unto itself If that mind is a malformed or one sided mind in it's color blindness, it will cover with false colors every moral object it's eyes focus just the same the locomotive engner with color blindness may think the red light of warning is the white light of safety.
 Now. the power of the Holy Spirit may come into our lives and teach us to think aright. Through the Holy Spirit we can get revelation of what the divine sacrifice means. Through him we can truly get an infinite grasp of what the words Jesus Christ our Saviour mean to the troubled sinful heart Oh the sins of the mind, Oh, the awful results of wrong thinking to the human heart! This mental fog is like any other kind of darkening mist If you have ever crossed the Atlantic, you know well what l mean. When you come 10 the banks of the Newfound- land, the fogs settle about you so thick that you cannot see the brow of the ship from the stern. Then the boat slows up, and the deep throated fog horn begins to call. Every time that hoarse note goes rolling over the waters it seems to be calling, "Oh, ships and fishing smacks, where are you?" Then off in the distance you will hear a faint answer calling: Here am I! Beware! Beware, Beware,' So in the mental fogs of doubt and mysticism, in the fogs of skeptcism which envelop every human heart there is but one right course Slow up Send forth thy cry for guid~ ance. Call and keep calling: Jesus. where art thou? Jesus, where art thou?' Then amid the deepest, densest gloom of life thou wilt hear the Saviour's answer: Here am I, Come to me! Come to mel" Oh, may the mental fogs which have en- veloped so many of us today be lifted by the sunshine of Gods love. Our men, tai doubts and skepticism are no worse than those which have been lifted from hundreds of beolouded minds. 'Therc hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man."
 Temptations From Without.
 But there are temptations from with out as well as temptations from within. There are temptations which come to us from other men, as well as tempta- tions yelling up in our own hearts. There