Milford chronicle., 1907-04-05

ana bring it into subjection lest by any
means when have preached to Others
! myself shall be a castaway."
Like Powder Magazine.
Or perhaps we have broken the NOR.
al code. Perhaps we have inherited
the intiamed procHvities of some disso-
lutte ancestor. When we try TO govern
ourselves, we find that we are like a
mettlesome., high strung horse, ready
at moments notice to take the bit in
his teeth and rush madly away. The
cold blooded man of phlegmatic tenn
| perament cannot understand why the
quick tempered, high strung, nervous,
passionate nature can so easily kick
over the traces and do what 1t 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 gunpOwder magazine, ready to be
exploded by a spark. And yet the
power of God can come in and make
1t possible for a 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 Paurs 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 ye may be able to |
bear it."
But there are mental temptations as
well as physical Just the same as a
man may have a malfOrmed body he
can have a malformed mind. His
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 wo- T.
man, but she had the body of a little
siX-months-old baby. She never grew
after she was a few months
Did. She had to sleep In a cradle. She
lad the mind Of a woman, yet the
body of little child. In direct antithe-
lis to this we often find men of fully
physical bodies who are
worse than children in intellect. Their
minds are warped and twisted out of
orm. They have such malformed In .
elects that they cannot think Alright
They cannot tell the difference be-
ween right and wrong. In their own
trength they are intellectually color a
lind.
Defective Color Sight. 9
You know what 1 mean by a man /
aving defective color sight. When
be applicant for a locomotive engi- }
eer's position applies to the railroad. Il
that is the first and the chief rule by
-hch the official tests the applicant? :,
lie takes him into a room where there
re lot Of worsted yarns all jumbled y
p together. "Now, you go and pick Il
lie out the blue skeins," says the ex-
miner "Now pick me out the red"
he difference between the colors of
ID and white may involve the safety
hundreds of passengers which an
lgineer may have in his charge. Some .,
you may be surprised to learn that di
lndreds of would be engineers have ~
zen rejected because the optic nerves al
hich connect their eyes and their bl
aims could not carry their messages an
light. So there are hundreds and sli
of men whose brains are de-
rmed. They cannot think Alright,
ley cannot tell right from wrong
hen they see it. These men have
intellects, just the same as r
hers have malformed bodies. OF
urse l am here using the brain in the -
DAD moral sense and not in the mar -,
W. -
was never more impressed with -,
is thought than some time ago when -,
vas reading the most marvellous ser -
IN, l think, Henry Ward Beecher -,
er preached. 1t is called 1.-The Cour- e.
vr.1
:. Beecher shows how each man by -
1cation as well as by hereditary law 20,
comes an entity to himself or an ~
lividual different from all other in -,
riduals Each man to a great ex- -,
It judges the world by giving voice tb
the predominant characteristics Of os.
own heart and mind and life.
ow," says Mr.. Beecher. "take a man
large benevoIence. That is the pre-
quality of his mind. 1t
everything else. AS he
IS through the Bible everything that .
gnifies the goodness of God and the =
rcy of God will come after his mag stu
. Whenever he comes to a fssure lea
ere there Is smoke or wrath he we
lps It and viii not touch it, while =,
the other hand, the man who has VIII