Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-02-03
1.-THE CURSE AND
THE CURE OF ANGER"
bad Temper Poison's One Physical
Body" Says DIR. Dutton In Sermon

DR.. button OF the M. II. cnurcn sun
day, January 80:
First: Fourteen indictments
against a bad temper:
/. Anger never does any good
but always harm. 2. 1t is a sur
render to the brutal nature. 3. 1t
is sort of a bullying selfishness;
1t is used as a club by which to
hammer ones own way. 4. 1t is
severely depressing to ones spirits,
mentally and physically; 1t gives
one a sense of weakness and mean
ness; 1t keeps multitudes from great
usefulness through this sense of I'M
fitness. 5. 1t makes those about
us very unhappy; parents lose the
respect and control of their chill
dren through anger. 6. 1t discounts
our Influence; people learn we are
unsafe and undependable. z. A bad
temper in business is an exhibition
of the poorest kind of judgment;
man who cannot control his temper
is a failure in business. s. 1t short
erns life; scientists tell US that when
one gives way to fit OF anger, poi
sonous secretions are formed which
are very harmful to the health; it
disturbs the whole ailamentary can
al; chemists have analysed the
breath of angry persons and have
found the actual poison produced by
fits of bad temper. 8. 1t throws out
of gear the mental life; after a mad
! fit one cannot settle down to clear
thinking for hours. 10. 1t burns up
the vitality of nerve energy, max
ing the vital force run low; anger
is a nerve wrecker. II. 1t utterly
darkness the spiritual sky; it is the
poison of hate driving out love and
love Is the great sweetener of the
mind and body. ~. 1t implants
grudges and hatreds in the heart
hard to remove. 10. Anger is the
beginning of murder; all homicide
begins in anger. IA. Anger is most
displeasing to God; it so utterly
cripples and so terribly upsets Gods
plans for us of love and service that
He cannot absolutely give us no
quarter whatsoever; anger is gross
sin.
Secondly, the origin and develop
ment of anger: Spunk shows itself
in the earliest months of infancy;
no parent should submit to the die
tations of spunk; a child should be
taught that it cannot have thing
by crying for it.
Whipping often increases the an
ger tendency. Sometimes dashing
cold water in the fact of the child
surprises the child into sanity; a
child should no more be allowed to
grow up with a bad temper than t
with club feet. S
Third; The cure of anger: /. Gull I
tivate deep sense of the enormity l.
of its wickedness; one can 80 learn g
to despise the coarse, mean. brutal I
tiles of anger that one would rather v
die than give place to its poison. v
Cultivate a sense of the littleness l.
of making those you should love s
unhappy; measure the bitterness of N
Y " n n 10 ,nI. L
serious weakness and fault that one s.
should be determined to be rid of Z
Its awful influence. SO much is at p
stake; God is so interested; one II
should have an iron clad determine 81
ton to conquer it. Resolve, by the +
grace of God, no matter what any II
)ne else says or does, never again r.
% surrender to the curse of anger. lie
Resist the devil and he will flee re
rom you. Jas. Al. 3. Touchi- l.
less is the atmosphere where anger W
hrives; rise above the littleness of &c
ouchiness; loneliness is childish az
,eevishness; a grown person should &C
" force of will correct this ten ca
lency. Be too great for any Grip
ling influences. 4. The fullness Of IL
iod's presence is the true cure of W
niger His presence cleanses and la
ills the life with perfect sweet WI
ess; God and evil cannot occupy 10
he same quarters; when God is the M
ountain of the souls impulses then lc'
My love can spring forth; the ~
onstancy of Gods presence is a Gu
of perfect sweetness s. III
the love life God is love Al
erfect love is Gods portion for His
hildren. If you are controlled by
niger you are living below your
Love is the great sweet XII
ler Of the mind and body. Z. Be gr
lgrossed in the sublime work of De
aking others happy. Anger is the m'
rOduct of overdeveloned self rom Ma