The Washington herald., 1916-10-30
BLAMES I'LL temper
FOR UNHAPPY HOMES
Rev. James Shera Montgomery Pleads
for Gentleness.

There are 1000 unhappy wives In
Washington tonight because they have III
tempered husbands" declared Rev James
Shera Montgomery, pastor Of Calvary
! M E. Church, in his sermon last night.
There are thousands OF unhappy chill
dren because their parents are not pa
tient. The husbands are not the only Of
tenders. Wives are not perfect, accord
/ ing to Solomon. and he should have
known, for he had 800 OF them. Many a
husband comes from once yearning for
comfort and sympathy and is received
with frown.
THE only way to have peaceful and
happy homes is to have equipoise and
sunny dispositions. It is sad, but un-
fortunately true, that the worst charac-
ter in the home often rules It."
The text Of DR.. Montgomerys sermon
was THE Yoke of an Ugly Temper"
taken from the text: He was such a son
OF Belial that no man could speak to
him. Samuel, XIV IT.
The sermon was a plea for gentleness
I and cooperation in every phase of life
social, family. business and religious.
Many a career is ruined, many a
friendship broken, many a house upset by
lack of even tempers. I pity Abigail,
the wife Of this text; I pity all wives
who have unruly husbands. Look at
Thomas Carlyle, the great philosopher.
who made life unbearable for his wife
Jane. This great man allowed his wife
to die from lack of his care and SYM
pathy. His sorrow after her death came
too late. Carlyle was a great philosopher,
but he was not the kind OF man to live
with. There is an example OF Ill temper.
Poor old Tom. he had too much bile on
his liver.
Cooperation is the thing that will
make happy homes. A sunny temper
! is blessing to any home. The milk
OF human kindness in q mans heart
or a woman's breast Is like a beauti-
full flower in the window. a beautiful
picture on the wall. A homo without
harmony and understanding is like
plot OF bare ground, a blank wall.
A homo where peace and quiet do
not reign is like a cathedral without
architecture or paraphets-just walls. &"
The i'll tempered man is unsocial
and ungrateful. We need men OF
sanity. sense and equipoise."
Swearing Doesn't Pay.
II can understand a man becoming
drunk for the relief of an hour, al
though he has a terrible sin upon him.
But profanity and blasphemy have
not even the Justification of forget
fulness. Swearing doesn't pay. Any
animal can understand the difference
between the man who knows how to
rule and the man who has to enforce
his words with curses.
BE more loving, be more tender.
be moro sympathetic. Your home can
be made a castle OF happiness, but
let an evil temper run rampant and
your home becomes a place OF sor-
row. What is true OF your disposi-
tion at homo is applicable everywhere
| you go.
Passions and desires should be con-
trolled. Tame your natures. Use
your will and moral impulses to guide
your better nature. There is power in
restraint Where is the source OF the
rivers strength? Where but in the
banks that control It. The duty of
the hour is to study personal equi-
poise."
In conclusion DR.. Montgomery out
lined the success OF Disrael. the Eng
lish premier, and lauded his self re-
straint.
himself. That was the secret zfnrq
"Disraen was supreme master of
himself That was the secret OF his
success"