Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-02
Righteous anger IS It's own reward.
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Righteous anger IS It's own reward.
It Goes intimidate!
And intimidation. in the ordinary
courses of life, is as necessary as in
vestigation, sometimes.
No doubt human nature should not
be- that way, but unfortunately it often is.
It is impossible. with some people. to
get them to do good even to themselves
except by getting mad at them.
Others refuse to bulge unless they
are "bawled out" as the vernacular
has it. ....
often an ill-tempered person becomes
sweet instantly under the lash OF q
good old fashioned "cussing.'
There Is no telling what will dc
good until it is tried.
In the trying, OF course, one may
make many mistakes, But one all
the time making mistakes in this life.
here advancing. here going backward
succeeding. falling so that mistakes are
as inevitable as successes.
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Now anger Is not a pretty thing to
watch, except when 1t becomes the
righteous variety.
Theoretically, anger Is the vice which
moraliSts Of all ages have agreed 1t Is
Read Plutareh's MORALS" and Mon
taigne's "Es avs and you will find anger
placed on 6 pedestal to be shot at.
Bacon. in England. and Emerson. in
America spake few good words for anger
Hundreds of years before them the
vice of anger stirred the thoughts OF
men to action Towering at last in fine
paragraphs in what today We call our
Bible
Actually. however. anger may be a
di, ire spark blowing up into warm
FIRE of reformation and righteousness
Many a practical reform In the world
of men has been begun in anger
originatin in the overwhelming in
dignation of some soul at abuses which
he felt himself unable to correct alone.
Therefore. In a world constituted as
this one is, even so evil thing as ange!
may be put to great uses.
It is not possible to make an ever
lasting rule against anger, because from
It's eIuptions have come peace at last:
IT, has given way to blows. and out OF
blows have come we'll merited punish
mentS. which in turn have Powered in
the amclioration of harsh conditions.
The man who cannot find it in his
heart to become angry over wrong Is
in a fair way to become glad over II.
IL he Is of a certain type. II he hap
pens TO be of a more widely known
variety of human being. he may become
the typical "timid soul Of the cartoons.
Just so long as no one bothers him. he
will bother about nothing else.
But that was not the way OF the great
men of history. II you go back through
the annals Of all nations and look vel!
into what made great souls great you
will see that two qualities. or perhaps
thee, were mainly responsible.
Great men OF past ages had a passion
for Justice They were brave. They
could become indignant. Their indig-
nation and their bravery wee part and
parcel of their demand for Justice.
Those three qualities OF mind and
heart are stu the signs Of great man,
although he may never achieve any
thing which the world calls great. H
may not become famous. in the public
e"e. and that sort of thing, but he Will
be known to few as a great man.
And perhaps he will be known as such
to one man, himself.
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Righteous anger is the keynote OF
Indignation.
One must become angry at some one
or something In order TO get worked up
enough to act.
Anger. In it's simplicity. as far as II
can Be analysed profitably, Is simply
natures defense mechanism, as tne
psychological chatter has 1t.
A cat cornered by dog humps uI