The next ingredient is a very remarkable one : Good Temper. "Love is not easily provoked". Nothing could be morestriking than to find this here. We are inclined to look upon bad temper as a very harmless weakness. We speak of itas a mere infirmity of nature, a family failing, a matter of temperament, not a thing to take into very serious accountin estimating a man's character. And yet here, right in the heart of this analysis of love, it finds a place; and the Bibleagain and again returns to condemn it as one of the most destructive elements in human nature. The peculiarity of illtemper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know menwho are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled quick-tempered or "touchydisposition. This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problemsof ethics. The truth is there are two great classes of sins-sins of the Body, and sins of Disposition. The Prodigal sonmay be taken as a type of the first, the Elder Brother of the second. Now society has no doubt whatever as to whichof these is the worse. Its brand falls, without a challenge, upon the Prodigal. But are we right? We have no balanceto weigh one another's sins, and coarser and finer are but human words; but faults in the higher nature may be lessvenial than those in the lower, and to the eye of Him who is Love, a sin against Love may seem a hundred times morebase. No form of vice, not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself does more to un-christianise societythan evil temper. For embittering life, for breaking up communities, for destroying the most sacred relationships, fordevastating homes, for withering up men and women, for taking the bloom off childhood ; in short for sheer gratuitousmisery-producing power, this influence stands alone. Jealousy, anger, pride, uncharity, cruelty, self-righteousness,touchiness, doggedness, sullenness-in varying proportions these are the ingredients of all ill temper. Judge if such sinsof the disposition are not worse to live in, and for others to live with than sins of the body. There is really no place inHeaven for a disposition like this. A man with such a mood could only make Heaven miserable for all the people in it.-Henry Drummond:QUESTIONS1. What is the popular notion about "bad temper"?2. How is bad temper "the vice of the virtuous"?3. Which class of sins is worse, and why-sins of the body, sins of the disposition?4. Mention some evils of bad temper.5. Why, according to the author, will there be no place in Heaven for bad-tempered folk?6. Find words from the passage which mean: breaking up ; running ; scandalising ; souring; easily or quickly offended.
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