and the harlots go into the Kingdom of Heaven before you"? There
is really no place in heaven for a disposition like this. A man
with such a mood could only make heaven miserable for all the people
in it. Except, therefore, such a man be


Born again,


he cannot, simply CANNOT, enter the kingdom of heaven.

You will see then why Temper is significant. It is not in what
it is alone, but in what it reveals. This is why I speak of it
with such unusual plainness. It is a test for love, a symptom, a
revelation of an unloving nature at bottom. It is the intermittent
fever which bespeaks unintermittent disease within; the occasional
bubble escaping to the surface which betrays some rottenness
underneath; a sample of the most hidden products of the soul dropped
involuntarily when off one's guard; in a word, the lightning form
of a hundred hideous and un-Christian sins. A want of patience, a
want of kindness, a want of generosity, a want of courtesy, a want
of unselfishness, are all instantaneously symbolized in one flash
of Temper.

Hence it is not enough to deal with the Temper. We must go to the
source, and change the inmost nature, and the angry humors will die
away of themselves. souls are made sweet not by taking the acid
fluids out, but by putting something in--a great Love, a new Spirit,
the Spirit of Christ. Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating
ours, sweetens, purifies, transforms all. This only can eradicate