Nevada County picayune., 1889-11-20
SELF-CONTROL.

sight of team of four horses, and to 1 be whirled on by them was a curious ! mixture of terror and cxaltation. Who does not like to watch the 1 driver. whether he sits on the high i seat of a country picnic wagon, or mounts the elegant four-in-hand coach? What watchful eve, what grasp he has on the reins. not a prance of the sixteen feet. not a pricking of the eight ears, not a turn of the four heads escapes him. He knows which one will shy on the slightest provocation, which one will be ready to start off if team comes up behind. The rcins are slender, but strong; he keeps them well in hand, and because he keeps them well in hand, the coach whirls on in safety. l dare say you have all en- vied him.
 You will not be at loss to uuder- stand the figure, if l say you are each driving a four-in-hand If 1 should go still further think would name your steeds: Thought Alice tion, Appetite and Passion, and when you have learned to manage them in all their different exercises, you have learned self-control.
 Or l might use another figure, and say each of you is a king in his own right, having a kingdom full of sub jects, wide-awake, and often turbu- lent, who must be constantly re- strained if order and right-doing shall prevail in the realm. This kingdom we call "Self," and to rule it we'll is to have self-control. We are all fond of power, but I can tell you that the power over ones self is the mightiest human power in the world. It is much more inter- esting to see boy or man subdue himself than to watch any control of mere animals.
 remember boy whom used to study. He had a quick, fiery spirit, which started up in anger on very slight indictments indeed, it was al- most vicious. But he had been taught that wouldn't do, and his eff forts at self-control were, to say the least, unique. l have seen him as a little fellow dash out of the house in rage, run around 1t two or three times, and come in with a smiling face. It was his own remedy, ad- ministered in his own way: but as time has gone on, he has had himself more and more in hand, until now, only little trembling of the lips, and then q firm compression, show that he Is moved, That boy is destined to be strong man.
 This is the phase of self-control which presents itself most wildly to you now; the quick, hot spirit of youth, the fight which is in most boys, is what you recognize now as needing restraint. The longer you live the more you will see that 1t must lay its hand on every part of your lives. Self-control in eating and drinking keeps you from becoming gluttons and drunkards; that you can understand. But do you not know, and God forbid that you should ever realize, the possibilities of evil which lie in every life. There are risks in thinking, risks in every affection, in every passion, in every appetite winch can only be avoided by this stern self rule.
 You can turn to the Book to find the estimate there put upon it. Over and over again in the Proverbs it is expressed in various ways. 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city," And James says: Let every man be slow to speak, slow to wrath" Paul says: II keep under my body, and bring it into subjec- tion." wish you would try to find out all there is in the Bible, which touches on this subject; l am sure the number of texts will surprise you.
 It will be of little use to talk of this, if we do not practice it. Let us begin to-day this self-control, knowing that it is to be q e-long work, knowing also that it will grow easier as we go along, and we be- come 'strong in the Lord and in the