The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-08
Sunday Services.

Sunday Services.
An unusually large number of visitors attended
| chapel services Sunday morning Rev. ].
Albert took for his text these words from Christ's
parable of the feast-'Friend, go up higher"
After explaining the customs of the Pharisees and
the incidents in connection with the parable he
said:
when 1 was in Chicago some time ago.
my attention was attracted by the great height of
some of the buildings. and friend informed me
that the rooms above the fifth floor rented for
more than those below the fifth floor, and the
reason of this that the better light purer and
wholesomer air of the upper stories made them
more desirable than the lower ones which were
hemmed in by surrounding buildings.
I'VE may compare ourselves to those tall build.
ings. We may be said to live in a building not
thirteen, but three stories up and also that the
higher up we live the healthier, purer and bet
ter our lives will be- But too many people occupy
only the ground floor of their building Darwin
has said that in our ground floors we are animals.
1t is true that we are like animals in our physical
nature; blood is the as that of the higher
order of animals. our food is the same that of
the animals and the bodies of the higher order of
animals are practically the same as our bodies.
Watch boys at play and you will discover that
do at play. This is not evil for God made us
that way. This is what we call the lower story,
or ground floor of our existence, and it is on this
floor that the majority of people live. 1t is fact
that people spend more money and energy to fur.
nish the lower floor or animal DESIRES with lux
ures than they do to furnish their upper. or intel
lectual stories They pay more to decorate their
bodies than their minds The people of this country
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the APPETITE of their animal nature just about twice
as much as they spend for education.
I'VE want to get out Of this lower story and UP
shop, where the intellect works and rules. Com.
parativey few people get up into their second
story.
II hold that the lack of thought is the cause of
more human failures than any other cause. Give
a man the power of thought and you have pre-
pared him to successfully cope with the problems
Of life. 1t is thought incarnate that makes men
successful. He who has learned to think is edu-
Gated.
above this second story is a third one, which
we will call the moral and religious story When
we move up here we find brighter light and purer
air. and live in communion with God. Few peo-
pie ever get up into that story. Many use it only
on Sunday and live on the lower floor during the
other six days of the week.
MANY people think that an education is all
that is necessary to make man 60 right in this
world. but that is not the case. His moral nature
must be developed that it may direct him in the
right use of his education.
"Get out of the lower story into the second
story. thence to the moral and spiritual story"
There are some things dwarf can't do, but he
can catch just as big cold as q charlottesville
Breeze.
The devil would rather see a strict temperance
man break the pledge by tasting mouthful of
sherry than an army of tramps on the widest
kindO Of oh "