Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-08
HOIp, of Watertown, Talked on
the Above Subject on Last
Sunday.
Why Pay Barmun, Forepaugh
And Other to See What
We Own Ourselves.
Lifting Monkeys Up to Saints
---EiOw DO You Manage
Your Beasts?

by Rev. P. E. Holp:
We have often heard of "Man a
Miracle "Man a Mistake" "Man a
Mammal" Man a Mammon,
Worshiper," now we are to hear OF
Man a Menagerie.
Aristotle, who lived three cemeteries
B. C., taught that there was a wild
beast in every man. William
Struther's, in 1929 A. D., says: MAN
to man is more crafty than a fox,
more cruel than the tiger, and more
fierce than the lion," Bcecher, in
1873, uttered these w~ords:-'sWhatever
nan came from, whence he came is
the question and the puzzle Of the
presently there can be no doubt as 10
what he brought with him. Men
have brought brute instincts and
appetites and bestial tendencies from
their ancestry. There is the eagle,
the tiger, the lien, the bear, the
serpent, yet, in human nature"
How Ignatius DonnellY, in his Col
den Battle" published this fall, says;
"Wolf, tiger, fox, gorilla, lion, jackal
all stirred together in horrible
compound, with something of The de-
moniac from the external invisible
world added theretO-that is man.
What man in every age, in every
country, agrees in declaring must be
true.
The old chronological chart with
its interior view of mans head, show
ing a lion, fox, tortoise, serpent,
nary view, but a true view of man.
Why pay Barnum, Forepaugh or Sells
Bros, fifty cents TO see a first class
menagerie wnen we are the unwilling
owners of all they possess? We see
books advertising, Every Man His
own Lawyer Every Man His own
Physician" Now that we behold
things no longer through a glass
daTkly, but face to face, we see Every
mar hisown menagerie." There is
in us as much love for blood as in the
tiger or in the lion. Just as sturdy a
cruelty and just as persistent a use of
strength as among bears. There isas
much love of rottcnness as in the
yulture, as much stealth as in the
serpent.
1.-THE difficulties of men spring not
from the moral side of their nature,
but from the animal side. They arise
from the fact that mGn seek first
themselves, as every animal does. Ii
is the animal side of man that fills
life with all its trials, and business
with all its hindTanCes." Herein is
meat for forty days and forty nights.
One of the best things VOltaire ever
said was this: There iSnO man who.
has not some of the wild beast in him
but there'are few who will honestly
tell us how they manage their wild
beast" Daniel was in a den of lions.
Mark tells US "ChriSt was in the will
derness forty days tempted of satan,
and was with wild beasts" But wild
beasts without is very different from
wild beasts within. Barnum had
within one large cage many kinds OF
birds and beasts that lived agreeably
together, these he called his ''Happy
Family" The skill of the Romans in
the tanning of wild beasts captured in
the wilds of Asia and Africa was
greater than anything we can do
today. Mark Anthony drove a span
of lions to his chariot through the
streets Of Rome.
Elephants were taught to dance,
carry torches, perform on the tight
rope, and write Latin. If men now
and in the ancient ages could tame
fierce animals to live peacefully
together and to be profitable to their
owners, can not we tame the
menagaTies within US? Others have
tanned theirs, and what man has
done man can do,
What means have they used? DR..
Johnson taught that all depended on
the will. If we willed control over
our wild beasts they would be harm
less, and then helpful. A certain
author says of Roscoe Conkling that
in him were two wild beasts. And
again he says, 'COnkling is mighty
good company when he chooses"
Herein we see the power of our wills
to check and control our own invisible
interior menagcries.
A conductor bothered for hours, by
a smart passenger, who thought the
official was beating him out OF ten
cents, at last stopped and said: 'Sir,
| am not naturally a gentlemen,
but my position compells me during
the hours of business to be one.
Now, sir, if | hear any more from
you I'll consider business hours over
with and attend to your case" 1t is
needless TO add, the revelation
restrained him.
Not naturally a gentleman: my
position cOmpels me TO be one" This
is true Of multitudes OF men to-day.
Paul had within him a bear and a
lion. Witness him in the persecution
of Gods children. Peter had within
him a lion; it tried hard to pull him
away from Christ the night of the
trial, but afterwards he had it pull
ing HIM towards Christ, under better
training than Mark AntOny's lionine
team. Both Paul and Peter tanned
and trained their interior menageries
by the HOby spirit of the living God.
We ought t. bring our lions, tigers,
wolves, under control by the power
of III wills, if we can. If not then
seek a position in life, or make a
public profession, or take a life
partner, which will control our wild
beasts, indirectly. But for all men
and always Gods help is both
efficient and sufficient to make us
masters Of our menageries.
In the blessed future toward which
the world is being lead by the hand of
the Infinite there will be such knowl-
edge of heredity as shall lead men to
wiser selections in the matter of
parenthood and men shall be born
with their menageries already tanned
and trained for them.
The question of today, "How do
you tame your wild beasts?' will not