Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-12-08
Hop, OF Watertown, Talked Oh
the Above Subject OH Last
Sunday.
Why Pay Isarlnun, Forcpaugh
And Other to See What
We Own Ourselves.
Lifting Monkeys Up to Saints
---HOw DO You Manage
Your Beasts?

The following is a complete out
line of the lecture given Sunday
night, Nov. 81, 1892, at Watcrtown
by Rev. p. f. Holp:
We have often heard of Man a
Miracle" Man Mistake" Man a
Mammal Man Mammon-
Worshipcr," now we are to hear of
Man a Menagcrie.
Aristotle, who lived three ccntcries
B, c., taught that there was wild
beast in every man. William
Struthcr's, in 1929 a. d., says: Man
TO man is more crafty than a foX
more cruel than the tiger, and more
fierce than tho lion Bcecher. in
lS13. uttered these Words" Whatever
man came from, whence he came is
the question and the puzzle of the
present. there can be no doubt as to
what lie brought with him. Men
have brought brute instincts and
| appctitcs and bcstial tendencies from
their ancestry. There is the eagle.
| the tiger, the lion, The bear. the
serpent, yet, in human nature"
How Ignatius Donnclly, in his Col
den Battle, published this fall, says:
wolf, tiger, fox, gorilla, lion, jackal
all stirred together in one horrible
compound, with something of the de-
moniac from the external invisible
world added thcreto-tllat 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 lion. fox, tortoise. serpent,
eagle. etc. was not then an imagi-
| nary view. but Il true view of man.
Why pay Barnum, Forcpaugh or Sells
Bros. fifty cents to see first class
mcnagcrie 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 glass
darkly, but face to face, we see Every
man his own menagcrie." There is
| in us as much love for blood as in the
tiger or in the lion. Just as sturdy Il
cruelty and just as persistent a use of
strength as among bears. There iSas
much love of rottcnncss as in the
yulturc, as much stealth as in the
serpent.
The difficulties Of men spring not
from the moral side of their nature.
but from the animal side. They arise
| from the tact that men seek first
themselves, as every animal does. 1t
| is the animal side of man that fills
life with all its trials, and business
with all its hindranccS." Herein is
meat for forty days and forty nights,
One of the best things Noltaire 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
dcrness 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 agreeabiy
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 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. Ii 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
menagares 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. II 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 lie chooses
Herein we see the power of our wills
to check and control our own invisible
interior mcnageries.
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 gentlemen,
but my position compells me during
the hours of business to be one
u Now, sir, il I hear any more from
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