The Press., 1893-07-06
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
Live in the Top Story.

I want you to try practical experi- nent. I don't know whether 1t will suc- eed or not. but want you to try it, as [ is getting late, and you will have difi- ulty in keeping up the military attention 'ou have kept up. I want you to try and mock of your cap without moving your land, merely by moving the muscles of 'our head. Perhaps only two boys out of his company will be able to do it. Yes, here is boy does it first-rate. Now l | want you to try and move your ears with ut touching them with your hands. There are two or three boys have the bower to move their ears. Now, how in he world do you get that power? There Ire only two or three boys out of a hun fred can twitch their ears without touch ng them, and move the muscles of the scalp. That muscle is the very same muscle you find inside lions head. It Is the muscle with which lion raises it's nane, when it wants to look very digni- fed and fierce. It is the same kind of muscle cat uses when it wants to blow itself out when fighting with another cat, and the same muscle as the bubbly-jock uses when it wants to make you frighten- ed at it. Now, how do 8 few people have lt?- Scientific people tell us that long, long ago our forefathers were animals, and these muscles are the survival of those old days. The muscle that cocks the ear is the same muscle the rabbit, and hare and deer have for cooking their ears, and it still survives in a number of peo- pie, and if you run your finger round the inside of the outside of your ear, you will find little hard tip, which they tell us was the tip of the ear before it began to fold up. If took you. to see skeleton you would find that we have also 8 num- Der of bones peculiar to animals. For in- stance, every boy or girl has very dis tinct tail, quite defined, made up of seven or eight bones. Isuppose you know how 8 man got these two buttons on the back of his coat? In old days when a man went out to dinner, he usually went on horseback, and in crossing rivers he loop ed the tail of his coat with these buttons, and so saved them getting splashed. The use of these buttons has long since been forgotten, but still a man would as soon go out without his shoes as without these buttons. We'll, this muscle that works the scalp, and this muscle that cocks the ear, are like these two buttons-they are relics of things that once had meaning. Very well, that means that we have in ourselves part of the bodies of these ami mals, but that means a great deal more. 1t means that you and 1 have in us some thing of the dispositions of these animals. There is tiger, for instance, in half of the boys even of this company, and a bear in three or four more, and snake in another. We'll, when you are tempted to be fierce like tiger, or to be sulky or surly like a bear, or to do a sneakiDg thing like serpent, you at once know where that comes from. It is not you at all, it is the other fellow who lived long, long ago, and you are not to think it is all over with you when the bear begins tC growl and the serpent begins to hiss What you are responsible for is not these things being there, but for not allowing them to have any say in your life ant conduct, and the more you study th' temptations that come into your mind the more you are able to trace them to the lower creation, out of which we ar' gradually developing. The scientific peo pie tell us that we were animals for mil lions of years. We then became savages and everybody here has more or less o the savage in him. So, in fact, boys ar built in three stories; the bottom stor. is den of wild beasts, a perfect Noah ark of evil practices and bad habits. Ant above that story is a den of savages, ant they send all kinds of cruel and heartles and selfish thoughts into our minds; ant above that, in the top story, there live the real boy.
 I tell you that for two reasons-tha you may not be afraid of temptation, a if it were sin. Instead of being sin, it i good thing, as many of you know. is the opportunity of virtue, and it is jus
 when we have temptations to fight agains that we are able to become strong. An I tell you that for another reason-t
 keep you humble, in spite of the magnif
 cent position you have earned for you
 selves as soldiers, to remember, thoug
 the boy is having his innings while yo
 have this meeting. the tiger and savag
 are still in your nature, and will be to th
 end of the chapter. So let him ths fall. And it may be an unmanly thing
 say, but think the best thing to do whe
 the bear begins to growl and the savae
 begins to suggest and the lower natul
 begins to try to gain the upper hand,
 not to close your fist and try to fight the
 openly-it is perhaps cowardly thing
 say, but there is no need to face them
 simply to turn your back and fly. The'
 things are stronger than you are, becaui
 the boy is young. He has only been Ii
 ing in the world perhaps few thousar
 years, and the savage first began hu
 dred thousand years before that, so tn
 is the position of boy in charge of a sa
 age and an animal, and the best way
 just to turn our backs on them and fl
 An open fight is very little use, becau
 we are almost sure to come off wor
 when we try that plan. By far the be
 way is not to live in the lower part of o ! nature at all. Paul put that splendid in one sentence when he said: 'Wa in the spirit"-that is, walk, live in t
 top story. Live all your life there, a
 then the evil suggestions will never COT
 to you.
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