New Britain herald., 1926-01-04
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 and make himself the ruler.
 Take that thing unharnessed and you have brute of man; harness Il and you have one of the very first characteristics that so 10 make up tho kind of men and women for which the world is looking this day,
 Two hundred men with us this morning. every one of them with a heart charged with that ambition, II you want that ambition to work along the primal lines. you will have nothing but petty jealousies and scraps and fighting all the time; but get two hundred men and take that ambition and harness 1t 10 the work of building up this class and you will find the influence of this class growing and growing until fl will be irresistible in this community,
 The second thing l want to speak of is this: The instinct of pugnacity, Every one of LIS has it. If you do not have 1t there Is not drop of red blood in you this morning.
 was going up West Main street at night six weeks or so ago and out of an alley I heard a noise of some Iscuffing, There were two fellows 20 or @2 years Of age. and that old primal instinct of pugnaclty was coming 10 the front. Those boys were certainly wadins into each oth- CT in great shape.
 AS stood there I said 10 myself, | If l could got those fellows and put them down in my church what trc- mendous workers they would be, l have not anybody on my official board that puts half the energy into their work as those fellows were putting into that scrap in Anson Mills alley.
 Everyone Of LIS, l say, has that in- stinCt in our makeup. You know what 1t is 10 have your temper fly off and put up your fists and want 10 20 at some other fellow. Take that thing and let 1t run unrestrained in your life and what do you have ? We have about what We had ten years ago all the civilized nations of the world drawn into the caldron of q great war. We let all of this pugnacious instinct come to the fore. We do everything we can to annihi- late our fellowmcn.
 Harness that instinct and what dc you get? You get men who are put ting the best of their energy behind some cause that is entirely worth while, and you find the world beine pushed forward because of the effort they are expending along those lines
 The last thing I want 10 say is this: There is another instinct every man has, that is the one of courage If there is a fellow here this morn ing who doesn't have it pity hin just about as much as l do the mar who hasn't any ambition. The mar who hasn't courage this morning l! licked before he ever starts.
 Courage is the instinct that nature put into us from the very beginning It dates from primal times. All do"f the course of, human history you car find it. The Greeks and Roman: and those who went back befor' them exhibited just as fine type 0 courage as you saw exhibited in the great World War. Military courag' that carries man ont withou thought of physical injury or death that keeps his knees strong and hi back straight and his lips iron duivering-that courage has becl put by nature into our makeup iron the very beginning.
 The thing that l want you to d. this morning is 10 take that inslinc and use it when there is no blarinl of trumpcts and flying of flags. Ii takes courage, l can admit t' you this morning. and those of yol who know anything about 1t caI back me up in it, it takes courage t crawl out in the dark and rain int No-M Mans Land and see what is go ing on in the encmys trenches.
 am not sure that is half so fine ; type Of couragc---I am quite sure l iSn't-as that same courage that per mits q man to come back with al empty sleeve and with his whole lii handicapped and face that life Wltl smile upon his lips and the cour , age that knows no defeat. ] an
 L.; fn that tyne !. courage in our everyday living. l , ftallos courage to do lots of things il time of battle and in the stress O cxcitoment; but it takes a far fine tvpe of courage to bear your par in some out of-the-Way place Whcl nobody secs you or cares anything ? ahout you.
 My last word to you is this; Tha - you will take that primal InStlnc
 which the good God has put ill yo ard use it to help you work you { very best in the out-of-tho-way piac , for inc uplift of Everyman's Bibl F class, for am speaking 10 and abou inc class this morning. If evcryon p would take that splendid courag { with which his heart has been charG { cd and put if into the class, with th . hest of his energy and living in m n course of the next three months, s would not care if there were 25 E o5nO out 10 tho class, it would b' T come q resistloas influence in 1h'
 community,