Year: 1873

goes to the dogs. The man is honest in
all this. He thinks he is reformed, and
talks about his former habits with shame
and adherence Why does he break
down again? When strengthened by all
these noble resolutions when fortified by
all these elevated impulses, why doesn't
he keep his pledge? Why does he go
again to ruin2 The answer is simple.
1t is found in Phrenology, and nowhere
else. When his social nature is strongly
excited, it assumes the control of his
character. 1t subordinates appetite; it
strengthens viii; it enobles pride and
ambition; it stimulates conscience and
judgement. 1t is not mere passion,
though passion may be the instigator of
the activity of the higher faculties, but
the grandest elements of his manhood re-
volve around his affections, and all that
is noble in him is organized in favor of
the right Then he can say TO the appe-
tite for alcoholic liquors, Get thee be-
hind me, Satan," and the appetite obeys.
Indeed, it is not permitted to rise. But
when he has eonsummated his object,
and has won his prize, the force of this
combination of faculties is measurably
broken. In some cases, however, mar
riage but serves to intensity the faculties
which were combined in bringing about
the marriage, and perhaps in a well-organ-
lied human being that should always be
the case,


There are many analogous instances IL
Illustrative of this same principle.
How Aequisitiveness serves to repress
the rampant action of Combativeness
If a man bends over his counter to a Gus
toner in an earnest endeavor to close
bargain by which considerable profit is
to be realized how bland he will be when
the customer rasps him and exasperates
| his Combativenessl Love of gain and the
activity of the faculties which expect to
be gratified through the gain, serve to
rub down and repress the faculties of
anger. and he will be plant and mellow
to his customer, when, if there were not
profit involved in the bargain, he would
| if thus insulted, turn him out of his
| place. The hungry wolf-mother will tear
up her prey. dividing.it with her whelps,
denying the qualification of her own ap-
petite under the restraining influence of
| her mother love.


| In one sense the man can not help in
dulging his debased appetite for opium
| tobacco, or alcoholic liquors. In another
respect, as we have seen, he can arouse
such an array of faculties as to regulate
and control even this master passion.


We have no right to form bad habits.
| We put our necks unwittingly under the
! yoke, and find it grevious to be borne
| Forming bad habits is easy, sometimes
/ pleasant. The influences are insldious,
and we become the victims of our own
! folly. Men sometimes good-naturedly
! sigh their names, and thus take the re-
! sponsibilities of others; and when the
sheriff comes and sweeps away their


home, or breaks up their business and
/ takes their last dollar, they find them
selves in the meshes of the law, and can
not help themselves There is such q
j thing as riveting upon ourselves bad hab-
its beyond our unaided efforts to release
| ourselves, and only the grace of God and


a change of heart supplementing resolu-
! ton will save them.


Drunkenness comes to be disease, even
| chronic, and mans powers of resistan ce


are vanquished. His will is broken


down. Confinement in an Inebriate As
| sylum for a year would, in some cases,
radically cure those who can not to-day,
unaided, deny themselves the cup. Be-
| ing confined until the bodily disease, till


that yearning fire of the nervous system


has had time to die out, a reform may
/ be effected


How important it is that our young


people ''taste not, touch not handle not"


the accursed thing which insidiously


steals away their brains, and paralyzes


their power of resistance, and fastens up


on them a slavery which, in some in


stances, they seem anable to break. If


we could sweep away the whole system of


alcoholic stimulation from the earth, we


would do SO, feeling that we could hear t
lily ask Gods blessing on the act. If we
could sweep away tobacco utterly, and


forever, from scourging the human race,


we would willingly deny ourselves any


and every luxury of life, satisfied that


we had acted according to His will.


When will young men learn "to avoid


the appearance of evil" to be content


with nutrition, and not recklessly become


slaves to stimulation2 Lead us not


into temptation, but deliver US from


evil"