Religion has not done much for a man if it has not moderated the savage
passions of his nature. Prof. Fred. M. Davenport says:
I once spent an evening listening, with a couple of friends,
to an old darky’s account of his conversion. He had reached
the climax of the recital, was in a considerable state of
ecstasy, and was very anxiously seeking to impress us all with
his spiritual experience, when suddenly his dog began barking
furiously just behind him and utterly broke the continuity of
his thought and of his speech. I think no one of us will ever
forget the dash of savagery that came into his face as he turned
with flashing eye and foaming lip upon that canine intruder. It
was a startling transition, revealing the crater of primitive
passion just underneath the crust of religious culture and
nurture.--_The Contemporary Review._
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