The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-09-15

are who keep out of Jail. God and one
man is a majority. Moses was dis
tinguished member of the Methodist
church in the olden times. Moses and
his people were Methodists. Moses
said to them, now 1 am going up the
mountain, you wait until get back,
and 1 know they were Methodists be.
cause the whole congregation backslid.
The majority was against Moses. But
Moses fronted the whole three millions
and sald, ''Who is on the Lords side?"
God and Moses were majority. It is
not how many, it is the kind. THE
iron will of one stout heart shall make
ten thousand quail" Do not have
Irvine in your spinal column, but rail-
road iron, sixty six pounds to the yard,
that will keep you straight up and
down. Have convictions that you dare
to assert in the presence Of men, angels
and devils.
like the young people not only for
their courage, but because they are
proud of their families. Find member
of the Epworth League, and you find q
member of the NJ. E. church that is not
afraid of his religion. They are not only
proud of their fathers and mothers, but
they believe in themselves. once
heard young German who was asked.
t'What is the most important day in
the history of the world7" He replied,
1.-THE 25th day of November, 1860. That
is the year and the month and the day
when was born" After the date of
your own birth is your Lords birth.
After the date of my and my Lords
births is my countrys birth. A young
American born Of English parents was
sent to school in England by his ia
ther. An instructor was hearing the
class in history. What is the date of
the Norman conquest, he asked the
American. II don't know" was the
reply Describe some of the events
connected with the granting of the
great charter" 81 can't" "Give me
the date of the accession Of Queen
Mary or any of the Georges Il don't
know" "Well is there any date in
English history that you do know"
eyes sir" What is its" Fourth of
July, 1916" And it is the greatest
event of the worlds history from the
standpoint of an American. Today our
own country is known under all skies
as Goods country" and my country,
and If there is man between the
oceans that will not sing "My Country,
tbs of Thee" with me, whether he an
Englishman, Scotchman. a Swede, an
Italian, q Russian, a Frenchman, q
Spaniard, Choctaw or South Sea Is
lander, let him go back where he came
from and let him stay there An old
American sailor who had been drinking
q little too much, and had been talking
pretty freely about his native land in
England, was asked by his companions
il he could bound his country. Eyes.
he said, lit is bounded on the North by
the Aurora Borealis, on the east by the
rising sun, on the south by the process
sion of the Equinoxes, and on the west
by the day of Judgment.
Hike the young people because they
are not only courageous, and believe in
themselves and their fathers and mo-
theirs and their country and their God.
but because they are hopeful. 1t is q
great thing to be hopeful. If there is
anything that is Encouraging, it is the
man who felt bad because he felt good
because he was going to feel bad after
wards" Another man who was always
grumbling was asked one year what he
could find fault with that year. He
said, Eyes, the crops are good and it is
a fine year, but these large crops are SO
hard on the land 1t will be sad day
for the race when man ceases to dream
dreams, build castles in the air and en-
terrain high hopes for humanity. 1t is
q great thing to be hopeful.
Then wish that the young people
could be intelligent The question Of
intelligence is all important. I would
like to raise some people about twelve
inches in the scale of intelligence
Next to being young and hopeful. be
social. The early Christians went out
and shook hands with the whole world.
They gave good old Methodist pump
handle shake; then if they didn't like
that, they gave them a Presbyterian
cross -cut saw; if that didn't do, they
gave them an Episcopalian wiggle-
waggle. 1t is great thing to be social.
There was young man took a girl
home from spelling school. 1t was the
first time he had ever taken girl home
and probably she had never had a
young man take her home before. They
went nearly home without saying a
word, and then he, thinking something
ought to be said, said to her, Don't
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