The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-05
"raOsE THAT FALL
Sermon OF Rev. Frank o. Beck at
Mapleton Methodist Church.


Mapleton Methodist Church.
At the Mapleton NJ. E. Church yesterday
morning the Rev. Frank o. Beck had for
his subject. Those That Fail" He said:
The name of my constituency Is legion.
Most people do not succeed In fact few
attain the goal their ambition sets for
them. Duty never holds crown over some
mems heads but all the crowns do not be-
long to the men who succeed. The yictor-s
crown comes to some men amidst the APP
plause OF the multitude, while other men
just as heroic are uncrowned and forgotten
OF men: Walt Whitman,s strange style Is
not strange enough to hide the true mes
sage, a toast to the men who fail:
with music strong come, with my coro-
nets and my drums,
/ play not marches for accepted victors
only,
1 play marches for conquered and slain
Have you heard that it was good to gain
1 also say il is good to fail: battles are lost
in the same spirit which they are won-
beat and pound for the dead,
/ blow through my embouchres my loudest
and gayest tor them.
vivas to those who have failed!
And to those whose war vessels sank In the
And to those themselves who sank In the
seal
And to all generals who lost engagements.
and all overcome heroes!
And the numberless unknown heroes equal
to the greatest heroes known!
Did we think victory great?
So IL is, but now II seems 10 me
that defeat is great,
And that death and dismay are great
Men err in their estimate Of what con-
stitutes success or failure. They honor the
man who is simply faithful gets little praise
to-day. 1t was Christs method TO crown
the brow Of the one that tried even though
.sThe vox popul is not always the vox
Del Break the commandments and your
name will be upon thousands OF lips. IL
you Judge society alone by the things peo-
PIE are talking about You wan get Wo re-
Impression; It's follies, fads. venities. IN
antics. absorbing excitements. society scan
dals, literary pyrotechnics
their names on lifes billboards. nor IL IL the
most worthy things that get the most
talked about. Much Of the work OF the gooo
is unchronicled. unadvertiseo. unwritten
"It is said of Rousseau. he was hungry
for the praise Of men, That desire explains
much In his life story: NO one can aoys s,-
economy the reverse Is true, 'Whosoever
shall humble himself shall be exalted :.
1--WE are apt to Judge wrongly OF moral
adaptation into the spiritual sphere. 10
think that the measure Of a man 10 extraof.
binary character and the real strength OK
moral system Is In the fact tnat " -
accepted by the majority.
I'VE give a man credit for that in him
which has externalized itself. We 1ooketh
on the outward appearance God does not;
God looketh on the inward parts The
temple has never been so crowded that
Jesus could not see the woman who gave
her two mites. He is not a halo-hunter, but
He knows the true hero or heroine. he can
discriminate between the corona and the
sun Men hold a reflector up 10 character
but Christ disregards the aureole and con-
siders the light within man.
cit was exquisite taste In Prince Henry
at Annapolis TO give his hand TO the van
ouished rather than to the successful cadet
wrestler. IL Is the Masters method. he
crowned the man who failed No one was
ordinary 10 Jesus. To Him common peo-
pie were uncommon. He used unpromising
people and pronounced eulosies on the m
conspicuous.
There are hours when feel most keenly
the fact that the world does not give due
credit TO some peoples labor. IL faiie 70
consider that many people spend all their
days under the limitations OF underground
circumstances. Heaven win have surprises
and many who here lived lives OF SELF
effacenent. faithful In obscurity. VIII there
| wear a crown and reveal themselves TO us
| as those Of whom the world was NOT
| worthy"