The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
DIR. TAKMAGE'S SERMON.
BY THE REV. FRANK DE WITT rALMAoE, D. D.

The Surest Way to Success.
 But though jealous men and women
 may try to trip up the runners, who they
 fear may pass them in lifes race, yet the l strange fact remains that the surest way
 of winning the prizes of success is not by destroying good men, but by trying to help them along. How did William Me
 Kinley win his great success in the polit- cal world? By dipping his pen in gall? By trying to weild the executioners ax of
 islander and defamation and hate? Oh
 no! William Mckinley made his way into
 the White House by trying to help two
 of his friends there and by trying to help
 all his friends in every way he could.
 When in 1888 the republican convention
 met In Chicago, MT. Mckinley went there
 at the head of the Ohio delegation
 pledged for the nomination of the grand
 old statesman of Mansfield. After a few
 ballots the Ohio delegation found 1t was
 impossible to nominate MT. Sherman. As
 many members of that convention want
 ed Mir. Mckinley, his friends waited upon
 him and offered him their support. Will
 liam Mckinley looked into the eyes of his
 friends as he answered: "Gentlemen, 1
 came to this convention pledged to work
 for the nomination of John Sherman.
 Any man who tries to nominate me in his
 pldcG Is not DlN 1Tlttu. Nlltttn MG fNlll-
 ley's name under no condition can be pre-
 scented as 8 candidate" The same scene
 was practically duplicated in the Mnne-
 apolis convention of 1892 Mir. Mckinley
 went there pledged to support Benjamin
 Harrison. As permanent chairman of
 that convention he again and again arose and protested against the presentation of
 his name as a candidate. He protested in
 spite of the fact that the convention was nearly swept off it's feet at the mere men,
 ton of his name. After these two won
 derful exhibitions of self-sacrifice on Will
 liam McKinley's part all doubt, If there
 ever was any doubt, as to the sterling
 character of the man was forever swept
 away. At the ballot box of 1896 the Amer
 ican people said. "If Mir. Mckinley can
 be true to his friends and rivals we know
 he can be true to US" In all the writings and speeches of William Mckinley, de- livered or written during a public life
 of more than thirty years, you cannot find one word by which he tried to win
 success by wrecking the life of a rival He achieved success by helping along ev- cry good man he could.
 That the philosophy of the Golden Rule
 is sound and that men help themselves by helping instead of being jealous of
 others is illustrated in the life of Dwight
 l.. Moody. What made MT. Moody in some respects the greatest religious one
 man power in the last century? Oh, yesl l believe he was one of the most convinc- ing of spiritual orators, but 1 also believe that there were others of his time just as great, if not greater His organizing ability? Oh, yes! I believe he would have
 been a master at the head of a political
 campaign or as a merchant or even as
 a military chleftaln; but though D. l..
 Moody may have been great organizer, l believe there were others of his time just as great If not greater. His great
 big heart, into which he could gather ali his loved ones? Oh. yesl Mir. Moody had an affectionate nature. But there are
 thousands of men who love their families and friends just as much as MT Moody loved his loved ones; but though many
 men may have excelled him In individual characteristics, In one respect believe he was the peer, if not the king, of them all. | do not believe Mir. Moody had one in- 1 finitesimal particle of jealousy in his l makeup. Instead of trying to focus all | the attention of the religious world upon | himself he spent most of his life in push l ing other religious workers to the front. | The bigger the man the more anxious MT. ] Moody was to call public attention to | him. He brought across the water Henry l Drummond and John McNeill and F. B. | ne9eT anu H. '. .MCdTeBOT anu Od10D- | bell-Morgan, and many others. He invited ! to his own platforms the mightiest re- 1 ligious workers of his generation. He | placed them by his side as he said: | Brother in Christ. win a mighty gospel l victory I am praying for you. The big | ger success you have the happier 1 will | be-"
 Why Moody Succeeded.
 | When MT. Moody tried to advance these | Christian workers whom some people
 might have called his rivals he advanced | himself into the hearts of sinful men and 1 women as well as into the chief human 1 leadership of the Christian world. Many | contemporaries may have excelled him in
 individual and particular gifts, but in
 mighty masterful leadership in the fame
 and eminence which will cause his name
 to go down through the coming centuries
 as Christian worker In hs influence | upon the men of his day, MT. Moody
 stood head and shoulders above all the | Christian workers of his time. He won | this enviable position because he did not l have a particle of jealousy In his make up. He won it because he tried to help | his rivals instead of to destroy them. No | man ever successfully built a temple of | fame upon the ruined foundations of a | good mans life. The javelin of jealous 1 nate has poisoned handle which is more 1 deadly than its venomous tip. It will
 more surely destroy the life of a man | who attempts to hurl 1t than the life of l the rival against whom 1t Is thrown.
 Maddening jealousy will make it's sinful, victim turn upon his best friends. Many l pathetic scenes are daily witnessed in the | insane asylums of the land but, to me 1 the patients who are to be pitied the mos ] are not the driveling epileptics or the
 men and women whose minds have crum. bled into such ruin that they can sit houl
 after hour making doll dresses or, witt 1 glassy eyes vacantly staring for days al
 a time at some crack in the wall. I be
 leve the insane patients who should b, l pitied tho most are those whose diseased | minds make them think that their wives
 or husbands or parents children ol l brothers and sisters have been untrue tt l them. l pity the young girl who has gon,
 mad because she was tilted the night be- 1 fore her wedding and who sits by tn,
 window continually denouncing the recre
 ant lover and the woman for whom h,
 broke his vows. I pity that old gra,
 haired mother who for twenty years ba.
 been denouncins her only son because sh,
 thinks he wants to poison her for hel
 money. I pity that insane wife who vii
 never allow, her husband to enter he | room because she thinks he has beer
 false to her. An, these are the insane pa | tfentS who he nftiedf Nava, 1t5