Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-11-17

have grit Grit that says mo- SO loud
as to stagger nell when asked to do
wrong. Grit that means yes SO loud
that all the angels scramble to look
over the battlements of heaven to
hear you and cheer.
"Obscurity did not keep Ben Frank
lin from walking the streets OF Phil
adelphia gnawing a loaf Of bread. 1t
did not keep Thomas Edison sitting
at telegraph desk sending messages
at $50 month. 1t did not keep David
herding sheep all his life.
Opportunity Comes to All.
Il tell you, God can give you
chance to be Christian, but God and
Christ and all the angles cannot make
you go to heaven if you don't want to.
God can give you a chance, but if you
are not willing TO embrace it don't
blame God. Like a young fellow who
swells up and says: I will never mar
ry.' Let some girl come along and
he falls so deeply in love it makes his
breast, bone ache and in less than
month, unless some other fellow cuts
him out, he will be pricing furniture
and looking for a house, and IN about
eight months he will be hanging pic
lures and putting down carpets.
How. are we going to get the de-
sire? WE'LL. that is what | am trying
to help you to get. You might as well
ask me how tack must feel in keg
of nails think that it must feel Gf
tack could feeD like it wanted to be
the biggest one. l am not going to
stay a tack. Put yourself under the
influences that will insure you to be
better, if you want to be good. Don't
hang around the grog shops. Read the
right books. Many boys chews, and
cusses, and swears simply because he
initiates his old dad. Every gambler
initiated somebody So does every
drunken sot. every fallen woman.
Must Have Definite Aim.
"You have got to have definite aim
you must want to do. You must
want to be honest Like couple of
boys-thc old man was going away
and he said to the boys, Mind your
ma, and if you are good l will reward
you and If you are not I will tan you
When he got back he found that the
boys had rough house and they had
gone to bed And his wife was COM
planning about what they had done.
And one of the boys said, Gee, hear
| pa. He's down with ma. Hear pa COM
ing up? l am going to get up and
pray The other said, L am going to
get up and put something on, I tell
you
MANY a man cannot tell whether
| God wants him to be an auctioneer or
college professor, and he kept out of
! the poor house only because he was
| fortunate enough to marry good
strong woman who could take in wash
! ing.
Study Your Capabilities.
"You may not be able to be search
| light or whistle, but you can be a
cog in the machine. You could no
more teach some men to progress
than you could teach tomcat the
oratorio of the Messiah There are
men that are looking into my face to-
night who might have lowered up like
church steeples over all competitors il
you had used the noble influence that
| you are surrounded with. The man
that succeeds is not the one that waits
for something in which he can show
his superiority over all others but the
one that does the thing next to hand.
Success Comes by Work.
Don't you know that a plow horse
makes more miles in a year than the
best thoroughbred horse on the race
track? The reason that SO nany-whis-
ky-soaked, round-shouldered, good for
nothing men loaf around the street
corners with their hands in their
breeches pockets was because when
they were young they got balled up
and they cashed in too quick.
Grant started as tanner in old
! Illinois.
'You have flaw in your character
! They cannot trust you. That is the
reason that you did not succeed You
had something that you want to get
rid of, and God IS going to give you a
chance here. Cyrus Field crossed the
Atlantic fifty-two times and worked
eleven years to lay the cable, while
the world Knocked and said that he
was avisionary.' He laid it in 1868.
and it has never missed from that day
Mind the Measure of Size.
II will tell you something of him
ORANGES. Your size depends upon your
mind-on BRAIN not bulk. Some fell
lows bulk big, but brain little. You
cannot mea sure manhood with tape
line around the biceps, nor success by
the rattle in the cash register. Nor
by your rating with Dun or Bradstreet.
That don't show whether you have
won out or lost. The engineer is big
ger than the engine because he drives
the engine-the captain is greater than
the ship. An electric motor no bigger
than my fist can do more work than a
twelve foot windmill on a sixty-foot
tower that you could see five miles
You can measure a rosebud by its
size, That's easy. But to measure
it by it's fragrance and beauty-thats S
impossible.
Could Not Conceal Him.
cone day in the slave mart in New
Orleans he saw children stripped from
the arms of their mothers; he saw
wives torn from the loving embrace OF
husbands and sold on the auction
block, and they went away never tc
see each other again. He heard the
. bay of the bloodhounds as they chased
the blacks through the swamps and as
the tears streamed down his cheeks he