Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-11-17
"FoRcEs THAT WIN"
copyrighted by Rev. William ASHLEY
Sunday.

copyrighted by Rev. William Ashley
Sunday.
81 have no text for tonight. III
take your inspiration for my text.
"At the time Of the death OF Presi-
dent Mckinley for Ave minutes the
wheels Of every railroad and factory
stood still, the farmer stood by his
plow in the furrow, the banker by,
his money amounted, the merchant
with his cloth unmeasured, and the
grocer with his commodity unweighed.
The student closed his book and the
miner dropped his pick. All over the
land for Ave minutes business and
commerce stood still and in that meth
cd we testified to the world the ines
timable value we place on character
and in that way we were enabled to
indelibly impress on our minds and
the minds of succeeding generations
the fact that we place a high estimate
on the memory of the man who gave
his life for the betterment Of the coun-
try and Of the people.
Smallest Man in the World.
"The smallest man on Gods dirt is
the man that spends his time around
the grog shop knocking the white col
lar off mug of beer and then stag
gering home. You are big or little not
according to your physique, but owing
to where you are You are like girl
of about seventeen who is introduced
to young man and ASKS, Who is he?'
And when she is twenty-five, she asks,
What is hep And when she is along
about thirty-five, she says, Mamma,
e-~., o1,N Sc, l,a0
Like Squire Jones, who is Squire
Jones in his jay rube town because
everything in town magnifies him.
Take him to Chicago and let him walk
down the street between the skyscrap-
ers and trolley cars and let him stand
at the corner of State and Madison at
five o'clock in the afternoon and you
know what happens to the squire-why
it is just squeezed out Of him until he
is just ordinary Jones.
Bigger in Church Than Out.
"a grasshopper sat on a sunfiower
and said, I am the biggest thing in
the world. When l jump off the earth
will tremble,' and he jumped off in
front of a turkey gobbler and the old
hen came along and said, Did you see
a fat young grasshopper pass this
way?' No. said the turkey gobbler.
He didn't pass; he stopped And
when that grasshopper was trying to
adjust himself to comfortable. posi-
tion in the craw OF that turkey he
thought how little he was. You are d
bigger man when you sit in church
beside your wife than when you loaf
down In some livery stable or some
grog shop. And bigger man when
you walk home sober than when you
reel home a drunken sot l want to
tell you that the banker is a bigger
man than the brewer.
Wants to Aid Growth.
"The fact that God has put this tab
ernacle here Is another evidence that
God has given you chance to grow.
want to say something that will help
you to grow big and make you put
your name in italics How many ba-
bies there are. Baby lawyers, baby
doctors, baby wives and baby husbands
people small and dried up notwitn-
standing the chances they have had.
This hope for better things IS natures
clamor That is why the immigrant
leaves the father land, while the man
here goes west. He wants to be 4
mountain instead OF a mole hill. 1t IS
something In you that wants to devel-
op, something that wants to better
your condition. Not to grow and not
to be a better man when you have
such opportunities is to bring yourself
under the scorn and the contempt Of
those that do want to grow.
Husbands Three for Nickel.
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into financial account in dime mu.
scum. But a midget in mind and char
acter is carbuncle on the neck of the
body polite. You canrot look UP to a
runt in mind and character unless you
are married to the runt. It is like the
husband whose wife said that she had
dream. She dreamed that she at.
tended the auction where husbands
were being sold and one brought $500
but another sold for $4,000. And her
husband said that he was like ,Ae lat,
ter. But the wife said You miserable
little runt, you; husbands like you sold
three punches for a nickel and that
was a big price
Must Have Desire to Grow.
THE one man that find that God
condemns is the man that hides his
talent in napkin. Go up, thou
mighty man OF valor,' said God tc
David. David climbed from the sheer
fold and became king, and God said tc
him, Dave. you are man after my
own, heart God likes to see mar
get a move on him and climb out O
the valleys into the glorious sunlight
on the hills out of the brothel into
purity. God wants men to do things
that are right in the world and so dt
we all Humility that wants to re
main little simply because it is casio
to swing in a hammock, to sleep in tn.
shade, and to drink lemonade with
straw is something that is vastly diff
! ferent from that magnificent man
hood that is willing to pull off his coat
sell it and buy sword and go out int
the arena of the world and drive it VI
| to the hilt into the ,dampable rot D
the world that curses and blights th'
land
"you have got to have desire t.
grow. You have got to feel you
need to be virtuous and to be hon
est. You must want to-like a misc
wants money-like hog wants slop--