Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-01
awoke one day to find a new and great
intellecttual giant in the land

awoke one day to find a new and great
Intellectual giant in the land.
Mr.. Sunday said in referring to
newspapers: "You have got in this
town one of the best newspapers in
the country. mean the Times Repub
lican.- 1t always has been good news
paper. Years ago it used to knock me,
do not know why. Perhaps I de-
served it,
Feed Young People Learning.
"You farmers feed corn to hogs and
cattle for profit. Is it not better to
feed to young people schools, bibles
and churches than it is to feed to them
the sinking saloon? II is better to feed
girls and boys the things that will
make them God like. 1t pays to feed
to our young people the things that will
make them better men and women.
You can never build a character
with cards and booze and sin and rot
tenness. Pull out those things.
To Win Takes Grit.
DO your best young people and you
will never wear out shoe leather look
ing for a job. To win you need grit
That means to say no so loud you will
stagger hell when you are tempted.
and God. Grit that means to set the air
brakes. Grit, that means to open the
throttle. Grit, that means to throw on
the reverse. Grit, that means to sand
the track. Grit, that means to sit at the
throttle when you know you are going
| into the ditch.
Some men never do anything worth
while because they are afraid to get
out and lead the crowd. i know the size
of a man by what he is doing. know
the size of the man who is boosting,
and the size of the man who Is knock
| ing these meetings.
Be Live Wire.
BE a live wire. Be like the fellow
| with the itch, who makes every one
! scratch who comes near him. Do not
| be of the milk and cider and chalk
kind. Be red hot for God. Do not be a
miserable trimmer. Do not be fish on
one side and flesh on the other.
Self conceit that's a barrier. There
is no hope for the man who thinks he
knows it all. Do not think there is no
one in the world who can teach you.
| Poverty is no handicap You may be
rich tomorrow young man. You count
the names of the people who have crept
and crawled from the quagmires and
sewers of the country to eminences and
you will be dumbfounded. Obscurity
and poverty never kept Franklin,
David or Lincoln down. Obscurity did
not keep Lincoln splitting rails or
Grant tanning hides atGalena
Look on the Bright Side.
Look on the bright side. Do not
begin the day with frown." To illus
trate a point he told of the man who
went to the doctor, 1.-The doctor said,
let me look at your tongue Look at
my wife's tongue replied the patient,
| that's what's the matter with me-
DO not go to pieces when things
happen against you. Be cheerful, be
optimistic. Let us all unite and try to
make the world better by living and
working for God"
Singing Enthusiastic.
The singing at the Friday night tab
ernacle meeting was the most enthus-
iastic of the meetings so far. Mr. Fisch-
er lead the choir and congregation in
the singing of song after song. One Of
which the boys, then the men and fin
ally the women whistled The boys
who were on the front seats, mounted
the benches at a signal from Mr.. Gill
and gave the tabernacle yell.