The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-07
SPLENDID ADDRESS BY
DR.. HOWARD LEE JONES
A FINE PRESENTATION OF A
TIMELY SUBJECT.
"Keep Sweet, and in Good Health, and
OutliYe Your Competitors" Was
His Text.

The address of DR.. Howard Lee
Jones, of the Citadel Square Baptist
church, Charleston, on the occasion of
the graduating exercises of the New
berry high school on Tuesday even
ing, was magnificent presentation Of
a timely subject.
He said the text which he wanted to
give the class was: Keep sweet, and
in good health, and outlive your COM
petitors."
He liked this text, he said. To be-
gin with, it recognized the enmities
of life, and ones enmities were as
| important as ones friendships. ri
want you to be so large that no enemy
can hurt you," he told the class. "Be
bigger than anybody who shall try to
be better than you. appeal to you to
be bigger than anybody who shall be
so small as to try to do you harm. .
1
81 like this text" he continued, "be-
cause it tells you how to do the thing it
directs. Keep in good health. There
is not power we possess that is not a
mightier power if we have good health.
Keep in good health, is very wise
and sane admonition." The body, he
said, is the temple of the living God,
for spirit in his likeness to dwell.
The other admonition was to keep
sweet "The greatest thing in the
warfare of life, in many respects, is
the gift of being able to keep sweet.
1t is business asset, Your grouchy
business man loses every year by his
grouches. The man who can keep
sweet is the man who has an asset
that is most valuable. Don't you be-
lieve for one minute that it is going to
help you to go about telling hard-luck
stories. Don't believe for one minute
that you are going to be popular,
young ladies, by whining. There are
some people who have, | believe, poor,
diseased bodies for the natural de-
pravity that is within them which
dictates their telling everybody about
their particular form of complaint"
"He is a poor business man. said
the speaker, "who doesn't know the
value of a smile; he is a poor business
man who doesn't know the value Of
sunniness, and the escape from that
worry which is the friction that wears
away life But l have got to remem-
ber," he said, there are just two boys
in this class Young ladies, keep
sweet. Oh, the gift Of sweetening the
relationships of life. We need some
people in this world of ours who shall
know the value of sweetness. l trust
that this graduating class shall sweet
en- the temper of Newberry SO that
some of these folks here that don't
know how, and let all the milk OF
human kindness within them turn to
clabber this hot weather, will just be
changed, in spite of themselves, be-
cause of the good humor and the sunny
temper of this class.
1T is a good religion to keep sweet.
I don't know why it is, but some peo-
pie have thought that sourness was
saintliness. l don't know how it is
that we have had an idea that a man
must tie his face in double bow knot
before he could be religious" Chris
tianity, he said, ought to act upon this
old world ike a gleam of March sun
shine drawing the frost out of the
earth. But as We have organized
Christianity and lived it these centur-
les, it has been entirely possible for
man to be morose and unkind and sour
and yet stand up as conspicuously in
the church of God as a stalk of null
lein in pasture or as two sun flowers
| in a bank of American Beauties. ut
ought not to be so," he said. Il tell
YOU that a Christian, if he is worth
anything to this world of ours, is one
who radiates sweetness and light"
The speaker told of little park in
New York where he had sat down one