The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-04-01

talking to you asA his gospel is Wig
orOus and convincing. He breaches IT
ter a fashion that has ever been for.
eign to local listeners and the effect
WAS electric.
The largest audience ever gathered
In mems meeting in this city came
to hear Dan Shannon last Sunday af-
ternOOn. Many were disappointed be-
cause they did not hear a lot OF slush.
Instead the crowd was captivated by
manly appeal To highest manhood
delivered with the tongue of our ora
tor
The mems meeting at 2:30 was an
inspiration. The subject was. wish
bone or Backbone"
Evangelist Shannon took the text,
Run ye to and fro through the streets
of Julesburg, and look In the business
houses, and see II you can find me a
man." He said: How many men have
you in Julesburg? You say we have so
many on the voting list But not every
voter is II man. When God wants
to know how many men you have He
does not look at the voting list, or
Bradstreet and Dunn. or the telephone
book, or Commercial Club list, the
lodge roll or even the Church book
He has different conception of true
manhood than the world has. There
are three ways to measure man, by
his bulk, his mind, and his spirit.
There are many strong men in Jules
burg. But physical strength is no test
of man hood. Such fellow may be
blug-ugly, bully, splitting out filthy
stories and hellish oaths, his heart a
regular cess pool. Such fellows give
great deal of thought to their muscle
but very little muscle to their thought
Then you can measure a man by his
brains. But brain power and busi-
ness ability is not test of true man
hood. Some of your business men
here have keen brains, and are hustl-
ers and meet you with smile, but
like blond wig-they are fair but
false. Some of the biggest rouges I
have ever met have been educated
keen Drained fellows Take the brain
out of mans head and you have an
idiot; take the honor out of mans
heart and you have a rouge. That is
why some Of your business men are
rouges, their honor is dead. God,
measures a man by his character. The
clean lived man, clean minded, clean
speeched, clean hearted man is Gods
true man. Reputation and character
are as far apart as the North and
South Poles. Reputation is what men
say you are, character is what you
are. Reputation is what you think of
me, character is what I know of my
self.
| Reputation is what you are here in
Julesburg, where folks know you. Char
/ acter is what you are when you are in
Chicago, or New York, where you are
! not known. If some business and pro-
fessional mems reputation and char
acters met in the street, they would
not know each other.
Reputation is like having the name
written on the sand at the seashore to
be washed away by the first incoming
tide. Character is like having the
name chisled on the granite mountain
to stand forever. Reputation is like
the meteor that flashes across the mid
night heavens and tehn dies in dark
ness. Character is like the stars that
stand fixed eternal in the heavens.
Regulations is the stamp on the. coin:
character is the coin itself. AS a
counterfeit coin may bear the stamp Of
good dollar, 80 many a man is STAN
ped pure gold. when he is only dross
Reputation is nothing; character fs
everything.
The evangelist gave a glowing pic
ture Of Judge Linsey OF Denver, Nc
Kinley and Lincoln. On the other
hand, he poured shell into the rank
of men. who sell whiskey. and de-
bauch the boys and sneer at decency.
Next Sunday at 2:30 there Will be
another meeting for men and Nh. Shan
non will speak on Chickens come
home to roost after they have laid
eggs in the other fellows barn"
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