Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-25
"Be Thou Strong and ShorO Thysef
a Man" Is Topic of Mems Sermon

nc or Men s Sermon
b disguised AZ man In a suit Of hand-me-
down clothes, To know come men II an
invitation to be decent To know others
Is an Invitation to go TO hell.
Lots OF men In our day lead boys and
girls astray. and give large sums 10 char
ity TO cover up their wrong dolngs. Men
like that must be taught that nothing
they can do in giving money to charity
can blot out their rotten, shrinking deeds
David wanted his son TO raise his chin
high enough to look the sun In the face.
and so he said, Solomon. be mani"
Manhood-truo manhood-princely man
hood. like that OF David is one OF the
grandest things IN the world, and II Ia
something that counts as nothing else
does
1t does not depend upon the size OF the
body. but the soul. There are men OF
small stature, like st. Paul and Napoleon,
who tower above other men as the noun
tains tower above the plain. and there are
physical giants who are midsets In man
hood.
st. Paul was only little red-headed.
freckled fellow; but he could run rings
around the rest OF the preachers in his
day. For his soul was great Napoleon
was Just little fellow, five feet. five
inches tall; but he had the dynastIes Of
Europe trembling and staggering until
they had TO send him to st. Helena.
Men like Shakespeare, pale, wiEened,
enemio, have the world at their feet
General Grant. and men like him. tower
like mountains above other men.
Need Men of solid Mahogany.
On every street corner you can find
n crowd OF the nickel-a-bunch fellows
But there are men like Moses who
really lived. What the world, and Omaha
and Nebraska need IL more men OF solid
mahogany. We have too much veneer
these days. Too many only look like men
across the street They don't weigh any
more In the balance for morality and
good government and good living than
their hat rack.
There are some who say: "Biu, a
young fellow must SOW his wild oats. -
All right, but let me tell you when 10
sow your first crop. Put out your first
cro9 whom you are between IS and %
years old. BY that time your ardor for
cheap booze will be about as warm as
, two cold feet In your back at Christmas
| time
; The chRutauuuR lecturer, who, for
about fifty per tells a young man to SOW
: his wild oats, has as much sense as
BalaAm's ass when he tried 10 kick the
= rim off the milky way.
IL you are not willing TO deliberately
take the risk of becoming q Eood-for-
nothing sot, settle the question at once
and finally that you will never take your
first drink. Not to do this II to have
about half decided that you will yield
when the temptation comes.
II you are not willing to take the risk
of becoming social outoast. decide as
Joseph did long before he reached Poti-
piers house, that you will live q white
life.
Some fathers are woefuiy deficient
, Their sparker and gasoline don't work
, together They can't make the grade,
Z II every man lived right today no boy
would 20 to hell tomorrow.
= Like Water on Ducks Back.
= David's counsel to Solomon would have
been like water on a ducks back II n
: hadn't lived II. Solomon knew what hi
father meant by his fathers life wher
he told him to be strong and show him,
self a man.
To train a boy In the way he should
go, go that way yourself. IL you want
your boy to go to heaven. go that way
, , yourself. Every boy tries TO be like
some man. Every man IL a hero TO some
!, boy.
The trouble IL that we are trying e
make living, and not a life. A whisky
barrel is more dangerous than a gun bar
. rel We reach the wrong conclusion be-
. cause our vision In wrong.
. Don't be a moral tramp, afraid to &c
, TO Gods bathhouse because he will turn
, the hose on you and clean you up
Sees Goliath, "Main Cheese"
With his sling. bingl and David had
Goliath on the ground. David was the
youngest OF the brothers. and had 10
herd sheep and wear his brothers' old
clothes Being the youngest son. he got
the hand-me-downs. One day his father
told him 20 take aome food to his older
brothers who were fighting the PhIlis-
tines In Sauls army. When David Eot
to the battlefield he saw Goliath coming
out.
David asked. Who's that big lobster7"
They told him. That's Goliath, the main
cheese OF the Philistines." And they told
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you fellows letting that guy pull bluff
like that1 Does he think he can get away
with that1 Let me at him"
Then King Saul sent his armor to David
and David got into It and felt like fell
low with a suit four sizes too large for
him. So he threw off the armor, went
down to the brook. picked up four or five
smooth little stones and went out to get
Goliath. When Goliath saw him, he
laughed: We'll, who are your" But
David just took that sling. whirled II
around and soaked him on the COCO he,
tween the lamps. and the giant went to
the mat and took the count. Then David
took the sword, chopped off Goliath's
head and the gang beat H." That's
dressing Old Testament stories in TWEEN
tieth century language. so we can all get
next.
David never practiced any gumshoe
methods. The great men OF the Bible
were made Of the same stuff that we are
But they didn't walt for hot temptation
TO draw them into evil. The man today
lets his manhood stay buried under doubt
and beer Dig It out. Manhood must sign
its own declaration OF independence. fight
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