The Ocala evening star., 1915-02-09
MR.. CAMP AT THE
METHODIST CHURCH

Mr.. JOS. G. Camp at the church Sun
day afternoon was certainly COM
pliment to the reputation which had
preceded him and which to the salts
faction and delight Of everybody
present was proved to be well merit
ed. He Is an orator Of the highest
order, On artist in word painting with
a flow Of beautiful language that is
simply wonderful.
In introducing the speaker and his
topic, Dr.. Gross took the occasion to
tell Of his own share in the prohibi-
tion fight in what is now the state of
Oklahoma, tho at first it was little
more than an Indian trading station.
He told of the dire results prophesied
by the liquor interests if the territory
should vote out the saloons and boot
leggers; the sequel, however, proved
them to be false prophets as the new
state of Oklahoma can boast more
schools and better schools for the
number Of population than any state
in the Union, with over $1,000 in bank
for every man, woman and child in
the state, and an automobile for every
five farmers. He felt positive that
the state of Florida would soon Danish
the saloons from her borders because
there were too many good people liv-
ing here.
Mr.. Camp has a splendid voice
which without an apparent effort on
his part could be distinctly heard in
every part of the building. He com
menced by paying a beautiful tribute
to Florida and her people, and stated
that up till four years ago he had
never made a prohibition speech and
might possibly make some mistakes,
in which case he would ask to be ex-
cused as the boy did who not being
able to write got his boss to write
love letter for him and on its compile
ton, asked him to put in P. S. ex-
cusing bad spelling and poor writing.
His talk was mainly addressed to
young men and women. He told of
their wonderful birthright which had
been preparing for them for genera
tions and urged upon them to fulfill
every station in life to which they
might be called as only manly men
and womanly women could do. He de-
manded that young men should do
their own thinking-that all the
thinking was done by less than three
per cent of the people of this world,
/ ~ 4hn %cy
of others. He quoted the couplet:
"How oft we think unjustly of the
thinking few,
How many often think they think,
but only think they do"
| The greatest honor was to be a
real man, even as Garfield when a
! boy was asked what he intended to
make of himself, and said, "First, a
man." Manhood and womanhood
overtops station; that Hannibal and
Napoleon crossing the Alps to victory
were greater than the Alps them
selves; Washington at Valley Forge
D Robert Lee at Appamatox, and Gen
eral Grant, who ordered the salute
that was being fired in honor of the
victory to be stopped as it woulC
hurt the feelings of the men IL
| gray, were all great men.
The three necessary qualification
for a great man, were thought
speech and life A mans mind wa
given to him to think with and hi
feet to walk with, and that Will
@ physical exercise might be good fo
20 the feet the growth of mind was onl
: accomplished by thinking, not b
+ growth of body. That speech, SWAP
! ping ideas with people of intelligence
Z thorough observation of men and ne
{ ture, letting your thoughts find e1
! preston in words, led to growth {
Z mind. Ideas are killed by being loci
: ed up. A man to be great must ais
: live a life of unselfshness. The grea
est man in community is the or
: who does more for society than s.
{ ciety does for him; four square ma
! with the ten commandments brande
~ on his forehead, with ideas born
- intense attention to one subject; tn
- it takes more energy to hold the mil
! to one thought than it does to pla
Z corn.
: When the speaker began to talk
!. prohibition, he could hardly fiji
Z. language with which to express h
: admiration for the wonderful thin