Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-09
LAST NIGHTS SERMON

tell whether God wanted him to be
college professor or an auctioneer and h,
had luck enough to keep out Of the poor
! house because he found some girl whC
| was big enough, strong enough and will
| Ing enough to stand over a washtub anl
manicure her finger nails.
STUDY CAPABILITIES.
You can hear more barber shop, curb-
stone, livery stable and barroom theoi-
ogy In Philadelphia than you ever heard
in your life before. Study your capa-
bilitiea Some one said: Kid, what are
you going to be when you are a man?'
He said; An electrician 'whyY Be
cause 1 like to monkey with doorbells. ,
Study your capabilities. Find out what
you are going to do II God wants you
to be an iron cogwheel in a machine, the
sooner you stop being searchlight and
whistle and be a cogwheel the better
the machine will work and the more sue
oessful you will be. You might as we'll
try to teach a cow the oratorlo of The
Messiah'-try TO make a silk purse out
OF sow's ear as to expect you to be
successful If you start out In life in any
proposition for which you were not in
tended. The proprietor of the Waldorf
Hotel in New York used to be q waiter
at 81 a week. Some fellows have too
offers. They want to wear a white shirt,
patent leather shoes-that's the kind of
job they want, and their mother has to
take in washing waiting for him to find IL.
Somebody said to a boy, Kid, how did
you learn to skate so well?' And the
fell down. In other words, don't take
the count.
Somebody said to Napoleon What is
the secret of your success?' And he re-
piled, I am half hour ahead of the
enemy. Somebody asked Alexander the
Great, How did you conquer the world?'
And he said, BY not wavering.' Presl-
dent Roosevelt, or ex-President, said re-
Gently In an address: The young man
or woman who succeeds in life is not the
one who waits for something sufficiently
to present itself, but who turns
his hand to that which lies nearest.
William Jennings Bryan said you can
always afford to be in the minority, but
you can never afford TO be in the wrong.
Bulwer Lytton said, in the bright lexicon
Of youth, which faith has reserved for a |
higher power there is no such word as
Tail. Get that word out of your vocabu- |
AIRY. 1 have cut all slang out of my |
preaching.
NEWSPAPERS COLLEGE.
Educational advantages were never
greater than they are today. Books were
lever cheaper. They are like the leaves
III the trees. The telegraph runs to the
our corners of the world. Newspapers
land you the news of the world every
morning and evening in the week for 10
# 10 cents. The newspaper today is a
etter college than Abraham Lincoln had
Just the newspaper. The limbs of the
rec of knowledge hang SO close to the
round that the boy or girl who is am
itious can walk UP and pluck the fruit
way.
One hundred years ago no man in this
country had sense enough to make
match. The II greatest inventors the
world has ever known have been given
o the world within the last ITO years.
treat ships have been built with people
nough on deck to build a city, and power
nough in their magazines to wreck a
.ingdom. Man made that. That great
that flashes In the midnight
ky like the finger OF God. Man made
hat. You can talk from New York 10
an Francisco-it win cost you S25 min
te-but you can talk. Man made that.
he wireless telegraph-the ship fighting
er way through the Atlantic can flash
ut a message to ships hundreds of miles
way. Man made that. They are getting
lore money out of the dump heaps
round the gold mines that was consid-
red rubbish than they dug out of the
lines go years ago. Today electric power
generated by rubbish swept from the
Ity streets, and garbage is turned into
artilizer that Is worth s4s a ton. Fac
,rles run with gas generated from their
wn soap suds. What was the blood of
n OK in the pasture eating grass yester-
ny is by chemical process made into
uttons and they sew them on my coat.
hey are made of blood.
Analine dyes are made out OF coal tar.
igarettes are made out of the cigar
Jumps they fish out of the gutter. Listen
, me, boys, They will go up a back
LEY and they will pick up a dirty rag
rat a billy goat would pass up like a
aycar does a tramp and they will turn
rat dirty rag into glucose, they will turn
le glucose into booze, and they will
lrn the booze into young men, and turn
le young men into the penitentiary or
e electric chair, or put HIS head in a
pose. and send him into a premature
ave. staggering, muttering, maundering,
nd on down to perdition.
you little yellow-ingered idiot, you'd
tier cut out the cigarettes; take it from
'ur Uncle Fuller
SOME ARE CUTTERS.
II tell you, you boys, a lot Of you fellows, !
III have reversed the rules. You don't )
ay the game fair, You have started on i
ird base, your run don't count. You are /
own and out Helen Kellar was blind. I
,af and dumb since she was a baby, and {
le has got bushel OF diplomas. with /
n example before you, quit your wind q