Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-11
Sunday Tells Boys How to Write
Their Names in HoLic Letters

something In the hope that can tnduce
you 20 write your lives in italics
hold that the boy who goes TO school
II bigger than the young lobster that
loafs in the streets, smokes cigarettes,
goes into the back door Of grog shops
and tries 10 drink the whole bunch under
the table II is bigger TO pray than II
IL 10 bIaspheme; Il IL bigger to pray than
II IL 10 be that little scoundrel that walks
tho streets blaspheming and sneering at
religion. II II bigger TO sit in a church
than II L. TO line up with the bunch at
some bar with a French plate glass in
front
We have the greatest nation IN the
universe. and the greatest opportunities
10 become something In all the world,
and IL you can't become something. you
are mutt. q mollyooddle. excess bag
gage. and nothing but a mere cipher.
This element in us; this hope for some
thing better II nature clearing the ground.
That is why the young man goes west
lie IN tired Of being a molehill and wants
to be o mountain.
Not to grow Up. not 20 get bigger ~
10 bring on yourself the contempt of
those who do grow.
Make fOurneif Larger
Branch out and make yourself larger
than you now are In character A
midget in body can be turned into
financial account in a dime museum
Ringing Bros will pay we'll for a
physical nonstrosaty. A midget in
character. and a midget in morals is
pitifuL
A woman once said TO her husband:
William, / dreamed last night that 1
attended an auction and they were selling
husbands, and they brought all the way
from 500 to $1,000" Wife" said he,
''the fellows that brought $4,000 were
like me?'' mo. husbands like you sold
three punches for a nickel"
A midget in mind, and a midget in
character is like a carbuncie.
You can't look up and admire a runt
in mind and a runt In character unless
you do II under protest.
God said to Gideon: Grow up
mighty man OF valor." He said 70 David:
you are q man after my own heart"
after he had fought and climbed upon the
throne.
God likes 20 soc a man leave the cellar
and go to the roof garden OF life. Now,
I'll tell you. The humility that wants to
stt in the shade and sip lemonade and fan
and say; "oh. It's 30 hot" IL less pleas
ing TO Him.
Peel off your coat. sell 81 and buy
sword and go out In the worlds strife
and drive that sword to the hilt In the
putrefied and toul-smelling evils OF the
world.
There are not enough men in the world
willing TO take off their coats and fight
for Christ. But I'll fight for Him. and
I'll fight hell in Omaha IL have TO do
II alone. But know I've got you back
OF me.
They say OF q man. he L. dead. IL he?
What complaint caused his death? No
complaint. they say of him. Everybody
Is satisfied. Some people leave the world
and all that'a left II their epitaph on the
tombstone.
You have got TO have your desire 20
grow UP and develop. You have got to
feel your need TO grow just like niser
wants money. a politician wants office.
and like n hog wants sIop.
It's a great deal like watering q horse.
A raw-necked. pigeon-faced kid. with a
stone bruise on each heel, can ride a horse
to water. but q college professor. with
; mutton chop whiskers and forty-nine
diplomas can't make a horse drink II he
doesn't want 20 drink.
Building schools lie one thing, education
another. Christ may have died 20 save
your sins. but II you have no desire to be
saved you miss Him. You must desire to
do something useful before you can be
useful
Accomplish ment Follows Desire.
Some fellow says he will never get mar
rted. but when he meets the right girl.
when some girl crosses his path. he will
| fall so dead IN love with her that his
heart bone sticks out two inches abnor-
mally; some girl with eyes like n raven,
hair like the midnight. teeth like pearls
behind lips OF coral. And II some young
fellow don't cut him out in ak month";
he will be looking for a fiat and in less
than year he will be lacking down car
pet and hanging the pictures. When de-
sire comes. he will build tunnel through
any mountain that impedes progress in
this world.
You ask how am going 10 get this.
Well you ask a tack In q key of nails
how he feels. He would say, 1 am not
going TO continue to be a tack; I am GO
Ing to become a. big as the biggest spike
In the kegP How can become itf
BY going with people bigger than your
self Go TO college, read good books.
Grow and develop and become something
In this old world. When q boy drinks,