The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-02

who attended the SUNDAY SChooi W"
yention in this city, spoke on The
Men of America for the Man of Cali
lee. his last address in this city
which we take pleasure in reproduc-
ing below:
Mr.. Alexander opened his address
with the remark that when asked II
he was an extration of Alexander
the Great he replied only an extra
The splendid mems Bible classes OF
America are made up of the extras
of all nations. He said, IF you enter
street car and see a man who is
nervous. turning and looking at every
body and everything you may know ne
Is Irish II you see second man SIT
quietly and placidly. seeing nothing
and bothering about no one he Is Eng
lish, but if YOU see man sitting quiet
" and looking about him to see If the
other man has left anything which ne
can pick up you may know he is
Scotchmar. Some one has said that
America has two backbones, the
Rocky Mountains and the scotch. But
we can't get along without the Irish.
An Irishman met with a railroad acct
dent and had an eye knocked out and
an ear cut off. one arm amputated, a
leg badly crippled, and many more
things not we'll to tell about. After
recovery he was done up in many ban
dages and sitting outside of post
office with tin cup in front OF him
asking for charity. A big Dutchman
from Holland, passing by looked at
him and then thrust his hand into MS
pocket dropped silver dollar into
his cup. returning shorus he again
dropped another silver dollar into the
cup. The freshman who had learned
to distinguish steps as well as SOUND
of various coins ana knew that the
same Dutchman had dropped the two
silver dollars asked him, why this
great beneficence? Because, replied
the Hollander, Begorra, you are the
first Irishman / ever saw done up tc
suit my taste!' In New York City the
Hebrews own it but the Irish run 1t
And with all these we have the
Swedes They are all in the grea
cauldron, the crucible Of American Cit
izenship. A company Of Swedes were
crossing the Bay of Biscay, and the!
were very seasick. Were you eve
seasick? All going out and NOTHING
coming in One of the company wa
also very homesick and between home
sickness and seasickness he died. 4
gentleman was securing contribution
asking for dollars to help bury tn
poor fellow. When big lrishmal
gave him five dollar bill saying
Here's five dollars bury five. The
we have the Danes. In North Dakot
dane speaking of nominating re
publican at the meeting said the
4 chested Teddy, but MIR. Taft was
D bully President. He is bully good mai
: Some one said to him, But Mr.. Roost
= welt has the biggest show No! No
Q he exclaimed, Ringing Bros. He ha
the biggest show o! The men {
America, the America that is to bt
Together poured into the caldron on
of which crucible, to the man to b
goes in the vision of the Son Of Goo
: "He that will be great let him be tn
servant of ALL. Those who have bee
sitting still will lead Those VIII
would have real fatherhood will cate
the vision of service. When I thin
of the great mass of humanity thin
i of the map of Palestine. And tn
/ sweet waters of Galilee are the ell
= mentary division which is found 4
a the cradle roll and the primary wor
+ of the Sunday school, the sweet we
tiers of Galilee. Then from this flow
the river of Jordan, which is like tn
teen age, and this flows into large
f body, mems organized Bible classe:
0 Some of them everything flows in an
E nothing flows out, Dead Sea. Blu
| other classes, have men and wome
kissed by the Spirit of Christ go out t
r teach classes and lead boys and girl
into the right way of life. Il thes
competent men were alltouched an
kissed by the Spirit, boys and girl
would not be lost to the church If le
right.
Boys are just ordinary boys, wors
outside and best inside. Wheneve
you see boy with an angelic loo
he need to go to the doctor or he i
. fooling you. When a boy made resc
buttons he said they were made t
break. 1t is time the men of Americ'
resolve to be conscious and uncon
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