The Washington herald., 1918-02-23
EVENING SERMON
Be Thou a Man

agara Falls thinks to himself, This
Is q great place to sponge a coat"
A hen thinks a duck has deformed
feet. To the camel, the world is all
sand. To the whale, It is all water.
To a booze-fighter 1t is all booze
and suds. A sheep never knows
what frost is until it Is sheared.
Some politicians see no more of pub
lie good than the good they can get
for themselves out of the public
crib. A plumber smiles when 1t is 40
below zero. The glazier prays for a
hailstorm. The undertaken is hap
piest when he Is tacking a crepe on
door. The miser gets a barrel of
money and prays for famine. Every
man looks at life from his own stand
point.
A dog turns around before he lies
down because dogs did 1t thousands
Of years ago. The habits of youth
will be the ropes to hang you by
or balloons to lift you with when
you are old. It's because the MUIR
derer went with the wrong crowd
that they're shooting 1000 volts OF
Juice into him. Your life today Is de-
termined by whether or not you said
yes or no yesterday. Your life to-
morrow depends on what you say to-
day.
Life Is fun OF the failures who
are letting buckets down into empty
wells and pulling up nothing but hot
air. Be a man. brace up! Without
this your blood will turn to ice water.
You'll be dishwater, instead of gaso-
line
Don't BE a Clothes Frame.
Be a man. not a frame to hang
clothes on. Some fellows go around
the world disguised as a man in a
suit of hand-me-down clothes. To
know some men is an invitation to be
decent. To know others is an invi-
tation to go to he'll.
Lots of men In our day lead boys
and girls astray. and give large sums
to charity to cover UP their wrong
doings. Men like that muse be taught
that nothing they can do in giving
money to charity can blot out their
rotten, sinking deeds.
David wanted his son to raise his
chin high enough to look the sun in
the face, and SO he said, Solomon,
be a mani"
Manhood true manhood princely
manhood, like that Of David, Is one Of
the grandest thingsfin the world, and
it is Something that counts as moth
ing else does. =. 90
It 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 mountains tower above
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giants who are midgets in manhood.
st. Paul was only little red-headed,
frecked fellow; but he could run rings
around the rest of the preachers in his
day. For his soul was great. Napo-
leon was Just a little fellow, five feet,
five inches tall; but he had the dynas-
ties OF Europe trembling and stagger-
ing until they had to send him to st.
Helena.
Men like Shakespeare, pale, wizened,
enemic, have the world at their feet.
Gen. Grant, and men like him, tower
like mountains above other men.
Need Men of Mahogany.
On every street corner you can
find a crowd OF the nickel-a-bunch
fellows. But there are men like
Moses who really lived. What the
world, and Philadelphia and Penn
sylvania needs Is more men of solid
mahogany We have too much We
neer these days. Too many only
look like men across the street
They don't weigh any more in the
balance for morality and good gov
ernment and good living than their
hat rack.
There are some who say: "'Bil.
a young fellow must SOW his wild
oats" All right, but let me tell
you when to sow your first crop.
Put out your first crop when you
are between IS and 80 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. A six-ply drunk is about as
good a password to the commercial
world as a record Of a highwayman.
A fellow who goes TO the mat with
a whisky bottle is about as vel
come as a burglar. The young fel-
low who thinks more of his tri-
weekly jag than he does of his father
and mother adds venom to the bite
which is slowly killing him. The
Chautauqua lecturer. who for about
nifty per tells a young man to sow
his wild oats has ass much as Ba-