The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-26
Splendid Sermon Delivered at St. Johns Methodist
 Church Yesterday
"GRASSHOPPER KIND
 OF PEOPLE" THEME
Two Scots and Sets of Believers in God Object to Bible in the Public Schools" Says
 Preacher

Dr. L. F. Whitten, pastor of St. Johns Methodist church. preached splendid sermon at the Il o'clock service yester- of People"
 He took his text from Numbers, xiii, 3i: "We were in our own sight as grasshop pers and so we were in their sight, pr. Whitten said in part:
 Ralph Waldo Emerson said: What we all need most is for some one to be near us to make us do the best there is in us. And our God wants to help us do the best there is in us. But even then some people refuse to believe they can be giants; they are content to be grasshop- pers, while two others, Caleb and Joshl a, said: We are giants in prowess in sixth and in possibilities; we are no grasshop- pers.' And it is only towards and people of low standard who belong to the grass hopper crowd
 CHOSEN LEADERS
 These men were chosen to be leaders. They had been selected, drafted, if you please, to spy out the land. They had
 the unbounded confidence of their nation. Upon them had been laid heavy burdens because they were judged capable of ca-- rying them. Just as Moses and Joshua were selected for leadership, so had these F spies been chosen to do a gigantic thing, and make good in their places. The eyes of all Israel were upon them and the ears of all Israel were open to hear what they had to say How hu- ! initiating it must have been to Gods glor- | ious army. the elect and select of tre world, to hear these descendants of Abra | ham, Isaac and Jacob say. We were , grasshoppers in their sight How dwarf | ish they must have shrunken when they called themselves grasshoppers. or course, if we fail to appreciate ourselves we shall not be appreciated If we think we are nobody, of no value, no account. I everybody will take us at our own esti- I mate. And this is as true today as + ever was Oh, the shame of belttling our selves, putting a discount on our worth our courage, or our possibilities and value to the nation. Suppose Abraham, caliei
 of God out of Ur of the Chaldees to be 1 the friend of God, the father of the faith full one of the greatest men of earth. had said, I am grasshopper. My buSi- ness is to hop over the grass. instead ns stepping from one mountain peak to an other. My business in the world is 10 show myself coward, not a hero where ] would he stand in history today? Or, | if Moses, chosen to lead captive Israei- ties out of bondage to liberty, had sain: I am not 2 manly man or fit to be any thing but a grasshopper, this old world would not recognize him as one of the superb men of history. When Patrick Henry rebelled against tyranny and saic 1 Give me liberty or give me death.' ne 1 reached above and put on the crown of immortality, which no grasshopper could wear. And there are many mothers n this old world who have responsibilities and indescribable burdens, but they wear smile, endure hardships, and we call them heroines, not the grasshopper kind {, of women, but angels minus the wings.
 The bravest battle that ever was fought,
 l You ask me where and when?
 l On the maps of the world you'll find it not, l It was fought by the mothers of men,