The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-04
Habit Runs to Suit of Clothes; Custom to a Cos
 tume," Said the Speaker
CAPACITY AUDIENCE
 AT EVENING SERVICE
''There Arc Many Fellows Rattling Around in a Bucket Attempting to Get Into a Hogshead,"
 Says Dr. Stuart

And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. and as was the custom, he went into the syna- gogue on the Sabbath day" was the text for the sermon delivered at the First Methodist church last night to a packed house by pr. George R. Stuart, the pastor, his subject being Habit"
 Tt is a mighty good thing to get into the habit of doing right" said Dr. Stuart, but it is mighty bad to get into the habit of doing wrong. Jesus parents taught him to walk in the right way. There are many men who thank God every day of their lives for good, old fashioned moth- CT and father. To live in home where they put God first is a great thing.
 God save us from the devltry of shows and amusements on the Sabbath We are getting to where we have to be entertained all the time. The more you entertain some people. the smaller they get. Just like the little folks who have to be entertained in order to keep them contented. There is going to be some awful winds this summer and some folks had better look out, for they might get blown away with the chaff.
 Good old Eli went to church while his boys ran around with the girls, and God decided that he would put an end to it all. and he just popped the whole business of them off the face of the earth.
 CUSTOM AND HABIT
 There is great deal of difference between custom and habit yet they are just the same in the long run. Wa ter is custom, but when it freezes it is habit If it is a good habit it ties you up so that you can't get away from it and 1t is good for you. But if it is bad one it decreases your abil- ity to stop it. You get to where you just can't help it. Habit runs into suit of clothes, and if it is merely GUS tom it is called a costume. Habit is a characteristic of conduct.
 "Sow thought and you will reap
 acts. Sow acts and you will reap
 habits. Sow habits and you will
 reap character.
 man can cuss until he gets to where he will be a bottle or a bundle of profanity. If you use profanity, you Will have a profane character. What you think Is what you are, and if you are rrofane in your habits, then you are bound to have a profane character Ed ucation is to get you in the right mind of thinking. I am a great hand to for get names; I hardly ever remember one, but l never forget character and I al- ways know it when I see it.
 Nerves are great thing and it is an awful thing to be nervous, but there are some people who awaken every morning at o'clock. just like an alarm clock had awakened them, and then there are others who have to be kicked out of bed It is just the condition of their nerves. I had brother who used to annoy me to death by chewing in a manner that made it possible for me to hear him, and he did it just be- cause he knew that it would worry me We used to go to the field, we four boys and four mules, and what four boys and four mules won't raise in a field will stay down. He would annoy me until we would have fight and he would laugh at me while I hit him. That is nervousness that 1 have never gotten over. It will stick to me always, guess
 BASED UPON HABIT
 All the apprenticeshps and practice are based upon habit All education, training of the mind, the thoughts, nerves, muscles, it is all habit The man who learns how to kick the football, to hit the baseball or the mechanic who knows when to hit the iron-they have all gotten the proper habit of it-anl they just go ahead and put the thing right there, just hit the nail on the head.