The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-02

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man gets down. but Is ne going to stay
down. God said to Moses get up. and
~ he got up he got the proper per-
spective. Elijah was a rugged. cour-
Ageous prophet and able to defy
king. but as soon as q woman threat
ened his life he got down and he never
was really Elijah again until he got
up. Jonah could go into the great city
Nineveh and preach the gospel. but
when he got down he was absolutely
helpless. John the Baptist was. ac-
cording to Jesus the greatest man that
has ever been born OF woman. yet
when he got in jail he was down and
Jesus had to straighten him out. Yes
reason. but the big question Is. are we
going to stay down. or are we going
to get up?
PERCINTENCY WINS.
Recently popular magazine told
the story Of six men who were regular
downs and outs One was a college
graduate and had an ambition to be
physician. but he had now gotten down.
The fortune he inherited put him
there. The second man was down be-
cause Of misplaced talent, but still he
was down. The third man was down
because of strong drink and he was all
down. The fourth man was educated
for law, he had mania for stealing.
but there he lay with his better self
gone. The fifth man never had cour-
age to tackle anything he was the vic
tim Of fear and worry. The sixth
IT an was the rolling stone which gath
ers no moss. All these were down and
cut.
Now the magazine writer didn't
hold out any hope for these men at all.
because the man who was writing was
writing purely from the standpoint Of
man. And humanity in itself cannot
HIT humanity 1t takes the divine to
do that. Somebody has suggested that
a Confuscian may stand by man who
is down In the pit and say, I'm sorry
for you. The Buddhist may stand there
and proclaim extinction as the only
way of escape. The Christian Scientist
may stand there and say. You haven't
any trouble. forget it But Jesus
Christ's method is altogether different
He reaches down his hand and takes
!, hold of the hand Of the man down and
lifts him back out of the pit. and that's
, the only way I know for any man
that is down to get back again.
"A young man was down in Ken
lucky. He was voted no good by his
neighbors They said they had never
done anything wrong, but the trouble
was he had never done anything at
all and they believed he never would.
He went to city and tried to supply
IL with a street railway susytem but
failed. He vert to New York city
and his cousin, who was n newspaper
man. told him about having written
n story about the hole in the Hud-
SON And nt asked his cousin what
the hole in the Hudson meant His
cousin said: Why. it's the railroad
tunnel they have heen irving to build
for thirty ha
Hudson. Fortunes have been lost, ca
rcers lost and hope vanquished in the
effort to do it. Then this young
man from Kentucky that had been
voted no good, because he wanted to
go somewhere said: Let's finish the
job His cousin said: Finish it. after
America AMI English engineers have
given 1t UP as bad job? You arc
crazy The ynunr man from Ken
lucky persisted even amid his cousins
laughter and built a Hudson railway
tunnel, tina. tunnel through which
thousands pour into New York city
every day. That same young man be-
came secretary of the treasury of the
United States and director general Of
the railroads Of this country. His
name is William Gibbs McAdoo. He
was going somewhere, that's the rea-
SON he got there.
From Small Beginning.
"A conductor wanted a watch and
it wasn't convenient for him to seek
among the iewelry stores for his bar
gain. Having a small bank account
he sent to the city for his watch. 1t
arrived promptly by mail and he
showed 1t to some OF his friends. They
liked the watch and asked him II he
would get the-G one. He did so and
accepted small comm ission for his
trouble. Lsttls by little ne built up
his mail order business until finally
Richard Sears founded the Sears, Roe
buck company with headquarters at
Chicago About the time the direc-
tors voted thirty three and one third
per cent on the common stock Of thirty
million tn" former conductor died a
multi millionaire, Young LigGet. of
Detroit. got the idea of buying directly
from the manufacturer drugs and sell
ing them, ne established the Rexan
stores. AT twenty-eight he began his
business and now at the age of thirty
eight he is at the head of thirty five
million dollar business with seven
thousand stores. These men were GO