The Washington times., 1919-11-09

At least in six months should preach to each
other dreary old the dreary old text "You
CAN do it if you will make up your mind that you CAM
To illustrate the sermon Mr. McCay in this striking
picture goes far back into the beginning of created things
for his dnosaur and bitches it up to of the
most recent creatons-he powerful steam locomotive
you had been earth when dinosaurs hundred feet
long waddled heavily the earth you would have agreed
that would be impossible for such feeble thing
to create force pull against the dnosaur But modern
locomotive made of ron burning COAL creating steam,
roled by mans BRAIN, develops power that would pull
rresstibly the greatest of Natures monsters.
had simply stood and looked at the dnosaur he
might have said forever 1t can't be done nothing pull
successfully against such weight"
But man was not content to stand still He thought in
vented and created giving to his thought actual form and
reality.
At every stage of his career faced and overcame
the words, 1T can't be DONE
When men were migrating Westward half million or
more driven by enemies lack of food forest fires
glacial movements they great rivers Ninety
of hundred decided that couldn't be done and
tried to Some perished drfted down the side
OF the river The few got and founded the successful
Western races destined to- rule the world hundreds of
thousands of later The weaker dfted down toward
the tropics and never got their share Of earh prosperity
Whole tribes undoubtedly said can't be done when
some suggested the crossing of bay big lake small
sea- But one man got log and padded Another held
him Now men cross all the oceans the water under
the water in submarines above the water in flying
machines.
Only few thousand years ago dared not sail out
OF sight OF land The Phoenicans branch of the Jewish
who sold to Solomon the material to build his Temple
considered foohardy when first of all men they sailed
out Of sight Of land trusting to the stars guide them at
night out through the gates of Gibraltar and mys
erious England land of savages, with their stomachs
painted blue land where those Phoencans developed the
sill in
There ways of looking at everything, the mega
tive way which says Il can and the positive that I
cam
There two stories that men tell toward hfes end
One In thousand tells how he DID it. Nine hundred and
ninety nine explain why it COULDN'T be done
Just at actor his audience by saving
something to this effect Its all very well praise Ben
Franklin, and how he brought down the lightning with
key fastened to kite. might have done the same but
never had no kite and never had key"
Enough ingenuity wasted good excuses for failure
to build dozen Unfortunately the majority
Of human beings simply drift.
Each has within him engine that could fight against
the current and go In direction But takes ignition
the spark of Will Power to make the engine work And that
spark many seem to lack The important question is
Can a compel himself TO TRY to make the effort
to supply the will spark that starts the engine?
You have seen enormous automobile standing idle
No ie apparently only dead weight AL the Power is in
the engine strength in the axes and wheels fuel in the
tank, oil in the machinery
As it stands idle that machine is like human being
without ambition, without the Will TO TRY
AS you look at the heavy machine man walks up
sezes the crank spark flies from the
neto and tells you that engine has started and
is ready for work
CAN MAN CRANK HIMSELF, AS HE CAN
CRANK HIS MOTOR?
Napoleon's answer was mo" He thought it was
matter OF temperament and said that man could change
his temperament But the history of thousand
lives proved that Napoleon wrong Men like Gibbon