Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-20
Show Yourself Man for You Will Get Out of Life
Just What You Look for, Sunday Tells the Men

You will get out of life just what
you look for.
This was the theme of the ser
mon Rev. William Ashley Sunday
delivered yesterday afternoon to
men. The subject was Show Thy
self a Man" the text being from
first Kings, BE though strong and
show myself a man." He said:
You all know you've got to die.
You all know there are only two
places to spend your eternity.
heaven or hell. Then I'd prepare
and look ahead and get ready.
David got there as the real man al
ways does, as Paderewski became a
king in music, as Caruso became a
king in sOnd, as Lincoln
became king in states
manship, by having an ambition to
accomplish something he was cap
able of doing and then not waEer-
ing in aim nor endeavor nor al
lowing the sneers or the teers or
the taunts of some God-forsaken
nut to divert him from doing the
thing his heart told him was right
Half the ills, think, that curse
the world come from eagerness to
achieve success in realms you can
not reach. It's a great thing to
know what you can DO and then do
it. Having won success himself by
having high aims, he was anxious
that his son Solomon should have
No ne ~ Of y
so as he lay dying, gazing up into
the mist that was gathering around
his bed he said, with his last
breath. to his son, Solomon, be a
man, be a man"
Without a definite, ever-master-
ing purpose in life, failure is the
certain result. I don't care whether
it is in business or in politics or
religion. You will get out of life
just what you look for. Somebody
says, if its fight you want you
won't have far to go until you can
get busy.
All right, you look like it. So,
you get out of life just what you
look for. The vuIture sees car
riOn no matter how high he scars.
The bee looks for flowers every
where and he gets honey where the
spider gets poison A topper sees the
saloon. A Christian looks for a
charch, panderer looks for lust.
The noble see virtue, a hooking
bird will never learn to sing If he
takes music lessons from q boot
owl.
And so, every man and woman
looks at life from their own stand
point. Let a butcher stand before
a masterpiece. He sees nothing, be-
cause he looks at it through hides,
tallow, and suet. A carpenter
makes his estimate by his compar-
ison with a pile of lumber every
time. Let a tailor go to Niagara
Falls, he'd say, My. what a great
place to sponge your suit"
Like an old farmer from Iowa
who went to Niagara Falls, stood
there and looked as she tossed,
and he said, as he pulied~his bird
tail whiskers, Gosh, If that was
milk, how much butter she'd
churn."
The spider thinks the bee is 4
fool. The hen is sure that the duck
has deformed feet. Ask the camel
what the world is made of-sand.
Ask an elephant-vegetat Ask
whaIe-water. A sheep never finds
out what frost is until he loses his
wool. Some politicians can see no
more of the public good than they
can get out Of the public crib.
When he barks his shins the gi-
raffe knows he is still on earth. The
plumber smiles when it is 40 below
zero, and the glaZier laughs when
he sees g haiIstorm approaching.
The undertaken is happiest when
pinning Grape on the door knob.
We ali look at life from our own
standpoint.
Tree Grows As Twig Bends.
Now, as the twig is bent. SO the
tree grows. The man does thus and
so today because he did certain
things when he was a boy. Dogs
turn around before they lie down
because dogs did it 500 hundred
years ago.
The tastes and the habits We
form between the ages of Is and "a
mark us for life. 1t is because tie
young man goes with bad company
that he dies an old man in Sing
Sing. That's why. Your life today
depends on what you said, no or
yes, to yesterday. Your life to-
morrow will depend upon what you
say. yes or no to, today. Always
it doesn't make any difference what
it is. The world is full of failures,
not from lack of opportunities
hell is full of sinners, not because
they didn't have a chance to go to
heaven. The red light district Is
full of prostitutes, not because
they didn't have a chance to be de-
cent. Sing Sing is full Of convicts,
not because they didn't have a
ba left to the lodges and other in