Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-20
STUDENTSHEAR
SUCCESS ROUTE
IN NIGHT TALK
Qualities Needed to Rise, and
Much Good Advice Given
BY Evangelist Sunday.
BY MALCOM II. EDDY.


outsiders all pews were filled, the
choir loft was running over. and
the walls were lined with S. R O.s.
High school pep seemed to charge
the air with the static electricity
and latent energy of youth divine,
and high school yells threatened
to bring down the sturdy rafters Of
the improvised structure The big
delegation from Augustana col
lege by no means allowed itself to
be outclassed in any way by the
high school crowds of the quad
city institutions. For last night
was special invitation night to high
school and college students of this
locality, when for their special
benefit the evangelist delivered a
sermon, more on the order of a
plain talk, with the subject Forces
That Win" And it was an appre-
ciative audience that heard him.
The crowd began arriving early,
and by 7:15 there was an audience
collected which was as large as
any afternoon gathering this week.
Carload after carload of young
sters from Rock Island, Davenport,
Moline and East Moline came
thronging from the street cars into
the building, until the Sunday
party up on the platform began re-
marking about their numbers. In
deed, when the speaker came in,
"Rodey," better known as Homer
A Rodeheayer, who had arrived
from Chicago just before. said to
him, Bill, there's the peppiest, the
snappiest, the most up-to-date, AMI
the dandiest bunch of youngsters
place"
Cheer for Sunday.
When at last they had all col
lected, the various yell leaders took
their posts in front of the different
factions - then pandemonium
reigned. Cheer and counter cheer
Numbered, shrieked and rolled
through the high arches of the
roof They cheered for their schools.
for Billy" and for everything
imaginable 1t was unyoked en-
thusiasm itself which filled the
air to usher the famous evangelist
to the beginning of his sermon.
Unusually apt illustrations, stor-
les that got across" featured one
of the best talks Sunday has given
in Rock Island. It was a sermon
calculated to register an appeal
with young people, and to judge
from the signs, it accomplished
that end. Among other things
taught in the public schools is
the art of listening. and the Ell
quet due a speaker in public who
has a message for his audience. |
This lesson had apparently been
well learned by the scholastic
crowds who attend last evening.
Surroundings Given Importance.
You feel large or small, largely
owing to where you are. The !
squire who runs" the small coun- !
try town and is looked up to as a
power in his community is a non |
entity barely kept track of by his |
name in the big hustling city. So
merely big regulations and |
worldly positions don't count for
much. It's the giant intellect that's |
big to the world. The midget in !
size can get q good job with |
Ringing. The midget in charaC- |
ter. the midget in morals is a car |
buncle on the ration, and no good |
any place" was the way he illus |
trated the point that one is big or |
little, according to his place in the !
world.
He went on to illustrate the |
value Of having a great consuming |
ambition to rise to the heights of !
service to mankind-to make the |
individual of true worth in the !
world. In this connection he
showed how the evil influences |
daily met have destroyed many |
promising careers. God likes to !
see a man leave the misty valley, !
climb the sunlit hills; leave the !
subways of life and go up on the |
roof garden. Now you've got to !
feel a desire TO grow like a miser !
wants money. You must have am
bition. How are you going to get !
it? Go with people bigger than !
you are; bigger in mind; bigger in |
ambition; bigger in morals. Go to |
college. Read good books. Go to |
school. Get an introduction of your |
self to yourself. In Gods name, |
young people. don't go with any
body that will assassinate, murder !
and electrocute every good, high, |
noble thought that ever struggled |
for birth to get you to be decent |
Don't you go with dirty, sinking |
bunch like that" he eXhorted them |
Determination viii Win Out.
A1LerWardS Ee DfanCned OH upon |
the determination needed to keep |
going. Somebody said to boy, |
How did you learn to skater"
"'WelF, he said, by getting up |
every time fell down Yes, there !
is a sermon in that"
His cIean-cut dictian, familiar
and slangy but expressive |
phrases, and above all his SINGER |
ity, did not fail to impress his |
young audience When he told /
Shem in ringing sentences that /
you need grit. sand. fighting spirit /
born of clean lives and high ideals /
to conquer the world it hit home,
and strengthened many a half
formed opinion. /
Homer Rodeheaver relieved |
Robert Matthews at the director
ship of song services last night. a !
train wreck on the Pennsylvania |
lines in Ohio delayed the train he
was coming on, and he arrived a
bare few minutes before the ser
vices opened. He made the last
lap of the trip-Chicago to the tri-
cities. in a car driven by his
brother. Jack Rodeheaver, a high
school student in Chicago, whom
he introduced to the local students.
Mrs. william Asher and he sang