The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-18
FORCES THAT WIN
Sermon Preached at City Auditorium Friday Night

i seen, and he created a commotion and
sensation by his contrast, and they re-
quested that when he wanted to take
| stroll he'd notify the mayor that
he might call out tho police and d
brass band to warn the people 1evt
he might stop a labor parade or etAN
on funeral procession.
They asked him as he walked the
streets not to swing his arms lest he
might topple over church steeple
or knock down some OF their sky1
scrapers.
Don't Become Chesty.
When | imagine myself on The IT,.
land where everything and everybodt
was little, Q, how ehesty / become
I | swell up as big as l imagine Alex
ander the Great felt when his feet
were on the earth and his hands coute
, touch the sky. But when ! fmagint
myself on the island where everything
I and everybody was large, how win
ened and miserable and mediocre 1
become. So yon are large or you are
small. largely owing to where YOU
are.
The young man who will sit ID
school and HI his brain with useful
thoughts or the one that will 20 It'd
church to learn something about God
girl. than the one that lnafs around
ION the street corner with a crowd
my friends, and spend their lives III
frfvolity and tomfooiery of the world
The man that walks home sober Ii
/ bigger man than the on~ that will
go home drunk: the girl who is virS
| tuous is million times better thar
the one who sells or gives away he's
womanhood The one who prays II
a bigger man than the one who cursess
SO you are big or you are little, largeiN
owing to where you are in the worldS
Like girl, when she is about sev4
enteen years old. when mother intro@
duces her to young fellow. stA
reaches her eyebrows and says, .~Weli*
mama. who Is he?"
When she is about TWENTY-FIVE sfss
VIII say. We'll, mama, what Is he's
and when she is about thirty-fivc she
VIII say. Mama, for Gods sake
where is he?'
Big Man I'm LATHE Town.
You know Squire Jones--hc III
Squire Jones In little. jay. rub$
town -hecauseL everything laaE&
OF magnifies the Squire and minimfse&
the Jones. but bring him to this III
city and turn him loose on the maiT&
street ard let him butt into the crowd
know what happens to the Squire. I&
Is squeezed out OF him and he n moi
thing. my friends but one in q Grea&
big crowd. So you are big or little
fHe Is big man back there but M
Is swallowed up by the great thin&l
that we call 1.-THE crowd') largely ow&
ing to where You are in the world. Il
Like a grasshopper. sat on a suna
flower and said, II am the bigEe6'
thing that has ever happened. WhoS
leap and strike the earth, she Will
trebble as with an earthquake" "a
he jumped and struck the earth aud
landed right In front of fat younf
turkey gobbler. Presently up cam{
an old hen. Just crawled from Ut
ting nest, with her feathers standin1
on end. and she said. did you So
big fat, juicy grasshopper pass thtl
way?"
And as the turkey gobbler gulpod
he said, He didn't pass, he stopped.
And as the grasshopper tried 4
adjust himself to q comfortable pod
ton In the craw OF the turkey, ~
thought. How big was on the SuM
In here!'
So you are big or little, largely IT,
Ing to where you are In this old Wo41
And yet how many titt1s esS