The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-17
Man or Mutt
(Sernon Preached by Billy Sunday at City Auditorium
Sunday Afternoon, February 49,

Sunday Afternot
First Kings, second chapter. second
verse: BE thou strong therefore ana
show thyseH man" not n mutt,
mo.ly-coddle, SISSY or cipher In this
world. There are more words about
the great men OF the world than
! there are about the creation. God
thought it more important TO tell you
about Moses and Joshua and Caleb
and Job in thousands of words than
to tell the story Of the creation In
two or three bookA He used soc
| words to describe the creation OF the
| world. ana many thousands to picture
, to you the great men whom 1t is best
to follow.
! Some Of Jon birds are no moro than
! . hat rack or . clothes horse; you
are the veneer. not the mahogany; the
skin. not the fruit Many of you are
all front door: open 1t and you are in
the back yard. You are not even
yourselves. just a part of somebody
else or Of some pig you have seen or
| OF some piece OF furniture; but thank
God. Richmond has the most manly
men and the most womanly women
and the pretuest girls c. any town
have ever seen. Nevertheless, there
are some right IN this audience who
! do not even try to please God by be-
coming anything else but 4 pawn on
the devils chesseoard.
| Great men are not great by acci-
dent. That spoiled boy. Alexander.
WHO died at the age Of thirty 1.-TWO, cry
ing for other words to conquer did
not become great by accident julius
Caesar, that red-headed little Roman
runt. did not cross the Rnbicon by ac-
cident; no plunged In with strong
| heart and changed the history of the
world. Napoleon did not become
great by accident Abraham Lincoln.
, the farm boy from Illinois. did not
gain his glory by bluf- And IL
you. my friend. you have the CUTS to
| become great for the world. why
haven't you got the sand to become
sermon whether you have got the
CUTS or not.
Aim High
Every man gets out Of iifo just
what he looks for. f'he locks no
never will rst 4 better Job by acct
dent II hin ambition IN to become
q twenty-a-week clerk, he never will
be anything clse- A mocking bird
never learned to sing from boot owl
| You can sEout an eagle with the same
gun you use to kill skunk, but what
| Ia the use Of aiming % low? Ain,
high In .h.s world il you ever expect
to get anywhere.
| terests; he looks at the world from
his own attitude. A plumber smiles
when II L. forty below zero; an I'M
dertAker laughs when he hangs tho
crepe on tho door OF another GUS
toner. The booze holsters idea OF
| life IL plenty Of booze and suds. Some
walking machines called men oughe
to b arrested for mAsqueradinE; we
couldn't call them men II they didn't
have whiskers and wear pAntA he
thou strong therefore ana show thy
self q man. Show yourself; you can-
not fool yourself You can fool the
world awhile, but you can't fool your
self very long. and you can't live the
| life OF q financial pirate and moral
blackleg without paying the penalty
| What God needs and what the ma
ton needs are men OF solid manog-
any. / have no sympathy with those
who say young men must COW tneH
wild oatsA Whoever says that . true
f. IL a black hearted liari The time a
man should begin to SOW Wild oats Is
at the ages betweS1 eighty-nve ana
ninety, when he can't tell lady friend
from . night watch. when he has
learned more sense than to try to fill
two pair, and when he cant see tho
corner pocket. much less make a Dill
lizard
Give tlhe Boys q Chance.
| Tho devil gets many a boy BY get
matter who he II. how bad he Is or
how good he In. - sorne boys hero.
That boy follows the mans example
and worships him. For every boy who
goes wrong there Is some low-down
slob who Is the cause Of It--some man
who set him the example. II every
man in the world lived right. not a
single boy would 60 wrong. The for
native age " between fifteen and
twenty.five. and these black-hearted.
llow-dOwn. paste-faced dogs take them
and corrupt them for nfe while they
are young Oh. but they make me
mad!
Give the boys Of Richmond a
chance to become strong men by
being God-fearing Christian man
yourself
There 10 q heap Of difference be-
tween making living Snd making a
of them get rich: q yegK makes lfv-
ing: a prostitute makes a living. So
many are blind to the fact that they
are not making a genuine life. merely
feeding their bellies like any old hog
instead Of looking up to the opportu-
mites which God provides to become
. great and strong man.
David and Goliath.
Now. talking about the power OF
example. What right have you to say
a man has TO give his son or anybody
else adyice7 He can't do It II he is an
uneducated, brainless sop, he can't tell
lanybody what to do II he can't do II
himself. What right had David to tell
his son, Solomon. to be strong and
show himself 4 manf Wen. will tell
you. David made . man out of him
self. that's why. He wasn't afraid OF
a lion That darn fool lion got a
crack on the bean and later decorated
the floor of the boys tent He treat
cd . bear tia aAuo way ana he. too.
AsoerAasd ~ 0eer q DaSsds tsrA