The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-02-13

The ideal man OF the Twentieth
Century, is the man who serves was
the great thought in an inspiring ad-
6rcss delivered by DR.. Ashley Chappell,
pastor of the Broadway Methodist
! church, at the regular weekly meeting
Of the Lions club, Thursday neon, at
the fourth in series of addresses de-
.ivered by prominent men of the city
a the regular meetings Of the Lions
club.
Dr. Chappell said in part:
Ideals are conceptions embodyins
our highest IDEAS % alta.naple pcrfec-
ton. We do not know now they are
formed in the mind or by what pro-
cess they enthrone themselves. Some
think they are innate; they may be
angel whispers or divine inspirations.
All of us realize that We live two
lives-the one that we ought TO be;
the other that we are. The one is the
ideal, the other is the actual.
With this un, ,erslandng let o us
ask: What is the ideal man? Let
us look at him for a moment bistori-
cally From this angel the earliest con-
cepti,n of the ideal man was pnysical.
Possibly man was originated on the
Asiatic continent. Here, and extended
plains and lofty mountains, flowing
rivers ana gigantic forests. burning
suns and scorching deserts, man was
environed by nature. Everything about
HIM inspired him with a mighty sense
OF the infinite. Physical power was
all about him. 1t roared in the tor
nado and trembled in the earthquakes
and Numbered in the storm. So man
gathered up all mis- various conceptions
of power, and this power became his
sod-his ideal; his name was Jupiter
Their highest conception of man was,
therefore, one who could kill the Ne
mean lion, seize the Cretian bull. or
tame the girdle OF the Queen of the
Amazon. The geuius of Homer rev.
eled in its highest inspiration when
describing such heroes as Ajax and
Achilles.
ipHN III iAiS BAtNNsS VI NilllN man
began to think "a little. There must
be laws that govern this power Ma
ture was trying to whisper her secrets
into the imperial ear of reason. There
came change manilesting itself first
in the peninsula o. Greece. There, on
seas lived 4 class of studious and
thoughtful men. They saw that this
world was not battle field for gols
and demi-gods but was infinitely
more. Tho physical giant was thus re-
dUced to a pigmy and the philosopher
became the ideal man. The human
race therefore no longer sought for
the ideal man on the mount Olympus
or in The Trojan wars; but they looked
for him amid the splendid surroundings
Of the lyceum, the beautiful and
dreamy grounds Of the academy
AS time passed man began to
lind out that there was more than
mere laws in these forces. He began to
see The relations anC correlations Of
things. The sunny glories OF the day,
the grace of the moonlight. the crys-
tai lake, the towering mountains, the
boundless ocean told him that there
was beauty as well as reason. So the
artist and the poet We're born. There
had always been poets but now the
artist WAC interpreted nature in terms
Of the beautiful became the ideal man.
With many these various types OF
the ideal man still stand.
But the ideal man of the Goth
century must not be a one-sided man.
He must be full-orbed anj symmetric
The NEUROLOGICAL conception, the Gre
clan conception, the Roman conception
are all broken arches, isolated seq
rnents Of what the ideal man must be.
Shut in by lofty mountains Hawthorne
tells US. there lay a large and fertile
valley containing many thousand in
habitants. On the perpendicular side
Of one of these mountains, and over.
looking the entire valley, was a great
stone face, so formed as to perfectly
resemble the features OF the human
countcnance. 1t seemed as Trough ma