The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-11
Forces That VIM
Copyright 1917, by William Ashley Sunday

The Text Of Reverend Sundays
sermon, Forces that win"
preached last night especially FOR
the hundreds Of young students
from the high schools and the Uni
yersity Of Tulsa, follows:
"Forccs That Win"
AT the time Of President McKin-
ley's funeral. In this country, FOR
five minutes the wheels on evsTy T
railroad and I'm every factory stood
still; the student sat by his or her
books, and tho banker by his gold
uncounted, and the merchant by the
commodity unwcighed or unmeas-
ured. the farmer stoppe his plow-
ing In the field and for five minutes.
with bowed and uncovered head. We
attempted 10 pay a mark Of tribute
and respect 10 the memory OF a man
who had opened HIS veins and
poured out his blood TO make q
better nation. happier nomes and
more prosperous people.
And allowing that there were sev-
enty-five million people in the
United states at that time. and that
we each contributed five minutes OF
our time, that would have made
over seven hundred years OF service.
we rendered to tho memory OF Nc
Kinley. l am glad we did II. I am
glad that we can refer to the fact
that we could stop making gold for
five minutes to pay n mark OF
tribute TO the memory OF the great
man.
am glad and thankful that we
have a Fourth of July, when once
a year we uncork our enthusiasm.
and eat peanuts and drink red
lemonade, and shout Ike Comanche
Indians, and let the world know
know that we have not forgotten
and that we stiil appreciate what Il
cost TO lay the foundations OF this
the greatest nation Gods eye ever
has seen or that his hand ever
made.
And l am glad that we have i
Christmas. when we recall him that
was born in the midst OF the NAL
odors OF unwashed beasts.
Glad For Festivals
am glad that we have an Faster
when we recall him that burst the
bands Of death that none e'r broke
before and rose IN conquering ma.
jesty TO stoop to death no more.
1 am glad that we kave Labor
day when we pay a Just mark OF
tribute to the man with the din.
ner bucket and the calloused hand
who is such an important cog in tho
great commercial machinery Of oui
prosperity.
am glad that we have a Thanks
giving when once a year we ST
round our sumptuously laden table.
and recall the fact that as a nation
we have never gone TO bed hungry
we have never scraped tho bottom
Of our meal barrel and we have
never known what It was TO bC
without food and that our granarfe,
can feed the world. It's a grea'
thing.
read OF q sailor who was ship.
wrecked on an island where every
thing and everybody was big. Why
the men and women were sixty fee
high and he was the smallest thing
they had ever seen, and he created
a commotion and sensation by hti
contrast. A giant saw him. At tn,
same time he saw the giant and h,
started TO run, but the giant took /,
couple of steps, caught him, shovel
him into his pocket, took him hom,
and dumped him in the lap OF hi
little g-year old, and twenty-tw,
feet high, and he said 10 her, isis
here's a plaything / caught for yol
down on the seashore,"
An so he made a cage for hin
and hung him on her belt like girl
do chatellne bags today, and when
ever she went out she took il aionl
as n plaything.
Later on / read where he wa
shipwrccked and he landed upon al
island where everybody and every
thing was small Men and womo'
were about six inches high and chill
dren and Nature in proportional
sizes, and he was the largest thin
they had ever seen. and he create
commotion and sensation by hi
cont rast, and they requested tina
when he wanted 10 take a stroll he
notify the mayor that he might ca
out the police and brass band t
warn the people lest he might sto
labor parade or step on a funera
procession.
They asked him as he walked tn
streets not 10 swing his arms lest n
might topple over a church steepl
or knock down some OF their Sky
scrapers.
When / imagine myself on the Il
land where everything and every
body was little, o, how chesty ] b'
come. / swell up as big as
Imagine Alexander the Great fe
when his feet were on the earth an
his hands could touch the sky. b,
when l imagine myself on the islam
where everything and everybod
was large, how wizened and mise
able and mediocre I became. So yo
are large or you are small, large
owing 20 whore you are.
The young man who will sit
school and fill his brain with usef
thoughts or the one that will go
church to learn something abol
God--he Is bigger boy, she's
bigger girl, than the one, that loa
around on the street corner with
crowd, my friends. and spend the
lives In frivolity and tomfoolery
the world
The man that walks home sober
bigger man than the one that "
go home drunk; the girl VINO
virtuous Is n million times bett
than the one who sells or Civ
fway her womanhood. The one WI
prays is a bigger man thon the OF
who curses. So you axe big or "
are little, largely owing 10 whe
you are in the world.
The Changing Times.
Like q girl, when she ~ apo
II years old, when mother intr
duces her TO a young Fellow y
reaches her eyebrows and say
Well, mama, who is hef"
When she Is about ~, she "
so,, .,yUoi1 mama what IS hpH" al