Gunnison news-champion. [volume] (Gunnison, Colo.) 1905-1932, 1923-10-26

he -EsLs4res the values that Will help
hin LAY the game better-by all
the responses 70 the expeiences
an opportunities OF life a soul is
MAJ = self Is educated, drawn out.
fntahei.
4 iD1tball game, this football sea-
sor can be the means Of the saving of
you s0uls- Can be the means Of the
ma.-lg Of yourselves larger, finer,
mo- whole, completer A Christian,
a s-r I'd person, i one who Is an ever
eu.argIUg soul. One who Is taking on
m r. and more points Of life. who l.
acf-.lug more and more intellectual
an pirltual possessions. who is cover
in more and more Humanitarian and
eursJling ground. who is reaching
m.- and more worthy and worthwhile
g Of service. who is having more
ar. more influence for enlarged living
a. ..E ones team and school mates.
y l5 getting nearer and nearer the
y 81 Ger COach's ideas of how the game
o. Il ought 10 be played. who finds
q aeener delight in and a finer re-
81 ..e 70 all Gods true and beautiful
an good.
and the body IS the temple in
- Oh this soul grows. 1t is the hot
hoe for the nurture OF the soul. L
j. The instrument for self realization.
u .s easily the inner self may be
g. tied and dwarfed in its growth By
.. uHe00perative, Unsympathetic III
R-a., I1al-tueated body. And "Eow far
q body al its best may project the
A.. upon its way. The body that is
erred, disciplined and trained 10 be
ready servant Of the mind and
how much il can do for the snuIs
With, for the saving Of sell.
tbau players ought 10 be q good
better educated, a good bit more
ed, a good bit more developed
ais than their nou-playing fellow
dents. just because they do make
body serve the mind and vail for
-a games purpose they have supplied
uEelyes with a fine instrument for
.ar purposes. And what a shame il
I.d be 10 build up this fine respon-
Temple Of the Body for one pur-
E...c and not to use it then for all
purposes, for hfe's prime purpose.
Another thing. Football teams play
liter, win more games or make their
nponents who win against them know
at they have played, when they have
o coach. These bodies will not excel.
much less will these bodies cooperate
III other bodies without a coach.
The coach must line upon line, precept
upon precept, over and over again,
here little, there a little, preach.
preach, preach. the principles of the
game, and whip his men in shape to
play the game. ] wish that some OF
: kI
to time could hear your coach preach
10 you football men. Maybe then my
hearers would have a bit more patience
with me If they hear the same thing
repeated over and over again The
body to excel and to cooperate must
have a coach. Shall we treat the resi-
dent of the body less well Shall we
let him grow up happy lucky I'M
coached, unload. No wonder the world
is ciuttercd up with unfinished folks,
half dead, driftwood stranded by the
shores of life's restless seas. And yet
in this and in every community boys
and girls and young men and women
are left uncoached in the things tina;
matter most, the growing of the soul,
the making of self. Parents shift
a part of the coaching responsibility
onto the school, ard another part to
the church and Sunday school, and
then take their children on a beautiful.
little out door excursion trips and let
the soul go to seed, let it grow up
Topsy like without culture and without
nurture.
A coach for the body, yes. And a
coach for the body's soul too, surely
Imagine a Temple without a priest,
a church house without services of
worship, and without minister, and
we say how foolish, what waste
But the Temple of the Body with it,
congregation always present has no
priest, no minister, no God. And we
expect games to be won. We expect
goals to be reached. We expect souls
to be made, selves to be created, citi-
zens to be formed. How foolish, what
a waste.
The body is the Temple of God. 1t
is Gods body. Alongside of your
spirit resides Gods spirit. Among the
many unsolved mysteries of life the
most mysterious and hardest of solu-
ton is the mystery of human person
atty, and the personality of God. But
as little as We know about these twin
mysteries we know this. the spirit of
God dwells alongside the spirit Of
man in every human body. Created
in Gods image, gifted with the divine
spark, each man is a child of God.
Neglect the inner resident of the inner
shrine of your Temple the body, and
defeat, loss of ground, painful penal
ties. bruised souls will result. You
may erect body that outshines
cathedral beauty. You may develop
q mind that is cold clear logic engine
to pierce the heart of every problem
But stifie that divine spark within
you, mar the divine image in whose
form you were made, and the pitiablc
condition Of the half wit, the miserable
condition of the paralytic body will
each be happy and joyous compared
to the pitiable misery Of the soul
dwarfed and stunted from its birth.
But there is coach who can kindle
into a living leaping fame this divine
spark in you. There is a coach who