HONDAY, JUNE 2, 1919.
PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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SERMON
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GLASS OF 19
OF THE P. H. S.
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rec-gnize the rights of man, they
lost, and have never yet recovered.
Through such men as Washington,
Hamilton, Hancock. Witherspoon,
JdVcrson, Webster, Lincoln and Wil
son v this nation has risen to a place
in the sun the most enviable in all
history. Because in all its policies
of the past, it has kept uppermost
that of tervice, we are now in dizzy
heights. Other nations have fallen,
and we will fall unless we have
errough leadership that is Christian
that will he able to keep the poli
cies of our government from being
imbued with the spirit of selfish
ness. In your graduation from this High
r-chool, I see thirty-five young jaen
and ladies, giving expression that it
is your desire to win honors and
become great in this life. If that
is not your ambition, then you are
starting in life unworthily. Christ
did not condemn the two disciples
lor wanting to be great, but altered
their ideas as to how to obtain it.
He is ready to heap all the honors
possible upon the one who deserves
to wear such honors. Never has the
vorld offered a better opportunity
for greatness than today. So your
prospects are very bright.
To become great and obtain life's
highest goal, several things are
necessary. One of hich is educa
tion. We have already seen that
greatness depends on service. That
i" t'hrift's definition. We have con
!;!rnce enough in Him to accept
that. Let us get out of our heads
t'fr Mi-a that money is greatness.
'J !:' re is a man living on Long ls
l. ii l who had sense enough many
;:.; ago to hold on to some land
t!,.u belonged to him. That was all
tiie sTi?e lie had for he did not
K' v how to write his own name.
Tu I: y he is worth many millions of
dollars, but he is alone In the world,
for he will not use his money for
tl i- benefit of others and he does
not k'iow enough to read and enjoy
t:.e thoughts of ether peoples. You
li.'vc covered one lap in the race to
mi'tiss, in completing your high
stl:M 1 course. You are better fitted
for service. In Texas on the Ameri
can ride in the city of Kl Paso, we
s- a city of prosperity, fine streets,
ran it at ion. beautiful buildings, well
Irt-s.-'d pcoplrs nrd'-r and sobriety,
inliisirv and sympathy. Hut just
across the river in the city of Juarez,
.Mexico, we find dingy homes, greasy
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tkinned people, filth, dirt, unsani
tary conditions, debauchery and
hatred. Why that difference within
the width of the Rio Grande river?
In the world war how much service
did Mexico render for the cause of
the world's freedom? Nothing, what
ever, but was as a stone tied around
one of Uncle Sam's feet in the great
:;ervice he was rendering. The reason
of the difference in those conditions
is seen because in one part they
have not had the public school edu
cation which you have had. In Spain
they have beautifully cultivated 'gar
dens, but just across the strait of
Gibralter, poverty of the worst kind
is to be seen. The one has profited
by the cultivation of the mind, the
other is still living, content, in the
indolence of centuries of mental in
activity. As the modern steel plow
turns the soil deeply and makes it
produce more Tor the nourishment of
man, as- compared with the wooden
stick of the heathen, so education is
the modern plow that turns up deep
ly the treasured ideas of human men
tality and allows them to serve man
to his far greater blessing.
But education is not enough.
There must be a Christian faith.
The world has had the finest exam
ple of the failure of education with
out a faith in Christ that it is pos
sible to imagine. Germany boasted
of the world's best universities. The
skeptical higher criticism of the
I bible originated and flourished the
most in Germany. They became so
' conceited in their education thit
they sat in judgment on the teach
ings or tnrist. .emperor wiinani
called himself the vice-regent of
God; also the All Highest. It is in
teresting to note the difference in
the instructions given through the
war manuals to the officers in the
American and German armies. Ger
man officers were reminded that any
practice is permissible on foreign
people if it advances the cause of
Germany. And they were warned
against being misled by the exc
sive humauitarianism of the present
age. which the German manual says
"has too often degenerated into sen
timentality and flabby emotion."
America's instructions to her officers
were, "Such measures may be adopt
ed against the enemy as are lawf al.
according to the modern laws and
customs of war." Christ said, "Thou
shalt not steal" and "Thou shilt
not covet." Both these principles
were violated constantly by the in
telligence of the German mind in
the war, and not once was there n
known violation of that law by the
Americans in all the duration of
the war. In fact, while Italy was
making threats against the Ameri-
cancan soldiers in Italy due to 1h?ir
wrath against President Wilson, and
while their papers were saying evil
things against the American nation's
president, the United States voted a
loan to Italy of $300,000,000. Such
acts look like following the teach
ings of Christ. "Bless them that per
secute you and say "all manner of
evil against you."
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Ancient Greece was a power thru
her education to such an extent that
she dominated the world. But she
never accepted Christ and today she
merely eats what crumbs other na
tions are willing to give her. There
I is a little nation despised todaj' be
cause of her diminutive size. But
, in spite of the navy of Japan, the
millions of China Korea are destin-
' ed to become the greatest power in
the orient, because in her education
she is linked very closely with the
I teachings of Christ. Her policy is.
"Japan persecutes us, but we will
fight back, not with the sword, but
with love, and perchance God will
use us to convert Japan." Faith in
' Christ makes one a servant to man,
for the teachings of Christ are all
; of service. As the nations are the
I great exponents of the mass of their
people, so all that has been said of
the nations applies to the Mndivid-
, ual. Let me say to you as a class
that has already obtained the basis
of a good education, that your work
will not only be in vain, but may
be your undoing in life unless you
have coupled with it a faith and a
loyalty to Christ.
The field of honor lies before you.
With education and a faith in Christ
there is no end of glory that may
be yours. Service is what the world
needs more today than at any other
time 1n its history. As America has
shown herself strong in giving ser
vice to nations in these trying times
and has won the esteim of the en
tire world, so may 3011 go out and
perform a like service to man and
become strong and win the esteem
of man and of God. What we want
today is to make the world a better
place in which to live. We want
the increasing number of people in
thif: Wfirlil to liavo art i nf rcusi !i tz
J right to the privileges of the world.
I The great trouble with Russia Mas
'that J3 of the wealth was in the
hands of 7 of the people. The priv
ileged class there so overdid the
thing of monopolizing the assets of
life that it became top heavy and
toppled over so that now the "7
are under the '.t'it on top. Hut Hus-
i r.ia is in a better condition today
than she has ever been for she will
!ijise out of this chaotic state to a
nation with prospects of a bright
future where the people will have
the chance to serve one another in
stead of a few privileged class. As
Noah came forth form the ark, there
stood the rainbow of promise that
such destruction would never again
visit the earth. The destruction of
the last four years and a half has
not come to the extent of a universal
flood, but has not come far from
universally touching every home in
all the world. But we have a new
rainbow of promise today that an
tocracy shall no longer rule our na
tions and that all men are created
equal and shall be given equal
rights.
A field of honor is seen in social
service which today is coming to its
own. We are becoming eorvinced
that it is hard to make good citizens
out of those who arc living, and be
ing raised in the conditions so many
of the people of our cities live in". It
is being recognized that the capital
ist has no right to make slaves out
of his employees. The laborer has
as much right in the stock of the
company as does the man who has
the capital invested in the making
of the article. Japan, a heathen na
tion. has not seen the light. She has
oecome a great manufacturing na
tion since this last war. But her
capitalists, cmbued with a pure hea
then spirit of selfishness, have em
ployed children aud girls without
the least protection to their health
under the worst sanitary conditions.
with utter disregard of life and limb
leaving the lowest wages with the
result that they begin to realize
they are using up the supply of ia-
oor; children and girls are becom
ing scarce. And the product turned
out has not been able to -compete
witn the product of factories that
have paid more attention to the
welfare of the employed. It is a
proven fact that many of the largest
lactones of our nation that have
raised the wages to a degree of cred
it, even to the added expense to
the hrm of three and four million
dollars a year, have been able to
produce a better product at a lower
unit cost than they did before. Hen
ry Ford, before the war, was able
to raise the wages of Lis employees
and at the same time reduced the
price of the car he was makinc. It
is a simple fact, in that when inter
est is taken in a man. he takes more
interest in you. I heard a man last
week that has become great. His
name is Raymond Robins. He went
to the Klondyke region a few years
ago and God directed him where he
found a good vein of gold and dug
considerable of it out of the ground.
When he got what he thought was
enough, and there are some that
never reach that state in this life,
he came to Chicago, a wealthy man.
But instead of building a fine man
sion in the rich part of the city, he
went into the rxxirer section called
the slums, and there rived among
the poorer people. He studied their
ways, and felt the pulse of their so
cial health. lie wrote for maga
zines and papers. When the war
broke out he went to Russia as the
head of the Red Cross. He lived
with Kerenza; and when Trotski
came into power he associated with
him. He knows much more about
the conditions in Russia than the
Associated Press, so much so that
President Wilson asked him to
Washington, and requested that he
refrain from telling certain things
because of the effect they would have
on the people of this country at a
time when things were. critical. But
through hla efforts one of the larg
est manufacturing concerns in Chi
cago raised the wages of all its em
ployees, gave them recreation
grounds, social apartments, and ar
ranged for their better education
where they needed it, and allowed
anyone in Its employ to become a
stockholder and thus share in the
profits of the company. . What he
has done most n v nf mn r-n i !
This is a new way in whica leaders I
are being taught that they can be
servants to people rather than the
tyrants of people.
On the street one day a little
child was seen going along with a
bandage saturated with blood around
its head. On investigation it was
found that the child had been em
ployed in a factory nearby and that
it had been compelled to work lti
hours a day. It was attending an
unprotected piece of machinery, and
the flesh was weary, the head nod
ded forward, the machinery caught
the hair and took the scalp from
the head. The child was deformed
for life. Would you not like to
have a fortune that was produced
for you at such a terrible expense
of blood, honor and pauperism?
How different is such an attitude of
the world as compared to Christian
Paul, who says, "We commend our
iclves as ministers of God, the poor,
yet making many rich." And Christ
said, VThe son of man came not to
be ministered unto, but to minis
ter." Christianity and true great
ness is a life of service.
A man then is accredited great
ness in a' degree compared as to the
amount of service he is able to ren
der. Christ serves the world in
the greatest capacity, and is the
world's greatest man. Our president
I", America's greatest man, because
lie is in a capacity to serve the na
tion the most. The kaiser was Ger
many's smallest man because he re
quired all Germany to serve him.
one who has servants to wait on
him, diminishes in greatness as to
the number of such servants, but
increases as to the number he serves.
One of our greatest men today is
Luther Burbank. One day a man
came to him and said, "We are not
able to compete with a certain va
riety of French peas, which are
finaller and sweeter than our peas.
We must have a pea that has so
much sugar and is a certain size."
i'.urhank told him to' tell him just
how much sugar he wanted the pea
to have and the size. The man told
him aud Burlwink went to work,
r.nd roon produced exactly what was
wanted and the canner of those peas
realized millions of dollars on the
product, while Burbank's share in
making the new variety that so en
riched the other fellow was exactly
?.00.00. We do not know the man
ufacturer's name, but Burbank is a
household phrase, for he lives to
terve.
"There "are hrmit souls that live
withdrawn, '
In the place of their self-content;
There are souls like stars that dwell
apart.
In a fellowless firmament;
There "are pioneer souls that blaze a
path.
Where highways never ran..
I-t me live in a house by the side
of the road.
And be a friend to man.
"Let me live in a house by the bide
of the road.
Where the race of men go by;
The men that are good, the men
that are bad.
As good and as bad as I.
i lien why should I sit in the scorn-
er's seat.
Or hurl the cynic's ban?
Let me frve in a house by the side
of the road.
And be a friend "lo man.
"I fe from my house from the side
of the road,
Ty the side of the highway of life
The men that press on with the ar
dor of hope, x
And the men that are faint with
the strife.
Aud 1 turn not away from their
smiles and their tears
Both parts of an infinite plan.
"Let me live in a house by the side
of the road,
Aud be a friend to man.
"I know there are brook-gladdened
meadows ahead.
And mountains of wearisome height;
That the road stretches on thru the
long afternoon.
And passes away to the night.
Yet still I rejoice when the travelers
rejoice,
And weep with the strangers that
mourn;
Nor live in my house by the side of
the road,
Like a man that lives alone.
Let me live In a house by teh side
of the road.
Where the race of, men go by.
They are good, they are. bad, they
are weak, they are strong;
Wise, foolish so am I.
Then why should I sit in the scorn-
er's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban?
Let me live in a house by the side
of the road, t
And be a'ffiend to man." Foss.
One year ago last April, America
heard the cry of despair, the cry of
martyred peoples, the cry for help,
and responded to that cry by train
ing her fine army and sending them
to Europe and freeing millions of
people from a fearful bondage, and
feeding them with food shared from
our own tables.
But today the world is crying just
as loudly and just as urgently fbr
help. There are one billion people
in the world today that have never
heard of Christ. That means that
those people are living in the throes
of sin. In most of the world the
average life is much shorter than
In the United States. In India they
marry at 10 to 12 yeans of age.4
ihey are mothers at fifteen, grand
mothers at thirty. Disease runs riot
through Asia and Africa. One hun
dred and fifty hospitals in these
lands are closed today because of
the lack of doctors' to supply the
necessary service. America furnish
ed the finest army that was ever put
into the field of battle. She gave to
Europe and the world everything
that was lacking. Morale and re
serves and hope were fast vanishing,
all of which were speedily restored.
She fed over half the . world, she
gave millions never asking any re
turn. '
The world has never seen a finer
example of service performed by
one nation towards others. When
ever the American flag is seen: in
Nature
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sive methods cannot possi
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coolness and downright
pipe qualities of VELVET,
cured in Nature's way.
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to enjoy, with hundreds of
thousands of other smok
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:rtnkc it jest right for
CljlCTCtteS.
any needy country of this world, it
is recognized as an emblem of right,
protection and justice. In the peace
treaty all other belligerants of the
war were mentioned for a share in
the spoils of the victory, but not
once did America's name appear in
that capacity. Out of such service
has arisen a love and esteem for
America that will last for all time
to come unless those who follow
will fail to carry on in the same
spirit of love and sacrifice w hich has
been shown in this war.
In the service there was a Y. M.
C. A. worker, whose duty took him
among a company of soldiers from
India. They would let him serve
them but were always careful that
they never ate from the same dish,
which he had touched. They kept
their caste" most rigidly. He ate
alone, but he never murmured and
continued to serve them faithfully.
One day word came that these India
soldiers were to go over the top. As
the Y. M. worker hurried to serve
them perhaps for the last time, one
of the Indian soldiers took a cup of
water . and offered it -to the Y. M.
man. . He took a sip- and the cup
was hastily withdrawn and offered
to all . the other soldiers who also
took a sip and in this one act they
pledged with these words, "We break
caste forever," their love for the
American servant who had taught
by love and patience the great les
son that America is trying to teach
the world, that we are all brothers
and all interested in each other.
"Mayhap It stretches very far,
Mayhap it shines from star to star.
Mayhap thru worlds as yet unform'd
Its never ending Journey runs.
Through worlds that now are whirl
ing wraiths - '
Of formless mists between the &ui.
I go beyond my widest ken
But shall not pass this way again.
"So, as I go and. cannot sTay,
And nevermore shall pass this way,
I hope to sow lhe way with deeds
Whose . seeds shall bloom like May
time meads;
And flood my onward path with
words
That thrill the day like singing
birds
That other travelers following on
May find a gleam and not a gloom.
May find their path in pleasant was,
A trail' of music and of-hloom."
Fos8.
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I have for sale, two roung high
bred registered Herford bulls, four
teen and fifteen months of age re
spectively. . Inquire of Fred T.
Ramge. Phones 102 and 532,
Plattsmouth. Neb. 6-tfw
TJHEN I smoke,
I want my
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There is nothing harsh
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Her quiet, patient way with
VELVET during its two years age
ing in wooden hogsheads, brings out
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The Collins Oil Company for
whom Frank V,. Elliott is the rep
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ped to this city from St. Joseph a
large oil tank for the use of stor
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moved to its permanent location on
the Missouri Pacific road from the
Burlington via which it was ship
ped to this city by J. H. McMaken's
moving outfit. The tank which is
constructed of steel will hold 12,-
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