Show WORK IT iP OUT V We Se rather like JIe that Sun Sunday ay sermon selmon of or Rev Rey Benjamin Young of the tho First Methodist church Work York out your our o n own salvation was the message he 10 offered Of at course won oven the words the words are taken from the pen of another preacher preach preach- er or and there was no pretense of oC w using them excepting In the thc sense of oC a text But Dut the tho elaboration of the thought Is the part that helps one That salvation salvation salva sal tion which one Is to work out Is a salvation sal cf of mind and bo body as well as of soul And It certainly Is as essential essen In that realm as In the spiritual Ono One should keep In mind the fact that there are arc limits to 10 the possibility of oC all advancement one can n make with ones one's self In bod body and in mind Theodore Theo rheo dore Roo Roosevelt e Is said Mid to have been a n avery avery tr very weakly bo boy He was of ot delicate nii f.-nii with deficient bodily strength t and I i i he set himself the task of growing growing- strong Uong He lie wanted to be strong sUong which is natural In a ho boy and he lie went steadily about the task lIe He worked out his own physical salvation at least In some degree Very likely he lie would woul have ha grown somewhat stronger and more healthy as he lie grew up even If IC ahe he had not devoted himself to working out but that part of his destiny It Is a aI arule I rule le that children do so develop But It can not be doubted doubled he won much by his personal endeavor his will to get strong his thought of It an and his practice practice tice o of It H than ho he would woul have havA won In Inthe Inthe Inthe the absence of that effort to work workout workout out outs his Jh physical problem There aro limits Some boys do not possess the strength of will viII the thc greatness greatness greatness great great- greatt ness of soul that was given gl to him There Is no use saying that what man has do l can an do o Some Som ns musicians Yet not liot all could have done done it The Thc quality Js 18 lacking in some There aro are men who have worked out their financial salvation Russell Sa Sago Sage e did lid it U. t. t He Hc was one of the poor bo boys s 's who became very cry rich men But to tb do llo so fiO he must have possessed the qualities the thc natural natural nat flat flatO ural faculties on which effort might build With them the working out was possible Without them no flO workIng workIng working work- work Ing could have ma made e a rich man of him Without the qualities s mysterious ms or understood in the case of Theodore Roosevelt he never ne could have achieved the marvelous succession of or orI victories I which have been scored to his credit There are arc limits Some men can work out their physical salvation who would never be- be beable a. a able to work out salvation Some could get rich without able to make themselves strong Some Home could achieve music Others could not Itma It ma may be bc beall nil Jl can C. work out at least some ome degree of a spiritual salvation It Is quite likely ever every on one of us could b ben be bea a n little better physically 1 and financially finan daily and In other desired ways If It we wc S. S devoted ourselves with persistence an and judgment to 10 the task But nut there thele comes the difficult difficulty A As some somo lack the financial sense an ansome and ancl some the physical bent and some sonic the thc artistic and others a variety of attrIbutes attributes attn which are ore desirable le so some may lack laek even oen the cult f. faculty of or working with persistence and Judgment to a beneficial degree The number Is no not large Jarge Generally the rule will wm hold floM I good What we wo want yant we wo can In some som measure get What we really desire wo 0 can achieve And Ild whether It I Is S physical strength or proficiency ii in 0 music music or or the accumulation of at mone money moncy or that or-that that pearl of ot great price the price the salvation salvation sal Ml- of ot what Is vital in life wor work k will help secure It And the converse converse- Is true He Ito who vIi 0 will not work neither neithel shall ho he eat eal p Hu flu who will vIll not noli make an cm effort t to 0 work out that salvation which Is needful need L- L ful ul will not Hot be bo blest with It Th The e preacher Is right We Ye must won work And It Is a rule that the winning winning winning win win- ning of that salvation Is 18 so largely largel y within our own hands |