Show 5 or S T The ie Hindmost Throng 1 S By DR FRA FRANK CRANE RANE Books that lIve lIve- live always have one element in com corn mon mon It is an understanding of ot human nature Read Head the he III Iliad ld the the Divine C or Comedy medy or orDon Don Quixote or r Hamlet ii ln t t or th the works of at the old Biblical writers writer and you ou see them sketch in In of human of-human nature in n i their J pictures of 0 i men n and pd d of ot ott t times lime m Listen Ilsen to sly aly old Home thus thua describe the meetIng meet meet- Ing ng of ot AJax and Hector and their followers on the of ot Troy H He with proud roud step prote protected te by his shield On every side the hostile ranks s surveyed If signs of ot yielding ho he might trace but they Unshaken stood and with like haughty mien AJax at Hector nector thus defiance hurled He lIe- said and and- led them on with eager cheers They followed shouted loud the hindmost throng The hindmost cheer loud they are farthest from the danger Distance lends not only ench but U Difference ce as welt well in the realms of or human nature Take preachers for tor instance You might as Justly take take- an any other class of people In small villages village where high society is not it is condemned vigorously and in n big cities cHles is Is ministers preach against the narrow mindedness tic of Bom somewhere else In Ohio they soc sock the M Mormons Mor Mor- r- r mona moms and In Utah they s sock ck something equally remote re reO re- re mote The story of or Joan of ot Arc re is the the story story of toll follow follow- v- v believed in her mission when she was carrying carrying car car- everything e before h her r and who began to grum grun- ble bie and doubt a as its soon as she she- met a reverse in fortune They shouted loudest when they were farthest far tar from defeat Every leader leader- knows the bitterness of ot this ele element element element ele- ele S ment In human nature Christ met it time and again and end it was one of or the things that depressed him most roost The men who have bave been valuable have been th th OTles nes who could keep on shouting Just as as' as loud when they came into the the- zone of or action It Is a good plan for tor each of ot us to spend a lit lit lit- tie the time occasionally checking up on n the caus causes s swe swe we fight for tor If they concern things far tar removed and for which all of ot our associates are also fightIng fight- fight Ing they may be mere causes of the hindmost throng thronS' that require little courage to Join Fighting small evils near at hand often oCten r requires more courage than Joining the battle batte against big ones far tar distant Perhaps the courage of or the warriors in the van an Is much stimulated by the shouts of those in In the rear and it Jt I is easier to be a hero with the multitude behind you than to be a hero bero alone but it might bewell be e ewell well en for tor the advance ad guard to keep in mind that I those who are riding for tor them behind are hardly the ones onu vho who could take their place In the doubtful ridges I 3 f r the battle Monday Monda Franklin Copyright bt McClure Newspaper SY Syndicate I |