Show D bA Y OF TRIUMPH FOR YOUNG MEN MENI I Vast Opportunities Offered to Those With Foresight to Grasp Them 1 GREATEST HOURS IN HISTORY Thrilling Moments of History Nothing Compared With Epoch Making Events That Are Taking Place Today By FRANCIS TREVELYAN MILLER LL D. D What a day clay of f triumph this this' is for young men What vast opportunities are offerIng offer offer- Ing Ins themselves to young men who have havethe havethe havethe the foresight to grasp them What an opportunity this very moment moment mo mo- I ment to be something to be somebody to make your life known and heard hear throughout the world A year ago ngo we were unimportant even In our own littie little little lit lit- tle tie towns today the whole world Is calling us us- We Ve who are living today are living tn In th the greatest hours of the worlds world's history Never before in the annals of mankind has the world been thrown wide open for every young man to test his valor nn and prove his worth As a youth I longed for the days when great events were In the making I wanted to live when new civilizations civilizations were being born when stir soul ring heroes were treading the earth when men were gods Dream Has Come True And here we are are in in Just such an age The dream has ha's come true Romance Ro Rb- mance and chivalry have returned from the past ages To Today ay we are all nil knighTs setting forth on the gran grandest est crusade in the whole noble adventures of the human race What would you not give to have been a soldier under Alexander the Great In his conquest to destroy Thebes at twenty-one twenty to conquer Babylon at five twenty and to die master of the world at three thirty-three years of age Or of Hannibal on his march across the Alps with his sol foot soldiers foot 2000 horsemen and 40 elephants Or to have ridden with the helmeted hosts of William the tor Into the battle battI of Hastings when King Harold Harold Har liar old lost his life and his king kingdom kingdom and and om-and and England was born What would you not give to have followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed th the thi heroic Joan of Arc into the battle of Orleans Orleans to to save France Or with the duke of Marlborough In the cavalry hy charges on the battle battleground battleground battleground ground at Blenheim Or with Washington and his victorious victorious victorious victo victo- rious army at Yorktown when Cornwallis Cornwallis Corn Corn- wallis surrendered surrendered and cred and the American nation was born what born what a glorious moment moment mo mo- ment meat Or with the duke of Wellington at Waterloo to Waterloo to have been one of the soldiers who conquered the mighty Napoleon Napoleon Napoleon Na Na- to have ha stood at attention as ashe ashe ashe he passed down the lines Into exile and death at St. St Helena What thrilling moments are these these these- and yet they are nothing compared with the making epoch-making events that ate are taking place today And to think that you ou are a part of them I That you are an Important factor in their outcome outcome outcome out out- come I J That you can march to victory with the mightiest armies In all 1111 human history I J Yesterday you were unknown and insignificant there was no opportunity for you ou to ta assert yourself you ou were destined to live and die Ie an ordinary Inconsequential life lite Today Today the the world Is calling you The Trumpet Call I can hear the beat of the drum And the call o of the bugle Thirty million million mil mu- lion men are are on the battle grounds Over their heads fly the stained blood-stained standards of the nations of ot the earth What That a glorious vision vIsion the the strong strongmen strongmen strongmen men of the earth in battle array to Storm the cUn citadels els of autocracy to free freo the human race from despotism to carr carry the flag of liberty and democracy democracy democracy racy to all the peoples of the globe I can enn hear the trumpet call It Is calling mel calling me I II I can enn hear bear the cries of ot women an and children tro trodden den down by the brute heel of the Invaders I can hear the Hugs blaspheme as their thrones totter and rind fall I can hear the the- voice of humanity calling calling calling-calling calling to to-me to me Who speaks Who tells me to turn turna a n deaf deat ear Who tells me I am a coward and a fool Think you OU I have no manhood within me Think you I Iam Iam Iam am weakling or knave Think you OU OUI I have neither a human heart or soul nor nor even r a glimmer of reason within me Mother of ot men I hear you calling me I Women and chU children of ot Belgium I 1 Starving babes of ot Siberia I Suffering Poland I 1 Weary Russia 1 I Heroic France C Chivalrous l Italy Noble Britannia I 1 Bruised Roumania J I My Mj heart henrt Is bleeding for you oc I see your uplifted faces and your outstretched arms Men of the earth I hear the tramp of your our marching feet teet 1 J And I am com corn Ing coming lag coming to stand besl beside e you OU shoulder shoulder shoal shoal- der to shoulder er coming to be with you ou the greatest moment In the worlds world's history coming coinIng to write my IllY nurse name with yours on the tho pages pages' of Immortality Immortal Immortal- ity ty coming to save civilization to tomako mako u democracy safe for the tiLe peoples of ot of the earth to be one of Go Gods God's s 's no- no I 1 vt J ti I am coming comrades d coming t- t VV V. 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