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Show True Greatness. Hev. Clemenson's "special" service at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning, to which he Invited the Odd Fellowsand arlous prominent gentlemen gentle-men of the city and county, many of whom were present, proved to be a seimon on "True Creatness" Mr. Clemcnson worked out some excellent Ideas and presented humility and the subjugation of self as most prominent elements of greatness. At the close of his Interesting sermon Jie "sod a most striking lllustiallon of the comparative com-parative worth of men. As a boy and his father passed through a'tleld of wheat, the boy called attention to a certain stalk which toweled fai above all otheis close bv, and was particularly enthusiastic over It. The father nlucked tho head of wheat. f i om this magnillcent stalk, also another an-other fiom a short and diooping stalk at its side. He rubbed the wheat fiom both, blew tho chaff away and coinpaied the woith of tho two plants as disclosed in the fiuit they bore. It was found that the short, diooping stalk produced by far the best j leld. Thus It U w Ith men. The truevvoith can b3 discovered only aftei the sifting, and ten to one the humble and contrite spiiit working In the shadow of those who piesume to carry the honor of greatness Is himself possessed of more elements that go to make up "true" greatness. A man maj be great whatever his station or position in life. |