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Show FELLOW IN THE LOOKING GLASS "Tho fellow In tho looking glass who Is he? Wby, you, of course, nnd it would be a good thing it you would go upstulra, lock tho door and take a good, square look at him. and seo If ho Is what his mother thinrts ho is, what the neighbors think or, what In youd conceit, you pride yourself he Is, or If, after all, In the slgnt of Almighty God, jou aro not a very different follow," said Frederick Vlnfng FIshor, In open ing his first Lenten sermon to men on "The Fellow in the Glass." As ho continued, lie said: "Some men aro like Adam, when he sinned, afraid to look God In tho face. Are j'ou like that? Have -ou left an Eastern home and mother s prayers and come out to Utah and gone to tho devil, as hundreds havo? Aro jou the samo boy your mother knew and loved? lov-ed? It Is time you found out, for the path, j'ou aro on is a dangerous one. But, listen, God hunted Adam up, and Ho Is aftor jxu on tho streets of Ogden Og-den to help and save you. "In the sight of tho tremendous opportunities op-portunities for young men In 1911 where aro j'ou? It is said that when Israel once sought Saul for a throne, mon found the six-foot coward hiding behind tho staff. In the face of the great tasks for j'ou and I In this dajr, aro you shirking and hiding away in the gush and sham of lifo? "We aro in tho midst of big things these daj-s. Despite tho sKtj'-flrat congress died yesterday in shamo, refusing re-fusing the people's rights, yet the dny of vested interests is doomed, the peo-pla's peo-pla's day Is noar and big ovents are at hand. Sonator Cummins onco said In ray house that no j'oung men ever fnc- IEaBE II J-1 I II II I Egsai IJ J,. I5BBEBB ed such big tasks as thoso of todaj', and he was right. "In tho world of religion and world conquest for God, men never faced bigger things than now. "Are j-ou lotting this great ago go by while you play with Hfo and waste the years? Look in tho glass and see. "Above all, where are jou in tho faco of Eternity? It Is coming fast to all our lives and no life Is worth living that will not count for the j'ears that never end. Death Is on your track, mj" boy; death is hard after you. Aro you clean and straight, brave and true, right with God and men and ready to live or die? "Leave the crowd. Put down that wineglass, lot the gnnio stop, go home, lock the door and face j-oursclf. It is high time, and find out who j'ou aro and where you stand, in the sight of Almighty God " on |