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Show DR. YANCEY DAILY ARTICLE o JJY Dll. .7 AM lis I. VAXCK. . , "Our friend dW-d sis a pood sport unit a true Christian." This was what the) preacher said at his funeral. lie was a crack shot and had won tho championship cham-pionship at the Pihchurst meet a row months before. He- Svas a good sport. He had been a member of the churcn for more tharr thirty years, and haa lived n consistent life. He was a true Christian. And so he deserved wnai was said about hiin. The two things are not usually harnessed har-nessed together. The popular notion is thai if a man Is a good sport, he must cut out the church: or if ho is a true Christian, ho must crucify ma sporting propensities. We are not in the habit of thinking of one man pluming plum-ing both roles al the same time. Yet why not? What Is there in clean sport to cut In, "between a man and-his God? Is religion such a dull and monotonous .proposition that one must camp close to the gravgJjo stay good? Jndeed,' the more you think about it. are you the two things not only contradictory, but interchangeable? A good sport should find it easy to he a true Chria-tian, Chria-tian, and a truo Christian must be a good sport. . A good sport plays a clean game, lends helping hand, is a good losor and looks tho future in the face without with-out a fear. Arc not these the features wo. paint Into the portrait of a truo-Christian ? I He must play a clean game. If he Isj guilty of anything that is yollow, out he goes. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." He must be fair to the othor fellow and lond a helping hand. This is the very essence of Christianity. "Ye that arc strong ought to boar the infirmities infir-mities of tho weak, and nol to please yourselves." He must be a good loser. Advorsity is a test. He is a poor Christian who reaches for the erown but runs from the cpks , . - , .- : : |