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Show SERIN BY I REV. FISHER j ! "I'olks are after nil blccer than ; mountains and bfo the mrist absorbing rue.tiin In the world," said the Rev. F. VioinK Fisher at the Methodist I church last nik.Lt In op nin his sermon ser-mon nri "What Ir Your Life?" Ho -l-.ke In part as follows: "Whatever else our job in this world, we have pot to make a life and it is a big task. Men are all kind of frdkn and l-ad nil kinds of lives j Wo have got only one chance and j It is a serious but-iness to live a life. Some folks are pleasure craft who! come from nowhere and nowhere ami for whom nobody cares. Real j folks are like sailors that start from port with a definite route, have real i business and a final port. They are the people worth while. "There are three crucial questions j that face ua; what are our motives, i for it is not -i, much what we do as j why we do it that c.n-nts in lit.-; what Is the spirit of our life, the touch It j puts on other folks for it would bo ! a mlqhty Rood thinR for a vian to ' p.o to his ow n funeral and if'c what 1 his life re.Uly was. whether it ever ; helped anybody; and last of all. what I. to bo th" poal of our life, a throne j In tlie hearts of men and a home In the throne of Cod of the hitter fail- lire, the shame, th.. eternity of a sel- j fish, w recked life " In closlnR, Mr. Fisher told the story of five loy he knew years ai;o I who started life with different mot Ivor ! dreams and plans. One of them came to lt tho iiist jHiwerful Influence for Rood oxer men In tho northwest tho preat Y. M. C A. sec retary. Revo Hutchinson. Another who stands! convicted in London anil sentenced to the gallows, a disgrace to America. Is Haw ley Crlppen. The pastor ended I by sa Inc "So. we go our ways tonleht, across : the lar stretch of life, as those unin?' men went; which shall be nur end, j folks; the memory of goodness that never dies or tho shame that disgraces ' our country and breaks the hearts of I all who love us? What Is your life?" Frederick Ylnlng Fisher appeals to ' people to make living a business I worth while. I |