The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-10
TEMPERANCE.
BY MISS c. S. BURNETT.
ADDRESS TO YOUNG MEN.

made a more lasting impression upon
me than the last words of John B.
Cough the greatest temperance orator
he world has ever known.
After one of his imprisoned appeals
to the young people in the audience
With the vehemence that characterized
him, he said Young man, keep your
record clean" With the last word he
fell back senseless and in a few hours
the great heart that mad for so long felt
humanity's throbs ceased.
This sentence has been taken as the
motto of our young peoples societies.
How much it means!
To be clean. To be pure IN thought
word and deed, in body, mind and soul.
1t is grand thing to be young man
to have life before you. Young men,
YOU are making your record now. You
will have to map out which direction III
life YOU will take as two paths are open
before you. If you refuse opportunity,
neglect duty, waste the gifts OF life you
must grow weaker and smaller, by law
as inexorable as that which guards the
planets in their course. You do not
have to do anything bad to fail OF the
great purpose IN life, you have simply
to do nothing, to be nobody.
You do not choose this; then take
hold of life resolutely, spring to
its tasks with strenuous, joyous energy,
rour yourself into its opportunities
meet its duties valiantly, match your
strength and purpose against Its trials,
temptations and losses, then you will be
borne onward into an unfolding life OF
peace and rest ard JOY.
Be true to yourselves and you can
but be true to every trust. Tempta-
tiuus are all around you. Many OF you
are the victims of unfortunate clrcum-
stances. But the Almighty has en-
| lowed you with a Will that can enable
YOU TO withstand every temptation. You
have only to seek the pure and
pass by the uuholy; only to ig-
nUre the saloon and gambling
den and seek the house of God
| instead, and temptation of every kind
| WILL fail powerless upon you. You must
| have some distinct aim in life, then
| oend every energy of mind and body to
attain it, and YOU will find that every
thing that is honorable, true and good,
j. practicable. But there must be a
solid purpose, fixed resolution at the
root of your lives, or you will fail. Ii
YOU do not choose the right, you will
surely drift into the wrong. You, the
Young men of toes y, are to order the
goings of the world tomorrow, and to
lit YOU for this exalted position you
need not only be free from vice, but
YOU need the broauest culture Of
mind and heart. You must NEE
the world wel-must act the manly
part in spite Of temptations and dis
appointments. You must form the
| character that can be trusted anywhere
You must learn self government, self
K ogledge, self-respect, and how cal
YOU respect yourself when you engag'
IN any of the low scenes of dissipation
would have you remember that thu
highest of all arts is the art OF livinl
well; beyond the beauty of poetry o
sculpture, or painting, is the beauty o
Well,spent life. What you need is no
Fa}ent, but purpose, not the power t.
succeed. but the will to make tn
effort. 1t was long ago settled
that the question OF young man
future is not one of money or family o
even culture AID opportunity, but this
does he will TO succeed and will b
stick to it when he has undertake.
. any work. Young men, you will sc
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holy living. May you ever live so tina
you can meet the trusting look c
mother, sister, friend, by answerin
look as pure; and the young man VIII
passes through the temptations he WI
inevitably meet, he who successful
ges this battle is victor an
king indeed and may rest assure
that such royal manhood never fail
+ | OF recognition fIom royal womanhoo!
[ say to you, you cannot afford to stal
YOUR soul with all the sin and pollutlo
that are thrown around, and thereh
lose YOUR own selfrespect and the n
spect of those who love you best.
Il Our world wants manly men,
Free from the faint of sin,
Men whose lives are clean without
And true within.
= 1 would make you not only tempe
I ate, but temperance men, by setting I
fore you the most exalted manhood;
would tell you not how low you IN
sink, but how high you may n
by cultivate 6 all that ennobles q
dignifies manhood.
ITO be LOntinued.)