The Arizona sentinel., 1888-03-10
A SERMON FOR BOYS.

tiOn-Tl,5 Boys Who Prove the Winners i in the Contests Of nSanhood-A Doctors Views.
 One morning, some years ago, 1
 walked with Dr. Phillips Brooks from
 the playground of St. Paul's school to
 the chapel, where 1 heard him preach,
 to the boys, a great sermon, seventeen
 minutes long.
 i The text was: ''Render to Cesar the
 things that are Cesar's." The man
 who is not at times boy is not much
 of man. As for my preacher friend
 he has always lowered on the verge of
 boyhood, and his sermon showed how
 friendly to boys his large inclusive ness enabled him to be. He said that relations in life are like tax-gather- CTS, and should have their dues. A boy, he said, has duties to God, to his country, to his school, to himself.
 The thought of boys duties to him. self brought back to memory the text which is strong enough to be the seed of many sermons of many kinds.
 The duties now referred to are not stich as the preacher meant, or not al- together these. am speaking now as doctor, to boys old enough to think, and shall leave to others to say how much boys should study; nor shall I, least of all mef1, advise them against hard, mental work in youth, because l think that a regular, steady use of the brain makes all the mental labor of manhood more easy.
 But this conviction is not inconsist- ent with a hearty appreciation of scrimmage at football, nor with that sturdy feeling of the boys, that the games which are without risks arc poor things. For they are deficient in the qualities which make boyhood games useful for training youth in courage. self-control, discipline, ealmness and general suppression of emotion, and that it is this training which gives value to cricket, baseball and foot ball.
 In spite of games, gymnasiums afd the increased knowledge which the men of thls generation have of the laws of health, one still sees many sick young folks. Some of the ills to be observed are incidents of life, some are its accidents, and come down from the sins or follies of grandparents; but, many are due to causes which sadden us to think about, and cause one to long for more city play-gfodnds, and to wish to make woodlands for a sttn1mer month of some of these little fellows deprived of the rights of childhood.
 In the richer classes of life, where the chances for health are better, they are lessened too often, because boys are stupid and do not enjoy fitly the noble citizenship of boyhood, or because par ents are inert, or lack insight. It is mostly among this class. the easy class, ! that we see the weakly boys, tallow- eolored and sluggish, who struggle | along and are more and more damaged | because they do not like sports or dread to compete with their fearless com- rades. Every school-boy knows all the varieties of this kind; the weakling who reads and reads, good books or poor, but does nothing else; the fellow who studies, and finds no time for play; the merely accumulative boy who collects, but has no joy in the search.
 Last week I asked pasty-faced lad what game he liked best. He said: "Collecting postage stamps. Then he volunteered the remark that his brother had splendid collection of eggs, but that these were all bought from other boys. He had never found an egg for himself
 The boy who collected postage stamps had dyspepsia, and it was said that he liked to play croquet These are the business boys. If 1 live until that fellow IS fifty years, which is i'm probable, he will come to me with large liver, having cleverly become rich, and, in getting money, forgotten its uses.
 The out-of-door boys do not greatly enrich the doctor, and escape many Of the ills which beset the lazy. It is odd bow rare are certain disorders among boys in the country, where fellows must be out-of-doors so much. Every spring I have good crop of young p;,- tients,- fabby lads. with mushy mus cles, who twitch and squirm and drop things and wink at you wildly and are