The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-09-20
written for the Pcsr.

WnO udNt tHt WtllHIe VI tntu bOuS
at heart.
Let us see. The saloon keepers
ask for about 1000, 900 to fill up the
vacancies in the great army of
drunkards many fall annually and
their places must be occupied or the
saloons will have to close their
doors. At least 1OO,O are wanted
by old gamblers thieves and highway
robbers to be trained fer their pro-
fessions or these crimes would cease
to be perpetrated.
This is the nineteenth century.
This is the most enlightened nation
upon the Footstool, land noted for
its institutions of learning, the land
Of churches and of christianity, and
yet if we would Judge from the past
and from present indications, we
are pretty safe in concluding that
they will get them; and our town
and community will in all probability
contribute its full share. This is a
sad state. but it is nevertheless true.
We do not wonder that such is the
case when we see many of them neg
lecting their moral, their physical
and their intellectual training. In
stead of attending religious services
on the Sabbath. we see them start
ing out on Sunday morning to spend
the day in worldly pursuits. In
stead of training their muscles and
developing their bodies for the bat
tie of life they spend their time in
idleness, plotting mischief. Instead
of spending their leisure time in
useful study we find them spending
their evenings on the streets, or
reading trash" and there follows
what always follows such state of
things.
But boys are needed elsewhere.
we must have them in the stores
ready to become business men, in
the doctors Office, ready to become
physicians, i'll the law-oilice, ready
to become lawyers, we must have
them in the church and Sunday
school to prepare them to become
nseful members in society. There
are those who must be trained for
the pulpit to proclaim the eternal
truth to man. We are glad that so
many boys avail themselves of these
opportunities, that they determine
to make men of themselves.
We believe that their is time in
the life of each individual when they
have noble aspirations and desire to
make life worth living, they set a
high mark but when they behold
those who have reached that mark
they find the distance great and the
road hard. They become discour.
aged and conclude finally to travel
an easier road and this road the 1000,
600, who will join the army of drink
ers will travel.
To become great and useful means
hard work. 1t was that that made
Garfielda classical scholar. 1t was
that that made Lincoln the States
man he was. These and many 9th.
ers found pleasure in the pursuit of
knowledge and became giants among
men. The world does not expect or
call certain boys to equip themselves
for the great work, the boys that
make great men generally come from
some unexpected quarter. The
bond-men of the south did not point
out the early home of Lincoln as the
birthplace of their deliverer. All tn,
kings of Europe did not bow to
Columbus and pray him to discove,
the long lost hemisphere. The peo
pie of England did not discard and
abandon the stage coach that Steven
son might build them a railroad
The cotton growers of the South die
not wait for Whitney to invent a
cotton gin to clean their cotton.
The people of New York did not
condemn the sailing vessel and de
mand that Fulton must build them
n steam boat
All these We're the results of hare
work, and the world recognized
them as public benefactors. The
world does not require boys to be.
come geniuses like Shakespeare. OF
to become ambitious like a Caesar
or to have the faith of Il Luther
but it does demand that the bows
shall grow up to be honest, upright
intelligent citizens. Here is work
for the church, the schools. the
press, society through whose infiu.
ence the boys should be directed
Every institution esigned to make
men better and happier should brace
itself flor the struggle against the
common enemy of mankind "Ignor-
once. CoRREsPoNDENT.