Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-06
Young Peoples Day at Long
Beach.
Business Transacted at the Ses-
sion.
Interesting Lecture by Colonel George
w. Balm.
He Takes the Different Kinds Of Boys and
Girls for His Subject-Other Mat
ters Discussed.

meeting in the morning, led ny j. II.
Weber. At 10 o'clock there was con-
ference meeting, during which Rev. Mr..
Cole explained the plans and conditions
of membership of the Epworth league
and answered questions. The league
has spiritual, social and literary depart
ments, and members are allowed from
other denominations, though the presi-
dent must always be Methodist. The
league is consolidation of seven young
peoples organizations formerly under
the control Of The Methodist Episcopal
church, and is rapidly growing in popu-
larity.
At eleven O'Clock the Cuthbert Fam
lily band came upon the platform and
performed a selection, followed by Mrs.
Alice Osborne, who sang "Mrs. Lofty
keeps a Carriage" and responded to an
encore with "Three Maids OF Dee."
Mrs. Osborne is winning much praise
for her fine singing, and her appearance
upon the platform is always greeted
with applause.
The great event of the day was Col.
Geo. w. Bain's lecture: "Boys and
Girls; Nice and Naughty" of which
the following is an extract:
"We have all been boys and girls at
one time and divide all boys and girls
into two classes, the good and the bad
the nice and the naughty.
All these boys and girls have gone to
school to one of two kinds of schools-a
a school of vice or school of virtue.
One graduates useful men and women,
the other graduates paupers and GRIM
inals. 1t is sad thing that we have so
many more schools of vice than of vir-
tue, that force the sober, industrious
men and women to provide prisons and
asylums to take care of their graduates.
What cheerless, hopeless life is
that before these naughty boys, the sons
of naughty boys, pupils of the schools of
vice, and yet, what chances there are
before them if we only give them
chance. The great men of our
country have all been poor boys. Thank
God that diamond is diamond still,
whether hidden in the rough or gleam-
ing in royal diadem. have taken for
my subject the field of life between the
ages of that little boy and my own,
whi.h is not so great period after all.
An old sea captain once employed new
pilot and questioned him as to his
knowledge of certain difficult harbor
they were about to enter. The pilot de-
rock in the harbor. Presently as the
vessel struck hard ON rock and
brought the vessel to a standstill,
the pilot yelled out: "There, captain !;
there's one of the rocks" l don't want
our boys and girls to find the rocks in
the voyage of life in that manner, so
will point out some of them. The first
one is not, as you expected me to say,
intemperance, but idleness. There was
an ancient superstition that somewhere
in creation there existed philosophers
stone" which would confer wealth upon
its owner. Modern superstition talks of
an equally wonderful possession called
"luck." But the law of nature
and of natures God says: "By
the sweat of your brow ye
shall eat bread" Boys, don't be
lazy. have seen man so lazy that it
rested me to look at him. Idleness in
this progressive age is out of place.
What is the wealthy idle young man but
gilded dead beat? A certain sculptor
told his friends, pointing to a rough
block of marble: "There is an angel in
that stone." There it was, but it took
hard work to bring it out, and it takes
hard work to bring out the good that
there is in men.
The best specimen OF modern woman
hood scarcely comes up to Gods
standard, and this being the case, where
on earth would we find the fop and the
dude. When 1 see one of these latter
creatures 1 feel considerable sympathy
with the farmers boy who, visiting the
city for the first time with his
father, remarked, as he passed
a dude, 'It beats all, pop, how
we see queer critters when we haint got
no gun along. "The dudes idea of life
lift his hat and show Henry Clay head
and he does-minus the Henry. He
takes the command: ego to the ant,
thou sluggard," as an invitation to pack
his trunk and sponge weeks board of
his mothers sister in the country, land
profit thus by her industry.
Because / speak earnestly to the boys
about work / don't mean that they
should be deprived of play. think
know what boy is, what he likes and
what is good for him. l have raised two
boys of my own-all l want to raise
that is enough for an experiment and
l hope l will never be toe
old to play with my boys
and enjoy all innocent fun
with them. don't believe in treating
boys like the man did who when he
asked for permission to visit circus re-
piled: "No, my boy, you can't go, but
If you are real good l will take you up tc
the cemetery to see the big stone l am
having put over your grandmother
grave.' If that man wanted his son tc
stay away from the circus he must pro-
pose something better than the grave.
yard. When the devil sets up tempta
ton we must set up an attraction
equally great to offset it. People can't
be expected to be good merely from {
sense OF duty.
Now, 1 have been talking to the boys
SO long, perhaps had better say wore
to the girls. Think more of the flowers
of the intellect than of the flowers il
your hair or bonnet. Moral beauty il
enduring physical beauty is transient
Mere physical beauty may secure you {
husband, but if it does you ought to b.
married on the 1st of April, SO that h
could call you his April fool. Girls, b.
careful about your treatment OF young
men. You tolerate in them what the,
would never tolerate in you. Wha
young man would walk with drunkel
woman? Yet many young woman
walks with young man who, II not act
uallv drink. was ssstepping high"