Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-10-03

ruth who should say of such card party, .
was the beginning of sin to the daugh- L
or of Zion; for the transgressions OF o
srasl were found in thee.
With regard to the mania for betting !!
nd gambling in general the question may i
70 raised-I will not discuss it now-how
ar the Offices of the law may be justly /
INVOKED to prevent grown men from ruin
ng themselves and beggaring their fami- !
les. But again it may be infested that
my forms of this evil which afaict par
icularly those classes least able to protect .
or which spread in some OF
our most public streets their snares for the
unwary feet of youth, properly fall within
the reach of the law. If rich man
chooses to risk an investment in some
speculative enterprise, he may at least be
able to pocket his losses, and perhaps even
by his folly provide work for some other
wages on policy-slip, he will probably
starve himself for the sake OF
giving another meal to the devil. There is
no good reason why this particular form of
cheap Rambling-au the more mischievous
because it is cheap-should not be driven
out of any respectable community. 1t will
be said, am aware, that, like the saloon,
the policy shop cannot be touched because |
it hasbecome..s political power; but even po- |
litical bribery is no good reason for allow |
ing villainous leeches to suck the blood of |
the people. It will also be said that gen |
eral information is not legal evidence,
which is true. But it is also true that i
the eyes of the law are not bandaged, it
need have no particular difficulty in SEE
ing what everybody knows. Unbought
Justice will not be blind.
The other institution, which is allowed
to flourish, is the pool room-which is
altogether too popular with some clerks
and students. Attendance, however, at this
costly school of vice should not be
allowed as part of a liberal education.
And if besides the general laws of the state
city ordinance is needed to abate this
moral nuisance, the matter should not be
allowed LONGER to fall between our two mu-
nicipal boards In the moral interests of
the youth who are congregated here, as
we'll as for the economic welfare of the
community and the protection of the
homes of the people, the proper
authorities should be encouraged, and
also stimulated, ceaseless and radical
police and legal work against these two
satanic institutionsof fraud and de-
people have allowed altogether too long to
thrive unmolested in this town.
Not to speak further at this time of these
things, against which vigorous warfare
| should be made at least after election,-I
| would refer next to those unformulated re-
strain of manners and morals, which,
| though sometimes seeming needless to the
Astounding innocence of youth, are never
theless the results of social experience, and
| which should be regarded and maintained
| as the prophecies of life. But not delay
ing to particularize these minor yet sal
| utary restraints, let me remind you that no
outward constraints, however wise, and no
social prophecies, however admirable,
have in them any creative power of char
acter. They may conserve, but they can
not create true virtue. That must be an
inward birth and growth.
There are just two creative powers that
enter into the making of a man-his own
will and his God. All true education is
self education, and with regard to this
there are some things which I would like
to commend especially to those who are
now in their school days. 1t depends
, mainly upon yourself what your school
will be to you. You are your own maker
with God. knowledge is useful in many
, ways; knowledge is pleasurable, even wher
. not useful; the wide universe exists to be-
, come known. But the power of lf-direct
ing intelligence is the thing to be achieved
, in any school of life. The boy who
achieves that, though he has few teachers
!, | and must win his education from his work
will become in the power to use his power
!, q more truly educated man than the youth
whose head is filed with a smattering O.
: all knowledge and empty of the productiv
= power of trained and intelligent will. Tn
! lessons taught at school will be permanent
ly profitable almost in proportion as yo1
| put your Wills into them, and gain self
the young to recognize this truth in thei
: ] HoaDoet r,1aacura in than
consists in the exercise of will that goe
| into them, and the self-control Of muscl
and physical force that results from them
But precisely the same secret of pleasur
and of power is to be foun'
in the tasks of the school room, when the
, are rightly apprehended. The athletics g
:, the mind are also training for most hoI
- orable and joyous achievement. And thi
\ | remark holds true of all those habits {
4 boyhood by means of which self-master
= | may be gained. One of the most suggest
= i've passages upon which my eye has falle
=, in current literature consists in a passag
. in the confessions of criminal-a youn
- man of good birth and education an
- | prospects, who had fallen under sue
.. temptation, in which he traces back wit
e painful analysis the causes of his downfa
= to the habits of ease and self-indulgenc
- and lack of self-control in little thing
which were allowed individually to desire
in his boyhood the strength which b
;. needed for his manhood.
IT, turn to another thought suggested b
~ this general subject which is of the greater
- Importance. If you notice what it
r. among grown up people that makes the1
- choose their associates and friends, 20
81 will observe that they are often draw
!. together by similar professions or bushes
:. but also you cannot fail to observe tn,
=, there are lines of friendship among me
y which lie deeper than all such association
Il and which run across any differences
~ their business or vocations. You will 8.
q that men from widely different callings al
~ drawn together by similar ideas of lif
~ Those who entertain similar ideas concern
e ing the aims and object of life will reco,
70 nize one another, and easily becon
70 friends. So we see some Zines quite di
y. tinot groupings of people according
- their several conceptions of life. The
80 are attracted towards one another aroun
% low, or exalted; cheap or nobl
g but they become companions or the
W follow after q similar end of if
~ Suppose, for example, the idea of life tax,
n in the truth that productive work is goc
~ to be pursued; the men doing the produ
Il, tive work of the world will gain one a,
> others credit; or suppose the idea of d
!, | eirable life sinks and sOftens into the col
70 ception of comfortable idleness and cas-
- the men of curious and critical leisure wi
know where to club, and drive, and smol
Ia their idle pipes together. So, ikewis
IL ideas of moral power, or of some larg
IF good for humanity, will draw men an
women from all classes and conditions III
=. der their unifying and ennobling spel
40 You see, thus, that ones idea of life is q
10 most the most practical thing with while
W 10 he can be concerned. There is nothing
- more Importance in school days than
- gain some idea of the life one shall liv
" which will be true, and healthful, enlar
W ing and ennoblinR. Hence the importan,
1e of the admirations of youth. There is
no great deal of salvation, or of loss, for be
~ or girl in learning to admire those thing
% and those only, which are worthy of bsi1
~ admired. And there is no higher teachir
"a and no greater blessing to communit
4 than some character which wins the 10y
n admiration of the young as it command
70 the Just esteem of men. And teachers
No religion and writer's for the daily press pc
IN vert the sweet uses of charity and {
at harm to the children of the Peep
90 when they exalt in their eulogies mt
" whose standards of honor were not of Il
% highest, and when they grant the mo
y successful funerals to men, however co
al spicuous their station, whose virtues wi
h their faults the public morality were be
IL ter served by leaving to the kindly spec,
"a. and k;ndlier silence of those who kne
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