The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-23

Doh't despiss yerr manhood; neither
erousiy that all may feel yoHf weight Of
cheer, OF help, as you cast yoursef ints
its interests. Where men are blind, drink:
blind, passion blind, hate blind, stand
there and In tbs sIery Of a steady, fer
vent life show them that q man ~ de-
vine copy. III the interests of heroism
demand that you hold your arm In the
homs till II shrivels, hold IL there. "
bnsihess opens 10 you in such a way that
poor and like Jesus Christ. lie stood
above them as they rushed TO make him
king He smiled at their shallow thought
and walked away into the solitude OF the
mountain where In vision OF the future
lie saw endless generations; and men in
Providence blessing his memory because
He dared to love the Roman As well as
the Jew; the heavy-laden, whose yoke he
lifted as well as the man who feasted
Him.
There was a glory of genius indeed In
the lie OF Roebling, who cast the meshes
OF the East River Bridge between two
great cities, as in fatal illness he watched
the work through the telescope from his
invalid's chamber. Another man OF
genius beheld our life SO long ago, saw
its pain and encouragement, its doubt
and separation from truth. IL needed
bridge lie mighty in love, intense In
sure hands the threshold OF a grand up
per world, pinned his feet to the earth,
our home, stretched his body over the
chasm OF cola and darkness and bridged
for our desperate souls the rivers OF death.
He is the way, no man cometh ppto the
Father but by Him! And Jesus Himself,
being about thirty years DID, and full OF
the Holy Ghost saw what TO do with His
young manhood and did 1t There are
men who want to make money; TO be
president, want to give hope to dork-
ness, to give faith TO somebody who does
not believe in men, TO make tear less,a
smile more, q prayer thankful and q bad
man penitent. Do that;
DO 1T WITH YOUR YOUTH.
Take your body and soul
1. To be clean OF an adulterous thorght
as you would be clean of the cholera.
2. To entertain every day the pleasure
of good deed that you keet secret.
3. To cultivate gratitude for the glory
OF living in this age.
4. To be happy and tender to people
who suffer more than you.
8. To make your youth glorious
image Of the strei g IA and love OF Jesus
G hrist.
6. To demand DO more OF others than
there is in you, being lenient in judg-
ment and spotless in yourself.
We are Is, 600, 600 young men In America.
We furnish practically all the support
to vice, crime, anarchy; we make the FUR
rows and pallor in the cheeks OF young
wives, that are or should be. But be GER
tain Of this; God, and good, and pure
love and good work will have that life o.
ours, or ii will be left TO US, and left ear
ly, a painful, hateful, pinched and horri-
ple thing. Now, give IL TO grand aims
and ii shall be bright life, filled with
troops of rich, sweet thouhts. happy in
ell struggles mighty in all contests, safe
in triumph. He that overconieth Is
prince, and of his celestial youth he shall
not be ashamed. Men wonder why IT is
is that the masters of sculpture all lived
so long ago. They wonder why the in
spiration has died out from eloquence,
and why with thousand times more
educated men than had the Cromwellian
age or the age Of Per.cles, we do not Lave
a new thousand Millions ana Platos,
thousand artists like Phidias. l do not
wonder that God withholds His best
things TO the last and that He waits for
the young manhood of the latest age
TO crown II with genius, after IL has made
itself glorious in His ch aracter. Eelieve
1t, the best things have not been done.
The Partnenon is not the worlds last
great temple. That is to he built by the man
who knows God and shall crown the
glory OF race that abolishes slavery and
war form the earth. Not in Aeschylus
and Shakespeare shall we rest as the final
masters OF tragedy. Gcd has genius
asleep for the century about TO come in
a genius brilliant with the full glory OF
celestial knowledge and inspiration. Not
with the Psalms, glorious as they are,
will God end His bards. But canticles
more divine shall come from soul never
dark with blood; and lips that God shall
touch, to arouse in worship not alone
the tribe of Judah but teeming planet.
God keeps His greatest pictures, His
bappiest thought, His most stirring
rythmic notes for the largest and most
appreciative audience, filled with His own
spirit; and the oratory that shall be full
OF the deepest pathos, that shall summon
all philosophy to illumine 1t and all his
tory to illustrate it, shall be the oratory
ofa man who has seen the vision OF God,
ana who unrolls before hushed world
the splendor of His character, love, hope,
and power, genius bright with glory and
achievement-the character of Jesus
Christ. Young manhood, arlsel
Next Sunday evening the third dis
course in the series will be on. young
womanhood. The four TO follow on:
''The Husband, October o; "The Wife,
October IL. "Ihe Father" October 20;
"The Mother October 27.
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