Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-03-12
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49, VIZ oe'oJ q to oAS Ie1cSono
to utter their first prayer to God, and
the second link is forged in the chain
that binds the boy to Heaven.
A few years later, when conscious
ness OF life, and Of being and Of lone
Illness in world Of life cause the boy
to question concerning these things
and their origin, and mother directs
his mind to God and His revelation,
and the third link is forged in the
chain binding the boy to his God.
The years so by. In the little red
school house under the hill along with
the rest of the boys and girls, the boy
is at school, and this carries us back
to the days of our own childhood
when we went to school years and
years ago. We see the old school house
again and the grass growing green on
the hillside; the swing and the stream
on which we used to slide in winter
and which we used to play in sum
ner the old wooden desks that we
cut with OUR penknives; the teacher
and his bundle Of rods in the corner:
the books that we never used to
study the games we used to play
and best memory Of all, the girl we
loved when we were boys. How the
vision comes back, the blue eyes
and the golden hair, the ringing
laugh and the sweet smile, the rosy
lips, the walks to and from school.
and, best of all, the little words and
stolen looks that told us that we were
to her the best boy in all the world,
tor when boy first learns to know
pure sweet love for a pure sweet girl,
he FORCES another link, and a strong
one, in the chain that binds him to
Heaven.
Again the years go by. He is ff-
teen years old now; life is changing.
He is thinking of the coming of man
hood. If there is anyone in the world
for whom we should have pity, it is
for the boy of fifteen his pantaloons
TOO short; his coat sleeves lacking at
the wrists his gate awkward mo place
for him in society and his mind full
of wonder as to what he ought to do
and how how he ought to do it.
There is plenty Of room for the girls;
everyone takes care of them, they are
50 sweet and bright and engaging,
but the boy, he is neither old enough
nor young enough to be needed, SO he
is left out in the cold and unless some
body takes special interest in him,
home, or church or school, or some kind
thoughtful heart, the boy often thinks
This is cold world, and so he casts
about in it for some way to paddle his
swn canoe, and the result too often is
he paddles it in way not at all fat
tering to himself and still less so to
those to whom he has looked for
model.
What is the reason that the average
boy thinks it SO manly to get roll Of
poisonous weed between his lips and
stand on the street corner with his
nose turned into chimney? Because
he sees the men all around him, to
whom he must look for his ideas of
manhood, at that kind of thing. What
is the reason the boy learns too often
TO go to that place called the saloon?
Just because he sees respectable, we'll
dressed men go to that place. The
boy never patterns after the drunkard,
he always patterns after the we'll
dressed, good appearing, independ-
ent-looking fellow. Mr.. Darling here
drew very striking picture of the
saloon keeper on one side Of the
counter selling liquour, and the we'll
dressed man on the other side of the
counter, buying iquour and asked
the very pertinent question, "Did you
ever see the one man selling and not
see at the same time the other man
standing there buying?" The boy al
ways patterns after the latter. Whose
fault is it if the boy gets the wrong
IDEA of manhood?
'EBut the years go by and the boy