The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-27
AT WARNER HALL.


 by Rev. F. A. Paddock of Weiser.
 Idaho. on ''The Secret of Success" Yesterday afternoon at o'clock quite number of young men gathered at the services under the auspices of the Y. M c. A. at Warner hall. A new feature was the singing of the associa- ton glee club, which has just been or ganized.
 After the opening song service the leader, William H. Douglass, made a few introductory remarks, in which he | referred to the importance of knowing the secret of success, regarding which MT Paddock was to speak. MT. Doug lass spoke especially of the frequent failures in business, only about two per cent. of business men being really sue cessful. He then introduced Rev, D. A. Paddock of Idaho whose address in part was as follows:
 1 T doubtless could entertain you this | afternoon by telling you how far a | broncho could throw a tenderfoot, but that would not do you good. We cannot | all obtain success. Now, I believe just what has been said-that it is impossi- | ble for every one of us to obtain that 1 higher success. When you come to talk | about what is of intrinsic value, there is not anything of intrinsic value in the world but a mans soul.
 Now, I want to give to you some experiences that show if it is so in re- gard to gaining dollars and cents it is so in regard to living the Christian life. There are the five letters in the word | watch The first is W-watch your words. We cannot think without form ing the thought into words. I might l spend the whole afternoon In telling what words to watch. Some of the words that we need to watch are words of anger. Many a time a whole com munity has been turned upside down on account of words spoken in anger. A man may come along the street and drive past a school house. He utters an oath and some little fellow hears it. He may not know the meaning, but he will ask until he finds out Every boy In that school knows those words be- fore night, Now, say if you are going to succeed watch your words.
 "A-watch your actions. Actions speak louder than words. I can leave the room and slam the door in a way that will show you that I am angry with you There are a thousand differ ent actions that we need to avoid and we can without saying a word, but by natural action, show forth a thousand violences The world will take action rather than words.
 The next letter is T-watch your thoughts. Can you watch your thoughts while you are asleep? No, we cannot, only relatively. Now, for instance, it seems that these thoughts that trouble us have been there before. It may be | that you are down on your knees try ing to pray when an evil thought comes to you. Make an evil thought welcome and it will stay with you. Now, the fact is that everything we do has it's birth in a thought. The man that kill ed another man thought it all out; he planned in thought how he would get away. So you see how much depends on the thoughts. You hear somebody telling a story, but the very thought of that story is infamous. The best thing you can do is to put your fingers into your ears and run away. There are a good many things we look at that we should not. There are men who for
  pie by the very act of looking at them. It is a strange thing that men can be so possessed of the devil as to do such things. You sometimes find a book that goes just as far as the law will allow it. The best thing to do with such a book is to put 1t into the fire. Don't touch 1t with your hands, but use pair of tongs. We must watch our thoughts and If we find that they are becoming poisoned we must push them out with clean thoughts.
 ca man Is known by the company he keeps. You put an infamous fellow among lot of fellows that are not as good and they will all soon be like , him.
 1.-The last thing Is, watch your hearts. It has been my work to get young men, who had fallen, upon their feet. If human nature does not have something stronger than itself there is not very much hope for 1t. We may get into condition where 1t is abso- , lutely necessary for some one to help us out Right here is where religion comes in. If you are trying to go right by yourself you will fail, In a mining camp you cannot stand unless you know of something to hold to. Here is where religion comes in, When a young man will put himself into the hands of the Heavenly Father he is go- , ing to stand, though all the forces of hell are against him. You and I may be able to walk sometimes, but we will slip and we will fall unless We have a , hand to hold that Is stronger than ours , So, then, put your hand into Gods hand if you would succeed"