The Anaconda standard., 1898-11-21
THE FIRST OF A SERIES
A Sermon to Young Men by Rev.
J. L. Albrittou.
BUILDING OF CHARACTER
Young Men Are the Hope OF the Coun-
try-Livs IN Such . Way That
You Can Fsos Perils and
Resist Temptation.

Rev. J. L. Albritton Of the Mountain
View Methodist church preached last
night the first OF a series of lectures to
young men. He took for his initial talk
The Building OF Character" He said:
John Wesley said: I honor young
men because they may be doing good
when am in my grave
II honor young men because they
are strong and may do much good while
they are young. I am interested In
them because / see in them the hope
Of our country. The hope of the church,
the hope Of society and the hope of the
world is in our young people. The old
men will pass away soon, and the coun-
try will pass into the hands of those
who are now our young men. How
carefully then should We guard their
interests and hoN diligently should We
mark their footsteps and how wisely
themselves manly Christian characters.
with the end in view Of trying to help
Just a little the many young men
who are In Butte. and especially those
gentlemanly appearing young men who
crowd this church from Sunday to Sun
day (and no one else is more welcome
than you). / have decided to turn away
from my ordinary Sunday sermons and
devote myself for a few evenings at
least In discoursing to our young men.
1T is a good thing when We start
out always to have some point in view
that we expect to reach. We may
profitably sit down and plan work we
are to do before we commence Ii. and
with our plan before us we may syste-
matically succeed.
80 / have chosen for my initial talk
The Building of Character" and when
l. nj ~
ed our model. removed the scaffolding
and exposed the building to the public
view, we hope to have so succeeded
that you will be constrained to say. L
shall endeavor to build upon that plat
form and according to that pattern
paul says-my text: Let every man
take heed how he buildeth.' Cor, $40.
Carlyle says: Man is the architect OF
circumstance. Our strength is meas
ured by our plastic power. From the
same materials one man builds palaces,
another novels; one warehouses, an
other villas; bricks and mortar are
mortar and bricks until the architect
makes them something else. Thus II
| is that, in the same family. in the same
circumstances. one man rears stately
| edifice, while his brother. vacilating ana
| incompetent, lives forever amid ruins
I'VE are all builders: we build the
| body by food and exercise. We build
up the mind by reading, thinking. in
vestigating. We build the fancy by
day dreams. by allowing the imagina-
ton to roam at Will. We build the VI
cious by eroveling in the low, the SEN
sual and devilish. God makes no one
a man, but a child. and we grow by
| our exertions to manhood. God makes
| no man a scholar, but gives him an In
tellect and means whereby ne may De
| educated.
1T is the building of the best kind
q II M tA IN nf n
| night. We can't aHord 70 put up an
ordinary building, for II Is TO last
| through eternity, and we are to live In
IL forever. l recommend therefore 10
you a genuine, symmetrical, Christian
character, one that will bear the tests
of time, the ordeal OF the Judgment. ana
with which you VIII be happy through
eternity.
| I'm rearing this building you must
be your own architect. You must De
fully persuaded in your own mind' you
must choose ana settle the mattef lot
yourself. 1t is not your reputation that
will pass you. Reputation Is what
people think OF you. and say or you.
BY one act-and that may De ACCIDENT.
al-you may secure reputation. put
| character is Wnat you are. Inc rum
dation OF the building Is vital I'M
| portance. Paul makes very much OF
this.
Il had much to do in building beau
| tiful cnurcn once. We seiecteu anu
| purchased the most elgiple site In the
town, but when we dug down 10 pre-
pare for the foundation we iound mueh
OF recently made eartn, so we nad 10
dig deeper, tiil we removed an thls
material. and az the deptn OF 50 ieet
we found the SOLID earth' where we Iaio
| the massive stones upon Wnlc hthe eui-
flee was built.
| II passed through great puiioine
the past week. Upon the peams or tne
building crane was 10 oe piaceu;
weighing 90 tons, which VIII noio up ~
tons besides one hundred TONS 10 oe
borne up. But beneatn that great
building was SUBSTANTIAL iounoatlon
stones. and the master builder. without
any fear, is going on ana constructins
his building with commence. Iake
heed to your foundation. Tnere VIII oe
| loads for you 10 carry OF more than