The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-20
REQUISITES OF POPULARITY
PRA CTICAL Talk TO BOY,S BRIG
ADE BLENDERS BY REV. MIR. FOSTER
Their sixth Anniversary Celebrated ut
Calvary Baptist Church-Impresstve
Exercises Held--Their Annual Sermon.

Exercises Held--Their Annual Sermon
Company A, Third regiment, boys
brigade, celebrated their sixth anniver
sary with special service at Calvary
Baptist church yesterday afternoon ant
in spite of the pouring rain quite {
large number of their friends attended
the exercises. These were unusually i'm
pressive and consisted of an organ pre-
Jude by H. D. Hodgson, singing by
by Frank Strong, these last being very
we'll rendered.
The complete programme was as fol-
lows:
Organ prelude. ......M Mr.. Fl. D. Hodgson
Singing-Calvary selection No. 300, In
the Cross of Christ glory"
Prayer-Followed by the Lords prayer.
Anthem
Scripture Lesson-In Unison, 23d Psalm
Gloria Particularly Selection No.
1866.
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In Unison--the object of the Boys brig
ade is the advancement of Christs
kingdom among the boys, and the
promotion of habits of obedience, rev.
erence, discipline, self-respect, and all
that tends toward a true Christian
manliness.
Annual sermon-Rev. Allyn K Foster.
The palms. Frank Strong.
Prayer and benediction.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Christian Sol
ders.
The annual sermon by the Rev. Allyn
K. Foster, although as he stated in the
beginning, not a sermon but practi-
cal talk to the boys, was delightful in
it's plain common sense. He stated as
his text, last verse of the I'd chap. Of
Luke, 'In favor, in favor with God and
man. and that he took as his topic
Popularity" After stating that he
thought the topic one of the most i'm
portant to the boy just entering his
teens, and that he would talk plain
common sense talk to his young friends,
he spoke in part as follows:
Boys it is the duty of the young
man to be popular. Jesus of Nazareth
had all the virtues obtainable by
man in this life, and one of the most
lovable of these was his popularity. AS
an example of the Importance of being
popular, take for instance any boy. Say
that he Is bright in his studies, brilliant
in his Rotations and smart. You
acknowledge that he Is, but somehow
you wonder that you cannot approach
him without feeling the burrs with
which he seems to be covered and hav-
ing to pick them off from him with your
hands. You are in the company with
other boys of your acquaintance, and
you are enjoying splendid time, when
THIS boy approaches, and somehow you
cannot tell the reason why, the merri-
ment ceases, and sooner or later the
gathering breaks up his presence hav-
ing seemingly cast q gloom over it.
I'm direct contrast to this kind of a
boy is the young lad who gets up to re-
cite in school and makes blub of his
recitation; he struggles through 1t
somehow, but as he sits down with
poor mark to his credit, he smiles be-
cause he knows he deserves no more.
In athletics he Is hurt in the games but
he shows endurance and fortitude, and
this so uncomplainingly that 1t wins
him the admiration of others, and he Is
liked by his schoolmates and is popular.
That's the secret of popularity boys,
and its a secret well worth the trouble
of learning, and it can be learned.
There are some men though bright
and brilliant who while smooth-faced
and popular are black at heart. or
them | will not speak. theirs is not pop
ularity, it endures not and the covering
or mask wears off sooner or later re-
vealing their true self. Many boys also
enjoy this kind of popularity, but 1t
wears not The reason this boy l
spoke of is popular is that he always
makes the best of things If he has a
bod of coal to bring up, although he
may not like to do it any more than any
other boy does, he does not complain
that it was not brought up by the one
whose duty it is to do it, he accepts the
situation accomplishing, only looking
IN the bright side of the thing and
making the best of it.
Boys to be popular must also be pop
llar with the old people as well as the
young. Old people wont turn their
hearts to us if there isn't something
about us to make us liked. And there
ire always some old folks about the |
house tn grandma or grandpa, or
lncle or aunt, father or mother with |
whom it is our duty to make Ourselves |
popular I tell you boys, it is fact. |
hat young people do not know it all |
lfter all, and we must look up to the |
I'D folks Judgment in many matters.
Another class of people with whom |
We must be popular to be truly popular, |
re those of our own class. The truly |
popular boy is the one who gets on best |
With his own class. Some boys seem |
o be popular with girls alone, but how
ften do you feel their popularity to be
natural? They are not strong manly |
oys, but are effenlinate, they seem to
ack quality. Take group of college
len you can always pick out if you
ry, the popular ones, the ones who are
ding to win out in the class election, |
nd the Others who although possibly
will fail because of their I'M
opularity.
Another thing in order to be truly
opular is to be popular with women
toys must respect the sex of women if
1ey would ever obtain anything in this
'orld / say this because | have at
ifferent times observed around me
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