The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-06-09

for his fellows. In fine,
it is an Association ever working
out through the practical app'lca-
ton OF Christianizing principles to
the affairs of daily life .'the i'm
provement Of the spiritual, intellec-
tual and social condition Of young |
men,"
I do not believe it possible to
overestimate the beneficial effect of
surrounding young men with infiu-
ences which tend to give them a
true appreciation of what the res
possibilities of manhood are, nor is
it possible to underestimate the
danger to themselves and to their
associates by permitting them un-
restrained to imbibe pernicious
teachings and fall upon evil ways.
The remedy for public evils lies in
applying the cure to the individual
citizen, not in a wholesale apPlica-
ton to the masses, without regard
to personal effect. When we have
educated the individual man to be
faithful in the discharge of his pub
lie and private obligation we need
give the aggregate mass neither
thought nor concern, for the virtue
| of the one stands characteristic OF
the virtue of the many.
HELPS WHERE ENACTED LAW FAILS.
! have little faith in that good
which is born of either enacted law
or happy chance, but l have much
in that which flows from education
and in personal application of GER
tain great principles founded upon
eternal truth. 1t is the failure to
teach these truths, to draw clearly
i the distinction between light and
wrong, and make the personal aP-
plication of them that gives US in
too many instances an unthlnking,
not to say a dishonest citizenship.
I would individualize the citizen
and impress upon him through every
agency of education, religious,
moral and scholastic, that ne has a
distinct individual interest in max
ing for the good or evil of the coun-
try's political. social, and business
conditions, and that 10 shirk it is to
prove himself unworthy of the. high
privilege wherewith he is clothed.
1 would have this done, not after
: years of neglect, but throughout all
the years when character is forming
and habits of life are being taken
on. There is no period when 1t Is
. safe to Withdraw the influences of
good from a boy. They should be
, with him from the earliest years un
til he is well advanced IN his youn-;
, manhood. would supplement the
r home training if 1t has be n good,
and try to rectify it II rad, with
that of the church and school, and
. then to this add the saving grace OF
r
founded to direct young men in
true Christian manliness. With a
citizenship thus grounded in rei
: gious and civic virtue 1 am sure
, there can never come disgrace or
, destruction to the republic.
5 One of the country's great daily
, newspapers recently declared ''the
: Young Mems Christian Association
y to be ssthe greatest of our religious
organizations outside OF formal
? church lines" l am certain al
5 who know of the good it accom-.
/ plishes will hold this estimate to be
just. But they also must agree thai
2 it is just because it is an organiza
q ton built upon the teachings of the
$ Christian religion. Let US not IL
t the broadening of its work, reach
r ing through many material chan
g nels those upon whom it Confers it:
f benefits, forget this overshadowlne
= fact. Its drawing to it's side thu
: many great Influences of the bust.
s ness world is but another tribute t
e the majesty of the Christ powe
: among the sons of men. 1t is bu
e ampler proof of that power which
f beyond all else, in the last analysis
s must throughout all the ages worl
S out both the temporal and spirltua
d and spiritual salvation of mankind
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