Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-05-29

do "A more manly thing young women
you cannot do more womaniy thing
Than to consecrate the strength of
your young manhood and your young
womanhood to Jesus Christ. | take 1t
that all intend some day to be relig-
ious. Do you take 1t as an honorable
thing for a young man TO spend the
greater part OF his life in the world,
and give the last traction of it to
GodY A dying soldier said: 81 have
spent my life in sin. and am too
much OF man to give the last end
Of il to the Eternal 1t Is sometimes
said that those whom God loves die
young II is not so solomon was
right when he said In his third chap
ter of Proverbs: Length of life and
long days VIII II ada unto thee,
The second is intellectual strength
The young man has the creates ply
sioal strength The records OF our
colleges and universities show that
The young woman is his equal and
iometimes his superior In intellectual
strength. You glory In this intellec-
tual strength. That is well The
class motto is "A good one. which in
lis translation reads: Do what you
do or in more common language.
Mind your business. Some people
have no business. some have no
minds, II is an excellent thing to
have mind, and to use it. The relig-
lon OF Jesus Christ places you in the
court OF reason 1t never asks for
blind faith. There are some weak
minds In the church, and some men
who have tried to prove that there is
no Cod but for eighteen centuries the
church has stood is II possible that
al these men have made a mistake :?
David was right when he said. The
fool said In his heart there is no God
Never were there 80 many men as to-
dav ready to stand out In the defense
Of the church God holds the stars in
one hand and the old Book in the
other when the stars fail, then may
the Book fail but not before. 1t is
the foundation upon which is written
all the books in the world. The old
Book has generated books like vege-
intion. but the vegetation dies to give
place 10 new. while the old Book lives
on, ever generating new ones. All
the light that the great writer's have
shed in their work is like a match
struck at sea in the darkness of mid
night and storm but the light shed
by the Nazarene lives and enlightens
the world What shall 1t profit a man
II he gain the whole world and loses
his own soul? Some men believe in
life insurance. it can do them no
good. 1t can but provide for their
loved ones after they are dead. Those
whom you love would rather have you
Insure your soul VIII it pay to be
Christ'sG
stepping up we come to moral
strength and this is greater than
physical or intellectual strength. In
the early ages men excelled in physi-
cal strength, When we read the col.
umns OF the newspapers devoted to
pugilstic encounters. we might think
that the present age worshipped physi-
cal strength. But II is not so. Car
lyle said There is nothing in the
world but man, and nothing in man
but mind but there is something
greater than intellect. Some of the
greatest minds have belonged to i'm
mortal men, as the Duke of Alva, By
ron Burns Swift and others. We
have all seen the fruits of wild oats
sowing 1t never pays, An old alb
hott once desired piece of property
that belonged to a neighbor who did
not wish to sell but allowed the abb
bolt to plant on II one season. The
abbott sowed acorns which last
through three centuries. So the devil
plants acorrs when he is allowed to
SOW the fields OF youth. Every step
from the cross is step away from
uuc manhood and true womanhood.
Moral strength is glory and moral