The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-17

brothers keeper by setting an example to
that younger brother which will prevent
him from getting such false estimate Of
life as that
Example is the most potent Of all things
If any one of you in the presence of young
err boys, and especially to younger people
Of your own family. misbehave yourself
IL you use coarse and blasphemous lang
uage before them, you can be sure that
these younger people will follow your ex-
ample and not your precept.
ut is no use to preach to them II you
do not act decently yourself. You have got
to feel that the most effective way In
which you can preach is by your practice, ;.
'.Just as was driving up here a friend
who was with us said that in his experience
the boy who went out into life with foul
tongue was apt to SO go because his kim
folk at least his intimate associates, them
selves. had foul tongues. But while the
life in the family cannot do everything,
while the associations of friendship cannot
do everything, still the friends. the father,
the elder brothers. can do most toward see
ing that the boys. as they become men, be-
come clean and honorable men.
st have told you that wanted you not
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boys are not going to admire virtue that is
of purely anaemic type They believe In
courage, in manliness. They ADMIRE those
who have the quality Of being brave, the
quality of facing life as life should be faced
the quality that must stand at the root OF
good citizenship in peace or in war.
IF you are to be effective as good Chris
tians you have got to possess strength and
courage, or your example will count for
little with the young, who admire strength
and courage. want to see you, the men
of the Holy Name Society, you who embody
the qualities which the younger people adj
mire, by your example give those young
people the tendency, the trend. in the right
directions, and remember that this example
counts in their case as we'll as cleanliness
Of speech.
81 want to see every man able to hold
his own with the strong. and also ashamed
to Cypress the weak. I want to see the
young man able to do mans work in this
world and Of a type which will not permit
imposition to be practiced upon him. want
to see him too strong of spirit to submit
to wrong. and, on the other hand. ashamed
to do wrong to others want to see each
man able to hold his own in the rough work
Of actual life outside. and, also. when he
is at home. good man. unselfsh in deal
ing with wife. or mother, or children.
Remember that the preaching does not
count II 1t is not backed up by practice.
There is no good Of your preaching to your
boys to be brave IL you run away. There
is no good Of your preaching to them to
ten the truth II you do not There is no
good Of your preaching to them to be I'M
selfish II they see you selfish with your life,
disregardful OF others yourself,
I'VE have right to expect not only that
you will come together in meetings like this:
that you win march in professions: that
you will Join in building up such a great
and useful association as this, but we have
right also to expect that in your own
homes and among your own associates you
will prove by your deeds that yours is not
lip-loyalty merely-that you will show In
actual practice the faith that is II, you.
Nov. friends. that is all have to say.
I have come here merely to greet you and
to say how welcome the work that is be-
ing done by this society In the last analy-
sis, the whole future Of the State depends
upon the average citizen having in his ma
ture the mixture Of strength and honesty
which make in their sum what we call
good citizenship to the making up of which
60 many qualities. but these above all.
I'm the first place the quality of honesty;
we must have that first. am using it in
its broadcast sense-honesty. including de-
cency in private life. cleanliness of words,
OF speech as well as Of life, decency toward
the State. including honesty which IL It is
really possessed. stands at the basis OF
patriotism itself; that is Indispensable