The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-03-28
REV. W. W. BUSTARD SPOKE
Address al Y. N. C. A. on "How a Young
Man Became a King"

Perhaps many Of those at the Y M C..
A. meeting yesterday afternoon remem-
bered the speaker, Rev. w w. Bustard-
church. Boston. as the former Brown
baseball captain. but all showed interest
I'm what he had TO say.
Bowen r. Church. cornetist. played sew
eral solos. Scripture. I Sam. 1918. was
read and prayer was offered. II was an
nounced that Charles NJ. Melden, pastor
OF the Mathewson Street NJ. f.. church
will speak in April on four important
questions for n youg man TO answer. Next
Sundays will be. "Tf Die. Shall Live
Again." end contralto solos are TO be
sung by Mrs. MAY IT, Nichols.
Mr.. Bustard's address. which also con-
tained illuminating illustrations. follows
In part:
] want TO speak TO you from a text
found In III Chronicles 34:2. And he did
that which was right in the sight of the
Lord. and walked I'm the ways OF DaSid
his father and declined neither to the
right hand or 10 the left"
| want 20 draw your especial attention
TO the possibilities OF every young man be-
coming q king Some fathers persist In
handicapping their children with a poor
start Josiahs heredity wasn't in his fa-
vor on his fathers side
environment the two great bugaboos OF
tho nineteenth century. You can't account
for the greatness OF Daniel Webster and
Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln on the
basis or heredity. think that Josiah had
q good mother. Joslahs environment was
against him. Jerusalem was full OF i'm
lquity. And yet Josiah might well have
SAID, II can never rise above my environ
ment."
I believe that there are no circum-
stances I'm which a man can't become a
Christian and no circumstances under
which he can't live Christian life Chris
uanity Is as good for every place "a IL is
for any place. The only thing you can
make n man with is n boy When a young
man wants To do wrong. he can find
plenty 10 help him.
He did that which was right" want
no better epitapn than that Nothing
higher nothing nobler could have been
said of any man than that The devil
said TO Christ Throw thyself down. .
The devil can't throw any man down.
but he can tempt Sin is fall. Righteous =
ness is a climb.
n Is n truth that. n man doesn't
find God by the time he r. sixteen or
seventeen, It's ono chance IN forty tina,
he viii ever find him. You and either
bind ourselves with chains. or We free
ourselves with a liberty that makes VI.
kings eternally
n h generally that when a man Is about
| twenty, he Is either n confirmed ido
| worshipper or he II courageous idol
breaker. An idol OF civilization is any
| thing that YOU love and serve more than
| your God There n the idol " amhi.
| tion | believe In ambition IN a man
| who Is more anxious 10 get up than he
| ls To get on.
| The Idol of pleasure has its millions
| -
| by night and by day Life is the mos,
| serious thing I'm tho world today and II
/ II the hardest thing 10 know how to live
| r. You must either break your idols OF
/ they'll break you. man can't reform
/ his Image before he reforms himself
A man made a towpath a highway n
glory. but James A. Garfield cut himself
/ loose from everything that would kecr
| him down. and he became n man among
kings and n king among men. No youne
man ever broke an IDOL who didn't ge,
back thirty. sixty or n hundred fold