The San Francisco call., 1905-04-10
FEARS FOR BOYS
or n,,.o o,nu
OF THIS CITY
Rev. DIR. F. w. Clampett
Discusses Environments
Which Menace Youth of City
A CORRUPT COMMUNITY
Divine Calls on Americans to
Shoulder Responsibility
and to Rectify the Wrong

DR.. Frederick w. Clampett. rector of
Trinity Church. called upon several
hundred men in the Alhambra Theater
yesterday afternoon to be true to
themselves, to their city and their God.
He deplored the environments in this,
one of the most beautiful and fairest
Of cities, which menace the youth, and
which. as a father of boys. filed him
with fear and alarm"
The subject of the lecture was "A
Message to Men," delivered in a manner
that held the attendance. 1t was given
under the auspices of the Y. NJ. c. A.
and on the platform were many men
representing the clergy, the profess
sions and the commercial life of the
city.
Among them were Dr. Francis NJ.
Larkin, the Rev. David Evans, Pro-
fessor w. NJ. Searby, ]. B. Whitney,
George B. McDougall, George Warren
Hooper. r. A. Rounds, John Tunni-
cliffe, f. l.. Turpin, II. j. Mccoy. H.
w. Davis, William G. Quinlin, William
S. Wells, Isaac Penny, the Rev. Ernest
Bradley, rector of St. Stephen s
Church; w. w. Chase, Edward Cole
man, the Rev. K. Strong and the Rev.
Mr.. Thomas.
DR.. Clampett impressed his hearers
with the necessity of possessing the
spirit of faith, since no life is COM
plete and success not marked in those
who are without it. Meterialism was
of this age. said the doctor, and there
were men who would not believe be-
cause they could not see, and even the
doubtful might be found among pro-
fessors of universities The more, how
ever, that he dealt with men the more
ne believed in the great message"
1t was following his allusion to temp
tations held out to men that the doc
tor brought the corrupting conditions
that exist in this, one of the most beau
tiful. one of the fairest, cities in all
the world" San Francisco" said DIR.
Clampett, leads in impurity, while it
should be one of the purest cities In
all the land" He expressed his de-
testation of the exhibition of vicious
cards in windows. of plays on the stage
which are so full of 'innuendo" as to
be a menace to youth.
There never was a city community
so rotten" he said 'as the city COM
munity of to-day. Hence Ii is the
duty Of men and Americans to shoulder
the responsibility, and as individual
citizens right the wrongs"
DR.. Clampett held up the lamented
President William Mckinley and Presi-
dent Roosevelt as grand illustrations
of pure lives, instancing their home
living as beautiful examples to be fol-
lowed.
And in this respect he spoke of the
marriage ties and pointed out with re-
markable effect and force the respect
that Is due to woman. He hoped that
everything that man may say for good
might act as an influence upon his
neighbor. That was what they ought
TO try to attain-the personal influence
for good He considered that such in
fiuence was greater than any sermon.
He asked that every man be worthy
of looking into the face of his mother.
or the wife or the little child whose
sweet lips he touches: he begged for
unselfishness in the spirit, so that
every man will remember the brother
who is down in the world and Of the
outcast sister, and thus make this life
the sweeter and the stronger.