The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-17
THE THREE IDEALS OF YOUTH
SUBJECT OFRET. c. 4. DINSMORE
 AT BATTELL CHAPEL.

Middle Age the Critical Period of Life
 He That Uses His Ability for His
 Own DeIectation is Unworthy-
 Apostle Paul Sets Us the Modest Ideal
 of All.
 Rev. Charles A. Dinsmore, of Water bury, preached one of the most helpful sermons of the year at Battell chapel yesterday morning from the twenty eighth verse of Joel, Your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions"
 That old men should dread dreams, said MT. Dinsmore, is a hopeful sign. The power of creating an ideal has done much toward creating our civilization. The old saying that a man fights his fiercest battle in youth is not true. The time of the fiercest struggle is in n1id- de age.
 When a man is young he is enthusi- astic and ambitious. He dreams of things to conquer, but when middle age is reached he begins to realize his lim- 1tations. He learns that a world-fa- nous work is impossible and he drifts into selfishness. Then it is that he brings the ideal down to the level of his character. The most pitiable man is he who has lost the dreams of youth. He should have been encouraged and have applied himself anew. The text, there- fore, is significant when the prophet says your old men shall dream dreams.
 There are three ideals that influence men in their youth. The first is to be seen in the parable of the prodigal son. He demanded of his father the portion of his substance that he might use it in selfish delights. How many young men are doing this to-day? That men are able to make fortunes and to main- tain high standards of scholarship is due to the inheritance from our fath- CTS. He that uses his ability for his own delectation, therefore, is unwor- thy.
 Another ideal is that which we see in David, When the country was overrun with pestilence and his neighbor offer | ed to give his people cattle David re- | piled that he would take nothing which he could not pay for. He is a nobler man than the prodigal son who says that he will heturn to society that | which he takes out He says: II am willing to pay the price. If desire to l be wealthy I will return to society in work that which I take out in another 1 form"
 The third ideal is the grandest of all and was. given to us by the man whom the French philosopher loved to call 'the nasty little Jew" the apostle Paul..
 He said: T am a debtor both to the Greek and to the barbarian to the wise and the foolish" He realized his duty to the world. This is worthy to be the ideal of every man. This is the great est vision of the possibilities of the fu- ture. It is this that the world needs. You and I have something that is of value to our fellow-man-somethinG that we owe. No man can be put in prison without due process of the law. This we owe to the life of Cromwells to the story of Bunker Hill and Get tysburg.
 In passing through the Chicago ex- hibition President Eliot, of Harvard, wrote this sentence about one of the statues: Religious toleraticn, the greatest fruit of the last four centu- ries." Just think of that! What have been the accomplishments of science? But religious toleration has cost the German reformation and the Spanish inquisition. It has cost us of to-day not one cent of money or one drop of blood. If we take these gifts and give nothing in return we are not worthy
 In his story of the under world Dante N tells of coming to door over whose portals was written the inscription. "All hope abandon, ye who enter here" The people who lived there were those who had been neither good nor bad. Heaven had excluded them and hell had cast them out. They were the towards. One of the chiefs was one who is supposed to have been Pope Celeste V. It was a time of great worldly corruption when he was elect ed to the papacy. He was very good- ly man, but shirked the task and the opportunity to do good by resigning his office. The people praised him for his piety but he was a coward.
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