Arizona republican., 1907-12-09

immoral picture has polluted the imag- ination for ever, and sealed the death warrant of the soul. Chastity is the hiding power of the race. Purity is the eliminating point or personal character. He that is in the habit of
 being filthy will continue through all eternity to be filthy still" Such men repent the consequences, not the sin. The call of the hour is for a white life on the part of both men and women. The double standard of morality by which We ostracise the woman and canonize the man is not only a mon tsrous injustice, but an abomination in the sight of God. There are foul mouthed specimens or animalism who are ever ready to tell you the best story they have ever heard; if you are so unwise as to listen, it usually turns out to be the worst story you have ever heard. Make the words of Wesley's mother one of the rules of your life
 Whatever weakens the reason, what ever impairs the tenderness of consci- ence, whatever obscures the sense of God, whatever increases the strength of body over mind-that is wrong, however innocent it may be in itself" As John B. Cough fell dead upon the platform, he exclaimed, Young men; keep your record clean"
 Another remorseless enemy working for the degredation of our young men is the reckless and all but fatal spTit of gambling. There probably has never been d day when gambling was more rife and games of chance more preva- lent than today. Gambling represents an indefensible spirit. It is said there are twenty thousand boOkmakers in the United Kingdom. One of these in ten days placed four thousand bets. An other establishment claims to have made nearly 5000 pounds of profit in nine months time. The annual turn over among boOkmakers is estimated lat 50,00O.00O pounds. The professional gambler is the moral scavenger of so- ciety. Men and women. boys and girls, flock about the bookmaker like moths a bout a lighted candle. The Rev. J. w. Horsley furnishes this tell4tale report of the sure things of the racecourse. Out Of 159 sure things upon which the guillible public was asked to invest it's money, 152 went wrong, and only seven were right. The Rev. Dr. Goodrich says that for four Manchester races forty noises were named as winners: not one of them one. Out of seventy nine horses tipped. seventy-fOnr lost; and of S9S horses named as sure things. straight tips-straight from the hSrse's mOuth-in connection with 156 races, IT lost. He could not get away from the suspicion that the tipsters advised people to put their money on horses which they knew would not win, sc that those in the know" should gath CT in the final profit. Horace Greeley once said. The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it." The time has come 10 arouse the public consci- ence against all games of chance, as the foe of fidelity, honesty. and future prospects. It dislocates legitimate commerce and legitimate business. The late Dr. Parker said Horse racing is a good thing in itself and quite harm less if it can be purified from all its gambling and other immoral associa- tions."
 Another gateway through which numbers of our young men are going down to the slaughter is that of infi- delity. But a generation of young men under the triple and terrible passiosns of drink. lust, and gambling. and but one result can follow as to their moral and spiritual life. These pitless pas siOns combine to superinduce a spirit of scepticism. It is the infidelity born of ignorance, intemperance, immorali- ty. and indifferentism. The Christian religion would separate every young man from the drink. the house of shame the gambling hell. The truth is. the average young man hates God and practically prays depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy way" The brains of the world are on the side of God. Gladstone and Long fellow, Kelvin and Mckinley, Roose- welt and Prof. Ramsey are specimens of the leaders of life and thought that have bowed in reverent submission to the will of God. Gladstone declared his belief in the divinity of Christ by saying All l write and all I hope is based upon the divinity of our Lord. the central hope of our poor wayward race It is a terrible aggravatiOn of a young mans guilt when his daily life is a contradiction of his fathers counsels and his mothers prayers. To- ward Christ as an immaculate model, God seeks to conform every human soul. Jesus Christ is 9ods measure of a true man. The privilege of putting on the man of new model belongs to every young man. The refusal to com ply with the divine request is fraught with infinite danger and irrevocable ruin. Our young men need to plan and to build for eternity. to reach for ward, climb higher. dig deeper, and strive more unselfishly than their pre- decessors. The grave responsibility of our times rests upon the shoulders of our young men. They require hero ism. daring and industry; grit. grace and gumptiOn" will conquer all opposi- ton and turn defeat to victory In daily life, our young men need to aim high. Emerson, in writing to the young men of America, exclaimed Hitch your wagon to a star" Napoleon's famous motto was "To displace is to conquer" To fill the mind with good Is to exclude the evil. Get right with God, and live every day on a scale that measures eternity as well as time. A source of help for the tempted is self Sacrifice in behalf of others. It is not enough to be good, but to be good for something. to somebody, if we expect perpetual victory. The world is full of men and women who need our sympa- . T