The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-10

tbe Phillips Congregational church,
preached last evening on the problem
of the young man in our modern civil
plication of such methods as are the
characteristic Of the Y. NJ. G. A. In
referring 10 the present campaign IN
behalf of the Y. NJ. c. A, the Rev,
Mr.. Simpkin said;
Among the institutions which are do
ing q notable service to the time. quite
among the first is that known as the
Y. NJ. G. a. 1t has been, since it was
founded Il wonderfully beneficial and
formative influence for young men. Born
at time when certain forms OF belief
were changing, 1t has been a great factor
in conserving the religious life OF young
men. In an age OF freedom. with the
man soul conscious of its divine heritage
OF liberty, with the spirit-moving that
has pushed away in impatience the guid,
ing and restraining hand OF ecclcSlastlcal
leadership. this institution has been a
force making for sane conservation.
The very wealth Of freedom. the quick
tended in the removal Of age-long res
traints in the presence OF a common
luxury and opportunity for pleasure that
the princes and kings of YESTERDAY, did
not know. have made life more perllous.
With well-paid and short hours Of Ia
Dor and the means and time to give
expression 10 the cXuberant spirit OF
peal to men to spend themselves for
pleasure. SO much of which has the after
math abidingly bitter HE is harder to
live in righteousness and rigid morality
than ever,
True, not innocence but character is
the end OF life: but we are paying too
high a price for the sophistication of our
youth. One needs think but shalloWy
TO see the terrific importance in a gov
eminent like our own, dependent for its
strength on the character of it's citizen
thrust us out, dazcd by the sunlight OF
the wide sky Of worldpower. 10 play n
giants part in the life OF the age. the
vital Importance Of clean men.
Home with its sacred obligations. citl-
zenship with It's burdens. it's duties,
business In all its manifold forms, depend
upon men. honest, sane. clean, strong.
quick OF body and mind aud will, to carry
the burdens OF the marvellous life de-
Vcloped In America. Fathers and mothers
are interested in the problem from the
princes and bankers, the masters Of the
mining and transportation worlds. all en-
ployers OF labor, are at once. by self
interest, and the compulsions OF the
fits and dividends, interested in this
problem OF the young man and his moral
well-being. At this stage Of the city $
development. and the awakening of the
move TO the field OF wider life, the prob
lem of clean manhood is OF more import
than any other,
The Y NJ. G. A. has n message. ethi
CAL mental and physical, that carries
men towards the finest development.
Without sectarian bias, without eNclu-
slve spirit, il stands with the essence
of that evangelical message that has re-
newcd tho face Of the age, and by its
own peculiar and splendid methods it
lays hold on the animal spirits, trains
the body, leads men to q generous emu
lation in sports, TO Ceanly methods OF
amusement. clean ideals and associations,
1t imports mental stimulus and en-
dowment. and seeks TO do a work that
will make artists and artisans. profess
siouaI men and business leaders who
shall give to the world the best service
possible, crowned by ethical Impulses and
ideals. We need TO be interested in this
world movement for men, for the young
fellows who are caught in the swing or
it are manly and clean, and are missing
from the places OF vice and Shame-thelT
figures arc not found in the arena that
gathers the worlds wrecks. The inst-
tuition in this city is trying to do that
class OF work. Finely housed. well
equipped. ideally located. it has been
planted for social service. IT stands for
your boy and mine: IL stands also for
your daughters home, as for mine. II
touches the problem OF tomorrow in the
ministry of today.
1t Will he here and at work when the
Green turf Of 0ivet or the b,dsy sunny my,
quiet faces and stilled hearts. 1t will
be going ON. busy all the time for Salt
Lake and Utah. for men and for God.
1t will be working to keep our boys pure,
to send them into service I'm office, mine,
mill, shop and store, sober, solind, clean,
strong, honest and intelligent. 1t will
be working to send them to the marriage
altar. pure, tit for life's duty. 1t will
be craving the deeper the counsel of
the home for the making of character.
In behalf Of this institution, with It's
service and possibility. the cleverest
business men, the brainest leaders of our
commercial life have been for a week
past seeking funds 10 meet its debt.
Unselfishly and with public spirit
most Commendable, the Commercial club
turned all Its strength and effort to this
task. because this institution belongs 10
as the states vast interests. Not for
any selfish end has this. work been car
ricd on but for the public good. 1t that
work to fail?
Ere you make your answer, look for
il in the bright. merry eyes Of your lad.
whom you would rather have good than
clever Look into the clean races %, OF
morrow's citizens and fathers, Ihe juNe-
nile court and the reform school. the ron
and the Potters field hold the sad wrecks
OF those who needed that which inns
thing stands for.
and 1t will be. Salt Lake City ai,on inH IN
thisl With nearly twenty-five milllous
of wealth in IT'S banks Amid u prosper
ity unparalleled and at time when
the eyes of the country are on us! AS
TO be? Is the city that has always made
good to fail now? Arc the unselfish Ia
Iors Of this committee representing al,
the crccds OF the city and time To tail
of a full response? Shall our city. spend
ings its millions for pleasure and luxury,
for the social parade of an hour. deny
i'm whose hands is the destiny OF the
great state? 1 do not think.
The big-hearted. wide~visioned men
this institution To- stand crippled for lack
Of this sum, so paltry in face OF the pos
sibilitics of service The institution can
give No church would he suffered 10
close it's doors In This city for lack OF
holm. Nor viii this institution, MhlCh is