Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-13
PICTURE IS PAINTED
OF NATIONS YOUTH
DR.. R. J. BURDETTE breaches
FAREWELL SERMON
Information That Should Be impaired
at Home often Is Secured
in the Juvenile
Court
Especial to The Herald

PASADENA, Dec. 12.-Rev. DR.. Rob-
ert j. Burdette today delivered his last
sermon prior to leaving Pasadena on a
trip to Honolulu and Japan before Il
congregation which filed the West
Side Congregational church.
The sermon was a beautiful word pic
ture of the youth of the nation, carry
ing out the figure contained in Psalms,
144:12, "Our sons shall be as plants
grown up in their youth and our
daughters as corner stones, polished
after the similitude of a palace The
natural development of boy and girl
was carried out in terms Of this figure,
the conclusion being on the proper
training of children by parents. A sig
nificant statement along the same line
was made in an explanation of the
Scripture lesson when DR.. Burdette
said
This means that when your boy asks
you why you say grace and have fam
lily prayers, why he must go to Sunday
school and why you put on your best
clothes on the Sabbath, you must stop
and tell him. But often and often,
when the father is asked these ques-
tions, he said, 60 to your mother
and the mother puts the child aside
with an excuse. No wonder We have
our criminals; no wonder we have our
juvenile court and Whittier reform
school. The questions which should be
answered in the home are left to Judge
Wilbur and to the officers of the re-
form school and to the day school
teacher. And even there the state su-
perintendent of schools steps i'm and
interferes 1t seems as though there
is a conspiracy to keep our boys and
girls from knowing the greatest truths
on earth"
Text Is Interpreted
Dr. Burdette referred to the psalm
from which text was taken as a pic
tire of national prosperity. He read
it. speaking Of the portion mo coming
in" as meaning mo invasion;' and mo
going OUT as meaning mo going
down into Central America to lick a
little nation no bigger in comparison
to this country than the Pasadena
high school"
AS the tree has its growth in the
out of doors, so a boy II was said,
must grow up out i'm the world. taking
its blows as the tree does the world $
storms. "Some men," it was said,
"are built like a telephone pole. They
never grow. They are unyielding. a
man must give and yield as tree to
the Mind to learn TO be adjustable in
society. But in yielding he must never
for moment give up his firm founda-
tion of principle.
"As TO our daughters, their place is
in the nOme-uOt living boys lie
in the open. As beautifully fashioned
corner stones, they are not only grace
ful. hu are useful They sustain the
weight of the palace, and if removed,
weaken it as well as mar its beauty.
As the "Mai1ens of the Portico" beau
tiful!y carved from marble uphold the
ruins of an ancient temple of Greece
and have done so for centuries, 50
must woman face the world with
calm and serene countenancc, shielding
the home from harsh criticism and
cenaure if SO be it shame and sin shall
have replaced love and affection These
two powers of woman and of man,
combine to make the perfect home.
Children as an Arrow
"As the nctched arrow in the bands
Of an expert archer whose eve is
fixed upon his target and whose mighty
arm draws the arrow back until its
head strikes tie bow, flies true to the
mark, so your children will grow If
aimed a:Ipht. You can aim chem at
the aUu. if You viii. But let some
thing else call you, let society, or
bridge or business divert your gaze
ana your heart goes with it. Your
children will be as an arrow shot from
a half drawn bow. You win wonder
why children, from such a home as
yours went wrong. 1t is because they
were from such home as yours. A
iaX han6 and diverted gaze caruCr
shoot an arrow straight. Nobody Will
teach our sons honor aud our daugh.
ters purity if we do not. On us alone
rests the interest taken i'm our
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