The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-25
COLONEL JOHN sNEEDs CONVERSATIONS ON
DOMESTIC PROBLEMS
BY CASPER S. YoST.
BY CASPER S. YoST.

track, You belong OF the big ere" crowd ID
Bill, and so do you. little girl You
needn't flatter yourself IT, a. YOU can
trail along on a little path If your own
and get to the right placr before the
books are closed. You s7ight but I
wouldn't try it. It's risky business.
and, besides. you'd get mighty lone
some.
There never was a road vet that
didn't run in two directions. and unless
you stand still you've got to travel one
way or the other. There's a consider
able crowd goin' both ways on this
highway Of life an that bein' the case
it's just as easy and a whole lot Meas
anter to have company. Whether a
mans goin' to heaven or goin' to the
devil, it's better to be sociable. I never
did have any use for the fellow who
focks by himself to practice either his
virtues or his vices. Now, 1 take il for
granted, William, that you and nv lit
tie girl want TO go in the right direc-
ton, and, if so, you'll find the only real
crowd that's gOin' your way is i'm the
church. They're in the church primar-
lily, 1 guess, because of it's promises
but apart from that they're in il be-
cause Jordan, as the old song saws. is
a hard road to travel, and they need the
help of the church to get them over
the stony places. That's Just why YOU
need it, and just why you can't afford
to go along without it. Get in the habit
Of lyin' in bed Of Sunday mornin's and
before you know it you'll develop soft
enin' Of the backbone and of the moral
sense. You may keep your face turned
in the right direction, but by and bv
you'll discover that you're waIkin'
backward like a cravfish
i've noticed, Bill-and I don't sleep
except when 1 go to bed-T've noticed
that the people who come nearest to
bein' happy in this world are the ones
who come nearest TO doin' right. To do
right all the time, to do the square
thing by your friends and your enemies.
by everybody as well as by yourself,
IS pretty hard proposition, and there s
mighty few, doubt if there's any, that
succeed entirely; but it's been my ex-
perience that it pays to try. and the
DIVIDENDS seem to be exactly in proper
ton TO the success. We're all lOOkin'
for happiness. We've got a good MANY
different ideas about what it is. but
whatever it is we want it, and if we've
got boss sense we want the brand
thatll last the longest an keep the
best. That brand, my boy, is especially
prepared and reserved for those who do
right. or as near right as they can. No
body else can get even a smell of it.
And there's no institution or agency
thatll help a man to do right like a
church. It's got the right-of-way on
the straightaway track. It's got the
road ali surveyed and Charted. There's
lots O people in the church that we
don't like, and there's lots O. people in
the church, no doubt, who don't like
hrr- 4cat~ oil
mains that the church people are the
best people, not only in the spiritual
but in the material sense; the church
people are the bone an sinew of our
civilization, and there's more true good
ness and more real happiness inside the
church than out of it. That's the wood
with the bark on il, children, and 1
want you to train with that crowd"
Copyright, 1909. by c. S. Yost)