The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-02-18

er's love, the greatest teaching is
done, where every father is the
Priest of his own household.
The Institute raised boy is a poor
substitute for the homemade boy,
with a mother to love and a father
to direct.
Our Y. M. G. AS are only supple
mentary to the home, and ought to
be only the rounding up places. But
how many men think, IF I pay my
boys membership to the Y. M. c..
"A. he will turn out all right" and
leave the responsible with the Sec
rotary. Farming out boys, has never
raised the highest type of manhood
in any period Of history. should
think President Roosevelt would
farm out his boys, he has so much
to do besides looking after boys.
That's many a fathers III The
secretary, however, who does not see
that his monument may be erected
in living form in the lives of the
men of the next generation, is falling
far short of the vision he should
have of his opportunities.
l. NuOW vi III Ollc WHO Cdu HAVE
the influence with boys than the man
who enters into their games, who
sympathiZes with what they think
to be their limitations and talks
over with them the great problems
of their life that mean their destiny.
/ repeat it. No one has the influence
with boys that the man may have
who plays with them, and enters
into their social life, talk to them
of life's great problems. For in
youth the aspirations of every career
is begun, and who knows but a
statesman in embryo is searching for
the field of his operations in the
youths you may influence. Search
the history of nearly every great
man and you will find a remarkable
boyhood. Who do we of the west,
because we have helped to frame
and shape a new country. the des-
tiny of whose possibilities are yet in
the future, the whole aspect is radi-
ent with development, and what the
elimination may be no man will dare
%prophesy. So it Is with youth, the
possibilities Of life are yet to unfold,
and If we as true husbandmen care
and tender Alright, the fruitage will
be some thirty, some sixty and some
an hundred fold. Manhood and age
offers no such inducements. In boy
hood real estate is on the boom but
you must act quickly before the
boom breaks or you will have SO
much clay on your hands with taxes
to pay on In the future.
Now what can such an organiza-
ton as the Young Mems Christian
Association do for the boy. 1t can
furnish a place with wise direction
not supplied by the public, for the
physical need of the boy, the social
need under good influences which
can not be picked up in the streets
or back alleys. 1t supplies a trained
physical man to direct in how to
develop the growing boy in his
games and play; teaches how to keep
his body clean and his mind pure;
gives him contact with others that
makes him respect the rights and
privileges of others; supplies him
good literature and interests him in
reading it. 1t keeps many a boy
from the police, and many others
from the doctors treatment so often
necessary because of youthful sins
and above all, it is Christian, il
is the auxiliary of the church, work.
ing in unity with the everyday open
door to guide life in the way of Jesus
Christ. There is no period in life
when so many decide for Christ as
during adolescent boyhood. The
Bible classes, the boys religious
meetings under the direction of a
good man has meant to hundreds Of
boys, an entrance into the Kingdom
fulfilling that great and wise admon.
ition Of the Bible, Remember nov
thy Creator in the days of thy youth
while the evil days come not nor the
years draw nigh, when thou shalt
say, I have no pleasure in them"