Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-19

Build IL high and clean and broad.
Build il for the eye of God"
r YAVING read reports in our
I daily papers of late of
speeches made by prominent
men in which the claim
has been made that our Utah boys are
undermining the very foundations of
their lives and characters by Indulg-
Ing in various forms of dissipation,
wrong thinking. wrong living and
wrong doing. 1 was prompted to ad-
dress my younger brothers and not
having a public hall In which to speak.
I take the broad plain-the press
and thus reach thousands through tho
columns of The Deseret News.
Ny church is the world. Its dome Is
the sky, its pews are the street tho
factory. the home. on the mountain
side or on the banks OF the River
Jordan-anywhere and everywhere
the boys are to be found.
Boys-I am going to talk on the
subject of success or true manhood,
but first let us understand each other.
My Idea OF success may not be yours,
do not mean success OF manhood in
the narrow sense of gaining somo
petty victory. the success of wealth
or power or glory. 1 do not mean to
tell you how to become great cap
tain of industry. a financial giant nko
Morgan, Carnegie, Vanderbilt or
Gould. nor general like Moltke.
Grant or Napoleon; neither would L
instruct you in the art OF diplomacy
or craftsmanship; the mysteries or re-
ligion or the intrlcacies of politics. A
man may be great In all these ana
yot be a very unsuccessful man when
considered from universal stand
point; when measured by the growth
of his soul. the development OF his
character, his body and his mind. or
the accomplishment OF the great pur-
pose of life-of an ever unfoldong,
pure, earnest, honest manhood un-
tramelled by the fetters OF caste. con-
ceIt, Ignorance or superstition.
If you believe In perfection as
worth and In human endeavor, then
no service IL possible which harms
your body, which occupies your mind
with petty ignoble matters. which
makes your heart less genuine and
sympathetic A perverston OF stuntinS
of any side of your nature is an In
road upon the whole. Only that ser
vice is good for you and good for the
which leaves you truor.
sounder, more wholesome man. Life
is filled with glittering illusions. We
spend our youthful energies. our
manhood and above oil the precious
hours of eXultant life in chasing the
phantoms of happiness. in fun and
frolic only to find In tho end after 1t
is all over and old age crecps upon us
that the things we sought are not the
things we wanted and that the things
We really wanted and needed we left
far bohind In the valleys of youth. or
in other words We killed the coming
man while in boyhood. Therefore to
the end that life may not close with
regrets and recollectlons of a mis-
spent life. we must look to the present
tho here and the now.
BARS TO PROGRESS.
Natures forces are never bribed.
They are ineXorable and eternal. and
as certain as death. what you SOW you
reap. Every low thought. every wrong
act, every bad habit. however In
significant. is just so much OF
mighty force turned against your
progress to a successful, perfect life.
The training of mans moral nature
ls an important factor In producing
healthy mind. True or puro civiliZa-
ton is not in foundations of granite |
or marble. but in foundations OF |
character and reasoning manhood. To |
be q real man. the higher faculties |
and sensibillties must be developed
and brought into use, 1t Is mattor |
of intellectual. moral and spiritual |
The, capabllity of tho |
human mind for advancement cannot
be estimated nor measured In words.
Man should know something about
everything ard everything about
Everyday we can increase
the possibilities OF that extraordinary
thinking machine. the human brain,
the mind Emerson said
What the world needs Ia men who
Will make us do the best we can"
To bo an honest. helpful. reasoning
man is tho highest pinnacle to which
one may climb in human life. To
this. ono must have faith
n God, faith In oneself, faith In hu-
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