Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-19
ADDRESS TO THE BOYS
-BE TRUE TO THYSFI
TRUE TO THYSELF-
BY John p. Meakin.

cardinal Newman must ever perm cate
our very being.
Lead kindly light amid the encir-
cling gloomi
do not ask to see the distant scene,
One step is enough for me,
Lead thou me on
PERTINENT QUERIES.
The all important question for
everyone to ask of himself. II he has
the slightest spark of intellectual life
in him Is, How may I become a
man 2" And another question will
we'll up from the soul. namely: What
can do to make life worth the liv-
ing?' The answer will be; Look to
the light, be true to your inner self
and have the faith of the poet who
said:
Better strive and fall
And never reach the goal,
Than to drift along with time
An aimlcss. worthless soul
Aye better to climb and fall.
And SOW though the Yield be small,
Than to throw day after day.
And never strive at all"
II we cannot make life worth the
living, beyond simply material ex-
istence, 1t seems to me then. that
there Is no purpose in living, or In
other words, II there is nothing to
hope for or to do, but business. to
eat. to drink, to sleep and quarrel
with our fellow. as the majority OF
people do now. then death In my
estimation would be preferable. We
must have a purpose in living. We
must be careful In youth as to where
we go and what we do. Memory In
after years is either a blessing or a
curse. Therefore, we must school
ourselves in the problem of how to
live and act on earth.
First of all we must be absolutely
truthful. 1t is only the foolish who
are dishonest. TruthfulneSs is great
ness. There can be no greatness with
out strict adherence to truthfulneSs.
Truth is a constant revelation and
continuous inspiration to climb the
heights. 1t is light amid the darkness.
1t banishes the Ignorance OF tho tribal
age. 1t kills prejudice and cheers our
hearts with the sunlight of fraternal
love.
Truth is the divine source from
which comes love of home. love of
country and love OF God. Truth Is the
staff of refined pure conscience. re-
liable under any trials or conditions
whether they be the fagot. the thumb
screw, the cross. or the modern mode
of ostracism.
Reason Is tho lamp of the mind and
the source Of justice. Each lndivid-
ual is responsible to his own con-
science. Gods monitor, to know the
truth and live by 1t, When truth con-
trolls the hearts of men. Justice will
rule the world. God is truth.
Let towards fear to trust the truth,
And paddle round the shore.
Hoist thy sails. give truth the helm,
Then let the pillows roar.
THE HIJNAN RODy
The human body is tho house we
live In. 1t mus be clean. pure. refined
1t must have the best of care. To
keep II strong and perfect should be
the aim and object of every man.
and child. 1t must not be de-
hled from without or from within
why come temptations but for man
to meet,
And master and make crouch ben cath
his feet
And so be pedestaled in triumpih."
Words and colors cannot paint
he thunder s roar, nor the warmth OF |
.he summers sunshine, nor can they
ieplct or paint the sorrows and suf-
'cring OF the human fnmily caused
9y the demon drink. Sixty thousand
ives are annually destroyed by intem-
'erance, sixty thousand lives offered
n annual sacrifice at the hideous
hrine of this dovIl
Boys. you must learn that overy fac
ilty and every talent is In yosIr own
arc and keeping for Iife's successes
md continued happiness. Man must
NOW that to understand himself and
o control himself. his nppetfbes and
is the first requisite for
uccessful and harmonious Info. All
Who journey in paths of dissipation
Snorent living and ugly doing will
ooner or lator ind themselves In tba
ogs and swamps of ruined life crv-
ng In tho darkness
"Meroiful God. turn back thy mi
erso and give mo yesterday"
See tho wrecks all about lis. Stro,,
OF a few blocks around the maJn
usinoss blocks of the city, study tha
aces and wrctchedness OF tho ha
ottcd outcasts and you can SEQ az
ravity In all Its hideousness, I wont
tell You that hell forever waits 70
ngulf tho thoughtless victims of d,e
Ipatien and wrong living, not n ba,I
4 some far away world bq,t In th'a
nc here and now. Contracted skniia
nd dormant brains. people who do