The Washington herald., 1911-10-29
OLDER BOYS REAL
ASSET OF THE CITY
Not to Be Kept in Cold Stor-
age, but Made Useful.
HOME LIFE THE BIG FACTOR
Far-reachinE Campaign in "Men
and Religion" Movement Inau-
Eurated by Protestant Sunday
schools and Tenchers-Enthusi-
nStic Meeting and Banquet.

Washington Sunday school members
and superintendents, 80 strong, last
night inaugurated, at 4 meeting in the
assembly hall of the Young Mems Chris
t!an Association, a far-reachnS cam
IEiign which aims to extend greatly the
scope of church and Sunday school ac-
tivity among the older boys OF the city,
and which will be one of the prelim-
mary steps leading up to the initiation
of the Men and Religion campaign
next January.
Plans were announced for a confer
enCe to he held next month, at which
the case Of the older boy in his social
and religious relations will be consid-
cred in detail. Practically every church
Washington will unite to make 1t
one of the most notable religious un-
dertakings ever carried out in the Dis
trict.
Enthusinsm Runs High.
The meeting last night followed coin
plimentary banquet TO the Sunday school
supe-intendcnts and 4 number of the
older boys of Washington churches. En-
thusasm ran high. and the words OF the
Speakers Were indorsed with hearty ap-
plause. James Sharp presided, and Dr.
Charles Wood, 0i the Church OF the
Covenant, delivered the invocation.
The first address Of the evening was
delivered Ey William Knowles Cooper,
general secretary Of tic Young Mems $
Christian Association. who took as his
subjccl Tie older boy as an asset"
The older boys Of Washington are its
real d5-ct." jeCl Ir'd Ill. Cooper. They
are the city's most precious material.
But this asset is not to be stored in
church cellars or in Sunday school rooms,
but to be sent into the life Of the city OF
WASHINGTON
The importance Of home life and the
danger that education may lead boys
away from il were pointed out by Dr
William NJ. Davidson. superintendent Ot
sch0oIs. in an address on The greatest
need of the older boy"
Supt. DnNidson's Remarks.
Many educators have emphasized the
necessity Of the Y. VI. {. A, the schools
and the Sunday schools to combine in
order TO raise the standards of boys and
girls much beyond the point where the
average home leaves them" he said
That is a plan Of which I do not ap-
prove. The greatest factor in a boy
life is his home life, so far as influence
is concerned Ninety-nine times out OF
a hundred. love and affection are inCul-
Gated there. and they should be exalted
in the heart OF every boy. instruction
rxalts the home in the mind. heart. and
though Of the boy; what he gets from
the schools and the Sunday schools
should be taken back into the home, that
the home may he thereby lifted.
Many boys of sixteen to twenty are
educated away from the home. They g
TO schOoI and college, and get ideas tha
do not accord with the ideals Of theil
fathers and mothers. BOYS should linl
themselves to hiuh ideals in home. school
and society. and should persistently fol
low them through their lives, realizinz
that ideals are real assets only wher
they are put into action.
Too many men who are good are
g"Udy-cood: the world looks upon them
as without vice. but they have no virtue
they put no high ideals into action. and
have no thought Of doing anything foI
the world.
F. H. Brtstow. superintendent of the
Calvary Baptist Church Sunday school
took aS his subject is the Sunday
school reaching the older bovs?"
To some extent the Sunday schools