The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-04-15
YOUNG PEOPLES UNION
ENDS FINE CONFERENCE

successor. To you will come the Of
fees and work of the men who today
are carrying the burdens of life's re-
sponsibility. The great Church of
Jesus Christ will come to you. AS
you deal with her problems and
promises, so shall she be greater, or
lesser, stronger or weaker
Since you stand upon a higher
pinnacle than any young people ever
have stood in the past, | urge upon
you a deeper conservation to this
great work
The Young Peoples societies should
be the training school of the church.
And it should train you to be loyal
to your own church. I'll should give
you a breadth of interest and sym
pathy, but it should make you in
tensely loyal to your own church."
Mr.. Orcutt followed Rev. Warner
and spoke on The Relation of the So
ciety to the Community
'There are two sides to the work
of the young people. One Mr.. Warner
has presented as the development of
body of young people for the great
work of the church. The other is to
reach out and win the boy and girl
who is away from the church. Do
you realize how many young people
are out of the church? 1t is your husi
ness to go out and get them. The re-
sponsibility upon the young peoples
societies is great The community has
right to expect you to influence its
young people rightly. They need you
to surround them with such influences
as shall build them up and lead them
to Christ
Our Relation to the Temperance
Movement" was the subject of Joseph
NJ. Adams. He said:
1--WE have no more serious or diff
cult problem before us today than the
liquor traffic. This has been before the
people for 5000 years The temper
and wave that is sweeping our country
today is not led by few fanatics, but
by men who so broadly, and feel the
great possibilities of the future The
success or failure of this is in the
hands of the young people,"
Reaching the, Younger People"
was ]. D. Davis subject.
THE studies of the evening"" he
said ssfind tbo;, olir,oov ~ A,;a +r,;o
the problem of how to reach the
young people. To win them we must|
show them the need there is for them
in our work and make them know thatI
we want them. We must make the life
and work attractive to them OurI
young peoples meeting should bel
warm with welcome for them. OurI
social life must be such as they can
enjoy, while presenting them high
type of enjoyment. Again we must
set them to work, keep them busy
On Sunday afternoon the beautiful
banner, promised to the society send |
ing the largest number of delegates to
the convention, in proportion to its
membership, was won by the society
at Princeton, which sent four dele
gates, from a membership of thirty
The Charleston society was a run
ner up" for the pennant, with six dele
gates from membership of fifty fall
ing short by l 1-3 per cent below the
Princeton society.
Professor Steinman of the depart
ment of engineering at the University
of Idaho, spoke on Character Build
ing" at the afternoon session. He
urged the constant application of the
life to the best things; the setting VI
of the highest ideal in our life. We
should study the character of Jesus
and seek to make our own the grea
principles which filled his life, and
so base our lives upon His. His spir
itualits His sympathy, and Hi
cheerfulness, are well worth our stu
dy and invitation.