The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-11-10
MATTHEW'S SHOWS
PARENTS DUTY
Gives Sermon on Bringing
Up the Boy" at Pres
byterian Church.
BRING BOYS TO
CHRIST" IS PLEA
Gang Spirit Should be Di-
rected Into the Proper
. Channels.

Every father owes it to his boy
clared Rev. w. Fl. Matthews in his
sermon OH Bringing UP the Boy at
the Presbyterian church Sunday
night. ~
The time will come" said Mr..
Matthews. when the boys who have
been left to drift religiously. will hold
their fathers to account. The boy
most all Of his problems solved. He
will want to keep his body as the
temple Of the Holy Ghost, pure and
undefled and will have an ambition
for all the education he can get"
In this connection Mr.. Matthews
called attention to the purity con-
gress now being held in Minneapolis,
and declared thai the reason such
congresses We're necessary was that
boys had not been taught to know
themselves physically.
Most of the crimes committed by
boys are. according to Mr.. Matthews.
the result of the gang spirit" This
spirit. he said was only the manifes-
tattons of the boys realization that he
Is only a unit of Il larger whole.
He urged that boys should be
in order that they might he able to
carry out their gang proclivities with
out associating with evil companions.
Taking, up the general training Of
boys, Mr.. Matthews urged the need
Of vocational education. He de-
clared that 1t was a great mistake
to allow boys to enter college with
no idea what their life work was to
In this connection he pointed out
the need Of wise council by parents
or friends. He declared. that many. a
boy had found his true vocation as
the result of such good advice.
AS q matter Of discipline Mr.. Mat
thews declared. that a boy should be
kept busy. The boys, he said, is con-
'stantly looking for new worlds to
conquer. in other words. for some
thing to do.
He cam. be trained at home to help
his mother. There is 10. reason in
the world why a boy should be left
to idly employ his time on the streets
while his mother is doing the heavy
; work at home.' '' 80: -" =
The discipline Of the boy should
money. This should include training
ta saving as we'll as earning.
Economy" said Mr.. Matthews, sis
the great need of the American peo-
pie today. Coming generations are
going to be compelled to practice it.
we nave wasted the or this
country to such all extent that it will
be harder and harder as time goes
on to make both ends meet. Economy
must ON and it ran never be
learned fs.we,? as in youth" p~sa
Training. in manners should also be
included. according to MI. Matthews
"a boy should be. taught to sit pro.
perly at the table. how to hold his
fork, and all the other little things
that make him a gentleman. I have
seen men fall down III life simply be-
cause they did not know how to hold
their forks at the table. and a large
number have failed from lack of
carly training in courtesy"
MI. Matthews declared that a boy
must have his amusements. limo
! cent amusement would. he said. tend
to keep the boy from dissipation and
give him determination to work on
for years towards tho end for which
he is striving.
A large congregation attended the
services at the Presbyterian church
Sunday night in order to hear MI.
Matthews sermon which is one Of q
series he is giving or Family Life"