The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-09

church has been your spiritual home
from the time you can remember I'm,
til the present time. You have been
under the influence of the church all
this time and the boy owes the church
confession. Second, cooperation, coop.
Grafton in all the church life in It's SO.
cial life, in religious life and business
life. The boy should have voice in
the government of the church. He
should cooperate with the church in
it's Sabbath school, of studying the BIZ
BILE there, In the church activities, in
the morning service, in the evening
service and at the prayer meeting and
whatever other activities the church
may have. The Young Peoples So
ciety is a training ground for you for
your future work. The church expects
personal work. If you love Christ and
have your heart with the church to
which you belong you ought to do per
sonal work-by inviting others to the
services, by your life in the outside
activities, by inviting others to con-
fession Of Jesus Christ. You can do
more good among certain class of
boys than the minister can. The
church expects loyalty from you to the
church with which you are affiliated,
to your captain Of your baseball or
football teams-to your captain, Jesus
Christ. II you are not loyal 10 Him
you will not make the success In life
that God and Christ expect of you.
The Public Address.
At o'clock there was meeting for
men and boys over the age Of fifteen
held in the church. Mr.. Drum took as
his subject, The Other Boys Sister"
1t was a strong plea for personal pur.
ity, and was put in such a manner
that there was no mistaking his mean
ing. After declaring that any man
who went into the lower depths and
helped forward the traffic in women
was a sharer in the blacklist of crimes,
and a murderer. He spoke upon the
fact that 1t was the duty of every man
to remember that his body was the
temple of the Holy Ghost. In part he
said:
the home. Nothing destroys it more
than the immortality of men, There is
no more pitiful sight than that which
we sometimes see, the sight Of a
young bride learning by painful expert
ence that her husband is not the pure
&,.,,n n1,o IT
to be and had right to expect. The
country is full of blighted homes and
breaking hearts, and this was one of
the most prolific causes. Degenerate
and handicapped children are the
fruit of such a union, and often they
are found among families known as
the best.
Men must remember that 1t is a d.
vine law, that no man liveth to him
self. Whenever any man helps soul
downward, he is breaking that law
The fact that he destroys his own soul
Is bad enough, but that he should aid
in the destruction of another especially
by such sins, makes hell too cool for
him, and if there is hotter place in
hell that the devil can send him to, he
will surely go there.
God has placed within men funda-
mental laws of being, and with them
the divinest possibilities God has
placed them where they are, and he
sees them. Hence any man who goes
into sins which destroy soul and body
destroys the highest possibilities OF
manhood God means men to be strong
and clean, and II they are not. where
shall they stand in the judgment?
Among the laws which God has given
us is the Golden Rule. Are we keeping
1t. and If any man is indulging in the
sins of the flesh, can he be said to be
putting that great command into prac-
Jice? Besides this, Jesus said love
one another Is not that stamped out
of the being of man continually?
What is needed in the world and In
the hearts of men is recognition Of
the laws of God, and the fact that
there Is nothing that can take the
place of the divine power In man. We
may insist upon eugenic marriages,
and it is well that we should. We may
teach the science and philosophy OF
sex as much as we please, but the true
safeguard for man is In the indwell-
fng power and presence of God
The things that minister to the
lower passions of men should be sup
pressed. Foremost among the agencies
which go hand in hand with this evil
is the saloon. They are hand in hand,
and every evil thing that walks upon
the face of the earth finds its inspira-
ton in that agency of the devil, the
saloon. The modern dance. and the
malicious theatre are also responsible.
The speaker said that he was not con-
demning dancing In toto, nor the
theatre as means of amusement, but
the plays and dances that were sug-
gestive, and that made for the rousing
OF the under passions. These should
be avoided. Gambling stands In the