The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-11-03
AN ADDRESS TO
YOUNG PEOPLE
BYREV.E.E.R|CE
SOUND ADVICE HANDED OUT AT
EAST HILL BAPTIST CHURCH TO
YOUNGER MEMBERS or THE
CONGREGATION.

z. E. Rice gave another address to
the young people at the East Hill Bap-
list church Sunday night He said in
part:
In King 2:2 you will find David's
dying charge to Solomon, his son: BE
thou strong therefore, and shew thy
self man.. This advice is good for
boys Of this age as well as for Solomon
in that age. Boys be strong anG show
thyself a man physical and intellec-
tualIy- This is not done by smoking
cigarettes; nature never intended your
nose &c be smoke stack or it would
have been turned up; cigarettes make
vunts. Neither is it done by drinking
whiskey; this whips the heart that
knows no rest in this life. Whip it
and 1t will soon run it's race. What
soever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, just pure and lovely
think on these things I do not mean
you should not smile.
The thing that goes the fartnest toward
making life worth while.
That costs the least and does the most
Is just pleasant smile.
But do mean your ideals should be
high, your thoughts pure, and your
body clean. Boys, be strong and show
thyself q man of industry. Consider
the ant thou sluggard and be wise.
Attempt great things. The little boy
had the right idea when he put an os-
trich egg in front of his bantam hen
when on her nest and said, Now you
look at that and do your dead level
best Do your best-the world needs
you. II it is to4farm, then make the
hest farmer you can; it would be
bad world IL we had no farmers. If it
is to teach. then make the best teach
or you can; 1t would be a bad world
II we had no teachers. II it Is to car
nv brick, then do your best: it would
be bad world If no one would carry
brick.
.sirIs, IL it is to wash then do your
best; it would be a dirty old world il
no one would wash. The world needs
you. David was a shepard. Lincoln
split rails. Joseph was a carpenter.
You can be a man, be clean, make the
world better and wear dirty shirt If
1t is honest dirt.
ssT3e strong, show myself a man in
character: character is what you are
when no one is looking. It is what
Won are after the ball is over. 1t is
what you are when in Mobile or Birn1-
inghsm.
''Girls. you can't determine his char
Aeter by the cut of his coat as well as
by the cut OF his eve for we read that
under the paraphernalla of a caption
was at one time leper. The young
lady had the right idea who married
away from home and wrote her mother
she had married man worth a million
dollars and would be home with him
in a few days. The mother made great
preparations for them. In a few days
after they arrived he took a job at
saw mill at one dollar and half a
day. The mother said to her daugh-
ter. 7 thought you wrote me he was
worth q million and the fact is he
hasn't got a cent Her reply was, I
would rather have a man worth mil
lion dollars and didn't have a cent than
to have one that had a million dollars
and wasn't worth a cent
AN Italian painter, Michael Angelo, |
was told by teacher (Vhen a YOUTH
10 draw picture. He could not. then
he was handed an outline and he sue
ceeded. So God has not only furnish
ed redemption for the soul through the
atonement, but also an outline in the
parsonage Of the Son OF Man for us
to follow after lie we have ben born
again. So let us fill it out and be IN
all around man. Remember Jesus was
a man OF heart as we'll as head and
hands. Riches is what if by it you
become selfish. Success is failure If
by 1t you become a fool. knowledge
is ignorance If 1t gives you the big
head. Beauty is ugly if 1t makes you
vain. Strength is weakness if it makes
you a bully. There was an age when
the worlds ideal of a man was fight
err. the great men were knight clad in
spear and battIe-axe.
Another age it was said to be man
you must ensIave the weak. People
once thought to be man one must live
a. life of seclusion. But Jesus set US
an example and held up an ideal DIFF
ferent than any of these.
MAY the time soon come when our