American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-01-31

and be more gentle. Free from street
gossip, he could think of the things
that would educate him and better
his condition. A young man who has
the good heart to visit the old man s
hut, to brighten the sick mans life,
who has courtesy enough to help a
poor widow or any one really I'm need,
not only benefits humanity, but gains
really lasting JOY for himself
"A strict moral standard and cou-
| rage to stand by II brings young
man to quick recognition by his fell
lows. Some may taunt him, say that
| he is tied to his mothers apron
strings, but In the end they will re-
spect him, will not be afraid TO con-
fide In him and take his judgment as
law. The law laid down by Emerson,
Trust myself; let not your life be
an echo but your own deep thoughts"
Is brilliant light to encourage a man
to live as his conscience tells him to.
Social intercourse with mankind is
part of a mans education without
social life man becomes sordid and
grouchy He commences to think that
he lives for himself only Then his
r..
Subsequently life loses It's meaning
and is bore. When mingling with
trusted friends he may expound his
views and learn their good points and
their flaws, where, II he thought al
ways alone. he would think himself
always In the right
There Is one great essential of life
without which success cannot be
achieved, and that Is the necessity of
firm faith. an absolute belief that
wise God rules over this universe and
over the destiny of every living man.
woman and child That there is q
great creator no one can doubt; ev-
erything In nature points to that one |
fact: and the young man who refuses
to believe I'm the existence of a God |
makes the greatest and most momen-
tous mistake of his life. Without that |
faith, without that absolute convic-
ton, he Is not only hindered or Grip
pied I'm whatever he undertakes, but
he Is simply helpless. On this point
he cannot afford to err; he cannot
allow himself to doubt II even for a
single omment. This much Is abso-
lutte.
with this absolute faith I'm the exis-
tence Of God, ana In prayer, only
one more thing is needed to complete
The fundamental basis of religion
an honest effort to live according to
his conscience and to the best and
.ruest that is within him.
Here is James Whitcomb Riley's
estimate OF the kind of man for you
or me:
Our Kind Of Man.
The kind of man for you and me!
lie faces the world unflinchingly.
\nd smiles as long as the wrong re-
sists,
With knuckled faith and a force like
fists
lie lives the life he is preaching of.
'nd he loves where most is the need
of love;
lis voice Is clear to the deaf mans
ears,
nd his face sublime through the
blind mans tears.
ne light shines out where the clouds
were dim,
nd the Widows prayer goes up to 7
him.
he kind Of man for me and you! ;
owever little Of worth we do,
N'N''sS hu's anu dOtucb III tTubI
hat time will teach us how more is
Just.
e walks about and he meets all kinds 8
querulous and uneasy minds, 8
nd, sympathizing, he shares the pain 4
| the doubts that rack us. heart and n
brain;
nd knowing this as we grasp his =
hand,
e are surely coming IN upda,,,o,a u
G looks on sin with plying eyes o
EN- as the Lord since Paradise
lse should we read, Though our sins a
should glow >,
scarlet, they shall be white as a
nd feeling still that the bad are as =
good as the good are bad, n
strikes straight out for the Right. a
and he "
the kind of man for you and me! Il
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