Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-01-27

analysis--in its highest exhibition-also
the Christian motive. I do not want to
moralize, but we cannot too often
realize, gentlemen, how deep the foun-
dations of life are. BY life, do not
mean the physical life. That is rela-
lively a matter of indifference: but the
life that is the life. the spiritual me;
For it is the spiritual life, II you Will
only admit that word. by which we judge
everybody
After all. your final test is spirit
ual test, whether you want to use that
handsome word or not. You are Judging
the spirit of the man. what is beh,nd DIS
eyes. what is implied in his WORDS, what
is illustrated in his conduct.
Il have long ago received with ami
ability, 7 hope, the professions of all sorts
and conditions of men, but after ! have
heard their professions | wait patiently
to see their performances, and / DO not
pass any Judgment until that perform
ance
so. if man wiehes me to consider
him loyal. for example. 1 must really
trouble him to show his quality when
he is put to the test and if he cannot
show his quality when put to the test.
may not say anything the next time
he comes around and processes his
loyalty, but ] will do a lot of thinking.
] wonder within my own head II he
really thinks that I am deceived. If he
really thinks / am as innocent as l look.
That is the right and stern standard
we realize it or not.
Creation of Standard.
q think of Young Mems Christian
Association as a place where young
men and men not so young get their
assessment and their standard by
which they can assess other men, and
then spread that Impression and that
I'd he
They get their measure of men and
their measure of themselves, and there
isn't any better clearing house for that
kind of assets than among the younger
men of any community
The only men that serve the world
now are young men and men who never
grow old, men in whose system the
steam goes strong all the time. ana
who do not get so stiff that their whole
buckles up. Those are the
tain that splendid vivacity of charac-
ter away on into the nineties and be
just as Young at ninety az they were
at nineteen. 1t does not always hap
pen, perhaps IT does not often happen,
but a Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Is a good place for man of any
age. provided he has not grown old
C1assed as Character Building"
Secretary Cooper urged the campaign
workers to remember that by bringing
in a member an entire human life might
be transformed. He referred to the
as one Of character building
that will tell not only for a year in the
associatio but will tell for years and
years in the lives of men in many
places" He pointed to a number of
men. now prominent, who pledged their
allegiance to the Y. NJ c. A when boys.
President Smith said If the words.
Young Mems Christian Association had
to be reduced to enc word that word
would be Fellowship He paid a conf
pliment to Mr.. Cooper, saying that at
the Y. NJ. c. a. cooperation was often
pronounced Cooper -ation."
Judge Warwick announced that he had
received from John c. Let's. a member
of the board of directors of the associa-
ton, a check for $1,000 toward payment
for the repair of the swimming pool.
Members of the teams have adopted
names of automobiles as team names,
and with hcrns of various sorts last even-
ing kept up continuous salute.