Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-06-14

was simply a desire to ,btain,
but now your pleasures must be
chosen with reasonable restraint
and with the mora mature Judge
ment that has come to you with |
age, experience and observation.
While the social pleasures refer
red to are good and necessary,
yet they must be used with mod
Grafton and judgment, as there is
intemperance in the use of other
things as we'll as in the use of al
cohol, and intemperance in any
thing should be summed if your
aim is to secure a benefit instead
of harm for yourself.
In your relations, however,
with your Young Mems Christ
ian Association, and with the
members with whom YOU will as
sociate at Purnell Hall you will
look each into the others face
and be made to realize that in
your association with your fell
low men there are more serious
things than physical comforts
and social pleasures. You will
realize that the Associations
platform and purpose is to as
sist in the making of manly men,
to guide you in the direction of
manly desires and to install in
you the necessity of manly bur
poses, and not the least of them
all is the necessity for manly
purposes. A young man without
a purpose is as helpless as YES
sci without steam. He can be
guided nowhere, but will simply
drift either on the crest of the
wave or in the trough of the
waves as good fortune or il, for
tune may carry him. But fill the
young man with a good purpose
and an overwhelming desire and
like a vessel with a full head Of
steam he can be guided any,
where. To be sure his purpose
may be struck, yet the purpose
will drive him forward and if the
rudder is properly handled that
young man is likely to make a
proper port. 1t I were to ask one
of you young men what you pur-
pose doing as the years meet you,
and you were to answer "any-
thing" | would be almost as much
disappointed as though you had
answered nothing" Let me urge
you, therefore, to fill yourselves
with the power of some good pur-
pose and then see to it that when
equipped and embarked on your
voyage that your rudder is right
ly guided by sound Judgment, "a
rising either out of your own
maturity of thought, or out of the
d V i c of those who are COM
petent to advise you. l won d
not attempt to elect any one
of hundred good purposes avail
able to be chose by you,
but would simply urge that
your purpose should be to do
some one thing we'll. If you find
that you are versatile enough to
do any one of a dozen things
equally we'll it will be time for
you to stop and start an investi-
cation of yourself to ascertain
which one of a dozen things you
will be able to do best and then
devote yourself to that one thing
Your material success in life will
be measured by the extent OF
your excelling your neighbor. In
preparing for manhood you must
realize to the fullest extent that
in your generation as in al
generations in the past, If man
can write a better sermon OF
build a better railroad or make a
better mousetrap than his neigh
Dor, though he lives in forest
the world will tramp path tt
his door.
When Senator Hayne cl"sec
his speech upon the question Of
States rights, Daniel Webster
Immediately arose in his place
in the Senate of the United States
and proceeded with his famous
ran1v When he had finished the
expounding of the principle tna'
this was an indestructible Unlof
of indestructible States, his man!
friends inquired of him as Il
when he had prepared sucn
speech. His reply was that he nae
been preparing that speech 1ol
; thirty years.
One great mistake of the usua
American youth is that ne Il
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