The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-27
CONDUCT SOURCES
ARE POINTED OUT
Three Factors Which Gov
ern the Actions of
Children
REV. A. w. BAILEY
AT UNION SERVICE
Ideas or Beliefs. Feelings or Emotions.
and Will Determine Persons Actions
important that These Sources Be
Kept Pure and Clean.

OF the several addresses which Rev.
Arthur w. Bailey, now of Holyoke.
Mass, has given in Brattleboro none
We're more intensely interesting and con-
.vincing than the one he gave last
evening at a union service in the Centre
Congregational church as a feature of
Children's week. The storms and threat
ening weather affected the attendance.
still a good sized audience was present
and listened with keen interest to Mr..
Bailey'S words.
The speaker, who is educational pastor
of the Second Congregational church in
Holyoke, had for his subject Why Do
Children Act as They Do? The service
opened with scripture reading by Rev. G.
{. Chayer of the Methodist church, fol-
lowed by prayer by Rev. f. T. Wood of
the tnlversallSt church. The choir sang
an anthem and led in the singing of
hymns, and the benediction was pro-
nounced by Rev. \. V. Woodworth of the
West Brattlebor0 Congregational church
Rev. Mr.. Bailey pointed out the
sources of conduct. sources which apply
not only to children but to adults The
three great sources are ideas or beliefs
feelings or emotions. and the will
The belief of every boy or girl in Brat
tlebOrO in part determines his action. 1t
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his idea and sweeten it. He gets some
ideas from the motion pictures. some
from books, some from school. and some
from church services. Some are malicious
and some are splendid The boy or girl
cannot help responding more or less to
what he believes. If we are to purify
their actions we must purify their ideas
We have as part of our task to see that
children are taught the truth about life
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food ald water supplies pure. but we
should be infinitely more careful about
keeping the thought supply clean and
pure.
The strongest factor in the development
of beliefs is the contagion Of ones person
ality IN its relation to the home and the
members of the home. Live before your
young people as consistent Christian peo-
pie and YOU will contradict the wrong
ideas relative TO home and marriage that
are depicted on the screen.
Taking up the second great source of
action. feelings or emotions. Rev Mr.
Bailey said that more things were done
because OF emotions than for any other
reason. Emotions are for the purpose
.of conduct. They make a person feel a
responsibility for the welfare of his com
munlty. Ii YOU refuse to develon the
emotional life in a boy or girl YOU restrain
one of the greatest factors in the child'S
lie. rms Is developed largely through
worship, through the song life and prayer
and giving.
Referring to viii as the third great
source of action, the speaker said that
Notwithstanding many pessimistic writ
ings he found vast amount of fine and
wholesome will power in the land. boys
and girls who are able to say no to the
invitation TO wrong and yes to the appeal
TO do the manly deed. The thing we
need to do is TO develop more of the fine
sturdy will. The thing that will deyqlop
it is religion, relationship with God in
Christ Jesus. Lead the boys and girls to
choose by your own living. There is no
task under heaven that is calling 80
loudly as that of making the manhood
and womanhood of the land the finest il
possibly can be by the power of the living