Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-05-05
CHILDREN'S WEEK ENDED
WITH SERMONS BY
PASTORS


In several local churches last sun
day children's week was ended with
sermons appropriate to the occasion.
The First Presbyterian, First Metho-
dist, Universalist and Reformed
churches observed the day and the
pastors of those congregations deliv-
cred sermons.
Charges Against Youth
There have recently been some
very serious charges brought against
the American youth" Rev. VIM. j.
Taylor declared at the Universalist
church. Writers have not hesitated
in declaring that they are facing
very serious peril if they continue in
their present path. The strongest in
a.ctment is the one which appeared in
the Atlantic Monthly, written by Cor
nelia p. Conner. Mrs. Conner attacks
the young American in most stringent
terms. She says that our youth lacks
all the virtues that go to make up a
great nation; that from past genera
tions there still survive 'gentlewomen
who are like fine old lace and opeals.
gentlemen all compounded of consid-
Grafton and courtliness. She saws.
however, that their graces are not due
so much to this age as to the ideals
which they received from the past.
She says that this younger generation
is amiable, attractive, lovable, but
what they lack is force, personality
and power to endure They do not
know the meaning of 'unselfishness'
and character They demand ease
and shirk responsibility
Let me say that when any such
wholesale accusations as this are
brought against our young people, /
believe they are unjust and unfair to
the average American youth
Most Heroic Spirit
"The world war brought out some
of the most heroic spirit in the hearts
of our young men and women that has
ever been shown in American history
care not what period you point TO-
When church such as this sent as
many volunteers into active service as
I did and many others gave theii la
bcr of sacrifice in other directions, |
declare il shows when duty calls, aur
young 2o1le respond as we'll as their
fathers and mothers ever did in Thc
past.
Il believe the charge partly true
The present generation OF young peo-
pile were born into a day of unusual
prosperity. They knew little of the
days of toll and sacr flee which make
the present day of comfort and leisure
possible. The chief concern most
fathers and mothers seem to have for
their children this hour is that they
shall never nave to toll and sacrifice
and save as those very parents them
selves did They seem to forget that
their labor was a good discipl ne, and
d great help in the developing Of their
own moral character.
Rebuke to Officials
Judge Lands paroled one who had
stolen large amount from the bank
in which he was employed, and then
gave a singing rebuke to the bank
officials for having placed the boy n
the way OF SO great a temptation and
at the same time paying him so
meagre wage. The bank excuses it.
self by saying that this was all toe
boy was worth. Perhaps that Is all
he is worth in dollars and cents. But
are they not often forgetting what
that boy is worth TO osciety; what he
IS worth TO his mother; are they CON
sidering how much he is worth to the
church and the school; how much
the community has invested, its vast
expenditures of money to prepare him
suitable equipment and training in
life; and their pre-eminent right
to demand that no business interests
shall place unnecessary temptations
hnfnra him i'm bfu nj ar TIM,
ture years?"
Jewish Magma Charta
Some one has said that the COM
mandments are the Jewish Magma
Charta,' the Rev. f. W. Eastwood said
at the morning service of the Presby
terian church. "Honor thy father and
thy mother that thy days may be long
upon the land which the Lord fhy God
giveth thee. And the fifth command
ment rests upon a fundamental basis,
namely the parent stands in the place
of God to the young child This pre-
supposes parental faithfuIness. We
cannot delegate this God given respon-
sibility to others. God holds each
parent responsible. Every Orthodox
Jewish home has a sanctuary and ca
techetical school and every Christian
home ought to be Bible school We
cannot transfer to outside agencies
what God intends 20 be taught in the
home.
1--WE have kept our schools clean.
Those who say they are Goddess do
not speak the truth. There is a moral
conviction which demands that the
hands which, mould the character Of
our youth shall be clean and the moral
standard Of the school teacher is high.
Parents ought to be help mates in
tellectually to their children and in
terested in both teacher and the
school,
The Human Mind
1.-THE human mind is not mere YES
sci into which knowledge is to be
poured. 1t is better compared to a
bee, fed during the first periods Of its
existence by the labors of others, but
intending ere long to life it's wings
in the active employment Of gathering
sweets from every field within its
reach. To such excursions the mind
should be early and persistently al
lured.