Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-31

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! the heavy mortality that comes
| among Sunday school children in the
! teen age. He gave four ways in
J which to do this. First he insisted
that it Is necessary that the school
shall be a real school where the pu-
pills learn something worth while.
Next it is best to form an organized
class or to improve the one already
, formed.
7, One Of the things that will make a
class thrive Is to take on some def
| mite task, not just anything, but a
! real man. sized job such as a play
| ground for the younger children, a
| gymnasium, boy scout troop. or
something that will keep the men,
| bers Of the class working hard. Last
ly he asked that they get vision of
! the Sunday school opportunity. which
! Is especially necessary now when the
| old trinity Of school, church and home
: IL no longer functioning, largely due
! to the fact that the old fashioned
homes are going out Of existence.
At the group conference on Chris
tan Callings which was held in the
| Congregational church Samuel L.
Fitchings of Bangor. Boys Work
Secretary. presided. Herbert S.
Smith. General Secretary of the Lynn
! c. Sauer of Belfast were the speak
ers.
Secretary Smith spoke of the Y M.
C. A. work as a life work, and told
| them the sort Of men that the Y. NJ.
c. A. is after. They want real men
and not men that are looking for easy
jobs. He explained the value of the
association work and told of the OPP
/ portunities for service. There are
! many openings In work such as Is
| being done at the local association
with it's several departments, in for
eign work, and in the schools and COL
leges.
Rev. Sauer declared that the min
! istry called for the highest type Of
a man and that the training which
he must undergo Is not easy. The
ministry means giving up many self
ish comforts and ambitions for SER
vice to mankind. There are many OPP
portunities in this line, both in local
work as a pastor. in missionary work
and de ,nminational schools and in
| social service work such as is carried
on in the settlements.
| The boys again gathered at the
! Congrega tional church for the mid
! fornoon assembly previous to march
ing to the State Capitol to have the
conference photograph taken. A short
song service led by Leland Stacy.
Bows Work Secretary OF the Augusta
Y. M. C.. A. was the first thing on this
program. The boys sang several OF
| the songs from the conference pro-
gram book in a rouslng manner be-
| fore the first speaker was called. The
! church was filled to capacity as this
assembly and some of the boys were
even seated in the choir loft.
! DIR. F. N. Seerley of the Spring
| field Y. M. C. A. college was the first
speaker at the mid forenoon general
assembly. He opened his talk by
telling the boys of the wonderful
mechanism of the human body and
got them in fine humor by telling
them the names of some of the
muscles and bones of the body.
He then produced a human brain
and explained to the boys the mar
wells of that particular part of the
body. He said that there are really
| two hearts in the body. One is that
I muscle which pumps the blood and
which we usually call the heart and
the other is that part of the brain
which the old philosophers called the
! heart when they said that out of the
heart proceedeth evil things"
But, he declared, that part of the
! brain Is Just as capable of producing
good as evil. 1t only depends upon
what impressions the brain has as
simulated through the senses.
! He told the boys the story Of a boy
whom he had met in New York, who
confessed that he had $50 pictures
Of women that he had procured from
cigarette packages. The boy was
| Mortified when the doctor asked him
If he smoked the $50 packages of
cigarettes and said that he was an
athlete in his school and could not do
that as it would hurt his body. But
: he was as astonished when the doc
tor told him that those pictures were
in reality hurting him more than the
cigarettes would.
The doctor explained to the boys
that the Impressions that they get
when young and the habits formed in
their youth are what govern their
! life in manhood and unless they
! start now to form the proper habits
their future life will be failure.
! Rev. Henry II. Crane of Maiden.
! Mass. was the other speaker at this
meeting. He spoke of the Marrow
ness of the Christian Way" He de-
clared that there are lies and half
truths that are lies. but that the
hardest to combat are these last,
which, while true, give a wrong i'm
preston. To illustrate this sort of a
half truth he said that he knew a
man who planned with two other
men to get fourth man into room
and kill him. This they did and so
clever were they that they got away
with 1t. While this was a truth, he
explained that 1t was also lie as
the whole truth had not been told.
He then said that these men were a
sheriff and two deputies who were
carrying out the orders Of the court
by executing a condemned criminal.
/ The declaration that Christianity
/ Is narrow he branded as half truth.
! christianity points out the narrow
| road to a broad fulfillment of life.
1t is necessary that one who wishes
| to broaden his life should travel a
| narrow path at first in order to pre-
| pare himself for that life. This he
| illustrated by boy who desires to