New Britain herald., 1926-04-19
TELLS WHAT AILS
 YOUNG GENERATION
Dr. Kendrick DeplOres Lack Of
 Religious Training
EPWORTH LEAGUE ELECTS
Walter SChober Chosen rrc>ilent--- Pythians Surprise Mir. and Mrs, ". |. Wilbcr-tlcan- Begins Tomorrow,

W. I. Wilbcr--tlcan-u Begins
 Tomorrow,
 The lack of religious train,rr w&s deplored as the c0'lso of the oft mentioned faults Of modern youth by Rev. Alexis D. Kcndrick, pD, pastor Of the Baptist church, in his sermon last evening Dr. kcndrick Is preaching series of sermons on Modern Life" and they arc attract ing large cougrv Guljons on Sunday evenings, Tho particular subject last night was What Ais Our Young Paop,a"" He spoke in part as follows:
 "rhe question, What ails our ! youth?' is the same one that has been on the lips Of tho older people for many thousands of years. for every generation feels that our young people are growing worse than in the past and that young peo- pie today arc not like they were in the old days and times. They are not the same. neither are the older people the same as in previous generations, and 1t is well that w are constantly changing to meet tho agh in which we live,
 "On an Assyrian tablet datct ?500 E. C. is the inscription. 'Tht earth has degencrated in these lat
 ter days there are signs that th' world is speedily coming to an end
 bribery and corruption are com
 mon; children no longer obey thci
 parents; every man wants 10 write
 book. and the end of the worl,
 Is rapidly approaching
 John Wesley in 17T@ said In private record I drank tea at MT
 O's but how was shocked. Tn,
 children that used 10 cling 10 m
 and drink in every word had beel
 attending Q boarding school. Tie.
 had unlearned all religion and cvol
 seriousness and had learned pride
 vanity. affectation. and whatevo 'Jbti StEll VI ' Ii'lll tStluSl til'- HLlbN l
 edge of Cod. Parents who wou1,
 send your girls h"adlong 10 Hell
 send them 10 q fashionable hoardin,
 school
 "No age has produced fnc
 group of young people that this age there are exceptions Of course. hl as q whole our youth are as pur,
 nob'". frank. and good as in any ar,
 To mo thc surprise is not that the
 are so bad but that they arc II
 worse when so many parents e them such q had example. A r''"
 try whor" ono io every soy"u nluI ] riaEcs ends in d'yrrrn ie no. ver . inspiring 70 yoUth for htr,,cr idea l in social and dotu,:tic living. , "Th6sn who doa} with yuuth Q large numbers are not usually cri - ical of them. but sympathetic an - hopeful. Emma Bailey Spear. vii ] of Rev, Robert F. Speer who for 1 r years has been president of the n5 - tional board Of the Y. W. C. A.. say There iS no need of becoming III s duly alarmed over the young gcncri S ton and expresses her full cont s denco in them. Dr. Polling, aSsociar - president of the World Chrislia 0 End"avor and pastor of the Marh g Colgate church. New York. say.
 finer, cleaner. more normal lot N young men and women no gcneri i- ton has ever produccd.'
 IT This is the age of youth, md V $ older people must not suppress the h but help in directing them towar' q higher. nobler and better thine I There are many forces making the F. contribution to youth. some Of q co ss struCtive and others of a dcstruCti g nature. Questionable forms of $ r. called amusements lure many into E. life of sin and shame Low and q
 grading plays and pictures enti
 some from paths Of morality al
 virtue into thoughts and acts th , rob OUT youth of it's noblest attai u ments in manhood and it's high' III ideals in womanhood, The printi IS press is turning off millions of copi nt of magazines and papers that T ed finding their way into the hands of youth and thus poisoning the min le and lowering the ideals of ma Y who otherwise would climb the pi st, naclcs of fame and of fortune. |
 christian homes and goddess pareT tn make their contributions of a ( nc structive kind and their ofispri .i- fall into lives akin 10 those W st gave them birth.
 le "Wc hear much today of the N crease in crime of our youth. but
 we study the remedy for the s nt condition We find that the Christi OC home, church and school are { N open doors to better things.
 preme Court Justice Lewis |" Ia
 cett of Brooklyn, x. Y, says that la 4.000 boys under co years of 2 ,al who came before him to be tried
 crime, only three were members