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T ME FUTURE CITIZEN.
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Teach Your Boy to Work
What is the prime obj2C( of life?
What is the duty of man? The
object of life is success, and it is
the duty of every man to strive to
gain it. Success is the goal which
it is ever the desire of men to reach.
It is the pinnacle of life which all
strive to attain and when attained
it testifies to the ability and worth
of the man.
But in order to succeed, it is
necessary to work and work hard.
A man must begin early and work
late. It should be instilled into the
minds and heatt of every boy that
work is the one thing that is ab
solutely essential to his future hap
piness. and it is the duty of parents
to teach their sons that to work
hard should be his greatest object.
Thus he is prepared for the battle
of life and sent out into the world
well armed to join the fray in which
the weaker invariably go to tho
wall. It is not har.-h to set a boy
to perform little tasks after school
hours—not too many of them ; nor
yet too hard ones, but just sufficient
to let him understand that he must
fill a useful place in the world, and
by his own exertions to do all he
can to further the happiness and
comfor t of those around him.
Make him carry coal or wood—or
an hour in the garden—never let
him be idle , for thus you create a
loafer. And in making a loafer of
a boy, you do him one of the great
est injuries possible. Of all lire
faults and sins of man, loafing is
the worst; for it is ike leading cause
to practically every pit-fail into
which the youth falls. It is estimated
that nine tenths of the criminals
started their careers and attribute
their down fall to loafing. Loafing
is pregnant with a hundred bn
influences and causes the down full
of many a promising youth.
A boy mav think it bard to have
to do odd jobs, and may resent it
for a time. But in his later years,
the benefits lie derives will cause
him to shower his grateful thanks
upon you teaching him the value
of work.
Better for your son to die than
to be raised a loafer which name
embodies and is identical with
shirker, parasite, social scavenger,
a dragon on the community and a
thief of society.— The Xe Era.
WHEN BILLY SUNDAY
WAS CONVERTED.
Billy Sunday, the famous evan
gelist, who recently conducted a
series of meetings in Omaha. Neb ,
attended by eleven thousand people
daily, used to play baseball on
vacant lots in Marshalltown, Iowa.
One day the great “Pop” Anson,
captain of the original Chicago
“White sox,” chanced to enter
town. While he was watching
Billy’s wonderful base running,
Captain Anson also noticed that
the boy had a level head and a
quick eye. Not long afterward
Billy Sunday was made a member
of the famous Chicago team on
which he won distinction as a
National League player
To-day veteran followers of the
national pastime are fond of recall
ing the times they saw Billy Sun
day play ball. He was the speediest
b..se runner of his day. It is said
that he is the first man in the his
tory of baseball to circle the bases
in fourteen seconds. He was the
champion sprinter in the National
League and at one time was match
ed to run a race with Arlie Latham,
who was considered the best base
runner in the American League.
The distance was one hundred yards
and Sunday won by fifteen feet.
That Bifly Sunday was a great
baseball player is a well known bit
of history, but that he was an
out-and out Christian during most
of his baseball career is not as well
known, lie did not hide his religion
from his team-mates. Even the
sporting papers alluded respectfully
to his religious interests and activ
ities. When he finally decided to
forsake professional baseball to
accept a minor position in the
Chicago V. M. C. A. at $83 per
month, he deliberately rejected a
$5oo-a-ir.n..tli baseball contract.
Billy Sunday showed his Christ
ian courage at the very moment of
his conversion. One evening late in
the fail of 1887 he was sitting on a
curbstone with five of his baseball |
team mates listening to a company
of men and women singing gospel
hymns, when a young man stepped
up and invited him to attend a
meeting at the Pacific Garden
Mission.
In recalling this important event
of his life, Hilly Sunday said :
“I arose and said to the boys,
■I’m through. 1 am going to Jesus
Christ. We’ve come to the parting
TO YOUNG MEN.
That so many young men fail to
secure lucrative positions or having
obtained them fail to retain them,
is their own fault nine out of ten.
They imagine it is their misfor
tune that they do not possess a
“business turn,” that they have
not tbe aptitude for certain posi
tions, when if they had the courage
to go to the bottom of the matter,
they would discover that they them
selves are lo blame. As a general
rule, this class that find it so hard
to retain positions arc not so an
xious to secure employment as to
draw a salary.
They do not like to work, and
consequently take no interest in
their duties. If they should be so
fortunate, through their own ef
forts or the assistance of their
friends as to secure a satisfactory
place, they only do enough to lose
their positions But they want a
“salary.” Employers are sharp-
eyed, and rarely fail to detect merit
in those they employ, for, if one of
iheir assistants is useful to them,
they are not willing to do without
him. They aie ready to pay him
what his services are worth, and
anxious to reach that point where
they can confine a share of their
responsibilities and cares to bis
hands. So the secret of success to
young men lies in the virtues of
diligence, industry, vigilance and
honesty.—The Boy Agriculturist.
of the ways,’ and I turned my back
on them. Some of them laughed
and some of them mocked me ; one
of them gave me encouragements;
others never said a word.”
'Hie next morning, Sunday had
to go to the ball park to piactice.
He did not sleep during the night,
thinking about it. lie was afraid
the gang would “give him the
laugh”; but lie went just the same.
* * I will never forget it,” said
Mr. Sunday. “Up Came Mike
Kelly; he said, ‘Bill, I’m proud of
you! Religion is not my long suit,
but I’ll help you all 1 can.’ Up
came Anson, the best ball player
that ever playad the game, and
j Pfeffer, Clarkson, Flint, Jimmy
j McCormick, Burns. Williamson,
and Dairy mple. T' he re wasn’t a
fellow in the gang who knocked;
every fellow had a word of en
couragement for me.’”—By Ralph
Humphrey.
Mow fs The Time For AiS Good Men to Come to The Aid of The Future Citizen A Hint, Etc.
