Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-02-04 | Page 6 | Youth and Religion

I Youth and Religion I 4 By DR FRANK CRANE t the the relIgious education congress held at the Los Lbs chamber o of commerce several speakers voiced their praise of the youth of today ascribing in ing to hIm qualities of mind and morals and courage courage cour- cour age age that compare favorably with lith the youth of the past Dr Lewis president o ot George Washington university held that this Is the most Interesting and most misinterpreted generation In history The cry that thIs is a mad jazz age he said gos go s out from church and college Yet we may well ask asle what are we doing to give the youth the rIght Ideals Give them a religion that ties up with life and dont don't expect them to sit and mull over abstractions abstractions he added There has been a good dal of tall talk and it is quite lar to say that the youth of today is jazz jazz- mad niad that that-it is flIppant and that It has departed from the standards of religion There never was a greater mistake There are as many serious minded youth as there ever were In fact the questions of conscience and of God Goda a and d the like bear harder up upon n the mind nind of the youth than It does upon the Interest of old age show that most young young- people who are re reconverted converted converted undergo this experience about the time of puberty We Ve all know from our aur own experience that youth takes great mor moral l questions more seriously than he ever does later and It wIll vill be found the tte youth of the country is as deeply in earnest as it ever has been lo Former ormer religious issues of course are not serIously considered any more but the reason is that they have haven n relation to life We do not hear hear- much these days discussions about concerning the church or the Trinity Trinity Trin- Trin ity or the mode of baptism or such things The trouble is that these questions have nothing to do with regulating a mans man's conduct But the questions of rIght and wrong are eternal and somehow in the western mind these questions are linked up with their attitude toward the InfinIte Youth is serious enough and anxious enough and it Is for us to give them the kind of religion that finds exemplification In right livIng We Ve should busy ourselves only with those doctrInes doe doc trInes that bear directly on life Ufe and can be inter inter- by life Ufe Metaphysical 1 questions and speculations speculations' concerning concern concern- ins ins- whIch man can never be authorItatively informed occur less and less But the of conscience of duty and of honor sprIng eternal in the human breast and the youth will be found t to be as much devoted to these questions as youth has ever been Copyright 1927 by Newspaper Syndicate