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Show IMS Fag 1 The Deseret Hew Church Edition, Saturday, Hay To Success V from Page One) regions, physicians saV men ( overflowing . health.,are safe because the abounding vitality within crowds back - the poison in the outer air, while men who live on the border line between good health and Jll, furnish the conditions for fever that away the life. Similarly, men who live an o supine life, with-nImpulses upward, are exposed to evil and become a constant menace to society. 2 The Firefly" Youth. Higher in the scalfc of intelligence and moral uplift, there are those who may be classed as the firefly men. (Gnntinued con-sa- Often on a summers evening, you students ast children have observed what we used to call the lightning bug." These flying creatures seemed most active just before a , - shower. The light from each would shine but for an instant then the thing would be absorbed in the darkness. Another momentary flash, then - blackness again. Such is the firefly youth with respect to noble aspirations. He has luminous hours in which his soul ardently de sire? to rise above all things mean and sordid, and to bask in the realm of enlightenment and beauty. He would be" valiant and courageous in defending virtue and the right under all circumstances. If he could only obtain strength and power, he would use them to help his fellowmen and to make the world better! But when a few hours later he associates with companions un fired by such noble ideals, the light of his aspiratRns fades, the fires of enthusiasm die, and his soul is absorbed In the darkness of Indifference and , indulgence. Good intentions most be carefully cherished or they will soon perish. However, it is better to have hoped and yearned for better things, and had the hopes fade " than never to have yearned at alL The flicker at least shows the presence of a light; that might be fanned into a constant flame. That is better - -- - SEMINARY GRADUATES - . than damp driftwood from which will come not even a . . spark., Yonth. Conifer" The (3) Then there is .the third group, which I call the Conifer" youth."' In using this trm, I have in mind not-jutheor- of the tree dinary Conifer group, but particularly, the Giant Sequoia or Big Tree of the Sierra Nevadas. st cone-bearin- In g height The diameter is or- to 15 feet, and sometimes reaches 25 tq 35 feet! There is a grove of these ancient trees in, the Sequoia Forest of the Yosemite Valley. One, The General Sherman," is estimated to he three, thousand five hundred years old. One cannot stand in. the presence of this oldest living thing in existence without sensing a feeling of awe akin to reverence. It was probably alive as a mere twig when the Pyramids of Egypt "were being built It was young and vigorous when Greece was in its glory; it was just a young tree when Rome ruled the world. Empires have risen and fallen. Millions of men have lived and died during the trees lifetime. It has withstood lightning, floods, fire and still lives on! It has survived because it has within it the powers of resistance. The Conifer" youth senses the fact that man is not just a mere animal, the creature of the flesh which profiteth nothing, hut a spiritual being, a soul. He realizes that he is more than a physical object that is tossed for a short time from hank to bank, only to be submerged finally in the stream of -- life. There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, 'to master the body and all things physical, and to live in a higher and more beautiful world. These are the who build their deeds into a plan; and thoughts who travel forward, not aimlessly;" but" toward who sail, not anywhither, but toward a port; who steer, not by the clouds but by the fixed stars. High In the scale of manhood these who cease dinarily 10 - ever-flowin- g s lessly aspire toward lifes great Exemplar. ' The .great Exemplar is Jesus Christ'the Son of the living God, who in material possessions had no where to lay his head, yet, as one writer has said xnore impressively thanT, 'a man of truly colossal intellect, incomparable as He strides across the realm and ages, yet always thinking the gentlest, kindliest . thoughts; thoughts of mildness as well as majesty- - thoughts of humanity as well as divinity. His thoughts were wings to all the His thoughts freed those who had been snared in the thickets; His thoughts set an angel down beside each cradle; His thoughts of the incarnation rendered the human body forever sacred; His thoughts of the grave sanctified the tomb. Dying and rising, His thoughts clove, an open pathway through the sky. Taught by Him, the people have learned to think not only great thoughts,, but good ones,' and also how to turn thoughts Into life." low-flyin- -- THOUGHTS OF YOUTH DETERMINE CHARACTER "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. The thoughts that a youth harbors during the' formative period of his life will determine into which class he falls whether he is a listless In fasoriam, a Firefly youth with regards to jgood intentions, or an- - invincible Sequoia In the realm of character. Yo are the fellow that has to decide Whether you'll do It or toss it aside. Yon are . the - fellow who makes ap yonr mind Whether yoa'U lead or will linger behind. Whether yoaU try for the goal thats far Or just he contented to stay where you are. Take it or leave it. Here's something to do! Just think it over Its all up to you! t What do yon wish? To he known as a shirk, Known as a good man whos wUling to work, what piqued, said: "Well haw no teetotalers in this place.?- -. "Well, sir," answered th youth, "you will have one If you have me" "Look here, boy," said the Foreman, you must have this "" beer either inside or outside!" """Well, sir," answered tha - . youth, "I came here with a ,,1 clean jacket, and a clean char acter; you may soil my jacket if you will, but you cannot and Nobody here will compel yon shall not soil my character!" It is every youths dqty to T to rise; No one will force yon to keep unsullied the good name ' he bears. open your eyes; No one will answer for yon Third,' Te he el value to to make the world others yes or no, "Whether to stay there or better lor having lived hr It. Your education has prepared whether to go; Life is a game, hat it's yon you for a mission, not for self, but for the society in which J who must say. Whether as cheat or - as you shall live Foarth, To keep in taae sportsman yonU play. with the Infinite. InspiraFate may betray yon, bnt - yon settle first tion is a reality. Every ' ' yonth shomld aspire so to Rvo Whether to live to yonr best as 1 merit divine guidance. r yonr worst. ' nly through7 faith in the God of Love nod In achievSo, whatever it is yon are ing worthy manhood can the to be. wanting he made a fit and .world Remember, to fashion the pcaccfal abiding place. choice yon are free. A few years ago, we were -iKindly or selfish, or gentle hissince to think nclined that or strong. man has made Keeping the right way or tory began, Today, as we great progress. the wrong. taking world look at the conditions, Careless of honor or guardconvinced are we that that ing your pride, AU these are questions which progress is Comparatively slight. Selfishness, envy, hatyon must decide. r are Yours the selection, which red, conquest, the on a rampage throughout ever you do; civilized world. Love The thing men caU characand peace and joy are being ters all np to yon." banished from the hearts and IDEALS FOR WHICH TO homes and lives of men. With ASPIRE all our boasted civilization, In your Seminary teaching there, never was a time when you have been given ideals and spiritual awakening and spirprinciples, the acceptance and itual ideals were more needed. too application of which will lead Civilization has grown to the highest and best in life. complex for the human mind or to control. UnAmong these, which every to visualize comes to a mankind less youth should cherish, are realization .that the speedy in Faith the Gospel First, of Jesns Christ, which in- higher and not the baser qualities of man must be developed, cludes aU virtues contrib the present status of civilizantive to mans happiness. Second, (to .be specific) a tion is in jeopardy. I have .heretofore stated ' determination to' maintain honor under all circa in- that .never before in the his- tory of the world has there stances. been such need' as today of For example, the story is awakening. If you told of the youth who aspired spiritual bombs into the' hands of put a to live temperate life, and an inexperienced child, he is who determined so to do let to blow ' himself to come what may. He was ac- likely pieces. To a degree, that is cepted as an apprentice in his what we are chosen trade. One day; indeed, just in the world.witnessing In the today in the initial meeting of his ' hands of undeveloped, spir- he found himself unresponsive people among men 'whodrank' heer itually been have placed the power of and whiskey. To bid him welthe airplane, the explosives, come the Foreman offered him the concentrat- ail. submarine, a glass of beer. which the lad ., refused. The Foreman, some (Continued On Page Eight) Scorned a I loafer, Or pra! ed by yonr chief. Rich man or poor man or -- beggar or thief? . Eager or earnest or dall through the day? Honest or crooked? Its yon . who mast say! . Yon mast decide la the face of the test Whether yoaU shirk or give it yonr best. . -- " r mass-murde- so-call- -- -- -- d OF WELLS STAKE At Impressive exercises last Thursday evening, these 105 graduates of the Junior Seminary of "the Wells Stake, heard an address by Mark K. Petersen and received certificates from Stake President Thomas R. Towler. Mary A. Johnson, stake superintendent f seminaries, presented the class."" Twenty-eigh- t members had a three-yea- r perfect attendance record, 10 had been te all meetings in twe years and 13 had perfect, record. ene-ye- ar -- |