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Thursday, May 11, 1939.
THE SOWER
A Weekly Department of Religious
and Secular Thought Contributed
by REV. JAMES A. TURNER,
Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa.
SOME REASONS WHY.
It is interesting to know what intel-
ligent, cultured, young
thinking and saying, today,
are giving our column this week, to!
a statement that a representative of {
the better element of the youth of!
the land made recently at a conven- |
tion of Young People at New West- |
minstre, British Columbia, on Sep-
tember 20, 1938. This statement is by |
Warrena Oliver, member of Williscroft '
“Y”, Ladner, Canada, and is as fol-!
lows:
Tonight I should like to tell you
why I, and a host of other young peo- |
ple ,intend to steer clear of alcohol.
As a young person, I want a good !
time, and so far I've managed to have
a perfectly marvelous time without
alcohol for a companion. It seems to |
ne that the prospect of a hangover |
the next day would be a mighty wet
blanket at any gay party. I don’t want,
nor do I intend, tc have to pay for my
fun with two days of alkalizing—or
whatever it is that clears one’s head
after a drinking party. I haven't the
time. I'd be missing a lot of other good |
times, and wasting time that might be !
put to profitable use. i
I have heard people say that they |
just couldn't have a good time with- |
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people are
and so we
out a little liquor in the punch to
liven up the party. Personally, if I
were to find myself so bored with
life and with my friends that I had to
supply artificial pep to make a suc-
cess of my parties, I'd call myself a
most inadequate hostess, and take a
course on entertaining, to learn a few
new games and stunts. (That's a
GOOD one, girlie, and well put! Per-
haps the reason some people guzzle
liquor to have a good time is because
they have no wits when they are so-
ber.)..
They say that a little alcohol makes
a group of people more companion-
able, more at ease; mostly the guests
will talk more than they mean to and
tell more than they should, but nobody
is really listening anyway. A very
pleasant inspiring evening would be
had by all, I suppose! Be that as it
may, it’s not my idea of a good time.
(Nor is it the idea of anyone else who
believes that you can have a good
time without descending to alcoholic
drooling.)
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l1y we realize
In the words of Lady Astor, “When
I'm having a good time I want to
know it. I don't want my brain mud- |
dled with alcohol.”
We young people can find popularity
and comradeship in better, safer pur- |
suits. A high school boy wrote to Dr. |
Daniel A. Poling as follows: “I am 18
years old.
tcxicated with life and the
team I am captain of—and my best
girl—that I don't need anything stron-
ger to pep up 1 jaded nerves. But
every time I p up a newspaper, a
zine, or a 1 ern novel, I find
dissipated, dissolute,
mag
references to the
degenerate youth of your land. I
don't like to be classed in any such
category and I know a hunared fel-
lows who feel the same way.”
Thinking young people have too
much respect for themselves to risk
being classed in any such category. In
these days when keeping well, and
physically fit is so strongly emphasiz-
ed in our schools ,a word to the wise
is sufficient to keep young people
from poisoning their systems with al-
cohol. Aside from the great harm that
this poison is known to do to our bod-
ies, how much self respect could I pos-
time I looked in the
tipsy,
sess, if every
mirror, I saw a
drunkard:
myself, and so,
1 want to be fit for myself to know.
I want to be able ,as days go by,
Always to look myself str in the
eye.
1 don’t want to stand with the setting
sun,
And hate myself for the things I've
done.”
i
And, too, I want the respect of oth- |
he good opinion of others
imporiance to a
want to be re-
er people .
paramount
young person. We
| spected. They say that young people
on the whole are very conservative;
that its the older folk who don’t give
two hoots of what others think of
them! We young people, just ventur-
ing on the road of adulthood, find
there's a lot to learn, and “caution” is
an admirable byword. We have our
house of life to build, and we want
all the world to see a goodly house in
the making.
Young people as well as old have an
effect on others. We may be going
along pretty smoothly, when sudden-
that we are influencing
a shock at first, es-
pecially for of us who work
with younger children, to find that no
matter what we say, it's what we do
that teaches, or unteaches, the lesson
As the
other lives.
we are trying to drive home.
L. T. L’s say in their song:
1
ng isn’t teaching,
h what you do.”
“Simply
Folks wat
This summer it y privilege to
be a leader of 13-year-old girls at C. G.
I. T. Camp. For ten days I ate, worked,
and played with about a dozen of
these impressionable girld During
several meals I noticed that one girl
seemed to have trouble handling her
knife and fork. It turned out that
she had always manipulated her fork
with her left hand; but because she
saw me using my right hand, she felt
that she must do likewise. We are
watched, at such a camp, every minute
of the day ,and how we want to be
the very best influence for those girls.
How could I, then, be an example
to other young pcople, if I indulged in
was I
alcoholic bever:
you. It
nmer when Mrs.
imber of
you are some-
/illiams preser
us. Believe it
boay’s he tter who you are,
someone think ure mighty fine.
You are looked up to as a pattern to
follow. In >t, you're on a pedestal.
I said at the beginning, that as a
young person, I want a good time. To
this I shall add ,that as a Christian
young person nt the right kind
of a good can truthfully say
that in the c ch I have had my best
times, and have found my best
friends.
What are my
lower of Chr
ment of Jesu
obligations as a fol-
The great Command-
1ou shalt love the
all thy heart, and
. and thy nei-
Inca to zl
10 place to al-
red for the
ied.
r whatever
of God.”
“Whether ye
to God. |
e Holy!
principle: |
I have never been in a sal- |
i oon in my life. Honestly, I an so in-
baseball |
bleary-ejy 2a i
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whole self, |
ye do, do al
Paul id no ill to |
his nei re lesis by,
which I
the use of drink and lor busi-
ness may be decided. Can they be re-
tained * he glory of God!” Do they
“work ill” to our neighbor?
persona
In these days when innumerable
signboards tell us to buy cigarettes |
to aid digestion, and when newspaper
advertisements reveal to us the am-
azing fact that liquor steadies our
nerves, we are hopelessly bewildered
unless we have the mental and physi-
cal power to reason through this ques-
tion of Temperance. Sir Walter Scott
once wrote, “When a man has not a
good reason for doing a thing, he has
a good reason for letting it alone.”
How great a value do we place up-
on these God-given lives of ours! Rich
precious blood was shed upon a cross
that we might have them. Are we,
then, to fritter them away, drinking
cocktails? Let us rather “present our
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, accept-
able unto God, which is our reason-
able service.”
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