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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-1013 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
| 0—Saturday, May 24, 1924. THE JEFFERSONIAN, TOWSON, MARYLAND CHEVROLET SALES SERWCE RIDER WOOD GARAGE T. E. COCKEY, Prop. RIDERWOQD, MD. TIRES - GASOLINE - OILS - ACCESSORIES Expert Repair Work On All Cars. Phone, TOWSON 240 THE BOY'S RELIGION—LADS DON'T PARTICULARLY ENJOY GOING TO CHURCH Yea, It's Not Because Of Any Innate Fault Of Church,'But Because They Have Outgrown Thrills Of The Story Of David And Goliath. Original sin in the average boy is supposed to be more or less diluted by the waters of baptism, but he is not commonly looked upon as a philosopher trying to unravel the tangled skeins of existence and to institute an individual search for God IIBIISBEBHI WHY Does Buick Use Four- Wheel Brakes ? Because they provide the greatest safety for the owner and his family. YORK ROAD GARAGE Baltimore County Buick Dealers TOWSON, MD. IHBHHB-aaiiaaBBHaBBBiaBBHBBHBI **************^^ WILLIAM H. SANDS Builder and General Contractor Masonry Brick Work Plaster Work Cement Work Jobbing General Construction Carpenter Work Painting EAST PENNSYLVANIA AVE. Near York Road. TOWSON, MD. PHONES—Office, Towson 544 Residence, Tuxedo 2479 m+mmmmmmmmmmmmmm+mm USED TRUCK BARGAINS Name Capacity International ll<2-Ton Internationa] 3-Ton Armleder 2-Ton Chevorlet 1-Ton Ford Truck 1-Ton Ford Truck 1-Toc Ford Truck 1-Ton Republic 1-Ton Commerce 1%-Ton Gr ah am -Dodge 2-Ton Ford Truck 1-Ton G.-M.-C. 2-Ton Equipment Condition Exp. Body F L Top, Rebuilt Cab Top Rebuilt Chassis Fair Panel Body Good Full Panel Body Good Full Panel Cody Good Full Panel Body Good Chassis Fair Full Panel Body Good Good Full Panel Body Good Flat Body Good Call, Write or Telephone Selling: Price 950 1200 650 350 300 300 300 325 550 500 300 600 International Harvester Company of America General Office 81 Mosher St. Day—Madison 0280 Niiht—Madison 9373 Sales and Service 2565 Pennsylvania Av. *?"«%?%?< and truth. But Heaven lies about us in our infancy, and it may be more than a poetic fancy that the boy beholds the light and whence it flows. When we come upon him in a moment of meditation he may be concerning himself with matters of profounder moment than marbles and such. For instance, a seventeen-year-old boy who is a pupil in one of our county schools, feels it incumbent upon himself to set down his own ideas of religion and to bespeak a better understanding of the boy's view-point on this vital subject. Personally, he says, religion means no more to him than to thousands of boys just like him, and as he believes that his ideas are representative of a large group of boys, he may be taken as an interpreter of youth to an age that has largely devoted itself to finding fault with the youngsters. Most boys, he says, hate to show their feeling on religion. It embarrasses them to talk about it. They will discuss football, baseball, politics or camping, but if the talk turns on religion they retire within themselves, fortified by an adamant barrier of reserve. It may be that they are afraid of being laughed at or of being thought prudish, but it is an unjust conclusion to think that, because of his silence on the subject, the boy utterly ignores religion, except when he goes to church, and that he has no personal feelings on the subject. Here, says this young philosopher, is the secret: Deep within himself a boy may have a strong and fine religious sense. He may be just as truly religious in his own way as the minister is in his, but he shrinks from the thought of exposing it. His religion is his, and his alone. He is unwilling to show or display it, but he treasures it nevertheless. He merely lacks the outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace. To a boy, all religious manifestation goes against the grain. The minister in clerical clothes could not sound the depths of a boy's religion as well as the minister in flannel shirt and overalls. A boy dislikes all the visible trappings of faith. Again, why? I can answer only that it is part of a boy's nature, which no one can explain—a temporary feeling perhaps, but very intense. Boys don't particularly enjoy going to church, not because of any innate fault of the church, but because they have outgrown the thrills of the story of David and Goliath and have not yet bridged the gap between childhood and maturity sufficiently to enjoy the serene faith in older people. They are iji a state of religious adolescence. They have not forgotten the rudiments of religion and right living. The young writer proceeds: I once asked a fellow, said he, if he said any prayers at night. He told him that since he had stopped saying "Now I lay me," he had sub-stitued no other prayer, realizing that God in His goodness knew better than he did what was best for him, and would provide. Another boy of sixteen told him his own daily prayer, which came from his heart. It was: "O God, help me to be this day in every way a man; to govern my thoughts and actions ac- cording to the highest standards of unselfish manhood; to do nothing of which I should be ashamed to have those dear to me know; and to ever keep before my eyes the goal of a life of service, and of fitness to serve." Surely this is more to a boy's taste than that which few boys desire, "to live a godly, righteous, and sober life." Still another boy, condensing his prayer in favorabble contrast to the long-winded minister, told him these few words, his daily message to his Creator: "Dear God from Whom all blessings flow, I trust in Thee; Thy power I know." That is faith. It is difficult, we are told, for a boy to realize that he can get as much from going to church as from taking a walk or ride in the hills, on in some other place where he can be alone and think things out for himself. To the boy it seems that in loving nature he can come closer to God, though at the same time he realizes that if he had not gone to Church he wouldn't know enough about God to think that he could get closer to Him by taking a walk in the country. A boy doesn't always believe all that he hears in church, "but nature's interpretation of God is never disturbing to him." Said one of what he heard in church: "I try to remember only wb,at seems good to me, and let the rest go." But, of course, says this seventeen-yeax-old interpreter, "if that boy had never gone to church, he would not be able to discriminate between "what seems good" and "the rest." Differences in theological upbringing are of small concern to the boy. He has friends going to other colleges, where they have'different colors and different yells, but where the end in view is the same, and differences in denomination are regarded in much the same light. The surroundings are different, but all have the same end in view. After all, what, is the greatest thing we boys can hope to achieve in this life? It is to live so that at the end of our lives we may confidently say that we have fought a good fight, and that the world was in some way, no matter how small, improved by our having lived in it. Pudd'nhead Wilson said "It is a noble thing to do right." If we can do right—not always, for that is too much to expect—but if we can always try to do right, we shall have no pangs of regret when the time comes for us to sum up our lives, and see what we have done, and what we have left undone. At present we boys are being taught so that we may live rightly when we become men, and it is because religion helps us to do what is right that we are given religious instruction. If, then, we seem to our elders to be lacking in appreciation of the value of religion, I would respectfully beg them to realize what I have tried to explain; that a boy's real religion is deeply personal, and that he doesn't like to show it. I believe that I am speaking for a large group of boys of boarding-school age when I say that at heart we mean to do what is right. We may put buttons in the collection plate, or occasionally take the name of the Lord in vain. But at heart we have our finer feelings, our personal religions; and when the time comes for us to bear the torch, we will not fail. MUSICAL SERVICE GIVEN AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH. The recently organized choir of St. John's Church, Blenheim, rendered a musical service at the church on Sunday evening last. T. Wilbur Meads is musical director and Miss Etta Smith organist. ANNUAL MAY PROCESSION HELD AT TEXAS. The annual May procession was held on Sunday last at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Texas. The sermon was preached byb Rev. Father Flannigan. CHILDREN TO COMMUNE TOMORROW. A class of children will receive their first Holy Communion at the first mass tomorrow morning at the Catholic Church of the Immaculate, at Towson. INSTALLATION DATE CHANGED. Arrangements for the installation of Rev. Dr. W. T. Bailey as pastor of the White Hall Presbyterian Church for Sunday, June 1st has been changed to Sunday afternoon, June 8, at 3 o'clock. ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦&¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦&¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦& All Baltimore Dressed Meats \ Your Quality Meat Market, Inc. We Solicit Your Patronage OFF TO CALIFORNIA. County Commissioner Wm.. F. Coghland and his wife have gone on a trip to California. TOWSOX PATROLMEN HAVE HOT CHASE. Patrolmen Talbott Kelly and Roland Johnson, of Towson, had a hot chase after a burglar that did not materialize on last Tuesday night. A telephone message was received stating that a store had been entered. The patrolmen went there at lightning speed in a motorcycle and found things undisturbed. The proprietor of the store, J. W. Huddinott, had heard the prowling of rats. Mrs. Huddinott fired a pistol, and a number of residents of the neighborhood were aroused. f^K^m«4MMHM«M!» Oyei Through/ parfmtstfonte Hundreds of our members using these tires will attest to their exceptionally high quality and the remarkable savings. 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PHONE, GILMOR 5441 ¦iiiiiiansiafliiiiiiiiBiiBiiiiBiiiiiiiiii The annual meeting of the Balti more County Bar Association was held Wednesday in the Court House at Towson. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President—iC. Gus Grason; vice-president —Elmer R. Haile; secretary—J. H. Murray; treasurer — Lawrence E. Ensor; executive committee— Wm. P. Cole, Jr., Laban Suarks and H. Courtenay Jenifer. The Association sprang a surprise upon Mr. Ensor, who recently married, by presenting him with a beautiful silver pitcher. The presentation was made by Mr. Murray. Following the meeting the members of the Association, Judges of the Circuit Court, County Commissioners and other officials were entertained at luncheon by William P. Cole, Jr., the retiring president of the Association, at his home, corner of Chesapeake and Baltimore avenues, Towson. © <~H~H~:~:~:.******.^^^^ Agricultural Corp. of Md. 1112 Union TYtst Building Baltimore, Md. 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