Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 24: January, 1921 But they heeded not his warning call until they suddenly realized that they were in the midst of the rapids, and with all the power at their command they failed to turn their boat upstream, so, he says, shrieking and cursing over they go! Well, it is a very impressive picture. The lesson left an indelible impression upon me, but today it seems incomplete. It is one thing to stand on the shore and cry: Young men, ahoy, there is danger ahead; and it is another thing to row into the stream, and, if possible, get into the boat with the young men and by companionship, and by persuasion, by legitimate force, when necessary, turn the boat from the rapids. Too many of us stand on the shore and cry: Young men, ahoy! Let us get into their lives, let us touch their personality by our personality, and let them feel that there is something real in this religion; that it is the greatest thing in life, that nothing else can make them live as the true religious life. When they feel this they love it, and until they do feel it, until they do sense an immediate bless ing, following activity, we are going to find difficulty in calling them into that realm where there is peace. Young people say: We want to live. That is just what we are going to do. Let us have life, and have a good time. But their view is often distorted. They are seeking to live in the physical pleasures. They are seeking to live in the realm that brings only immediate sensation, and afterwards no peace. They fail to distinguish between the carnal pleasures and those which are intellectual and spiritual. I am not going to ask them not to have a good time. I think they should have a good time. Young men and young women are entitled to it; all men and all women are entitled to it. We are all here to enjoy life in its fullest and most com plete sense; but the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ is this: that to live one must live in obedience to law, physical law, intellectual law, spiritual law. Transgression of law always brings unhappiness, it al ways brings death when carried to the ultimate end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.