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lectures both within and without the state, besides 

 the completing of my reports on Hawaii and Samoa. 

 Two topics on which I frequently spoke were "The 

 Strength of Being Clean" and "The Call of the 

 Twentieth Century." The former was originally given 

 in San Francisco in 1898 before two regiments — the 

 one from Oregon, the other from Tennessee — just 

 "The starting for the Philippines. In it I stressed the 

 ^iren?^h jniportance of keeping a brain and nervous system 

 c/f n"^ unimpaired, meanwhile explaining that every drug or 

 habit which forces the nerves to lie points toward 

 weakness and impotence. Published as a booklet by 

 the Beacon Press in Boston, this talk met with a 

 wide sale. The Mormon Church received it with 

 special favor, its president, Heber J. Grant, having 

 bought on his own account several hundred copies 

 for distribution, and many others were purchased for 

 use in the Mutual Improvement Associations of the 

 young men and women of the church. 



In the other discussion I spoke of the coming cen- 

 tury as sure to be strenuous, complex, and demo- 

 cratic, its demand being for men who could face diffi- 

 cult conditions and achieve results, who could "carry 

 the message to Garcia" without delay or dallying. 

 The final word I made a personal appeal to young 

 men, since reprinted scores of times. Among other 

 uses it has been distributed to all the Boy Scouts of 

 Australia and New Zealand, as well as to groups in 

 Canada and the United States. It reads as follows: 



A Call to Young Men 



Justice to Your first duty in life is toward your afterself. So live that your 

 ones after- afterself — the man you ought to be — may in his time be 

 "^ possible and actual. 



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