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filter. That water purifies men. In our city hospital the 

 greater part of the diseases are kidney diseases. Hundreds 

 of men who apply to be taken at the hospital have kidney 

 disease, and the consensus of medical opinion is that the 

 disease is most largely due to the water they drink. We 

 spend thousands and thousands of dollars in trying to patch 

 up the miserable, down-hearted, sorrowful men, affiicted 

 with this terrible scourge, kidney disease. In the moun- 

 tains, where the water is purified by the light and winds, 

 where it is preserved by the rocks, how little of the kidney 

 disease you find ! In Pennsylvania a comparison was made 

 of the number of cases found in the country with the num- 

 ber found in Philadelphia, and it was as one to eighty-nine. 

 There are eighty-nine cases of kidney disease in the city 

 where there is one in the hill country. 



Men are made by toil. As I rode into the town this after- 

 noon I saw a young dude on the corner of a street smoking 

 a cigarette. He was smoking up more capital in five min- 

 utes than he would honestly earn in five years. I wondered 

 what sort of a man he would be. Will he be rugged and 

 strong, clear in mind, with a deep and strong conscience? 

 He will be the weakest of the weak ; a contemptible dude 

 all his life. Reared, perhaps, in some great city, he has 

 come to visit your town. He sees the farmers coming to 

 sell their wood, and he exclaims, " I am glad I am not as 

 humble as these farmers who come from these country 

 towns. I am glad I do not have to pile wood and chop it 

 and drive those horses. I am very glad I need not expose 

 myself to the winter season, to bring my lunch, go home 

 late at night and have my supper at nine o'clock. I am so 

 deucedly fortunate, don't yer know, to be able to have a 

 cigarette at all." If he had brains enough to comprehend 

 his position at all, he would understand that such work as 

 he was doing would not make men. 



Meeting the hillside and grappling with a plough makes 

 men. How many young men there are who want to have 

 an easy time ! They are going into law or the ministry, — • 

 probably the latter, because they want an easy time, — 

 where it will be so easy to get along. Of the thousands 

 of students who come to me, more than two-thirds want 



