“THE NEW -CHIVALRY.” 
Supyect oF TauK BrEForE MANCHES- 
TER BROTHERHOOD. 
The semi-monthly meeting of the 
Manchester Men’s Brotherhood was 
held in the vestry of the Baptist 
church Monday evening when H, M. 
Ellenwood of Boston gave a very in- 
teresting talk to the 74 members 
present. “The Problem of the Ado- 
lescent Boy,” it might more properly 
be called, said the speaker, 
“By new chivalry I~refer to the 
new sense of honor among men that 
is coming to prevail more and more 
throughout the world. I will take 
as a basis Paul’s words to the church 
at Corinth: ‘Watch ye; stand fast 
in the faith; quit ye like men; be 
strong.’ These men had to fight 
against the ghastly sins of their fath- 
ers and against their environments. 
The greatest sin of these Corinthians 
was licentousness, 
““Be strong!’ Strength is the 
quality within a man that enables 
him to overcome the resistance he 
meets in overcoming that goal; to 
make him win out. And what a fas- 
cination in the outcome of it. There 
is the strength physical, mental and 
moral—to look evil in the face, de- 
sire it, but to choose to do. right. 
Then, there is strength of different 
times of life—of the child, the man, 
the mature man, 
“The particular feature I want to 
talk about tonight is the boy strength 
—‘the adolescent boy’—between 16 
and 21 years. 
“Has the young man a peculiar 
kind of strength? That capital with 
which the Almighty endows the 
young man in working out his car- 
eer? The strength of acquisition is 
his greatest strength. If one ac- 
quires integrity and character he 
must do so before he has reached 25 
years. Now what is the young man 
doing with his strength? He is 
wasting a lot of it. How? First, 
in idleness. Idleness is a misnomer. 
If he will not work, he will engage 
in activity of some kind, and natural- 
ly it is amusement he seeks; first 
harmless, then harmful. It is harm- 
ful if it takes the time and strength 
that should be given to work. He is 
preparing himself for failure. An 
amusement is harmful when it tends 
to develop taste in a young man 
which can be satisfied only in vice; 
then crime. 
‘The reniedy? I used to say the 
fault is with him; but I have chang- 
ed my mind. The fault_is outside 
ef him. 
“Actions 
grow more out. of im- 
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pulses, not judgment. He’s long on 
impulses, but mighty short on judg- 
ment—blind umpulse for the most 
part, 
“The remedy is in the training. 
What is training of a child? A com- 
plex vision—simple vision that knows 
all his impulses and tastes, that knows 
him through and through, that knows 
him sympathetically; pro- vision— 
providing for him the physcal neces- 
sities of life, all that he needs of op- 
portunity, of truth; and then super- 
vision. He needs to be supervised; 
somebody to stand over him—sym- 
pathetically. The boy iis full of 
steam; are you going to jump off and 
let this young engine run wildly? 
“Secondly, the training must be in 
conformity with and conform to the 
boy’s mind. ‘The engineer runs the 
engine, but he at all times observes 
the laws of steam. 
“T would suggest four great laws 
of the boy’s mental nature that must 
be conformed with. (1) Keep evil 
out of his life and drive it out when 
it gets there. (2) Ungrateful  de- 
sires tend to die; I can’t say ‘Get 
out,’ but I can say ‘No, I won’t.’ (3) 
Whatever we give ourselves to, re- 
acts in us; gratify those desires 
which are right; put your boy under 
the influences of things that are 
good. And (4) training conforms 
to the actual desires of the boy that 
are good, Honor is the keynote of 
training a boy. My honor is my 
sense of my own worth and what I 
owe to my own worth, and what 
you owe to my worth, and your sense 
of my worth, 
“Appeal to his honor and _ teach 
him the vows the old Knights took: 
clean in body and mind.” 
Following the talk Rev, Mr. War- 
ner, the president, expressed _ the 
thanks of the brotherhood to the 
speaker. Copies of the constitution 
of the Brotherhood were passed 
around. ‘Treasurer H. C. Swett re- 
ported a balance on hand a year ago 
of $31.53. Collections during the — 
year $97.79; expenses, $68.16; bal- 
ance in the bank $61.14, A voluntary 
committee served doughnuts and 
cheese, and cocoa. 
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