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hood could not have lived or thought wrongly, for they have the hallmarks of clean living and clean thinking writ ten all over them. I respect them all, but still they constitute my moral prob lem. Bad literature we boys can leave alone. We can select the shows we at tend. Our girl friends we have no way of escaping so long as we stay in an in stitution that is co-educational. The thing that to most of us is the biggest stumbling block is the manner in which our women folks clothe themselves. “What is a fellow going to do? We don’t go around looking for these things, but we cannot help seeing them. No matter how much one may respect a girl, it is an effort for him to keep his thoughts from straying when she ex poses too much of her body in the way she does. An instinct that is always ready to spring into action, is usually started to function very easily, and as the instinct is psychological, it seems to be the psychological element of curiosity that starts it to functioning. “A bathing suit or a. gymnasium suit is rarely the cause of morbid thoughts among normal men. It is the clothing that only half conceals the limbs and the body that is suggestive. I know from the contact that-1 have had with so many college boys that the sensual thing about women’s dress is that which neither conceals nor discloses the body of the wearer. It is designed to show as much as society will allow, and the psychological tendency to complete in the mind the object that is imperfectly seen, does the rest. It is the imagina tion that is called into play that does the havoc. “Why should they go on dressing in a way to aggravate the sex tendency? The young man who is trying his utmost to keep himself clean for the sake of the woman he will marry sometime in the future, has trouble enough without his sisters throwing a monkey wrench into his moral machinery.”
Testaments and personal touch the story that never grows old. How grateful we are for the open doors and for the many big-hearted fellows who are always ready to extend to us a welcome and who seem now more appreciative and responsive to the message than ever be fore. We wonder whether the change is in them or in us. Surely, however, we are conscious of a deeper, warmer feeling in our own hearts and go gladly, joyfully and prayerfully to tell out the wonderful story of Jesus. We’ll repeat it in glory when we shall His likeness behold! , m Men Have Open Hearts Coming upon the men thus after our summer’s separation without warning we first struck the Salt Lake Shops and there were the same old faces, the same old weather-worn benches and, yes, sure enough, the same old box of tracts nailed on the wall with the same old well-used Bible. We were greeted like long lost brothers and, having sung the same old hymns and preached the same old Gospel, we returned with glad ness of heart praising God for the high honor of carrying the same old mes sage of grace from the unchangeable God of all grace, and as day by day we went the rounds of the old shops it was the same kindly, warm greeting encoun tered everywhere. God grant that all this may be just a little foretaste of the welcome and openness of mind and heart the Lord Jesus Christ will re ceive during the coming months as we by His power present Him in matchless grace as Saviour, Redeemer and Lord, as well as soon-coming King to the men in our shops, car barns and fire engine houses. Brethren, pray for us that the Word of God may run and be magnified. DAVID CANT. . 31 *. MAN’S MORAL MACHINERY Statement of a young college man in Physical Culture Magazine. “I am 25 years old and I have kept myself as clean physically as any girl that has ever lived. Mentally, I am un clean. Why? Because the women I know will not let me be clean. They are good girls, I know; tall and straight and strong, clear-eyed and red-cheeked, wonderfully alive and full - of good health and spirits. I know that such physically good specimens of woman
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