SHORT SERMONS FOR BOYS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1827, 28 April 1888, Page 2

SHORT SERMONS FOR BOYS.

Moat boya and girls do not like lermons — they say they are too iong for their hlghneaßetj. Perhaps they may like these short sermons. They will give food to ihiuk over, and must not bo read too. hastily.

A Swedish boy fell oat of a window and wao badly hart, bat, with olenohed lips, he kept back the ory of palu. The King, Guutavna Adolphus, who saw him fall, prophesied that the boy woald mako a man for an emergency. And to he did, for be bcoomo the famouß Gon»ral Bauor.

I A bog used to crash the flowers to get tholr oolor, and painted the white side of his father'a oottage m Tyrol with all Borta of pictures, whloh the mountaineer gazed at as wonderful, He wai Iho groat artist Titian. An old palctor watched a little fellow who amuaed hlmßolf making drawing 8 of his pot and brushes, daael and'stool, and aald : " That boy will beat me one day.! 1 So he did, for ho was M<ohael Angelo. A German boy w»* reading a blood-* and-thunder novel. Right ifl the midst of it he said to himself ; "Now this will never do. I got too muoh excited over it. I cap't study bo well attor If, So hero goes !'? and he flung the book Into tho river. He waa ! Fichto, the 'gieM (iermau philosopher. '" Do you know what these little sermons, i»e»n 1 Why, simply this, that In boyhood and girlhood are shown the traits for good •ir evil that mike the man oc. women go^d or uot. — "Jo'wleh Meaaenger."