A BOY'S RELIGION by Royal Road

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1888

A BOY'S RELIGION.

By Royal Road

If a boy is a lover of Jesus, he can't be a church officer, or a preacher, but he can be a godly boy, in a boy's way and in a boy's place. He ought not to be too solemn or too quiet for a boy. He need not cease to be a boy because he is a Christian. He ought to play like a real boy. But in all he ought to show the spirit of Christ, and be free from vulgarity and profanity. He ought to eschew tobacco and intoxicating drinks. He ought to be peaceable, gentle, merciful, and generous. He ought to discourage fighting. He ought to refuse to be a party to mischief, to persecution, to deceit. He ought to show his colors. He need not always be interrupting a game to say he is a Christian; but he ought not to be

ashamed to say that he refuses to do something because it is wrong and wicked, or because he fears God or is a Christian. He ought to take no part in the ridicule of sacred things, but meet the ridicule of others with a bold statement that for the things of God he feels the deepest reverence.