The Young Men of Today
By Editor
The Sabbath Recorder says:— "A careful statistician says that there are, in this country, about 7,000,000 young men. Speaking of the relation of this vast army to the church, he says that only about 25 per cent. attend its services, only 5 per cent. are members of it, and only about 3 per cent. contribute to its support. Speaking of the criminal classes, the same writer says that 70 per cent. of our incarcerated criminals and 85 per cent. of the patrons of saloons and houses of ill-fame are young men, while nearly 90 per cent. of all crimes committed are by young men. With these startling figures before our eyes, and knowing that the young men of to-day must be the men upon whom the world's work for the next twenty-five years must fall, who shall say that there is any danger of giving too much attention to our young men, or doing too much in the effort to fit them for the responsibilities of life?" And with these figures before our eyes can we call a man a pessimist who fails to see indications of the approach of the fabled millennium, when it is supposed by some that all the world will be converted?