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Show SOUND SENSE. Not long ago the Rev. Robert Collyer told the story of his life to the students of Eastman's? Eastmen's? Business College, in Poughkeepsie, drawing from it many pointed morals. The "story" is well worth reading and pondering; and we cannot forbear giving our readers one or two brief extracts from the published report. Mr. Collyer mentioned four things, which "as he had learned his lesson, go to make a man: good birth, good breeding, your own good endeavor, and that good fortune which is but another name for the goodness of God." He described the simple home in Yorkshire, paying his mother a tender tribute for the cleanliness and wholesome regimen that secured perfect health, and for the training that repelled vice and fostered self-improvement. In concluding his "talk,?" Mr. Collyer gave the following sensible advice: "When you get through with the college, and take hold of your life's work, do not think of making a fortune as the one grand aim of your life, but of carving out a home, finding a good, true woman for your wife, and raising, please God, a good family. I do not cry? down money. I think it is a good servant and a good friend, but it is about as cruel a master as ever used a whip. A shrewd farmer said to me once, ‘Never marry for money, my lad, marry for love; but if thou finds a nice girl that has money, try to love her.' I would not say that to you, but this: If you find the nice girl, some such match for you as my mother was for my father, and if you love her, marry her, if she will have you, though she has not a dollar to her name. This is a sore evil under our American sun that there should be such mishap and disaster in the wedded life. It lies in this, that in the most momentous thing we can do we so often use the least judgment. We who have had our turn want the young men of your birth and breeding to raise a generation of a nobler and better type, boys and girls strong of arm and sure of foot, deep-chested, sunny-hearted, full of faculty, and wholesome to the innermost nerve, and to do this you must do two things; give them noble mothers, and don't ‘linger shivering on the brink, and fear to launch away.' but when you know you can take care of a home in a simple, wholesome fashion, go right to work and do it." |