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Show T o Our Youth Boys, do not sigh for the capital or indulgence of the rich, but use the capital you have. We mean those God-given God-given powers which every healthy youth of good habits has in and of himself. All a man wants in this life is a skillful skill-ful hand, a well informed mind, and a good heart. In our happy land, and in these times of libraries, liberty, religion and education, the humblestand poorest can aim at the greatest usefulness and the highest excellence, with a prospect of success that calls forth all the endurance, en-durance, pet severance and industry that is in man. Nay, if our father was in narrow circumstances, and still did all that he could for us we owe him, instead of less regard, an hundredfold more. Consider finally that if you live on the poluted joys of youth cannot be the joys of old age, though its guilt and the sting left behind will endure. We will know that the path of strict virtue is steep and rugged. But, for tha stern discipline of temperance, the hardship of self denial and the crushing of ap. petite and passion, there will be the blessed recompense of cheerful manhood and an honorable old age. Yes, higher and better than all temporal returns, live for purity of speech and thought, live for an incorruptible character. We live in an age marked by its lack of veneration. The aged are not always treated with deference, and at times ; fathers and mothers are addressed with : rudeness. The command now runs, one would think not in the good old tenor of of the Bible, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right," but thus, "Parents, obey your children." child-ren." Some may go so far as to say this is right. "Why should I, so much superior to my father and my mother, bow down before them? Did they appear ap-pear so well in society or were they ni t indestitute circumstances, I could respect them. But .". My young friends, pause. God and humanity forbid you to pursue this strain. Because our parents are poor, are we absolved from all obigation to love and respect them? Have the courage to begin the great race, and the energy to pursue the glorious prize; forsee your danger, arm against it, trust in God and you wil have nothing to fear. A Contributor |