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Show VICE BRINGS ON FEEBLENESS. When the baser' part in a 'man triumphs, tri-umphs, " it is quite certain that the nobler and manlier part will decay. To be vicious is to be weak. The youth who, on the threshold of hr; career, cultivates profligate, comradeship, comrade-ship, falls into impure ha,bits, becomes a linger at bars, an habitue of music halls, a companion .of night bird;?, a lover of foul - jests such a youth wilfully wil-fully disqualifies himself for. the most honorable ambitions of life. He ehoosep to walk in the gutter, and the paths of the just are closed to him. There is given to him the heart of a beast, and the man's heart is taken from him. Let youth he" under no delusion; de-lusion; apart from any question of conscience con-science or piety: nothing so effectually weakens the will and debilitates the itclleet as an immoral habit. Catholic Record. |