Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1836-09-02
TO YOUNG MEN.

There is no mora obj Get So beautiful to
me as CONSCIENTIOUS Young man! | watch
him as do star ~ the heavens cloud.
may be before him but we know his lion,
is behind them, and will beam again. The
blaze OF others prosperity may outshine
him, but we know that though unseen he
ELIMINATES his own true sphere. He re.
ssts tempt alton not without struggle he
hears the sarcasms Of the prohlgale and it
stings hun, FOR that is the trial Of virtue, and
he heals the wound with his own pure touch
He heads not the watchword Of fashion, if
1t had no SIN; The atheist who says not on
Iy with his heart, but with his Inns, there
Is no God controls him not, for he sees
The hand OF q creating God and references
it-of preserving God and reoices in it.
Woman is sheltered by fond arms and guild
ed by loving counsel, old age is protected
by experience and manhood by its strength:
but young man stands amongst the temp.
tatons of the world like splf balanced
tower. Happy he who seeks and gains the
prop and shelter of Christianity.
Onward, then, conscientious youth raise
thy standard and nerve thysef for goodness.
II God has given intellectual power, awaken
1t in that cause; never let it be SAID of
thee, he helped to raise the tide of sin BY
pouring his influence into its channels. #
thou art feeble in mental strength, throw
not that drop into polluted channel, A
wake! arlse,young man assume the beau
tful garments of virtue it is easy, fearful
ly easy to sin, it ls difficult to be pure and
holy. Pat on thy strength then. let thy
chIvalry be aroused against error, let truth
be thy lady love-defend her.
ELoauENcE OF THE PAssIoSs.-Crom
! well was one day engaged in a warm a-ru
ment with lady on the subjects of oratory.
III which she maintalneh that eloquence
could only be acquired by those who made
it their study in early youth, and their prac
tlce afterwards. The Lord Protector on the
contrary. maintained that there was an elo
| quencc which sprung from the heart; since.
! when that was deeply interested IN the at.
ta'nment of an object, it never failed to
supply fluency and richness of expression,
| which would, IN the comparison, render va
bid the studied speeches Of the most ceIe.
brated orators. II happened some DAYS af-
ter, that this lady was thrown into a state
bordering on distraction, by the arrest and
imprisonment of her husband, who was con
Quoted to the tower as traitor to the gov
eminent. The agonlzed wife flew to the
Lord Protector, rushed through his guards.
threw herself at his feet. and with the most
pathetic eIoqnence plead for the life and IN
nocence other injured husband. His nigh.
ness maintained u severe brow, till the PEI
,'Iioner overpo~ercd by the excess of her
feelings and the energy with winch she had
expressed them, paused; then his stern
coun'enance relaxed into a smile, and ex
tending to her an order for the immediate
liberation of her husband, he SAID IL think
all who nave witnessed this scene will vote
on my SIDE of the question, in a dispute be
ween us the other day, that The cnqnence
81 the heart is far above that .chan,cally
acquired by study" Her husband was re
lIeved.