Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-05-05
From the Mether's Magazine,
VIGOROUS EFFORT.

Dear Madan,-I have been much i'm
pressed Of late. with the importance OF
car Y accustoming our children to rigor-
Gus effort in whatever they undertake.
l have, under my care, a youth twelve
years Of age, whose earl V habits have
been much neglected. He has beer
brought up in a southern climate, where
but little effort is required, and with the
confirmed habits Of twelve years, it is
difficult, | had almost said, an impossible
task for him to employ his mind with in
tensity upon any study or engage III bodi-
~ effort without tagging. After break
fast, he has been placed at work out of
doors, which could easily be accomplished
in an hour When the dinner hour ar
rived, his labor was still unfinished, and
it seemed to satisfy his mind, that he had
been at his post all Of the morning, while
completing the task was no part CT his am
bi,ion. His lessons are in a like casc;-
diff ult portions are passed over as unat-
tainabc, and time spent upon tie book
takes the place of learning the lesson
Ambition seems TO be out of the question,
and the desire Of pleasing me, fails Of &C
complshing its end. That much Of this
want Of energy arises from the mistaken
kindness of parents have not doubt;
who save their children even the smallest
Effort bv their own hard excrtions, but
thereby deprive them of that necessary OK
ercisc of patience, fortitudc, and pcrscvcr-
ance, which forms the ground work ofrhe
most estimable characters. Man is, in
deed, bundle Of habits; and the habit Of
overcoming difficulties in the nursery, is
of importance jn1smuch as it becomes in
the man, the energy ola Fulton or and
A short time since, there appeared in
that excellent little work, the Youths
Friend, story ofthree boys, called ,Nol3,
Ncquco and Tentabo, Latin names, for
II WON'T" Il can't" and Il will try."-
Nolo turned out as you would suppose:
for disobedient son invariably comes TO
bad end NeQueo was no. much better;
always desparing ofsuccess, before he had
made the attempt, he lived poor, dPsplsed,
and self-condemned. Teuta5o was the
only one Of the three who made useful
and respectable man Since pcruSlng this
story, have endeayored to make Tent0-
! bocs Of all my children. Whatever they
undertake, whether to wind sActn OF silk,
to hem pockethandkcrchiet to unravcI
a sum in arithmetic, or compose letter
they are not allowed to renounce 1t as I'M
possible Il can't" is excluded from
their vocabulary. All the great events
which history has recorded have teen
accomplished by spirit Of perseverlnag
zeal. The motto, We will try" nspir'
tied our pilgrim fathers, when they cross
ed trackIess ocean: and it gave birth te
that Declaration which proclaimed eul
countrvs independence. The Apostle
10 the GentiIcs, said Il can do all things
! through Christ, which strengthened me-
, What comment is this, upon the excus
IS of Christians in our day, 'who shrinl
! from duty under the pretext Of humility
and follow not their Master, because: a
t hey say, they are not competent -
, When Moses made excuses of this son
; the Lord sharply rebuked him. saying
0 "Who hath made mans mouth or "h'
J. maketh the dumb or deaf or me seeing
!, or the blind? have not |, the boro &