Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1841-07-08

has requested me to preach from tho fol-
lowing;
Go it while you're young,
For when you're old, you can't.
My hearers--the old proverb says
Train up child in the way he should go,
and whe he is old he will not depart from
it," but this, modernized, reads, "Train
up child in the way he ,OOuld 60, and be-
fore he is old he will go it," Yes, my
friends there is no mistake about it--if
you let child run loose over the fence
less fields of his own inclination, he will
wear out more moral shoe leather in one
day than an old man will in six weeks,
who walks moderately along the gravelly
high way Of sin. would, however, have
you understand that have no objection
to the sons and daughters Of earth going
1t while they are young, provided they
don't 60 it too strong for know that the
honeysuckes of pleasure grow only in
the green valley Of youth and that they
all shed their sweetness in the morning Of
life; that the declining sun of age casts
but sickly glare on the tomb Of worldly
enjoyment-and that old men, lettering
towards the lone tenement of death, are
often times compelled to bear the insults
and jeers Of thoughtess Juveniles, who
run after them shouting, " Go it, ye Grip
plies " when the young rascas know
that they are no longer able to 60 it as
they once did, when the wheels of life
were new-when every thing in the phys
icaI machinery operated without squeak
ing-and when their hearts tallow was
always kept melted by the warm blaze Of
youthful enthusiasm.
My dear children ! 90 it while you are
young, but be careful holo you 60 it,
Lie down and roll over as much as you
please upon the perfumed beds of indul-
gence, but mind and not roll into the
brambes of everlasting misery. Kick
up yoar heels along the gay walks of
pleasure, but don't crush the tender buds
of virtue, beneath your careless tread
and, above all, don't run so swiftly as to
produce spontaneous combustion of mo-
rality-(or when that spiritual essence is
once destroyed, you are just as surely
done up and bursted as though you were
obliged to borrow shirt 10 keep up APP
pearances. Drink deep from the cup Of
rational enjoyment, but shun the inebra-
ting bowl as you would the small pox or
the double width measles Don't NEEDLE
whit, my young friends-for, when you
once get your sucker in, you will find it
scortChed before you can get it out--your
fine sympathies crisped to synders-and
your reputation blasted forever. In a
spirit of mildness, mercy and modesty,
warn you against that worst Of all vices,
gambling. 1t is but trick OF the devil to
entce you into his slaughter house II
induces you to lie, cheat, and indulge in
prolane language; and it moreover offers
you an invitation TO get your living by
other means than those prescribed in the
golden decalogUe Of honest industry. Be
careful, also, how you 60 it in your APP
proximatons towards the female SEX
Let your love be Of the purest and most
exalted nature, Instead of hankering-
ing after the flesh, you ought TO have
your affections placed on those heavenly
virtues with which it is stuffed--lor it is
the stutiing alone that contains the true
spice Of Of reciprocal love.
Go it young man now in the days OF
your youth Revel in the sweets of en-
joyment while Fancy's flowers are in
their fullest boom--while pinions OF hope
droop not in the cold storms OF adversely
while the sun Of ambition still shines
upon the far distant summit Of fame. Let
your hoart abound with good cheer
Danish every suicidal thought from your
mind-and let the SOU surieit upcn the