Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1848-11-16
Number 81.


be intellectual and learned. Let il be tried.
Let one year of assiduous application be
PaEsoed on the plan proposed, and the re-
SUR Of the experiment will as,onish the
most skePtical. MALTA dies sine hnea.--
let no day pass without one line a, least
and the year will present an aggregate wor.
thy Of record.
have said time is money. It is SO when
industriously employed. This money is
power in the hands of the possessor 1t is
certainly true, that state of independence
is secured with more certainty, and more
generally by farmers and mechanics, than
by any other class of men. If SPECTATORS,
who often lose all, do sometimes secure
great fortunes, the patient and Industrious
mechanic, in all cases, has the moral GER
tainty of that which is much better--d
competency-all he enjoys, an independence
which raises him above want, while he oc.
cupies a place below envy. He has the
prayer of the Agur-" neither poverty
nor riches"--lhe golden mean-,he tenn
perate zone of social life exempt from burn.
ing heat and frigid cold of the extremes
on either side. The Woodworking man:
therefore who is studious and industrious,
arrives with all moral certainty at the two
great sources and means Of power-knowl-
edge and wealth. Franklin practised on
these principles, and he rose from a poor
printers boy to be one of the most learned;
and personally, one Of The most powerful
Of men. The natural occupations of men
are the safest both 10 pecuniary profits and
TO morals. OF all who engage in this
country in mercantile profits, it is estima-
ted that seven-eighths at least are unsuc-
cessful. Statements entitled 10 confidence
have shown that like proportion ofyoung
men, who engage as clerks in some of our
large cities, made shipwreck of their NOR
d! characters. If this estimate should seem
to exaggerate the truth; yet none will de.
ny that facts would show fearful approx
imation TO such a result. This is enough
to prove the employments Of agriculture
and the mechanic arts serve TO secure that
quietude and mental calmness favorable TO
successful effort. ....
is the wise saying of wise man, that
the objection TO gaming that il circulates
money withou any intermediate labor or
industry" This brings to view compre-
hensive principle. Generally, the same OBJ
lection obtains to the gaming, or circula-
ton of money in any other way, without
intermediate labor or industry. Specula-
ton may be successful; but the money ac-
quired not being the result of labor, will be
less valuable either TO the public or the pos
SCISSOR. And whenever by fraud, or even
by bargain, money is wrung from the ne
cessities Of another without proper equiv
alent, the moral sense of The depressing
party receives a shock, and he loses with
himself more in character than he gains in
capital. Labor without profit is often bet
ter than profit without labor. Labor is
suited to the moral as well as the physical
constitution of man, it is necessary TO his
moral as well as 10 his physical health.
Without it, he will either be savage des-
pising accumulation, or a sucker on the vi
tails of society, fattening on the lifeblood of
others, and dull with plethorn, while the
victims of his sordid glul,ony are fainting
with famine.
That man is wise, and regards the physi-
cal constitution Of his nature, who earns
his own bread by his own labor; personal,
if not manual labor. He is unwise and
dsregards all experience and oil history.
who trains his sons TO rely on the results of
his labors or estate, which may be soon
squandered in the practice of idle and ex-
Pensivc habits and leave them doubly poor
by contrast and false education. REEVE.
lation in Gods word accords with revela-
ton in his works. Both appoint and re-
quire that man shall procure his bread by
the sweat of his brow. The man who con.
tradicts either fights against God, and finds
his proper punishment promptly rendered
Lassitude, ennui, and insanity, or dissipa.
tion, follow in rapid succession.
We think, naturally and of necessity. Ii
is surprising how much may be acquired
by directing this thought to some concen-
irated, consecutive course of investigation.
Ii we attempt one thing al time, and at
toays something, by single steps we pass over
distances and surmount difficulties which
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