The Daily spy., 1850-04-19
..THoUGnTs FOR A YOUNG MAN"


'Let me ask, whether, among all the speotacles
which earth presopts, and which angels mi ght look
down upon with an ecstacy too deep for utterance,
Is there 0ne flrer aud enrapurng to the sight
than that of young man, just fresh from the Crea-
| tors hands, and with the unspeut energies of the
coming eternity wrapped up in his bosom, surveying
and recounng, in the solitude of his closet in the
darkness of midnight, the mighty gifts with which he
has been endowed, and the magnificent career of
usefulness and of bessedness which has been opened
before HIM; and resolving, with one all-concentra-
ting and all-haIloHing vow, that he will live true 10
the noblest capacities of his being, and in obedience
to the highest law of his nature If aught can be
nobler or sublmer than this it Is the life that fuhls
the vow. Such young man reverences the divine
skill and wisdom by which his physical frame has
been so fearfnly and wonderfully made and he
keeps 1t pure and clean, fit temple for the living
God. For every indulgence of appetite that would
enervate the body, dull the keen sense, or cloud
the luminous brain, he has sect thee behind me!'
SO stern and deep, that the baled Satans of tempta-
ton stink from before him, IN shame and despair
Ii Obliged 10 earn his bread by the sweat of his brow
or by the sweat of his brain, he is not 'tslohful in
business" Fired with energy himself, he energises
all around him lie is Levden lar always charged
to plenuln; and whenever he comes in contact
with dead things, or hfeess men, he emits spark so
potent that they electrified into CELEBRITY Hold
ing punctualy among the major virtues he is ever
true to the appointed place and hour; and as he goes
and comes, men set their watches by him, as though
he were clock-iace of the sun, and moved by So
lar machinery. In selecting his vocation for live
lhood, he abJures every occupation, and every pro-
iession, however lucrative they may be, or however
honorable they may be falsely deemed, if, with his
/, own veal, they do not also promote the common
veal; and he views the idea with a deep religious
abhorrence, that anything advance the well-be-
ing Of himself which involves the iIl-beng of Others
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business, he will not seek to enlarge it by entering
conscience and honor in his books under the head Of
"Merchandze;' nor will he begin the sale of goods
to customers, by selling his soul Satan. If he
f ever ventures to embark the perilous sea of poll
tics, he steers his by the eternal lights in the
skles and not by the Wil-o -the-wisps, or by any
: meteor glare, which popular lamentations, or party
: heats, may engender. He abors earnestly for all
: the means OF health, comfort, and Improvement but
scorns the parade and osentatons of wealth; shuns
e pomp and poverty with equal socitude; and in a
hguraye, if not in literal sense, he avoids those
streets Of our cities where cholera RACES and eyers
consume, and also those other of Fashion and
s. Prlde where the prevailing epidemic is an ossfca-
ton of the heart Holding an a1ecation of saint'i-
to be the worst of Wickedness he does not like
e Plate, take water and wash his hands, when about
k to consummae deed that blackens and defles his
N soul. The locks and bolts and bars, by which men
seek to secure their property, have relation to
d him; for, the nearer he is brought into contact with
anothers goods gold, The he is filled with an
opposite polarity; and farthing MILL an infnit-
issmal, Of another mans wealth. would burn his
at palms with fierce heat, that red-hot balls would
he he more M Mt9lerabe. The honor of is holy, the
cnastl'y oi woman Is thrice noiy, hia koop;
te When he has acquired that golden mean of pronery
WHICH carries It's possessor out of the temptations OF
,s want, without carrying him into the temptations Of
" wealth; and which, as patrimony for his cbiIdon
Will nourlsh and not blast the vigor that is in them
3 he leaves the money-makng treadmill and betak
L himself to some walk of public usefulness most con-
genial to his aseeher to adorn literature bv bis
ID genius, or to advance science by his studies or to
7 organize charities for supplying the privatons Of
sehse' or renewing the loss OF sanity, to combine
and strengthen the conservative and progressive forces
Is OF civilization; or to combat, hand to hand with
'r some ol those terrific monsters that nfest socety
r, ignorance, blgotry mtemperance, slavery or war
J. Which need some hunter mghtier than Nmrod for
their eXTpatlon Or If he still continues to gather
e IN the golden harvests of wealth, he opens set of
books with Heaven, becoming the Lords stewart for
5 mems redemption from suffering and crime and l
Il lag up his treasures where moth nor rust. nor
d thieves can approach them. He is so passionate n
: over Tor the Fine Arts, that he discovers dviner
S forms OF beauty, and more celestial harmonies of
coorng than mortal sculptor or painter ever dreaped
Y OF. Not cultured Imagination alone, but reason
conscience, religion, all have taught him that the
u osl eicSdht Vi all the arts, earthly or Sill
e Pernal, IS to paint smiles and ruby joys upon the
G wan cheek of suffering infancy; to quench the de-
ihol-re oil passion that blaZes from the eve of pre
coclous wantonness, and kinde in its stead the se-
rene light that radlates from fount of inward nuri-
ty; to hang round and pre-occupy the chambers of
the juvenile mind with all types and images of lovl-
ness and excellence, and to build up all the elorons
faculties of the soul, in colossal architecture to
! some nearer resemblance to the Divine Original
Reason, conscience, religion, all have TAUGHT him
that ne who crowds the walls of his own dweling
or the cys ampler galleries, with the painting and
statuary OF all the great masters while orphanage
sinks to ruin around him. in default of Christian care
} and while all the hdeous images of deprayitv ond
shame are daily and hourly lrescoed into The scus Of
lost, abandoned childhood, only proves with what
daubS and lmpostures and caricatures the volls oc
every mansion In his own soul are covered. Reason
conscience, religion, all have taught him, that when
the starving babe shall longer vail for sustenanca
upon the starving mothers breast; when blasnbem,, |
and obscenlty shall longer be the lullaby viii
winch the intemperate father or mother hills i9cncu
70 sleep; when parental wickedness shall no longer
leach alsehood TO the youthful tongue, and theft and
u violence TO the yonthf,