The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-06-16

WOulu De q neaVy DlOW ii all were
healthy. You understand me :"
Perfectly, and l can feel for you.
But knowing that the state of mind in
which you are, is, as you intimate, al
unhealthy one, | cannot agree with you
in your discouraging conclusions"
"But what can | do' Have | no
failed in three earnest and we'll directed
efforts to advance myself in the world =
"Try again, Henry"
"AEd come out worse than before -
"No-no--that need not fyllow
Try in better way"
4" Do you mean to intimate that
have not conducted my business in ,
proper manner :" asked the young MAJ
in quick voice, his cheeks instantly
glowing.
"I do not mean to intimate" re-
turned Mr.. Linton calmly, " that you
committed any wilfnl wrong in your
business. And yet, suppose you ~slI
not yourself deny the position, that there
was something wrong about it, or success
would have met your earnest efforts,
instead of failure"
81 don't know" was the gloomy re-
sponse. The fates | believe arc
against me-"
"What do you mean by the fatcs y
The young man made no reply, and
his monitor resumed, in still more
serious tone:
4" You can only y mean, of course, that
Divine Being, who is the author of our
existence and the controller of our des-
tinies. That Being, who is essential
love, and whose acts towards us can only
flow from pure regard for the good of
his creatures. And if such regard be
directed by wisdom that cannot err, can
any act of his towards you be evil :"
81 try to think in that way-and try
often" returned the young man in a
softened tone. " But it is hard, very
hard, to believe that Being of infinite
goodness would so hedge up the path of
any one as mine has been hedged up
would so mock with vain. hopes the heart
of any one as mine has been mocked."
/" Your mind is not now in a state to
think calmly and nationally upon the
subject, Henry" Mr.. Linton said, but
the time will come, when you Will see
in this state of severe trial a dispensa-
ton of mercy. 1t will then be perceived
that all this was for the purpose of Civ
ing you juster views of life, and con-
frming you in higher ends than any you
have heretofore acted upon. For the
present | will only repeat--Don't be
discouraged Try again! Put your
shoulder once more to the wheel. De-
pend upon it, your time will come but
not until you can bear success in a right
sp.rit. And to have success before you
are thus prepared to bear it, would be
the worst injury that could befall you"
Henry Grant, the young man here in
troduced to the readers notice, had at
the age of twenty-one, done tho very
imprudent thing of entering into business
for himself True, from the age Of
seventeen he had been in the store of
merchant, who had carried on a very
extensive trade, and had moreover, ac-
quired so thorough knowledge of bust
ness, that the most important subordi-
nate position in the house had been as
signed TO him. He saw that heavy
profits were accruing every year; that
while he was toiling on through the long
months of an annual cycle for single
thousand dollars, tens of thousands were
added to the Golfers of his already wealthy
employer.
"Why should waste the best hours
of my life in making money for others :"
he asked himself, the day after he had
attained his majority.
This thought was the germ of discon-
tent in his mind. 1t was nourished, and
grew into tree, whose thick leaves so
evershadowed his mind, that he could
not see the clear sky of sober truth
above, in which shone stars whose light
beamed forth to guide him. He became
eager for wealth that he might have sell
fish cnjoyments. Every beautiful dwell
ing, the reward, perhaps, years Of steady