The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-06-14
EVENTS OF OUR LIVES.

"The events of our lives are not left, as
people are tco apt to suppose, 10 be determin-
ed by circumstances but in our own hands
lies the power to fashion the m AS we will
n boy who decides to be a business man, has,
through every hour of his boys life, the
choice of directing his thoughts in just those
channels which shall mature his judgement,
make his faculties sharp and quick, and when
the hour comes, give him q start in life which
shall soon place lin far before those who
have blundered on, neither thinking, knowing,
or caring about the future. So with any OF
the professions, II the choice is made early,
the whole course CT study, instead Of being
general and desultory, can be pursued as
means TO an end. Just those books can be
most thoroughly which will put learned
weapon into the hand.
College years, instead Of being wasted as
they are often now, might become the most
important period in young mans life
Th,y should be TO him what our military
schools are to the young soldiers, place for
drilling and discipline. These are entered
with definite object-and only one object.
Every hour, every day, and every year is ex-
pected to advance this and he who lies idlJ
upon his arms, who is remiss even in the
slightest particular, is considered unfit for the
life he has chosen, and dismissed to seek an
other. But a steady purpose, a continued and
perservering attention TO the thing, and when
the disciplinary life is over, post of honor
and trust is awaiting him, post which he is
amply qualified to tlll So with profession,
There are many more places Of honor and
trust in our county than men to fill them. For
the most until the hair begins to grow garay,
the vigor of the mind to wane, that man is
disciplined sufficiently to take and fill The place
which his natural powers would have made
him years ago; and then, what remains to
him ?-the noon is over, the shadows are
stretching themselve longer and longer before
him-he hardly hears how great he is, be-
fore there comes to him slealthy whispers,
His age begins to show itself. Behold the
dead lion!' A wasted morning, a late, busy
noon, and an early twiIight-such is the his
tory ef life /"
Now for different picture
"On the contrary, there is the busy morn
ing, when the mind is fresh and active, when
he works with its might and with singleness
of aim; the present is provided for the future
then comes the future-the boy has vanished,
and the man, ready armed. marches forth tc
do battle. Year after year, in that quiet, early
life, has been forging his mail-no. vulnera.
Bile point remains. He has proved it and
streng gthened it (; he knops its, worth, and when
hard upon it come the blows of thick strife
his heart within it beats on as quietly and as
calmly as ifthe vicotry were already his own.
The old age brings repose--the repose of the
Chi, f.ain, with the lulel on his brow, the rest
of the conqueror and when earthly sounds
are filing the deafened ear and earthly honors
are burden, like the grasshopper, the hold OF
life falls of so gently; no regret in the past
the sum of human existence is full, and like
a shock..of corn fully ripe, he is gathered tc
his rest"
"But professional men and scholars must
nevertheless eat and drink must be housed
and clotheI, like other men, or they will sure
ly die from want. Name is good thing, bu
many would tell you that tits oflener bought
with gold than won by talent. If money i;
the root of all evil, it is tree which sends
forth much good fruit. Money, much more
emphaically than knowledge, is power"