The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-29
Drinking among Young Men.

The Philadelphia Sun says truly,
indiscriminate drinking among our
young men, must eventually make its
mark upon the population of our cities.
We can see it already betraying itself
in the rising generation II is impos-
sible for any man to drink even pure
liquors six or seven times a day, with
out suffering severely in constitution.
And when he transmits this impaired
constitution to his son, who in turn i'm
pairs it still further by the same cource,
it requires but little foresight to see
that we are preparing population forour
cities, that will not in physical frame be
much better than the Aztecs. This
love Of drink and bar-rooms is every
day increasing, Every day sees fresh
saloons started up in our midst. Eve
ry day secs our youth becoming more
and more the victims Of this habit, for
we really think it more a habit than
passion. 1t is no love for ioviality that
tempts them, except in few cases. tt
is not the hot exuberance Of youth Il
is not the evanescent impulse Of the
gay young fellow who is sowing his
wild oats. It is, as has been said, cold,
deliberate, confirmed habit, No atmos-
phere of recklessness or jollity surrounds
the drinking groups, except on OcCa-
sions, and no peals Of merriment atone
for the act, by proving it less sensual.
A grim and melancholy air pervades
each oountenance-th drinks are pour
ed out, the glasses raised and touched
with loathsome air Of custom, and each
man swallows his portion with the same
impressive countenanoe he would wear
if he was drinking a glass Of plain wa
ter. All the concomitants that par
TALLY redeem or excuse drinking, as far
as it can be redeemed or excused, are
wanting In this sad and formal ceremo-
ny. The actors drink not because they
love it and want TO be merry, but be-
cause they have been accustomed TO it
ever since they were boys, and il has
now become a habit, which is more inn
periOus than if it were a passion.
HoIrNEss-No gifts, no duties, no
natural endowments, will evidence q
right in heaven; but the least measure
Of true holiness will secure heaven to
the soul. AS holiness is the souls bebt
evidence for heaven, so it is continued
spring Of con. Fort TO it in the way thith-
or. The purest and the sweetest pleas
ures in this world are the results Of
holiness. Till we come 10 live holly,
we never live comfortably. Heaven is
epitomized in holiness Aud, to say no
more, it is the peculiar mark by which
God has visibly distinguished his own
from other men, Psalms iv 8, "The
Lord hath set apart him that is godly for
himself" " AS if he had said, This is
the man, and that the woman, to whom
I intend to be good for ever; this is
man for me, o holiness, how surpass-
ingly glorious art thoul-T TFlavel.
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The power Of fortune is confessed on
ly by the miserable, for the happy i'm
Pute oil their success TO prudence and
merit.
Every moment instruots, and every
object; for wisdom is infused into every
form II has been poured into us as
blood; IL couvulsed us as pain; Il slid
into us as pleasures it onyeloped Us In
dull, melancholy days, Or Ia days of
cheerful labor; we did not guess its os-
sehoo until after o long time.