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Labor and the Power Of Endurance.

Labor and the Power OF Endurance
We copy the following truthful and cx-
cellcnt article from Hunts Merchants Mar
nzinc Let the young men read it aud prof
it by it. Itis true, every word of it. Gcni-
us is dazzling and attractive; but Judgment,
will, and the power of endurance are better
than genius. Hardly anything is impossi-
bic to young man who is temperate, eco
nomlcal and honorable, and who labors con-
stantly and perscyeringly. Try it, young
man--try 1T for just ten years, and then, say
If it is not true. Resolve to succeed labor
aud you Will succeed. But you must choose
your calling, and stick to it. "a rolling
stone gathers no moss" Better be at the
heat in the most ordinary calling than TO be
at the foot in four or FIVE of the most impor-
tant and infuentah But we will not detain
you from the article referred to-, which adj
yances many Wholesome truths with much
uure tUrup than NO ola 9ivo to them
"BuSISEss ENDuRANCE.- Men of genius
without endurance, cannot succeed. Men
who start iii ono kind of business may find
1T impossible TO continue therein ali their
days. illhealth may demand a change
New and wider fields of enterprise ana sue
cess may be opcncl to them new clements
ot character may he developed. Men may
hayea positive distastc for somc pursuits,
and success may demand change. None
ot these eases fall within the general rule
mon may have talents, but if they are ''cv-
crything by turns and nothing long" they
must not expect to prosper No form of
business is free from vcXation each man
knows the spot on which his own harness
choics but he cannot know how much his
own neighbor suffers. 1t is said Yankee
can splice rope inmany different ways an
English sailor Knows bu. cue method, but i'm
that method he does his work we'll Life is
not long enough to allow any ono to be really
masterc Of but one pursuit
The history of eminent men, in all profess
slons ana callings, proves this. The great
statesman, daniel Webster, was a great law
yer. lis boyhood was marked by uncom-
mon industry. AS a speaker, he did not ex-
Gel in carly life. With great dcliberaton
he selected the law as his profession, nor
could he be deferred from his chosen pur-
suit, Whilea poor student, the tempting
prize of fifteen hundred dollars a year as
C!crk of the Courts then q large sum, gain
cd with great difficulty for him by the zeal
and influence of his father, failed to do it;
nor could all the persuasions of the father
turn him from the mark he had set before
him /; and his great eulogst, the Attorney
General OF Massachusetts,, is another marked
illustration of resolutc endurance and in
domitablc industry-life long-ccntering in
one profession, making him one of the chief
ornaments of that profession, if not its head
in tho United States.
Our late distinguished Ambassador at the
Court OF St James the Hon. Abbott law
renee, whose wealth was poured out for all
benevolent purposes in donations as largo as
the sea, can recall the time when he had his
profession tc s0lcct, end the first dollar of
his splendid fortune to earn. lie chose de-
libcrately calling he pursued that occu-
patton nith integrity and endurance, through
dark days and irving seasons and the result
is before the world This case affords anapt
illustration of the proyerb of the wise man,
that man "dilligcnt in business shall stand
before kings, and not before mean men,"
The late John Jacob AStof, as he left his
native Germany, passed beneath a linden
tree not far from line that separated his
native land from another, and made three
resolutions, which he.intended should guide
him through life 81. He would be honest.
2 He would be industrious. 3. He would
never gamble" He was on foot his wealth
was IN the small bundle that swung from his
stick laid on his shoulder The world was
before him. lie was able to carry them out.
Ills success is the best comment ON his en-
durance. Stephen Girard, at the age of for
ty years, was in quite moderate crcumstan-
ceS, peinS the captain OF small coasting
vessel on the Delaware, and part owner of
the same. No trait in bis character was
more marked than his endurance, and the
element gave him o fortune.
All men who have succeeded we'll in life,
have been mon of nigh resolve and endu-
rance. The famed William Pitt was. in
eaely life, fond of fgaming. The passion in
creased with his ycars he knew that he
must at once master the passion or the mas.
sion would master HIM IIc made a Arm,
resolve that lie would never again, play a
game Of hazard. lie could make such d res
oiution he could keep it. His subsequent
clninence wsSthe fruit of that power. Will
liam Wilbefcrce, in lbs earliGr day5,, like
most mon of his rank and age, loved Che OK
element of games at hazard. lie sa' the
ruin ct tho vice of gaming as he never saw
it before he was appalled, at what he bq
held, Sitting amid gaming, ruih aud do.
spair, nc took the resolution thar lie would
never again enter gaming house. lie
changed his company with the change Of his
conduct, and subsequently he became ono OF
the most distinguished Englishmen OF his
age. ~
DIR. Samuel Johnston vas once requested
10 drink with ia fricsd. TIE doctor proposed