The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-03-28
For Young Men.

Young man, il there be anything more
than another for which you should be
grateful, it is the poverty which necessi-
tates your starting in life under such great
disadvantages. Poverty is one of the
best tests Of q mans quality in the world.
It proves his stamina. A triumph over
it gives man higher status than had
he graduated at West Point. Il demon
strates the stuff he is made of, and that
he has work to do in the world, and that
he is the man 10 do it. A young man
who cannot stand this test, and triumph
over it, is only fit for the culled lumber
pile. He never can expect TO be any
thing but newer of wood and drawer
Of water. A young man who cannot feel
his resolution becoming firmer as the yoke
of poverty presses upon him, and his
pluck rise with every difficulty thrown in
his way, may rs well retire into some OBJ
scure corner and hide himself. Poverty
saves q thousand times more men than it
ruins; in fact it never ruins any only
those whom it is not worth while saving,
while it saves multitudes of those whom
wealth would have ruined. We never in
a long life knew young man worth any
thing to whom poverty was not the great
est blessing. a1t .a vf .. Ea1. ..la..
We pity any young man who has the
misfortune to inherit wealth, for he lacks
one of the greatest stimulants 10 effort
and excellence which his poor companion
possesses. My rich young friend, we pity
you! your full pockets and full stomach,
your fine linen and broadcloth, by pre-
venting cxertion and effort will give you
an empty head, and poor heart, and in
the great race of life you are likely TO be
surpassed by that awkward, lank, shabby
young man, who feels the spirit of true
manhood striving within him, and who
goes to his daily toll with as cheerful a
whistle, and as serene brow, and as
brave heart as though born to an earl
dom.
If you are poor, my boy, thank God
and take courage. God is just telling you
in the very poverty to which you are
born heir that He thereby intends TO give
you chance to make something of your
self, and ten chances to one but plenty of
money would spoil you. Poverty to the
young man of pluck is what the north
wind is TO the young tree-it causes it to
send down its roots deeper, and to take
frmer grasp Of the soil. The world is in
debted to poverty for forming some of
tho greatest minds which shed forth their
lustre upon it.
HUGH MILLER, who graduated in the
stone quarries of Cromarty, says 'that hon
est labor is the best of teachers, and that
the school of toll is the noblest of schools,
as there the ability for being useful is i'm
parted, the spirit Of independence is learn
ed, and the habit of persevering effort is
acquired, CLIFFORD, the learned editor of
the British Quarterly Review, wrote his
first problems in mathematics when a
cobblers apprentice, upon small scraps of
leather made smooth for the purpose
JOSEPH BRoTHERToN, eminent in the Par
lament of Great Britain, was poor fac
tory boy, and at one time in the House of
Commons, among the aristocracy of the
land, he was not ashamed TO confess the
hardships he endured, and declared, that
il ever it was in his power he would anne
liorate the condition Of that class, and he
lived TO fulfill his resolution, by obtaining
the passing of the ten hours bin.
The celebrated Lord TENTERDEN, Lord
Chief Justice Of England, was brought
up to the business Of barber, and on
one occasion when be was at the height
Of his honors, he took his son Charles
and showed him the shop where his faith
er and himself had shaved for penny.
Young man never be ashamed Of, but
bless God for your poverty. He means
thereby to make man Of you if you