Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-05-03
A WORD TO YOUNG LADIES.

Jo"HS iauiSo, dDouI your luHucuee over /
young men.
Did you ever think of it?
Did you ever realize that you could
have any influence at all over them?
We believe that young lady by her
constant, consistent Christian example,
may exert an untold power.
You do not know the respect and al
most worship, which young men, no mat
ter how wicked they may be themselves,
pay to consistent Christian lady, be she
young or old.
A gentleman once said to a lady who
boarded in the same house with him, that
her life was constant proof of the Chris
tian religion.
Often a simple request of lady, will
keep young man FROM doing wrong.
We have known this to be the case very
frequently; and young men have been
kept from breaking the Sabbath, from
drinking, from chewing just because la
dy whom they respected, and for whom
they had an affection, had requested
it.
A tract given, an invitation to 60 to
church, a request that your friend would
read the Bible daily, will often be regard
Jed, when more powerful appeal from
other sources would fall unheeded upon
his heart,
Many of the gentlemen whom you
meet in society, are away from the inhu-
cnce Of parents aud sisters and they will
respond to any interest taken in their
welfare.
We all speak of young mans danger
from evil associates and the very bad
influence which his dissipated gentleman
associates have over him.
We believe it is all true that gentle
mans character is formed to a great ex.
tent by the ladies he associates with, be.
fore he becomes complete man of the
world.
We think, in other words, that a
young man is pretty much what his sis
tcrs and young lady friends choose to
make him.
We knew a family where the sisters
encouraged their younger brothers to
smoke, thinking it was manly, and to
mingle with the gay, dissipated fellows,
because they thoughtit it smart and they
did mngle with them, body and soul, and
abused the same sisters shamefully.
The influences begin further lack than
with their gentleman companions. 1t be-
gan with their sisters, and was carried on
through the forming years Of their char
acter. On the other hand, if sisters are
watchful and aifectionate, they may in
various ways--by entering into any little
plan with interest, by introducing their
younger brothers into good ladies society
lead them along until their character is
formed, and then high toned respect for
ladies, and a manly self.respect, will keep
them from mingling with low society.
If young man sees that the religion
which in youth he was taught to venerate
is lightly thought of, and perhaps sneered
at, by the young with whom he associates
we can hardly expect him to think it is
! the thing for him.
! Let none say that they have no indu-
ence at all This is not possible.
You cannot live without having some
sort of influence any more than you can
live without breathing.
One thing is just as unavoidable as the
other. Beware then, what kind of iuau.
ence it is that you are constantly exert
ing.
An invitation to drink glass Of wine
or to play game of cards, may kindle
the fires of intemperance or gambling
which viii burn forever
A jest given at the expense of religion
light, trifing manner in the house OF
God, or any of the numerous ways IN
which you may show your disregard for
the souls of others, may be the means of
running many for time and eternity
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