Litchfield enquirer., 1869-03-04

circumstances, to whom heroism seemed a heritage. and to be noble natural way of living. But they were so in spite of their poverty. not because of it.. What they might have been had the world done bet ter by them, cannot tell; but, if their minds had been enriched by culture, the world had been the Rainer. When Christ said, Blessed are they that. suffer, he did not speak of those who suffer from want and hunger, and who always see the Bas- tile looming up and plotting out the sky of their future. Such suffering brutalizes True natures ripen and strengthen in suf- fering; but it is that suffering which chast- ems and enobles-that which clears the should fail, and the want of daily bread. The Beauty of Suffering is not to be read in the face of Hunger" f..t's.s'..s 8,.4
 This is one side of the shield-one very truthful and important. I know it, and thousands who have wrestled with and vanquished Destiption will unite in bear ing like testimony to Massey's. Poverty is rugged mother, aud Destitution may teach us to bear with fortitude, but not to live nobly and to lofty ends. If in the hovel or hut we learn that great lesson the sum of all knowledge-we learn it in spite of circumstances, not by reason of them. He who is doomed to anxious, dai- ly struggle for scanty daily bread, is most unlikely to aspire to aught higher and no- bier than physical comforts. There was a sad truth in the ragged newsboy y'sresponse to the philanthropist who reproved his dishonesty in borrowing 8 sixpence of 8 brother newsboy, and coming up defaul- ter at the time of payment. You should always make a point of fulfilling every promise to the letter." said Philanthropy.
 :. Yes, sir," responded Mercury: ''but sup pose you're short, and can't?" gs z-s ytsssr
 An, many a man whose first step down. ward on the ladder of misfortune was sim pie Insolvency, has landed at the bottom in irredeemable Knavery. Indeen, an old New York merchant affirms, as the result of extensive observation, that he has ney-. CT known a man become hopelessly bank rupt yet maintain an unblemished reputa- tion for integrity. This may be too sweep ing; yet the great truth that urgent need is one main source of moral ruin cannot be too deeply considered in our plans of education. To send out a youth into a world of temptation unqualified to earn the means of satisfying his legitimate wants, is to launch him on boiling cur rent, hurrying swiftly toward the. deadly Niagara of destruction. The first guaran- ty of youths integrity through life, may be good moral discipline, resulting in the adoption of correct principles; but the next, essential to the support of this, is that industrial skill or training which will insure him, in the always possible case of failure in one vocation, ready access to an other, and so guaranty him fair iyeli- hood against any but the remotest contin- gency. <.si. 5t ,.,.,.,., s.,
 And herein is where our American sys- tems of Education are destined eventually to impress the civilized world as more clearly composing the great practical want of each individual man or woman who may need-in any pressing or remote event. the facilities of self-support; the chief of which, or more properly, the sum of which, is naany-sidedness; the ability, if one thing fails, to turn, without hesitation or dis comfture, to another. This is, happily, the tendency of our best approved systems of instruction to-day. ,..s- .n...-[,'',a.l But, while Poverty has its unquestioned and formidable perils, Wealth, too, has its dangers, different from those, but not less real, perhaps, not less formidable. Of these will speak in continuation of this
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