The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-08-13

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who has amasscd through chance.
may be through industry, ilo wealth
niw hich he rcioices. Thcrcis anoth
cr mistake into which The Young in
lago citio. are liable 10 hll-thcv
regard morality as o Thing purely
conventional, and not having it-
foundation upon broad and immu-
table principles; and they aItoecth
or overlook the underlying unity Of
vice. Nirtwc is s;mplymauhood.-
Young men must guard themselves
against The impression that they can
be virtuops upon ono side of their
character, and as absolutely vicious
on the other side. Entering into
a vigorous and forec(ul charcter,
there must be the most profound
connection of truth. Truth must
be sought alone for her own pre-
ciousness, and must he held to the
soul by the love with which it is
cherished. There never can be any
sphere in life a noble man that is
moi truthful, and no man was ever
truthful who did not carry through
life profound convictions of that
truth, and was willing to testify for
it in the face of misfortune, reproach,
ignominy, and even dath. Then it
is great lesson for young man IN a
great city to learn that he must ed
ucatc himself. The city is itself an
imperial university, and one cannot
walk through these streets without
passing through an education by
which he is made sharp, astutc and
,shrewed. The intellect must be cd
ucatcd, and the affections cultivated
Character must be distributed broad
ly over the face Of society, and one
must never suffer his heart to be-
come morbid by disappointment or
tolls he is called to pass through in
educating himself amidst the stern
realities of the city world. God al
migty never called any man, fairly
and honestly, without self-seeking
and without obtrusiveness to any
trust but he made him equal to it.
The element most important OF all
in a massive character, which is in
dispensible to success is will there
can be no character where there is
no will; the whole personality comes
out of it. If one is to archieve sue.
cess in business, success in a profess
sion: if one is to be statesman of
anothar age, a gifted orator Of anoth
er time; if one is to send forth the
peals of his eloquenco, so that they
still fall upon the listening ear of a
nation the, foundation Of it all must
be laid in the determination of an
honest and solid will. Without
will there Is nothing, And he too,
who expects to succeede in life must
have faith-faith in his God, faith
in himself and faith in his kind
There never was a hero on the
globe who was not made heroic by
the power of his faith. lie is a hero
that is elevated by his faith upon a
plain higher than the generation tc
which he belongs. Another element
in the formation of a right character
is self-abnegation. The man that is
great is the man who concentrates
the whole of his earthly life with
high and generous purposes, and
lives for these purposes. The Re
deemer presented before the gaze
ofthe world a grandtype of human
ity. and expressly said the son 0
man came not to bministered unto
hut to minister. All earth's he
roes have been earth's servants. lie
not youngmen go forth in the spiri
of self-argrandizcment, but 60 fortl
in the spirit of their Divine Master
doing good, and their eulog.
pronuced over their tents be foun
, in the tears of regrctful sorrow
which the widow and the orpha
shall shed over their dust. TIL
youn' men ofthis generation come i
/ a most critical moment Of their cou
: try's history. What this countr
+; needs is character, not talent, nc