The Baltimore County union., 1872-05-25
wretchedly fail when they stand with other peo-
! is Reoin with this honey toward yourself ::


/ ,e. Begin with this honesty toward yourself
severe. 1t won't hurt u. Then your rela-
with men, when they come to the less deli
ethings of intercourse and traffic, will be in
danger. Temptation v i'll not have power
e.lough to bend you.
2. Study, practice, insist upon Economy. To-
day we need that despised virtue We have been
tenn oted into large extravagances. The nation
and individuals have driven furiously. We are
a BY e-word among the peoples we are shame
to lrseves; we are peril TO our future. Sta
tis .ics, with their almost fabulous figures, show
us how we err, what in aggregate is the sum of
mascune and feminine folly and waste, while
the slow lahoring benevOlences of the land, wait
ing and imploring aid, reveal to US, by contrast,
what money might do were it but rightly used.
j. not believe in that sorGid kind of economy
tina. gets doled out at you by some souls who
never knew the luxury of induging generous
impulse, or the sweet sin of gratifying taste or
VIII =. There are good many Grabbed and sndr
ling things that call themselves Uirtues that are more
contemplate than any ordinary Uices. | do not
me >by economy anything stingy and narrow
n can, but rather, strictly that which is with
il limit of legitimate ability, little less than
ons an really afford rather than little more. |
bel it rare grace to be truly, wisely econom-
ica) shave no bad pet leak, which with all
20 'giance elsewhere, will dribble out your
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stop the little leaks, the indulgences
It ara 60 not profit. Youag people
-. 4oIulcl1.---davvaa--lsytliIl --lsytliIltiS some-
meg 5A IF their earnings, 10 some
e cause, to learn economy not only that they
may be clear with themselves but tha, they may
be of aid to others. Extravaganza that can be
afforded is sufficiently demoralizlng, but the ex-
travagance that cannot do yOu suppose any one
knows or could surmise the depths OF misery into
which it has plunged those guilty of it folly?
land with all gettngs, get Mdnlinfss. That
is what every Young man thinks be has. which
really very few have. Manliness is in character
not manner assurance, size, pfetence, IA lilly, but
character. | think man OF manly character
will never be furious driver. He " Ill be an
earnest man, but furious driving has that element
ofheedessness in it which may at any lime pro-
woke disaster and that an earnest nan will
guard against do not think ! ever knew a
reIlfy manly young man who was what we call
fest Fast men are essentially, pre-eminetly un-
manly with all their assumption They are de-
yotees to the present, they are ruaning after the
moments whim, the appetites demand, fashions
decree. They have low aim and reach it by
low things. There is fast young mamie
is idle, be is frivolous, he is self.indulgent.
He keeps low company, he consorts with low
fancies. His dress, the tip Of his hat bis lam
guage, his ideas, his everything, from his late
rising to bis late rest, proclaim him. tie is not
en- innocent man, he is not an honest man, he is
not earnest man, he is not man you respect,
or trnst, or want to see your daughter or sister
ziL -ycu can't avoid saspecting him. You
CON, know where he is, or may next moment be-
for neither he nor you can tell into what the ex
igencj of the next moment may drive him-sn,
shame, crime, JAIL a suicide, or felon' s grave.
There's no manliuess-the aping Of it, the coun-
terfei. of it,-none OF it. Manliness hath honor
and integrity earnesiness and purity, honesty
and economy, self-respect and other peoples re-
spect. Manlness is the sum OF needed virtues
it has not promise but hope nay, better than
either, assurance in it. If you will get genu-
inc nanlness will insure you what is best
worth among men, in all times, and as You shall
pat to il Godlness, will ensure you whati best
worth with God-the wo secure tG you your
present and your future welfare.
would like 10 see young men grow in these
three virtues for in their sum is great excellence
You cannot make decent life without them, you
canEot check the downward tendency n society
save through them. Language cannot convey
the adness of seeing so many young men going
to The bad. See them everywhere, 50 untrue
TO their privilege squanderng life as well as lesser
things, running out the sands in the g ,ss faster
th o the heavenly Father decrees was ing their
sut stance wasting, themselves in rotous living,
an making their immortal souls at home with
husl,s and harlots wish | could make them
feel what they are losing-yes, aud what they
are nining, losing all that is best ont Of life
m ta!itv, and gaining nothing now and
.Uer " Is ET5F Iz---Els- = asgases
NV days 10 heap u, land and gold anu
poS er for little while, TO push furously through
all pleasure and run yourself out in Nil enjoy
meni 1t isn't life. There are poor fuols who
think it is, who will not take anything else as
lite. How wretchedly mistaken. Life in de-
bau,hery, in running through money and repu-
tation and health, using up everything, earning
only bankruptcy Why have we not the morally
lunfic, and why not confue them that they shall
nos-3estroy themselves in life?
There are in our Bibles three histories would
commend to your special notice. Find them, read
them, profit by them. Absalom was the fast
young man at his father court, vain, handsome,
frivolous, yet not without good points, ruined by
bis vanity and beauty, an armed rebel against
his father, dying in rebellion, while his fathers
requiem chants itself mournfully through the
ages. Solomon deserted the better way, as
pre9perities and power grew, and fell into every
inquty and abomnation, became old before his
time, and was scourged back from his rioting by
tormens Of remorse. He was a man Of splendid
earnestness, and as he had done everything else
SO be s,1ned earnestly and splendidly. The New
Testament gives US, TO complete the three, the
prodga son, fortunate in turning back in season.
and finding welcome again in his fathers arms
Take these three histories as warning, and
turn yourselves 10 high and noble living. Make
life grand and a deep thing Lay up in il
No SSe that cannot pass away Grow in II into
even more and more enduring excellence Push
furiously after nothing-but steadily, earnestly,
unremitlingly press toward the excellence which
shall be as manly crown amid to-day endeavor,
and shall be changed for an immortal diadem at
eternity's account.