Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-01-10
Advice for Young Men.


| No Industrious, honest laborer OBJ
jects to resting one day in seven. Ma
ture requires that portion Of ones time
to rest. Law, divine and human, has
fixed one day in seven as a day of
rest, and by that same law, the first
day OF the week, or Sabbath, is the
day on which the mind and body finds
relaxation from usual daily vocations.
But it is not necessary, in order to
make that relaxation complete that
we lay ourselves away upon feath.
cred shelf, in entire seclusion during
that twenty. four hours. Neither is it
consistent with correct idea of rest
and relaxation, nor with desire for
continued progression of intelligent
beings that those hours be spent in
reveling and rioting. Who is there
that would not like to improve his
own mind to learn something which
would be useful to him and render
him better and wiser than he was be.
fore? And yet what convenient op.
portunities for thus improving our
selves, gaining the respect of others,
adding to our mental stores and thus
the better fitting ourselves for honest
occupations, are neglected by many Of
us every Sabbath. The young are too
fearful of being laughed at by revilers
whose occupation would be gone if all
were educated to proper standard.
Young man, you who never read and
and study good books, who never go
TO church, but spend your time car
ousing and gaming, not thinking of
the good you might be doing, did you
ever think what the world would be if
all that were in it were like you I?
Did it ever occur to you that civiliza-
ton would die out, the people become
lazy, filthy, homeless and rowing saw
ages, almost in one generation, if all
the.people in the world were like you?
And are you willing that others shall
do all the good which saves you and
your race from such a destiny, while
you receive the benefits of their labors
as it were by compulsion? You can
do good without labor, without cost.
simply by encouraging by your pres.
ence those who are laboring for you
and the rest of humanity. What do
You ever gain by doing acts which are
debasing? Do you ever find that you
gain respect by INDUCING in osths,
blackguardism and drunkenness ?
How many friends do you gain by it?
How much does it add to your busi-
ness or your pocket? How much do
you gain in health? How much hap.
piness do you gain? On the contr airy
even those who are interested in your
degradation will put more confidence
In you and respect you more if you
devote yourself to that which is amia.
bic only. Show us young man who
never pollutes his mouth with vulgar
ism, disturbs his conscience with an
oath. poisons his blood with alcohol,
attends to his calling through the
week punctually, and occupies his
seat in the church on the Sabbath
regulurly, and we will show you
young man who has the respect and
confidence of his community not ex-
cepting that portion of it who might
be interested in having him do other
wise. There are those, perhaps who
will laugh at you if you change your
course, but does that hurt you? They
try your sincerity by temptation but
they respect you if you keep steadily
on. Hundreds of those whom you
daily meet have more regard for re-
ligion and its teachings than you i'm
agine. Those who
---''raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve them in q trice;
As if divinity had catched
The itch on purpose to be scratched"
seldom display great degree of earn
estness. Do not let them make game
of you. Try our advice for a year,
for six months. 1t will pay.