The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-02

thought as Q child, but when l became
man 1 put away childish things."
Youth is the period in which t,
lay securely and forever the foun
dations of wisdom in the mind. Tn
arms and hands, legs and feet, pei
form their destined functions ant
the child can move at will ant
begin to care for itself. 1t move
at 1irst tOtteringly about, but it i
with ever increasing security. Th,
tongue has already learned its frs
words Of endearment and interest
for those words are certainly of in
terest TO itself, at least, which call f0l
food and lisp words of love into thu
ears Of a fond mother. Before th,
age at which tits now supposed tt
be, all was vague and dim and an
certain, for memory had not We
been developed sufficiently to allow
incidents and events to engravt
themselves lastingly upon the tab
lets of the mind. Who has no
cherished close to his heart, in some
green corner, or shady nook. thu
"reminiscences of school-boy days
when he ran, the careless, happy
urchin, to school? Not all the
trials of life, nor the dreary scenes
and barren wastes, crossed by the
faltering feet of the pilgrim in life
have been able to drive from the
soul the recOllections OF such times
When away listening to the din OF
arms, the siren call Of pleasure, the
soaring aims of ambition, will they
recur at intervals, as green GASES, to
enliven the struggle of existence.
We have in a previous number
shown how, even in infancy, our
education has commenced. But
now we look for holder strokes and
deeper impressions, than we have
yet received. We look for the first
sensible appearance of those lines
Of character which are to endure
whilst we exist-for the first shap-
ing Of those peculiar traits, or
eccentricitieS, that are to diStin-
guiSh us from the vast multitude of
our brethren. We may possess the
same virtues that another does, but
they my be displayed in different
way. In all the principles and feel
ingS which constitute character,
though we may seem to act purely
and consistently, yet millions of
others act so too, not one OF whom
may be said to be our counterpart
in every particular. There is
to distinguish us from
others as to species, yet something
we have that is different from what
they have; and, we may say truth
fully we are alike ourselves no two
days together. We are progressive
beings and to-day we know more
than we did yesterday, and az
eXertS powerful in
huence upon our physical confor-
nation, as well as our mental one,
we are different every succeeding
day to what we were the one before.
TO the unrefecting intellect this
may be unnoticed or unknown, yet
is nevertheless a truiSm. We part
from a friend and years intervene
before we again meet and embrace
him, yet we carry in our memory
an lndelible impression of his like
ness, until at length time, in his re-
sistless fight, brings HIM again be-
fore us. We look in vain for the
very friend we OEce had. The
change is sensibly apparent in con-
sequence of the length of time that
has elapsed since we last saw him;
but which particular moment of
that time was it that made this diff
ference? We cannot tell and we
say it was not one moment, but it
was all Of them; each one bearing
its propOrtionate share in the work
accomplished. The same change
would perhaps have taken place had
he remained with us, but by no
IN cans would it have been so APP
parent. Similar change is ever
increasingly and irresistibly
going on in human affairs, and it
should be made, if possible, bene-
fetal in its nature, and for our good,
and that every mark and line made
upon the page of our life history,
should be of the kind we wish TO
remain, never to be erased through
out all the changing vicissitudes of
an endless eternity.
Mirth and music are by 10 means
incompatible with virtue. He IS
not the greatest who only cultivates
one vaculty, however prominent it
may be, to the exclusion of all the
rest, Youth has exuberance of
spirit and a superintendent vitality,
that has to be worked off in some
form or manner. Better guide and
direct their amusements into inno-
cent and harmless channels. The
old too often are severe on youthful
indiscretions similar to those of
their own youth, and claim honors
for reforms forced upon
them by a change OF feeling
and failing vitality. In trying
to curb too strictly there is danger
of making them seek in darkness
and secrecy to find an escape. There
may be every element necessary to
form wild and vicious characters
here that there is anywhere in the
world, and we will find, unless uni
ted effort is made, there will grow
up many such. Youthful liberty,
in many instances, degenerates into
license and the contagion of evil ex-
ample is apt to spread, unless COM
hiuod effort iC modo fo sion If DbxC