Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-12-01
Two Successful Merchants.
Address Delivered Before the Students
of Eastman College by Rev. Will
liam Lloyd, of New York.

these lives is the Importance of forming
good habits in early life.
William E. Dodge was pronounced
total abstainer, and strong advocate of
the same. Peter Cooper was man of
the strictest temperance in his life.
Both formed habits of physical alb.
stinence in early life. The designations,
the vicious pleasures which blight SO
many lives, wreck so many bright pros
poets, darken by their consequences so
many homes in our land, were avoided
by these men as one would a pestilence.
The result was visible in the hale and
bright old age which crowned them.
No one could know them or look at
them without being impressed with the
care which they had taken to preserve
their physical health.
Either of them could have taken up
and adopted as his own the words the
immortal Shakespeare puts into the
mouth of Adam in Gas You Like 1t :"
"Though am old yet am strong and lusty
For, in my youth, never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;
Nor did not with unabashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility.
Therefore, my age is in lusty winter
Frosty but kindly"
Young man, take care of your body !
1t is the machinery with which the
work of life must be done. It's vital
forces are the power moving the ma
chinery. Use your body wrongfully
and you must suffer. Draw upon its
resources too lavishly and you must
lose power thereby. By no means can
you ever make up for the loss. Over
work your body or your brain and pre-
mature wreck will follow. Nature is
memorable She demands payment fol
all overdrafts, and that with usury.
Many Il man has by neglect or viola
ton of the laws of his nature found
himself as Rufus Choate said once, in
reply to Il man who said to him, "Mr
Choate, you you will ruin your consti'
tuition if you continue to act thus.
Constitution" said the brilliant law
yer, "that has been used up a long
time, and | am now living upon the
bylaws" Such living, young men,
does not last long. Especially de
structive to you will be indulgence il
vicious pleasures Of any kind. 1t vii
be fatal to your success in life. Ineet
not speak more plainly. | look at you
young men here today, and my mine
goes back to my early life, Oh! how
many of my companions made wrecl
of honor, of happiness, of life, through
sinful indulgence, ripening into habit
they lost the power to break. Face afte
face raises before me that the gray
has now for years mercifully hidden
Could you see the wrecks of once hope
full and promising manhood | see ever,
week you would need no words O
mine to hold you back from the ruin
| look into your faces and think, hoy
many of these young men will reac
honorable places in life? how many vii
live worthy of that mothers kiss an,
fulfill the prophecies her heart ha
cherished AMI spoken from the day Q
your birth ? and how many will di;
honor the name they bear, and max
shipwreck of hope and all life Nigh
be? {#
My young friends, pardon me
today | speak earnestly. l know you
danger. | have been near the rock;
and seen the white faces of the browne
heard the bitter, cry of those VIII
were sinking INTO the depths. | ar
no aesthetic | do not decry the pleas
ures OF life; but again all forms of Sc
called pleasures that degrade the min
and corrupt the body l must lift up m
voice, and entreat YOU, by your mar
hood, by all your hopes of success i
life, if you would not be at last a fe
tered slave to vice, hold fast to tn
crown with which your mother crowne
you, and let no hand, be it fair or felor
pluck it from your brow. ,..
There are many other things SUI
gested to me, as, for instance, the valu
of steadiness Of purpose-giving ma
courage in the presence Of dificultie
lifting him above apparent failur,