The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-14
WORDS OF ADVICE.
Something Young Men SHOULD Re.

The recent death of young Edward
Pierrepont Secretary of the American
Legation of Rome, brings out a private
letter ex-Minister Pierrepont wrote six
years ago to his son at college. The
deceased, says an intimate friend of the
family, was young man OF rare gifts and
accomplishments and of great promise.
He was a brilliant scholar, close student.
a thoroughly upright Christian gentleman,
and manly fellow. He was educated at
Oxford University, England, and died of
Roman fever at the early age of twenty
five years, SCATTERING brilliant hopes and
rainbow promises. On March Sth, 1879,
Mr.. Pierrepont wrote the letter in question
for the future guidance and help of his
son. 1t was full of wisdom and rare dis
erection, and young men who read it will
its teachings and guided by its eounsels.
We make the following liberal extracts
from the letter:
Ny DEAR S0N-I would gladly save you
from much annoyance and from many
sorrows, by giving you the benefit of my
own experience. | also know how prone
boys are to think that the times have
changed since their fathers were young,
and that the true rules for the conduct of
life have ceased to be the same. My son,
as you grow older, you will find that from
the time of solomon to this hour, human
nature has not changed at all, and that the
guide to prosperous and a happy life is
precisely the same as it was when that wise
man wrote.
First-There is great first cause which
rules the world 4 something which we
can but dimly comprehend, because it is
too vast for our finite minds. 1t is the in
finite. 1t is God. 1t is fruitless to
try ''to find out Cod He is ''our Father
in Heaven;" this is all that the simple
child can know it is all that the most
learned man can ever know That this
Great Creator is just and merciful, and
rules by equal laws, we have every reason
to believe; and that it is one of the
Creators laws that our lives may be in
fiuenced by earnest prayer for guidance in
the right way, there is no doubt.
Every day ask your Heavenly Father to
guide you in all things in the way which is
right and you will not go wrong.
If sceptcs wish to talk with you about
it, don't argue arguments on these sub
jects never do any good-you might as
well argue that you loved your mother.
Practice hat | suggest, and You will
know from conscious experience that
what tell you is true and you will be
made much happier and serener day by
day, and far more prosperous in this
world.
Second-That truth, unfaltering nteg-
rity, justice and honor are never to be
departed from under any circumstances.
Without strict integrity, justice and
honor, no one can have continued success
in anything, or lasting respect from any
body. Everyone is found out sooner or
later, and much sooner than he supposes.
Indeed your true character is sure to be
known, and sure to be justly appreciated.
pray you, my son, never trouble your
self about popularity. Do right the best
you can, deserve respect, and you will be
certain to have it,
Success comes not of spasmodic effort,
but Of continued every day work.
Read the fable of "the hare and the
tortoise and profit by its teachings, and
remember that success with honor. is one
of the highest pleasures of life. An idle
life is Il worthless and unhappy one.
Never 90 to balls and parties in term
time. and avoid late wines and suppers at
all times--they always injure the health,
ure.
From his birth, Sampson drank neither
wine nor strong drink, and those who are
trained for the ring initiate his example.
During our late war, it was conclusively
proved that those who drank water only
escaped disease and endured fatigue far
beyond the others.
If you drink wine at all, be very moder-
ate there is much in habit single glass
is Just as satisfactory as a dozen, il you so
train yourself.
| cannot too strongly urge upon you the
importance of early retiring to rest.
Thrd-That economy is a virtue and
that extravaganza is vice, never forget.
You never see man of forty who re-
GREETED his economy you will see plenty
who mourn their early extravaganza.
Lavish expenditure never wins respect.
1t may win temporary tatterers, who
despise the fool they fiatter. Pay every
debt you owe, but
Neither a borrower nor lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
Let not your vanity ever tempt you to
spend money.
| would deprive You of no innocent
pleasures that is not pleasure which in
iures the health, jades the mind and makes
YOU feel meanly and weak and unequal to
the labor which is to fit you for manly
life.
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