Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-03-06
ADVICE TO THE YOUNG



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not Tint in the "V way 70" Of wicked men, etc
The true benefactor of his fellow men
according to Mr.. Meldrum, is he who
opens out before them the true chart OF
life and points out beforehand not only
rocks, reefs and shoals. Prevention is
better than cure A single wrong ster
AS we Cross the threshold Of life may
cause us to stumble and fall; it may be
never to rise; hopelessly excluded from
the high niche we might otherwise have
filed in the temple not only of honor and
personal purity. The strand OF lies sea
Is strewn with mutiiated thousands, who
have persisted in the whlripools aud on
the murderous reefs of temptation, The
heart requires to be perpetualy fortified
by wise counsel and high moral priuci-
plies. or it win inevitably submit to the
invasion of the viest tnes. Sin bids high
for the soul The miseries Of vice are
hidden beneath dazzling and charming
appearances Without strong soul press
erva,ion no one can be safe.
The text contains most salutgry advice
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auilllttlng pupils 'nto MS scn"o', Always
inquired VINO are their most lhtlhate
ilieIus' iie III" "iSe'S' l"i 'ioy WI"
seek the Socie'Y OIL 'he vicious ny cho'ce'
usually becomes VICIOUS themselves
FIRST Enter not the pain Oh the
irauuuleh'' ohe ~ aihaHeu as he views
inc word al large 10 see SO IiC'ie conn'
honesty shakespeare mas sa'u'
Is to be ONE pIcked ont Of len thousand
An idea prevails that to talk of being
honest to the letter in business, is to show
ones ignorance of the world. | am sur
prised and indignant to hear men of |
whom better things might be expected |
petty frauds on the ground that they are |
necessary or universal All honor to the |
youth who on the threshold of life looks |
out on the world, and then looks into his |
own breast, and before God resolves first |
of all things to be an honest man.
Heaven grant us to feel that "Ar honest
live as we feel. Resist the first tempta.
ton to compromise of principle. BE
assured that christian integrity and up
rightness, honor and honesty are the only
sure guides to substantial and permanent
success, present and future.
Second Keep clear of the way OF the
more insidious in its commencement and
more Unsuitable in the appetites it awak-
ems. The highwayman, daring and open
attacks the traveller, rObs him Of his
money but leaves him his character, and
only entails on him the remembrance of
his loss free from all reproach. Not such
is the procedure of the gamester he
allures his victim as friend, rendels
him accessory to his own destruction de-
bauches his morals before he despols him
Of his fortune, and then with smiling in
sends him to privacy loaded
with infamy and ruin There is no vice
which so thoroughly deadens the scnsi-
bilities, and so utterly rOhs a nan of all
The nober aud finer qualities of manhood.
Christians do not as firmly and scadfast.
y rs they ought, set their faces against
the appearance of this vice, Stprnly re
.use to lay down money, or its equivalent,
on hazard. That the stakes which are
PLAYED for are small, does not and cannot
change the principle. When our youths
are led to sanction and approve the ex-
element of playing for a little bv the
established fashion of society. who can
nrotect them from the temptation to NAV
for little more. It is only a question of
legrees. They are started upon an in.
,lined plane on which there is no fixed