Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-06-09
harvest will be one Of health,
happiness /; and

harvest will De ono uf llOnor,bealth,
happiness /; and
"After time,
And that full voice which circles round
The grave, will rank you nobly."
That you have reached the pe-
riod of youth is, therefore, for you
a very serious fact. "Grcat desti-
MES lie shrouded" in your swiftly
passins Eours. Great responsible,
ties stand in the passages OF every
day life. Great dangers lie hidden
in the by paths of life's great high
way; and syrenf, whose songs are
as charming as the voice of Calyp-
SO, are there to allure you to de-
struction. Great uncertainty
hangs over your future history.
God has given you existence, with
full power and opportunity to inns
prove it, and be happy. lie has
given you ,qnal power to despise
the gift, and be wretched. Which
you will do is the grand problem
to be solved by your choice and
conduct. To you, so young, SO
inexperienced, SO susceptib e of
evil, so capable OF good, so full of
stormy feelings, so unsettled 10
opinion, is committed the awful
trust OF your future happiness.
Your bliss, or misery, in two
worlds, hangs poised in the bal
ance. The manner in which you
spend your youth will turn the
scale for veal or for woe.
Verify, it has been well said
that "the season of youth is a criti~
cal period" Critical, indeed! And
| would, if possible, engrave the
thought, in ineffaceable letters, on
I'll susceptible hearts, and make
IN feel how much the fashioning
OF your destiny, which hitherto has
been more in the hands Of others
than in your own, is now confided
to your discretion. AS a boy at
home, you have sailed upon the
calm waters of a quiet river, in a
bark, carefully furnished by a
mothers love, and safely guided
by a fathers skill. Now you are
sailing through the winding chan
ne!s, the rocky straits, the rapid,
rushing currents, at the rivers
mouth into the great sea of active
lite. And here for the first time
you are in command of the vessel.
On your skill and caution depends
thu safety of the passage.
Neglect the rules laid down on
the chart of experience by previous
navigators, take passion for a pilot,
place folly at the helm, and your
bark will shortly be a pitiable
wreck on the rocks, or be SO dam
aged as to peril your safety on the
coming voyage. But study we'll
the intricacies and dangers of your
course, take counsel of experience,
let caution be your pilot, and with
out doubt, you will escape rock,
current, eddy and whirlpool, and
with streamered masts and a big
white sail, float gayly forth to dare
and conquer the perils OF the sea
beyond. Passion is strong because
Reason is weak; Desire eager, be-
cause it must not be gratified.
Your heart is a volcano of feel.
ing, ever heaving and seeking, es,
pecially When in the presence Of
the outward tempter, to overflow
your life with vice and abomina-
ton. And herein-I solemnly re.
peat titles your most imminent
danger.
These views are certainly suffi.
Gent to dim the lustre of those
day dreams of life, so natural an6
so universal in young people.
;, Perhaps you consider them toe
+ sombre and gloomy in their as
pects. You complain that I have
f dipped my pen in the too sober
hues of autumn, when l ought t.
have written with the bright dropl
which sparkle like jewels on thu
, gay blossoms and painted flower
. of spring; that l have caused yor
: to despond, when I should haye
, stimulated your hopes and excited
|, your courage. But such is no
my intention, nor should aught
/ have said occasion the least de
, spondency; it should only awaken
caution-caution, the parent O
safety, the companion OF success.
al Up, then, with a heroic spiri
and grid yourself for mortal con
fict with the great Apollyon who
, bestrides your pathway. If he ha
subdued thousands, thousands hav,