The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-14
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storm OF calumny. "Do you fear God
or mann" asked Outram. "If you fear
God do as you are doing. and bear the
insults which are heaped upon you.
IL you fear man and the mess, let them
hang their number of rebels every day. '
Did not General Gordon's almost magic
influence arise from the all pervading
sense, inspired by his mere presence, that
here was a man who always was and al.
ways would be, iDflexibly true to his
highest convictions? When he was in
the idan, he never hesitated to place
outside his tent the white handkerchief,
which meant, as all men knew, that he
was at prayer and that during the sacred
hour when he was alone with God he
must not be disturbed. The young man
who is guided by such principles, and
who has attained to such moral courage,
Is perfectly certain to succeed in the
highest form of possible success, what
ever his lot on earth may be.
And, after all, the young man in busi-
ness is situated, as regards companion.
ship, very much like the boy in the pub
lie school, or the young man at the un.
iversities. His good example will be of
priceless value wherever it is exhibited.
When Coleridge Pattison was boy at
Eton. he was captain of the boats, and
he had the courage to declare that he
would resign his captaincy, and take no
part in the rowing, IL coarse songs were
sung at the annual supper. When a
very great living statesman was at
Eton he used deliberately to turn his
e'--- - "a IT,, @~f"-" al ayas 70 an
improper toast was proposed. when
Arthur Cumnock went to Harvard"
writes Mr.. r. II. Davis, ''the fast set had
marked it for its own. The manly
thing, So the incoming freshman were
told, was to drink and gamble politely,
and wire-pull for the societies, and cut
recitations. In four years the idea Of
the manly thing has changed, because
the young athlete threw all his influence
on the side of temperance in all things,
fair play, courtesy and modesty."
But what a young man will be in
business and in life depends upon what
he is in his own soul There can be no
perfection of manhood, there can be no
nobleness of life, without the grand old
eternal virtues of temperance, sober
ness and chastity. II young man cam
not say "No" when he is asked to Join
in sweepstakes, or bet on this or that
event it may soon he all up with
him. There is one Jail in England of
which wing is said to be almost en-
tirely filled with felons who began their
downward career by betting and
gambling, in way which they chose to
regard as manly and interesting. Tens
of thousands in all ranks have been led
on the highroad to ruin by this detest
able epidemic of spurious excitement |
He who wishes to be true man must |
begin to take the right course as |
young man respecting all these mat
tiers. He must be sternly on his guard |
against seductive pleasures. 81 have
sat upon the shore, and waited for the |
gradual approach of the sea-" wrote
Lady NJ. Wortley Montagu, land have
seen the dancing waves and white surf,
and admired that He who measured it |
with his hand had given TO it such life
and motion; and have fingered till its
gentle waters grew into pillows and had
well nigh swept me from my firmest
footing. So have | seen a needless
youth gazing with too curious spirit
upon the sweet motions and gentle ap.
proaches of an inviting pleasure, till it
has detained his eye and Imprisoned his
feet and swelled upon his soul, and
swept him into swift destruction" II a
youth has not character enough, or
firmness enough, to resist the Devil
amid those serpent like insinuations or
terrible tiger leaps by which Satan is
certain to assault the soul, he may give
up all hope of doing well either in
business or in life. He will have nothing
to give back to God at last except the |
dust of a polluted body, and the ship |
wreck of a lost soul. $50 unspeakably |
poor may soul go back into the gray |
mists of nothingness. They may write |
Here lies no one buried and then after |
that let 1t go as it may" Oh, that !
every young man, whether in business
or not, would bear this in mind; that
for the drunkard. the cheat the liar, |
the impure, the corrupter Of others, |
there is--short of deep repentance |
and total change-no hope on earth. |
What is true of the body is true also of |
the soul. The laws of God are to the |
moral powers what the laws of nature, |
so called, are to the physical powers. |
obedience to the laws of nature pre-
serves the bloom and life of the body;
obedience to the laws of God preserves
the bloom of the soul. In all these
things is the life of the Spirit. Moral
death, ever enlarging itself, is as newt
able upon course of sin as speedy
mortality upon course of vice. Whom
sin enters it brings forth abundantly |
after its kind, and death is not so much |
its arbitrary award as Its inevitable |
procreation."