The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18
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his strength. and every sight.tbink.
ing person will agree. A young man
who is a weakling affords an abject
spectaole a young man that stands
four to all the winds that
blow, solid and impregnable, lisa bull.
wark to the Commonwealth. And
the object Ct this paper is to point
out that just as a tree strikes it's roots
deepest where the wind blows 1erc-
est, and as an animal has the thick
est fur where the cold is keenest,
so the strongest character is formed,
not in favorable, but in unfavorable
circums sauCes.
THE VALUE OF STRUGGLE.
When life is easy for a man he is
apt to come TO little when life is
hard he has a good chance of grow.
ing into a hero. It is not the lotus.
eater who makes history, although
he may contribute a study in poetry
it is the Pilgrim Father who is the
founder of a nation, although to
sentimental people he may be an
offence. Ii is the man who has to
depend upon God and himself, with.
out any bounties given, who has TO
fight against odds and make his hand
keep his head, who has TO start at
the foot of the hill and climb step
by step to the top,-it is that man
who comes out in the battle of life.
If any young fellow is complaining
that all things are against him, then
let him pluck up courage and make
all things bis servants,
"And on the neck of crowned fortune
Proud"
establish his kingdom and lot him
be sure that in this manly struggle
he is fellow soldier with the strong
and brave and pure and and wise of
every age.
IMPORTANCE OF A SOUND BODY.
One thing a young man must do
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is to make the most Of himself Physj-
caLiy. Two opposite mistakes have
been made about this matter of self
culture; one has been to despise
the body, the other has been toignore
the soul. He who does not cultivate
his soul will end in becoming a mere
animal he who will not attend to his
body is trying to become a ghost.
What God intends and the world
needs is all-round manhood. Neglect
she body, and it will make you suffer
abuse the body, and it will pull down
your house of life about your ears.
We often fail to localize weakness
in character. We see "a crack in the
second floor and fancy there is some
thing wrong with the wall there, !
and proceed TO patch it up; but the
wrongness is at the foundation. If
a drain has burst, and is soaking
round that foundation, then the earth
will sink, and in a little while there
will not be door swinging free upon
it's hinges, there will not be a room
where the air is sweet. Our spiritual
weaknesses are often in their origin
physical, and the foul Vapors
which affect the soul spring from
the lower path of an i'll kept body.
WITNESS.
Be thankful if your manhood rests
on the solid rock of d wholesome
constitution. But I wish to make a
distinction between an Unsound and
a merely delicate body, and to bid
delicate men to be of good cheer
You have not wronged your body
and you have no foul faint in your
blood the body God has given you
is simply Il slender instrument and
limited in it's power. You cannot
play d first rate game, nor walk as
far in a day as other men, and you
do your work at q greater cost.
But you also can play the man, and
1 would whisper q certain adjective
in your ar. If you are not robust,
very likely you r airy, which sug,
gests tenacity, perseverance, endur.
ance and patienoe,-all grand quail
ties.
CONQUERING IN SPITE OF A FRAIL BODY
And history affords a list of men
who through weakness were made
strong and did royal work. Macau.
lay has a brilliant passage where he
describes how the armies of England
we're led by an " .hmatio skeleton"
and the hosts of France by ga
hunohbacked dwarf" The Anglo