The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-06-29
HIeh Poin1 ~ Co., 7hursaay, Juue 29 1915 ~

It is the transformations and unob-
Itrusive expression of individuality,
makes no display of its purpose, 81.
lently twines itself about congeniali-
ty. personality wins desire to its
! likeness and sinks deep into the
/ heart and mind, inexorible in its
transformation of suggestive into
IOpen expressions of action in an
| others life.
The years of childhood and youth
are peculiarly impressionable and ca
silly influenced. This is the formative
period of their life and their trust.
full and unsusDecting natures, their
responsive and immature reasoning,
make them easily won and led into
ways strange and new. In their
tender age their young minds are
most sensitive to first impressions
and their hearts quickly respond to
sympathy, kindness and encourage
ment.
Theyoung are also as susceptible
to influences of evil. The very un-
development of their young minds
and their inexperience in the many
and varied ways of the world make
them easy victims of the wiles of
the charmer. There are SO many
things to turn them away from the
right life, so many evil examples
held up before them is it any won
der SO many precious lives are
drawn into the whirlpool of sin and
selfish pleasure?
Give me the first twelve years of
a child's life," once said a certain
priest, and others may have
the remainder. In these twelve
years I will have so impressed and
stamped my own belief and convic-
tons upon him. that no one can
This first impregna-
ton of another's teaching does not
necessarily or always hold true ( If
later instructions and a more ma
ture and analytical mind, a more
careful discrimination between right
and wrong, between the reasonable
and the absurd, a clearer insight
and understanding of life's true
and proper relation and
duties to the world of humanity, may
change the whole fabric of former
instructions and beliefs, it remains a
psychological fact, an incontroYerta-
BILE truth that early impressions are
the more lasting 5ltsis hardd0 Ont
ntNay from theHaL h .lEss si3s
IL igaaid of Mr Clark the great
|E3iBIe e0fnnentatOr tlls1ka in
youth he was very dun afsd sGe 1l8
promise of intellectual greatness
and scholarly eminence which heisa
later years attained. One day AT
school his teacher was severely
chiding him for his laziness and
saying that no one could
ever teach him anything. A gen =
tleInan passing by just at that time,
On hearing the loud voice and angry
words of the schoolmaster, turned
his footsteps toward the school
house to investigate the trouble.
Learning the cause of the commo-
ton he stepped to the side of the
lad and, laying his hand gently on
the little boyss head, spoke to him
in words of kindness, telling him to
have courage and not to give up,
there was yet great hope for bim,
and that some day he might be
great scholar
And the possibilities suggested in
these timely and helpful words of
encouragement did come true as his
on the Bible will show,
high position in the church
and among men of learning. And
who can estimate fully the worth
of those words of encouragement
and hope upon that frightened and
child as he stood trem-
bling and cowed in the presence of
his irate teacher We speak of
what Adam Clark has given to the
world, but what of the stranger,
whose kindly spoken words and
gentleness to a little discouraged
child, like seed sown apparently i'll
barren soil. gave little promise of
the beautiful harvest that grew
from so unpromising planting!
IZDUBAR.