Year: 1875

From an exchange we clip the follow
ing, showing that the fast young men Of
Jerusalem were prototypes Of the fast
youag men of the present day:


We find in the bible the history and
life of two remarkably fast young mem
the 6rst was Manasseh, son Of King
Hezekiah, Who when only twelve ysars
of age, succeeded his father on the
throne Of Israel. Though remarkably
young when he began 10 reign, yet he
speedily made h;~self acquainted with
all the abomn. OF the heather.
He built altars for Worship in the
two courts Of the hC house; he
set up an image H. worship,
drove the people into all forms
of idolsiry and vice, and his own
palace was school for pleasure,
ldolatry, deception and fast living. AS
with Manasseh so with Absalom He
was fast; he was so fast that he took the
law in his own hands, turned his poor
old father out of doors, and raised an
army to fight against him; turned all
Jerusalem up side down with his freaks,
and rapidly ran through his career until
he reached the acme OF treason and
met the deserved fate OF all such traitors.
Absalom was kind of secessionist in
his day, and is one of the distinguished
ancestors Of some people Of the present
age, Absolom had an extraordinary
head of hair, and be took great pains to
cultivate iii such was the interest he
manifested in the production Of it thai
he took spsoisl pains and care to weigh
it when he sheafea it once year. The
littleness Of his mind, like the Abselom' {
Of the present day, is indicated by the
extraordinary attention which he gave
TO what grew upon the outside OF his
head. He evidently thought more of hi:
head than of bis brain. Loved, praised
petted and wholly undisoiplined, it is moi
strange that he was hesdy and high
minded; willful, dsobedient and imperi
GUS. His mother had exercised no proper
discipline over him; he had no boyhood
he was not made to mind his mother
and submit to histeacheF, end learn his
IessoBa, and stay in evenings, aad fee
that he was boy; that he knew
less than his father, and was
not quite az old. he was one
that knew more than his teachers, and
was not satisfied to come under the re
straints of those who knew the world
and the power of its evil inhuences
Such vas Absalom; aud in almost every
particular he is a type OF the fast young
men of to-day. And as with him, 70
with Manasseh ia every sense OF the
word, he was fast young man. dc
was fast in coming to his majority, fast
in rejecting the laws and religion OF his
fathers, fast 10 provoking the Judgment
of heaven, and fast In playing the
coward, and running when danger
came. He was wise beyond what
is written, pious above the proph-
cts, had priests many, mediums
many. and spirits many, was cruel, dissi'
pated and unfortunate. He lived in an
exceedingly fast age; his courtiers were
fast men. the fashion of the day; were
quick in changing, old maxims, old creeds
old landmarks; old religions we're fas'
going into decay; and his kingdom was
fast going--he knew not where. Such
were these two fast Young men whose
portraits are given in the bible. Human
nature is the same to-day as three thou.
sand years ago beneath the skies Of
Israel. And young Jerusalem three
thousand years ago has about the exact
type in TIE young America Of the nine
teenth century.