Year: 1871

To Young Men-Live Honestly.

 Every young man, as he enters upon life, should take an account with him. self, and decide in his own mind upon the course which he will pursue. He should ask himself, ssWin. I enter upon a course in which I can render fair equivalent for everything that I obtain :? or will I enter upon course in which, for the things that I receive, I shall render an equivalent where I must, and palm off empty appearances where can?" It is 8 glorious ambition, @ manly pur- pose, with which person begins life, when he goes forth saying, "I mean to make my fortune, to be sure, and to pluck honor from the highest boughs of the tree of life but I am determined not to go one step in honor or wealth or power that is not real step. What I have, l will pay for. I will not take any thing without giving fair equivalent for it. And what a contrast there is between this and the ambition and prr- pose of those who set out in life with a determination to make their fortune and gain honor at all hazards, by whatever means it may be necessary to employ, and without regard to whether they render an equivalent for that which they receive no not? i@f" a''s": 5

 A young man, deGcately reared, is sent into life, and he goes into a shop where he finds many companions, and where, unfortunately, the strongest minded men are not the sweetest-hearted. And all around about him the conversation is low; the allusions are coarse, the expres- sions are vulgar. The things that in home life he. never dared to shape into words, or hints even, are freely handled for the purpose of exciting laughter. Now, under such circumstances, a man may lose sensibility to these things. At first he is shocked and sick. I have known persons of an organization so delicate that this violence done to their moral and social feelings amounted to absolute sickness of body. But that cannot continue. In the course of a month young man will get used to obscenity in one of two ways If he sets his heart against it; if he calls the memory of all that he loves to his help if his whole conscience bears witness if he makes covenant with his lips, and sets his heart to watch over it's issues, then little by little he will come to state in which he will hear obscene talk as though he did not hear it. And he comes out better than he went in, although he suffers less by the outward contact of corruption than in the begin ming. He has carried himself in such a way with reference to'it, that it has worked out in moral purity.

 was called once to consultation in reference to young man belonging to 8 large establishment, who was detected in some criminal act and in confidential interview that I had with him, he told me that it was not because he was in need that he yielded to the temptation, but because he wanted property. His dis honesty was simply the result of avarice And if young man abuses his trust and is dishonest, there is not word to be said in his justification.

 There are temptations to dishonesty, then, that spring from extravaganza. Our society is very vicious in it's whole structure in this regard. We make no provision for the responsibility of people who are in humble circumstances. We hold out inducements to them to live be- yond their means. ,, ...,.-

 Young people want to begin further along than they are able to. They want to keep house as twenty years of success full and fruitful industry have enabled other men to do it. They measure every thing on the pattern of somebody else.

 There are many young men who have enough to support them ; but that is not all that they want. They have bad com panions with whom they associate. These companions are not very temperate. They smoke and so, of course, they drink. I do not mean that among all men that smoke, drinking is handmaid vice; but I say that smoking leads, o1 tends to lead, to the other vice. And smoking and drinking are very expen- sive.

 Young men are very apt to reason the question of dishonesty with themselves, and to justify themselves by the examples which they see around about them o1 men who stand eminent, trusted, and oi good reputation, and who yet do dis honest things. A young man is apt tc say, "It is no worse for me to follow such and such courses, than it is fol others and many that do follow them stand high, and are prospered and re. spected."

 I will admit that there are many men who stand high, and for time have g certain kind of responsibility and pros perity, though they do dishonest things

 but say this :: You cannot afford to be like them. There is nothing else in this world that is of so much consequence tc you, as that you should keep peace witt your own self. Blessed be the man tha

 can say, as the apostle did, "I trust tha;

 I have good conscience" Blessed bt

 the man that has lived till he is thirty

 years of age, and can say, II have @ gooC

 conscience ;" that is, sI never willingly do anything that violates my conscience

 God knows that it is my purpose to liv' at peace with my conscience.

 A man cannot afford to throw ava, the blessing of good conscience. Ant it makes no difference that your neigh bor is prospering by dishonesty, ant people have not found him out. If yo1 , are dishonest you know it yourself, ano

 that is enough. And there ought to b principle of honor with every youn, man that should lead him to say, 'sEvel , if God could not see me when I di, wrong, should see myself, and self t respect and manhood require that should do right. "-Henry Ward Beeche, 7 HEALING PROPERTY OF EaGs.-Unde 3 the name of oil of eggs preparation s prescribed in some parts of England an t on the continent of Europe as an emo

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