YOUTH.
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In the midst o! y0uth, health, ana aDnn-
dance, the world is apt to appear in We
~ gay and pleasing scene; it engages
our desires; aud in some degree satisfies
them also. But it is wisdom to consider,
that a time will come when youth, health
and fortune, will all fail us /; and if disap-
pointment and vexat0n do not sour our
taste for pleasure, at least sickness and in
firmities will destroy it. In these gloomy
seasons, and above all at the approach of
death, what will become of US without re-
Iigion? When this world fails, whittier
shall we flee if we expect no refuge in
anothera Without holy hope in God. re-
sgnation to his will, and trust in him for
deliverance, what is there that can secure
us against the evils of lfe9


Youth is the season to form religious
habits; the earliest principles are gene
rally the most lasting; and those of re-
ligious cast are seldom wholly lost. Tho
the temptations of the world may now and
then draw the well@principied youth aside
yet his principles being continually at war
with his practice, there is hope, that in the
end the better part may overcome ths
worse, and bring on reformation: where
as he who has suffered habits of vice tt
get possession of his youth, has little
chance of being brought back to sense
of religion. Some calamity must rouse
him. He must be awakened by storm
or sleep forever. How much better is it
then, to make that easy to us which we
know is best and to form those habit.
now, which hereafter we shall wish we had
formed


Iouth is Introductory to manhood, tc
which it is, properly speaking, state O
preparation. During this season we mus
qualify ourselves for the parts we are tt
act hereafter. In manhood we bear the
fruit which has in youth been planted. l
we have sauntered away our youth, We
must expect to be ignorant men. II indo
lence and inattention have taken an early
possession of US, they will probably in
crease as we advance in life, and make u
a burden to ourselves, and useless to so
cety. If, again, we suffer ourselves to b.
misled by vicious inclinations, they vii


daily get new strength, and end in disso-
lutte lives.
But if we cultivate our minds in youth
attain habits of attention and industry, o
virtue and sobriety, we shall find our
selves we'll prepared to act our future part
in life; and what above all things ough


to be our care, by gaining this comman'


over ourselves, we shall be more able, a


we get forward in the world, to resist eve
ry new temptation as soon as it appears.