THE YOUNG MANS WAY TO HONOR
DISCOURAGEMENTS.
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Many are deferred from faithful course
Of intellectual application, because they
have little hope of success. They have
long since conceded the point, that large
facilities and abundant opportunities of
wealth and leisure, are essential to a good
education. And because they have unfor-
tunately been born without these, and Prov
idence has to them dealt out bounties with
penurious hand, they give up to despair,
and foolishly yield to what seems to be
their fate. A little reflection will convince
the thoughtful that their discouragements
are premature and hasty. Time and other
facilities, it is true, are very desirable, but
far from being essential to either usefulness
or greatness The history of the past-our
principal guide in such matters, fully proves
this. 1t has often been said, and the asser-
ton is fully sustained by the evidence of lit
erary biography, that intellectual greatness
is most commonly found at first in obscurity
and poverty. In what are called by the
conventional habits of society, the higher
walks Of life, where opulence pampers SEN
suality and fatters vanity, it is almost i'm
possible to attain Intellectual eminence. And
for this reason, smooth sea never makes a
skilful sailor Poverty and obscurity being
dependent upon It's own resources, must
remain unhonored or rise by the might of its
energy. A quality is acquired in such cir
cumstances, which ever lies at the founda-
hon of true greatness, via sense of self
dependence.


| believe that the history Of the world
will prove, that to be engaged in active em
ployment is propitious and favorable to in
tellectual cultivation, rather than injuries.
And perhaps one principal reason for it is
the physical frame is kept in healthy state
by its activity, which is always favorable to
mental action, and intellectual strength.
And it is well known fact, that the mind
accustomed to meet and overcome difficult
ties, becomes more and more daring and in
trepd, and more willing to tax its powers
to the last point of endurance. There is
also pride in human nature, which delights
in excelling those who are accustomed to
deem themselves our superiors. Whatever
may be the reasons for it--certain it is, il
history speaks truth, that some OF the great
est men the world has known, have arisen
from every inconspicous situations. Epic
tetus the moralst, was born slave, yet be-
came the pride of stocal philosophers, and
the friend of the worthiest Roman Empe-
rors. Murray, who tho dead now, speaks
and instructs in our schools, was a shep-
herds boy. Franklin was once printers
apprentice, yet he became one Of the mos
distinguished philosophers and statesmen o
his age. Sir Humphrey Davy, though the
son of wood carver, became the first and
most daring chemist Of his time. Columbus
was sailor, and by his enterprise became
vast benefactor of the world. And oui
own Roger Sherman, whose craftsmanship
! was so well appreciated during the revolu-