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sober selfishness, if nothing else, will pre-
serve us from all wild excess? Or is it not
at that season when passion rolls her impet-
uous tides through our veins; when desires
are rebels to our reason and when the BIT
teryconsequences of guilt have not taught us
to shun it,


How far better must 1t be, to set out in the
career of life originally right, than to SUI
fer the pain and modification of being COM
PEELED to retrace our steps. How important,
also, is it to our happiness to be taught by
religion to estimate the world at its proper
value to regard it as school OF virtue,
more than festival of plcasure--a scene OF
high duties, not unmingled gratif
be warned beforehand, that we shall have
much to suffer,as well as to enjoy--and thus
to be preserved from those cruel disappolnt-
ments, which sadden the days of those who
have indulged such eztravagant hopes OF fe-
licity, as this state was never intended to re-
alize. In short, unless you are prepared to
say that the ardour of youthful passion needs





ful hopes needs no correction, and that the
arrangement of life is not to be affected by
the views which religion gives of its true de-
sign, yon must admit, thai religion is ne
per more necessary thaa IN the season Of
youth.


Another consideration is, that religion may
be most easily and permanently engrafted on
the mind in youth. The soul is not yet fill
ed with the cares Of the world and the de-
ceitfulness of riches. 1t is not yet torn by
ambition, and tortured by envy. 1t is not
yet agitattd d by polatics. or swallowed up in
the whirlpool of fashionable dissipation. 1t
is not yet bound down to the purs tits of the
world,a las to leave it no leisure tor the thought
of heaven.