Special Report (3) - Road to Riches
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The difference between a man and a boy is, that one has memories — the other has none. Memory is a ghost that clings to ns through life, after we have reached the age of manhood, and blessed is he who can turn to it with content and satisfaction. The sigh of every man is, that he might be allowed to live his life over again; that he might so live that the blots, here and there, would never have been. Probably there is little use in moralizing over this point, because our children are going to see for themselves just what we saw for ourselves, and they will no more heed our warning than we heeded the warning of our elders.
But for all of this, I cannot help writing of the importance it is to every young man to choose his society carefully. You are going out into the world with a mother's prayer over you, her hopes around you. You have a vague feeling of what your mother's love is, but it is only a very indistinct conception of her heart. She has taught you the pure truths of righteousness till, it may be, they are a little tiresome to you, and all her care you have taken as a matter of course. I love to turn in the Bible to that part where the Son of God looked to his disciples and commended his mother to their care; and when I see the army of boys who every year turn from their homes to fight the battle of life, I think of the patient, praying mothers who are left at home, and who can only patiently wait and pray.
God pity them all, for some of them wait, and wait, and wait, and get back only curses and neglect when they gave their best love. Wherever you go, whatever you do, cling to the home that nurtured you; keep closely in communion with those at home, and whether business is brisk, or society demands much from you, do not forget the letters that bring the light to your mother's eyes, and that send another " God bless him!" to the throne of God.
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The difference between a man and a boy is, that one has memories — the other has none. Memory is a ghost that clings to ns through life, after we have reached the age of manhood, and blessed is he who can turn to it with content and satisfaction. The sigh of every man is, that he might be allowed to live his life over again; that he might so live that the blots, here and there, would never have been. Probably there is little use in moralizing over this point, because our children are going to see for themselves just what we saw for ourselves, and they will no more heed our warning than we heeded the warning of our elders.
But for all of this, I cannot help writing of the importance it is to every young man to choose his society carefully. You are going out into the world with a mother's prayer over you, her hopes around you. You have a vague feeling of what your mother's love is, but it is only a very indistinct conception of her heart. She has taught you the pure truths of righteousness till, it may be, they are a little tiresome to you, and all her care you have taken as a matter of course. I love to turn in the Bible to that part where the Son of God looked to his disciples and commended his mother to their care; and when I see the army of boys who every year turn from their homes to fight the battle of life, I think of the patient, praying mothers who are left at home, and who can only patiently wait and pray.
God pity them all, for some of them wait, and wait, and wait, and get back only curses and neglect when they gave their best love. Wherever you go, whatever you do, cling to the home that nurtured you; keep closely in communion with those at home, and whether business is brisk, or society demands much from you, do not forget the letters that bring the light to your mother's eyes, and that send another " God bless him!" to the throne of God.
