that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowl-ing torrent, from which we have just escaped. edge or retract them,-like an unready horse, Or is it like visiting the grave of a friend whom that will neither stop nor turn. we had injured, and are precluded by his death from the possibility of making him an atonement? JOHN FOSTER: Journal.

LORD BACON : Essay XLIII., Of Youth and Age. There be some have an early over-ripeness in their years, which fadeth betimes: these are, first, such as have brittle wits, the edge whereof is soon turned. LORD BACON :

Essay XLIII., Of Youth and Age. A gentleman punctual of his word, when he had heard that two had agreed upon a meeting, and the one neglected his hour, would say of him, He is a young man then. LORD BACON.

Such errors as are but as acorns in our younger brows grow oaks in our older heads, and become inflexible to the powerful arm of reason.

We would earnestly entreat the young to remember that, by the unanimous consent of all ages, modesty, docility, and reverence to superior years, and to parents above all, have been considered as their appropriate virtues, a guard assigned by the immutable laws of God and nature on the inexperience of youth; and with respect to the second, that Christianity prohibits no pleasures that are innocent, lays no restraints that are capricious; but that the sobriety and purity which it enjoins, by strengthening the intellectual powers, and preserving the faculties of mind and body in undiminished vigour, lay the surest foundation of present peace and future eminence. ROBERT HALL: Modern Infidelity.

This is not the grace of hope, but a good natural assurance or confidence, which Aristotle observes young men to be full of, and old men not so inclined to. HAMMOND.

Youth is the time of enterprise and hope: having yet no occasion of comparing our force presumptions in our own favour, and imagine with any opposing power, we naturally form that obstruction and impediment will give way

before us. The first repulses rather inflame vehemence than teach prudence; a brave and generous mind is long before it suspects its own weakness, or submits to sap the difficulties which it expected to subdue by storm. Before disappointments have enforced the dictates of philosophy we believe it in our power to shorten the interval between the first cause and the last effect: we laugh at the timorous delays of plodding industry, and fancy that by increasing the fire we can at pleasure accelerate the projection. DR. S. JOHNSON: Rambler, No. 111.

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.

L'ESTRANGE.

By safe and insensible degrees he will pass from a boy to a man, which is the most hazardous step in life: this therefore should be carefully watched, and a young man with great diligence handed over it. LOCKE.

You do well to improve your opportunity; to speak in the rural phrase, this is your sowing time, and the sheaves you look for can never be yours, unless you make that use of it. The colour of our whole life is generally such as the three or four first years in which we are our own masters make it. Then it is that we may be said Young master, willing to show himself a man, to shape our own destiny, and to treasure up for ourselves a series of future successes or disap-courts credit and manliness in the casting off lets himself loose to all irregularities: and thus pointments. the modesty he has till then been kept in.

COWPER.

Youth is not like a new garment, which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly. Youth, while we have it, we must wear daily, and it will fast wear away.

JOHN FOSTER: Journal.

The retrospect on youth is too often like looking back on what was a fair and promising country, but is now desolated by an overwhelm

LOCKE.

love and reverence for the Divine Father, and He had been reared from his cradle in simple the tender Saviour, whose life beyond all records of human goodness, whose death beyond all epics of mortal heroism, no being whose infancy has been taught to supplicate the Merciful and adore the Holy, yea, even though his later life

Of all the great human actions I ever heard, or read of, I have observed, both in former ages and our own, more perform'd before the age of thirty than after: and oft-times in the very lives of the same men. May I not confidently instance in those of Hannibal and his great concurrent Scipio? The better half of their lives they liv'd upon the glory they had acquir'd in their youth; great men after, 'tis true, in comparison of others, but by no means in comparison of themselves. As to my own particular, I do certainly believe that since that age both my understanding and my constitution have rather decay'd than improv'd, and retir'd rather than advanc'd. 'Tis possible that with those who make the best use of their time, knowledge, and experience may grow up and increase with their years; but the vivacity, quickness, and steadiness, and other pieces of us, of much greater importance, and much more essentially our own, languish and decay.

Compare the harmlessness, the tenderness, the modesty, and the ingenuous pliableness, which is in youth, with the mischievousness, the slyness, the craft, the impudence, the falsehood, and the confirmed obstinacy found in an aged, long-practised sinner. SOUTH. Young men look rather to the past age than the present, and therefore the future may have some hopes of them. SWIFT. Secure their religion, season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. JEREMY TAYLOR.

There appears in our age a pride and petulancy in youth, zealous to cast off the sentiments of their fathers and teachers. DR. I. WATTS.

A line of the golden verses of the Pythagoreans recurring on the memory hath often guarded youth from a temptation to vice. DR. I. WATTS.

It is remarkable that there is nothing less promising than, in early youth, a certain fullformed, settled, and, as it may be called, adult excites wonder and admiration, the character character. A lad who has, to a degree that and demeanour of an intelligent man of mature all his life, and will cease accordingly to be age, will probably be that, and nothing more, anything remarkable, because it was the precocity alone that ever made him so. It is remarked by greyhound fanciers that a wellformed, compact-shaped puppy never makes a Youth is eminently the fittest season for estab-fleet dog. They see more promise in the looselishing habits of industry. DR. S. PARR.

MONTAIGNE:

Essays, Cotton's 3d ed., ch. lvii.

All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes, of our youth. SHELLEY.

jointed, awkward, clumsy ones.
And even so,
there is a kind of crudity and unsettledness in
the minds of those young persons who turn out
ultimately the most eminent. WHATELY:
Annot. on Bacon's Essay, Of Youth and Age.

ZEAL.

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and, I believe, he will often find that what he calls a zeal for his religion, is either pride, interest, or ill-nature. A man who differs from another in opinion, sets himself above him in his own judgment, and in several particulars pretends to be the wiser person. This is a great provocation to the proud man, and gives a very keen edge to what he calls his zeal.

ADDISON: Spectator, No. 185.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what the world calls zeal. There are so many passions which hide themselves under it, and so many mischiefs arising from it, that some have gone so far as to say

it would have been for the benefit of mankind if it had never been reckoned in the catalogue of virtues. It is certain, where it is once laudable and prudential, it is a hundred times criminal and erroneous: nor can it be otherwise, if we consider that it operates with equal violence in all religions, however opposite they may be to one another, and in all the subdivisions of each religion in particular.

ADDISON: Spectator, No. 185. Intemperate zeal, bigotry, and persecution for any party or opinion, how praiseworthy soever they may appear to weak men of our own principles, produce infinite calamities among mankind, and are highly criminal in their own nature; and yet how many persons eminent for piety suffer such monstrous and absurd prin

the Phoenix-spirit glowing within me; I pant, I
yearn, for another warfare in behalf of right, in
hostility to wrong, where, without furlough, and
without going into winter-quarters, I would
enlist for another fifty-years' campaign, and
fight it out for the glory of God and the welfare
of man.
HORACE MANN:
Baccalaureate Address, Antioch College, 1859.
Our zeal performs wonders when it seconds
our inclinations to hatred, cruelty, ambition,
avarice, detraction, and rebellion: but when it
moves against the hair towards bounty, benignity,
and temperance, unless, by miracle, some rare
and vertuous disposition prompts us to it, we
stir neither hand nor foot. Our religion is in-
tended to extirpate vices: whereas it skreens,
nourishes, and incites them. We must not
mock God. If we believe in him, I do not say
by faith, but with a simple belief, that is to say,
(and I speak it to our great shame,) if we did
believe him as we do any other history, or as
we would do one of our companions, we should
love him above all other things for the infinite
bounty and beauty that shines in him: at least
he would go equal into our affections, with
riches, pleasures, glory and our friends. The
best of us is not so much afraid to injure him
as he is afraid to injure his neighbour, his kins-
man, or his master.
MONTAIGNE:

Essays, Cotton's 3d ed., ch. lxix.

True zeal is not any one single affection of the soul, but a strong mixture of many holy affections, filling the heart with all pious intentions; all, not only uncounterfeit, but most fervent. SPRAT.

To have co-operated in any degree towards the accomplishment of that purpose of the Deity to reconcile all things to himself by reducing them to the obedience of his Son, which is the ultimate end of all his works,-to be the means of recovering though it were but an inconsider able portion of a lapsed and degenerate race to eternal happiness, will yield a satisfaction exactly commensurate to the force of our benevo- Do not too many believe no zeal to be spirlent sentiments and the degree of our loyalitual, but what is censorious or vindicative? attachment to the supreme Potentate. The whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also SPRAT. consequences involved in saving a soul from charitable. death, and hiding a multitude of sins, will be duly appreciated in that world where the worth of souls and the malignity of sin are fully understood; while to extend the triumphs of the Redeemer, by forming him in the hearts of men, will produce a transport which can only be equalled by the gratitude and love we shall feel towards the Source of all good.

Being thus saved himself, he may be zealous in the salvation of souls. LAW.

When I think, after the experience of one life, what I could and would do in an amended edition of it; what I could and would do, more and better than I have done, for the cause of humanity, of temperance, and of peace; for breaking the rod of the oppressor; for the higher education of the world, and especially for the higher education of the best part of it, woman: when I think of these things, I feel

The only true zeal is that which is guided by a good light in the head, and that which consists of good and innocent affections in the heart. SPRAT.

Those things in ourselves are the only proper objects of our zeal, which, in others, are the unquestionable subjects of our praises. SPRAT.

No man is fervent and zealous as he ought, but he that prefers religion before business, charity before his own ease, the relief of his brother before money, heaven before secular regards, and God before his friend or interest. Which rule is not to be understood absolutely, and in particular instances, but always generally; and when it descends to particulars it must be in proportion to circumstances, and by their proper measures. JEREMY TAYLOR: Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove: XIII., Of Lukewarmness and

Zeal.

Good men often blemish the reputation of their piety by over-acting some things in religion; by an indiscreet zeal about things wherein religion is not concerned.

TILLOTSON.

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