Daniel Webster's Advice

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 29, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 25.

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Daniel Webster's Advice.

OTHER people may find the advice of Daniel Webster to his grandson of value to themselves. He wrote it about four years before his death:—
"Two or three things I wish now to impress on your mind. First, you cannot learn without your own efforts. All the teachers in the world can never make a scholar of you if you do not apply yourself with all your might. In the second place, be of good character and good behavior—a boy of strict truth, and honor, and conscience, in all things. Have but one rule, and let that be always to act right and fear nothing—but wrongdoing. Finally, 'Remember your Creator in the days of your youth.' You are old enough to know that God has made you and given you a mind and faculties, and will surely call you to account. Honor and obey your parents, love your sister and brother, be gentle and kind to all, avoid peevishness and fretfulness, be patient, and under restraint. Look forward constantly to your approaching manhood, and put off, every day, more and more, all that is frivolous and childish."
FOR an explanation of the parable of the marriage supper, see the article entitled "The Three Messages," by "J. N. A.," on p. 295 of this number of the SIGNS.