As the Boy Begins by New York Tribune

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 22, 1882

As the Boy Begins

By New York Tribune

As THE boy begins, so the man will end. The lad who speaks with affectation, and minces foreign tongues that he does not understand, at school, will be a weak chromo in character all his life; the boy who cheats his teachers into thinking him devout at chapel, will be the man who will make religion a trade, and bring Christianity into contempt; and the boy who wins the highest average by stealing his examination papers, will figure some day as a tricky politician. The lad who, whether rich or poor, dull or clever, looks you straight in the eyes and keeps his answer inside of the truth, already counts friends who will last all his life, and holds a capital which will bring him in a surer interest than money.—New York Tribune.