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Counsels to Youth

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 30, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 26.

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Counsels to Youth.

Let youth ever remember that the journey of life presents few, if any, obstacles in its path which perseverance will not overcome.
No talents, however great, will be of much value to their possessors without careful using; many a youth has failed certainly of being any benefit to himself, or others, solely because he made no effort to improve the talents God had given him, and others have ruined themselves by too great efforts while a third class, possessing talents that might have enabled them to become blessings to others, have turned their course downward, and sunk in everlasting night. Youthful reader, remember that it is in your power to belong to either of these classes, and on yourself rests the happiness or misery consequent upon the decision you make.
The virtues or high standing of parents, or wealth may, for a time, gild over the faults and follies of youth, but sooner or later each must stand on his own merits.
He then, who risks his future well-being on anything short of the highest aims and purest principles of morality and truth, is like the man who built his house upon the sand, and will find, when it is too late, that the strong current of the flood of evil, will surely take away his frail foundation, and leave him a wrecked and ruined outcast from society, or at least an enemy to himself and his kind.—Boston Cultivator.