The Young Man's Gift of Literature, Science, and Morality

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ... owe their origin partly to the soil itself, the passions and imperfections of the mind of man, and partly to those seeds which chance to be scattered in it by every wind of doctrine which the cunning of statesmen, the singularity of pedants, and the superstition of fools shall raise. MAN IMPROVABLE. The Eden of human nature has indeed long ago been rudely trampled down and desolated; storms waste it continually; nevertheless the soil is rich with the germs of its pristine beauty; all the colors of Paradise are sleeping in the clods: and a little favor, a little protection, a little culture, shall show what was once there. THE HYPOCRITE. He is the blot of goodness, a rotten stick in a dark night, the poppy in a corn field, an ill tempered candle with a great snuff that in going out smells ill; an angel abroad, a devil at home, and worse when an angel, than when a devil. OUR LOST TIME. Lo3t wealth may be restored by industry, the wreck of health regained by temperance, forgotten knowledge restored by study, alienated friendship smoothed into forgetfulness, even forfeited reputation may be won back by penitence and virtue--but who ever again looked upon his vanished hours, recalled his slighted years, stamped them with wisdom, or effaced from Heaven's record the fearful blot of wasted time? RELIGIOUS GEMS. Importance of Assurance. 1 It is one main point of happiness, that he who is happy, doth know and judge himself to be so.' Leighton. 'Make us sit together in heavenly places.' 'The believing soul is not only a debtor acquitted and set free, but enriched besides with a new and great estate; and withal, highly preferred and advanced to honor, having a right to the promises, 'to the unsearchable riches of Christ, ' as the apostle speaks, and is recieved into f...