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Speak To Him

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
March
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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bpeau to the youngrnun enfering that saloon ! Teil him that no po.-sible good can come to him there. Nnthing that he caD buy, nor any assoc.iations that he rray ever meet there will over benefit him. That is not where ihe mind is eiored with uselui knowlejge, the heart refined or a pure arnbitiou gratified - The Doble, the virtuous and the gaod get none of their valuuble traila there. Far frorn it ! That is the toad to oiher qaulities That is where all thatistrnly valuable and Í5 ts a man tor usefulne.ss I here and bappineta hereuiter is dpufruyed. There is nol a quality of the haman hearl that any sane man ever de sired to poleas, that does not fitnl ttt most implacable enemy there. The place is chargnd with a moral and physical i'oi.son, which apares nothiüg in the heart that raises man above the brute, nor anything in the human mind thut can add to its usefulness orennoble its acpirationíi. He will find notliing elevating there - but everythinuf teuding down! If be wishes to lose" all that hu dow vulues - the early instructioas of a mother, the sweet affections fur a sister, the admoiiiüoiis of a fatbar, aud all the oberished memories oi' childhood and youth - b e is on the high road to tbat result, But do not - as you value his dearest interents, do not - let hiin go uuwaroed. Point hini to the tuouuaud of human w reeks tvliich seem ahnost to block up the way he treads. Show hiin that haggard, tottering iorm, just enierging frorn iho place he seeks. Teil liim that but a few short years siuce tbat pitable being, a young man as noble, vigorous and ing as lm iiow is, was entering as he now enters the broad road to ruin, as conh'dent as he nqw i, that no such íate would pe his. Teil him that neither intellect, education nor woalth can him frorn the gulf that yawns to reoeive all who pet tpeir leet ia the tempter's path. - Poirit him' 10 the long army of earth's laightiiiö!, men who have fallen in the toils of the insatiable mèoater, Ruin. - Teil him there is but oiie possiele way in wlticfa be can retain the respect and CD'Jrlenpy of present friends or gain tHe lawting esteem of others, and that is to " Taste not, handle uot" the un clean thmg. No other course offers security Speak to him! But speak kindlv. - Speak as you would like to be spoken to, wei e you as sensitive in regard to your weaknea a.i he is. Show yourselt his friend - not his censor. But speak plainly and doiit dday. His next step in that road may take him beyuud the reach of warning. ÖDeak to him -

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Old News
Michigan Argus