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not listen to her syren voice his youthful days are as bright as those of spring his young virtues expand and ripen and when full matures no withering drought shall blast them through the maturer age the keen affliction and adversity press upon them the resort not to the intoxicating bowl to drown recollections of more happy days and the misfortunes of the present. No; conscious integrity and virtue has supported it will continue to support them with a firm reliance on the Author of their being they look forward to the close of life with calmness and tranquility and when it shall come they have this comfortable reflection that they lay down a life unstained with the vices of this world however unfortunate they might have been in their worldly circumstances. Not as with those who forget the many admonitions mothers anxiety and a fathers care have elicited from their affectionate hearts with those who do not go forth from the parental roof with a panoply of virtue which vice cannot overthrow the tender virtues which proud parents hope to see mature by ripen age are withheld by corroding vices as the droughts of summer wither and dry and fresh plants which had looked so promising in the spring. The morning of their lives were bright and promising they