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~ASLI~Et;:4 IN' yoUTIi. 21.)7
make. This it is importunt for you to rea.lize
:\t the out....ct. Life is ill all CIJ..C::l~Sawl of 11('OC5sit\'
bunleDed with weighty rcspom~ibilitiC8;
an~l, h:lPPY is thu YOl1th who braccs l.imsclf LO
meet awl bear t.hem maufully.
GIIUll'y would l uid JOu in acquiring such
a cbaract~r. The la...t words of DaviJ-the
wan after Goo'" own heart, the sweet !Singer
of h.rael, and the r~nowDt:J. leader of her aTmiC;'l,-to
Solomon then in the Llwm of youth,
but soon to he advanced to the throne of hi.,
honofl,a father woro: " Be :strong aUlI show thyfclf
a man." Such iR my exhort..'l.tion to you.
But what. is it. t.o be ~L\~LY I=' YOUTU'!
To read. any such e:x~cllcllce,you must re-
member 'your own high ori,i/!. An unrivalled
dignity \\":"18 st:l.mpcd upon the rac~ a.t lhc heginning.
'rho Author of all thingl3 i:; reprei'it'utcli
as pau.:sil1g: ill his creative work anu
!;aying, with a sort of majestic eml'haslli, U Lef
u~make man in our image, and after our likene~."
It ii3 u&'ful tD trace hack our lineage,
Rh p by stC'p,until we nrri YC at the fir.st record,
and there we Jiml it 'writtell, as in lcttcr8 of
light, II Auam Wflli tht2 St.n of GOU,~l