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If it is important that you should be well prepared in this point
of view, how much more important is it that you should be prepared
in that which relates to eternity!
You are young, and the course of life seems open, and pleasant
prospects greet your ardent hopes; but you must remember that the
race is not always to the swift, and that, however flattering may
be our prospects, and however zealously you may seek pleasure, you
can never find it except by cherishing pure principles and
practicing right conduct. My heart is full on this subject, my dear
brother, and it is the only one on which I feel the least anxiety.
While here, your conduct has been such as to meet my entire
approbation; but the scenes of another land may be more than your
principles will stand against. I say _may be_, because young men of
as fair promise as yourself have been lost by giving a small
latitude (innocent in the first instance) to their propensities.
But I pray the Father of all mercies to have you in his keeping,
and preserve you amid temptations.


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