Right Living; Messages to Youth from Men Who Have Achieved (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In like manner, a citizen who earnestly espouses a faulty political principle is less dangerous to the state than the supine citizen who never takes an interest in the political welfare of his country. It is my profound conviction that if ever the republic is doomed to decay, if the future historian shall ever record the decline and fall of the American republic, its downfall will be due not to a hostile invasion, but to the indifference, lethargy, and political apostasy of her own sons. And if all citizens are bound to take an interest in public affairs that duty especially devolves on those who are endowed with superior intelligence and education, and who ought to be the leaders and exemplars of the people, guiding them in the path of political rectitude. A MOTTO FOR LIFE Dr. Russell Cecil, Moderator, Presbyterian General Assembly " In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." ? Prov. 3:6. In my young manhood these words were impressed upon my mind by a little incident as an excellent motto for life. I was perplexed as to the right course to pursue in a matter which concerned my future, when I unexpectedly met with a Christian gentleman, much older than myself, to whom I was induced by something in his manner, without any solicitation on his part, to unburden my heart. I had never seen him before but he listened quietly to my story, and then said: " I will give you my advice in a text of Scripture which years ago I chose for my motto in life, ' In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.' I am a plain business man [and as I afterwards learned he was a very successful one] and I never make any change in my business or enter upon a new enterprise without acknowledging God in it, and seeking His guidance and blessing, and ...