The Young Man's Monitor (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...What their earthly calling can spare, their heavenly hath full occasion for. So that between both, we have as much as we can well attend to, though we had, as in the fable, Argus's hundred eyes, and Briareus's hundred hands. Oh, that we were wise, to gather up these filings of gold, and to redeem our time as becometh us in the Lord. It was indeed an ingenuous, and yet a sad sigh, which Cicero once fetched, when he told his friend, it was not for the loss of an estate, it was not for the loss of relations, it was not for the loss of honours, or any such things that he wept, but for that dear thing, time, which had been too quick for him, and was now slipped by, but not improved. Time fruitlessly past, will easily make an aching heart. The ingenuous young man listens, and hears all this; he lays it up amongst his treasures, saying privately to himself, Take heed, oh my soul, that thou provest not a foolish Phrygian, beginning then to become wise, when it will be too late. It is recorded of Julius Cesar, to his great honour, that in all his affairs, he was never known to omit any opportunity, nor to refuse any pains; by which means he became so great. I will not say, Be ye ambitious of his honour: but I must say, Be ye imitators of his industry. Accounting with yourselves, as Chrysostom of old, that labour is the honourable school of virtue, wherein your proficiency would soon appear to all. As to such a one, Solomon, at a great distance, foresees what advancement he would soon come to; " Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men," Prov. xxii. 29. These things are, and most justly may be, the young man's lecture; they walk with him, they talk with him. Wherever he goes, he is still pond...