Save them from bad habits and evil associations. Save them for useful careers, happy homes and a glorious inheritance.
"If a blessing you have known,
'Twas not given for you alone,
Pass it on.
Let it travel down the years,
Let it dry another's tears,
Till in heaven the deed appears,
Pass it on.
Greatness: Goodness is the basis of that service that leads to greatness. The keynote of that service is found in the words: "The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister; and to give his life for many." The cross is the symbol of a service that is faithful, even unto death.
"So live that every thought and deed may hold within itself the seed of future good and future need."
Undertake great things for God and His glory and expect great things from Him.
"Never trouble trouble
Until trouble troubles you."
Prudent, hopeful and enthusiastic are those who make the "desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose."
Habits: A habit is a cable; we spin a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
Thoughts leave an ineffaceable trace on the brain or memory.
"Sow a thought and you reap an act,
Sow an act and you reap a habit,
Sow a habit and you reap a character,
Sow a character and you reap a destiny."