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Education
The observance of temperance and regularity in all things has
a wonderful power. It will do more than circumstances or natural
endowments in promoting that sweetness and serenity of disposition
which count so much in smoothing life’s pathway. At the same time
the power of self-control thus acquired will be found one of the most
valuable of equipments for grappling successfully with the stern duties
and realities that await every human being.
Wisdom’s “ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are
peace.”
Proverbs 3:17
. Let every youth in our land, with the possibili-
ties before him of a destiny higher than that of crowned kings, ponder
the lesson conveyed in the words of the wise man, “Blessed art thou,
O land, when ... thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for
drunkenness!”
Ecclesiastes 10:17
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