Chapter 6—Heights that May be Attained
Dear youth, what is the aim and purpose of your life? Are you
ambitious for education that you may have a name and position in the
world? Have you thoughts that you dare not express, that you may one
day stand upon the summit of intellectual greatness; that you may sit
in deliberative and legislative councils, and help to enact laws for the
nation? There is nothing wrong in these aspirations. You may every
one of you make your mark. You should be content with no mean
attainments. Aim high, and spare no pains to reach the standard.
Religion the Basis of Life
The fear of the Lord lies at the foundation of all true greatness.
Integrity, unswerving integrity, is the principle that you need to carry
with you into all the relations of life. Take your religion into your
school life, into your boarding house, into all your pursuits. The
important question with you now is, how to so choose and perfect
your studies that you will maintain the solidity and purity of an untar-
nished Christian character, holding all temporal claims and interests in
subjection to the higher claims of the gospel of Christ.
You want now to build as you will be able to furnish, to so relate
yourself to society and to life that you may answer the purpose of God
in your creation. As disciples of Christ, you are not debarred from
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engaging in temporal pursuits; but you should carry your religion with
you. Whatever the business you may qualify yourself to engage in,
never entertain the idea that you cannot make a success of it without
sacrificing principle.
High Responsibilities
Balanced by religious principle, you may climb to any height you
please. We would be glad to see you rising to the noble elevation God
designs that you shall reach. Jesus loves the precious youth; and He
is not pleased to see them grow up with uncultivated, undeveloped
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