Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1858 — Energy. [ARTICLE]

Energy.

[From the Springfield Eagle and-Flag.

That is’ wlvat is needed. Be energetic, i in whatever you undertake—go at it with a will, lay hold as if you wasn’t afraid, and when once fairly at it, never relinquish your | hold or relax your efforts until you have accomplished something. This silly hnm-drum | moqe of crawling through the world, a monotonous routine from year to year, living only “from hand to mouth,” and in fear of : any new enterprise, betokens a man of very little spirit; our age is a pogressive one and all who desire to succeed must push foward in everything they undertake —their niotto should be “Excelsior,” and they will be bound to succeed; they will surmount barriers that were before apparently insurmountable, while the bugbears that frighten the timid into a panic will be found to be, met;® | will-o’-the-wisps that will flee away at your ! approach. We like to see a young man humane, bc- ’ nevolent, obliging, and clever; but of ajlltho ! passions, give us a man that has a propensity to push his way through the world ’at all hazaruds and in spite of all opposition; we would rather call or.e such a man our friend, than have the professed friendship of all the drones that invest the swarming hive of humanity. Young men! you to whom our country looks for future greatness and grandeur, are you preparing yourselves for the arduous task that is before you; are you schooling yourselvs to become heirs of American liberty —the iuturc law-givers of our country—its sovereigns! If you are not, then indeed you are unworthy the room you occupy. Were you made to tipple in rum-shops—-to pore over yellow-covered literature, or court an amorous looking-glass! If these are your favorite pastimes, then you are only fit to adorn a rum-shop as a sign, to tickle the pockets of the periodical dealer with your loose change or to be a plaything for the women—a mere automata to be moved about at the will of the rulers of your favorite passions. 1 f such is your deplorable codition, we advise you to shake off’ the spell’i.hat binds you, and enter the arena of life with energy sufficient to.convince the world that you are a man; let not the syren voice of pleasure call you off from your duty—nor the allurements of vice entice you from the path of virtue. The man that has Do ambition, no aspirations, has just soul enough to elevate him above the brute. But not content with dragging out a mere animal existence, but show bv your energy and decision of character that you are what God intended you to be—a man. ‘■Act—act in the living present! Heart within, and God o’erhead!”