Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — Be Studious. [ARTICLE]

Be Studious.

Whitefield -was poor and in “service,” but he managed to get an education; and both England and America have felt his power for good. William Harvey did not find out the circulation of the blood by a lucky accident. He was a hard student at home and abroad, and taught the doctrine to his classes for ten years before he published it to the world. Young men ought to remember that there are still splendid services to be rendered. All the discoveries have pot yet been made. The field is now the world, as it never was before. Education of the highest kind in physiology, mental philosophy, engineering, chemistry, is accessible as it never was before. An empire without the emperor has grown up on this continent, and much of the soil is yet without occupant and master. Other empires are open to educated ability, and will become more so every year! There is a legitimate sphere for splendid ambition. Let our boys forego the cost of tobacco and catch inspiration from the best books. Let them turn their backs on the tempting glass, and spend their money in stimulating the mind. Even fashion “parties" and pleasure may be put in the background, that the time and thought required for them may be e'ven to getting that mental habit and rniture that will make its possessor a helper to his race, and a capable servant of that Creator—the “Father of Lights,” —who has given us brain and heart, with capabilities, that we may be lights, benefactors and conquerors, on fields where no life is lost, and even the vanquished are gainers.