You
know your duty, but snares and temptations from without beset you, and
the nearer you approach to manhood the more strongly will you feel
this. With God's help, with God's word, and with humble hearts you
will stand in spite of everything, but should you leave off seeking in
earnest for the first, and applying to the second, should you learn to
trust in yourselves, or to the advice and example of too many around
you, you will, you must fall. Oh, 'let God be true and every man a
liar.' He says you cannot serve Him and Mammon. He says that strait
is the gate that leads to eternal life. Many there are who seek to
widen it; they will tell you that such and such self-indulgences are
but venial offences--that this and that worldly compliance is
excusable and even necessary. The thing _cannot be_; for in a hundred
and a hundred places He tells you so--look to your Bibles and seek
there whether such counsel is true--and if not, oh, 'halt not between
two opinions,' if God is the Lord follow Him; only be strong and of a
good courage, and He will never leave you nor forsake you. Remember,
there is not in the Bible one law for the rich, and one for the
poor--one for the educated and one for the ignorant.
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