. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . andcontrolled by the foot, and with this brake the coach is con-trolled and kept steady. A driver once said to me, as wewere going down the side of a mountain with an incline oftwo thousand feet in two and a half miles: These horsesare in full gallop, but they dont pull. He had his foot onthe brake, and we were going at such a tremendous rate thatI had to hold on to both sides of the seat on which I sat, lestI should go over with the impetus of swirling round thecurves. It is for just such occasions that these powerfulbrakes are require
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . andcontrolled by the foot, and with this brake the coach is con-trolled and kept steady. A driver once said to me, as wewere going down the side of a mountain with an incline oftwo thousand feet in two and a half miles: These horsesare in full gallop, but they dont pull. He had his foot onthe brake, and we were going at such a tremendous rate thatI had to hold on to both sides of the seat on which I sat, lestI should go over with the impetus of swirling round thecurves. It is for just such occasions that these powerfulbrakes are required. The man of whom I have spoken wasvisited on his death-bed by his sister, who said to him: George, why dont you keep your foot still ? What is the 27 438 KEEP YOUR FOOT OX TIIE BRAKE. matter with you? What do you keep lifting your kneefor? Oh! he said, I am on an awful down grade, andI cannot find the brake. Young man, your foot is on thebrake to-day. Keep it there! In Gods name keep it there !You may make your future just what you choose to make AX EXCITING BIDE IN < OKMA. How many young men are going to wreck! I onee askeda young man why he would not sign the temperance , said he, I will not sign away my liberty.** Isaid, Liberty!* And he said, I waul to do as I men, every man who does as he pleases, independentof moral, physical, and divine law, is a mean, miserable man who is not held by the freedom of law is a slave SOWING AND HEAPING. 439 There is the great difficulty. Young men want to do as theyplease in their young, brisk manhood. They throw off re-straint ; so they take the wrong direction, and they know is not a young man who is taking the wrong directionbut knows it. You do not hear them defend their course;they palliate it, Oh, young men will be young men. Sothey ought to be young men. » Yes, but they will sow theirwild oats. Then they will reap them. Whatsoever a mansoweth, that shall he also reap. S
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