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mothers, and wives, and sisters, you can do much by making the home pleasant and attractive that the men may find there a lawful substitute for the unlawful pleasures they seek elsewhere. And you, young men, picture to yourselves and keep ever before your minds that beautiful tableau of a young man surrounded and conversing with religion, sobriety, and chastity, while irreligion, drunkenness, and impurity fly baffled from the scene. Let that be your ideal, to sit self-controlled in the fiery prime of youth, obedient at the feet of law. If you keep that ideal in mind and let it reflect on your life, I promise you you will not only be more healthy, you will not only be more wealthy, but, most of all, you will deservedly be numbered among the truly wise. Then will you follow in the steps of our divine Master and Model, and you will advance with Jesus in wisdom and age and grace with God and men.