Home Influence
I Think there is no more serious or important
time in a young person's life than when he
leaves home for the first time to enter school,
or any line of business, and I think I can judge
pretty accurately what a person is going to
amount to by the way he acts during the first
one or two years that he is absent from home.
You will find, usually, that if a young man or
woman is able to stand up against temptations,
is able to practise the lessons that his father
and mother have taught him, during the first
one or two years that he is away from their
guidance and instruction, as a rule, that person
will hold up well, will not only keep what his
father and mother have taught him, but will
add to it the strength and instruction he has
gotten from them, and will gain help and inspiration
as he goes on, and instead of falling
by the wayside, will prove himself a valuable
and useful citizen, not only able to help his
parents, but the community in which he lives.
Sunday Evening Tuskegee Talks.
