Welsh Journals

THE TREASURY. No. 29. MAY, 1866. Price 2d. A WORD OF COUNSEL TO YOUNG PEOPLE. BY REV. JOHN JAMES, NEW RADNOR. |OUR companions and books will have very much to do with the formation of your character, more, perhaps, than you generally think. Good companions and good books will aid you very materially in forming such a character as will secure you success in life; whilst bad companions and bad books will very likely ruin you for ever. Companions. Be very select in the choice of them. You cannot be too particular. Seek those from whom you may expect to get good. Only an evening's walk with one who is evil disposed has been the ruin of many. Beware of the first wrong step. The way being once lost is not so easily found, as one might, think it would be. " Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly." The character of our companions is a pretty correct index to our own character. We need not hesitate long in forming our opinion as to the kind of conversation which a person likes, and the charac¬ ter which he would form for himself, when we are fully acquainted with the character of the men whose company he courts. " He that walketh with wise meu shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." There will inevitably become a striking likeness between companions: they unconsciously influence each other. Have not many become Sabbath-breakers, swearers, drunkards, simply through associating with men of that class ? Do not forget the importance of a good character. Indeed, your character is the only real property you possess, and one which you