Parton writes: "If you look into the early life of truly helpful men, those who make life easier and nobler to those who come after them, you will almost invariably find that they lived purely in the days of their youth." That is true. Taking the lowest view of life and character, the follies of youth permanently affect the mind. It is true also in the higher plane of moral life. Our sins make impressions upon us, giving directions to our thoughts, and shape our purposes that will be visible even long after we have repented of our sins. It is a pernicious maxim that young men "must sow wild oats;" it is a false and ruinous theory of life that treats immorality in early life as a matter of indifference. If you would be pure, noble, useful men, be pure, honorable, and useful while young men.